And in fairness, I'm pretty sure the foundation of science was people asking annoying questions, so you're on the right track. If you keep getting answers, even better.
Ah, hah. Well, she indulges me, at any rate, for better or worse. Oh, she's really into figuring out different ways to use magic? It's wicked awesome. And Hermione and I are going to try and make a scrabble board. So, I guess when we aren't working there's chilled white wine and scrabble potential?
I am so there for all of this. Thanks for the offer. I'm still getting a handle on the whole magic thing, but you know. We nerds love a systematic approach to pretty much anything.
I think I've heard her name in connection to healing too?
Yeah, she's... I think they call it spirit magic or spirit healing? It's... crazy effective. I mean they can't do everything, but I got hurt one time and she had me walking like nothing happened like that.
I know it's a lot. I'm from a world with magic and it's still pretty wild just falling in here and all the different rules-- yikes. But definitely systematic nerd stuff. Could be a dangerous method eventually, but that's eventually.
I think it depends? There was this fever a while ago that was pretty brutal, and magic could help sooth it but not heal it, because the cause was this magical artifact in the water supply? I mean it was also an on-going issue, but it's not lile waving a wand and zap you're fixed. Probably there's stuff where she'd tell you to suck it up because it's the manflu, but bigger things or whatever might be a case by case on what she can do.
( A huff of laughter, apologetic. ) I'm about as useful as Web MD for this, I'm sorry.
Gotta love WebMD and all it's optimism, huh? Is looking at your own bloodwork ethical, technically?
( She has no idea how that works. Whatever.
Annnnnd that'd be a drawn out pause. )
That would depend on some factors. ( "factors" sounds oddly strained. ) And I'd need to tell you something on top of magic being real which might be sort of a stretch for you?
I mean, it's ethical if you perform the bloodwork - I didn't, like, break into my doctor's office or anything.
[She'll get into explaining Dyad... later. Maybe.]
If the magic question is an overstep, you don't have to. We haven't even technically met yet, I know. But, uh, my threshold for believing weird shit is kind of high if you want to try me.
No, it's-- it's not an overstep. I mean, it's just that it's weird and I'm kind of juggling the lingering fear of, you know. Either being considered insane or locked up and turned into a science experiment. Not by you personally! I mean I don't think that you would because you're a scientist, it's just that... Sometimes people come along and want to destroy everything. Because we're... I mean the town I'm from is like a magical bubble in a world otherwise with no magic?
( A slow exhale. )
So, when I say "fairy tale" to you, what comes to mind?
[The part about not wanting to be a science experiment hits a bit close to home, but Cosima waits to see where the conversation goes first.]
Um, Brothers Grimm stuff, mostly. Snow White, Hansel and Gretel. I think Cinderella was maybe French, but. Good people get rewarded, bad people get their eyes pecked out by birds.
She's not French, but she really hates the Cinderella thing. Ella and Snow and I sometimes get drinks together, when we have the chance, except there was a time when they went by Ashley and Mary Margaret because of a spell that kind of erased our memories. I don't know Hansel and Gretel personally, but I think they were in Mary Margaret's class that she taught.
The whole good and bad thing is pretty complicated, though.
[Though Ruby can't see it, Cosima tilting her head is almost audible.]
I'd imagine it would be, outside a story. So the people those stories are based on... you all live together in a modern town now? Because of a spell, or was that just the memory thing?
We're all from another realm. A Dark Curse sent us to the world without magic and took our memories and basically has us living Groundhog's Day style for twenty-eight years. Taking away all the happy endings, that kinda schtick.
( she's silent for a moment, just trying to grasp that. )
Wow. That must be...
Wow. Yeah. Remembering I was Red Riding Hood was a process. ( a pause. ) Are you okay? Cloning, that... that's not exactly a small thing to get your head around.
Yeah. I mean... sort of. My - my sisters [which sounds better than clones, still] are in danger, and my disappearing isn't going to help but. Um. Maybe I'll tell you the whole story over a beer sometime?
[But then she can't resist:]
Red Riding Hood?
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Well, good luck. I'm not exactly sure how much luck you'll have and in a land with dragons I'm thinking the trial and error approach to discovering what'll get you stoned could only go badly. Or hilariously, but probably badly.
( teasing, but also seriously please don't go and smoke something magical, new friend. )
It-- it wasn't gradual. I mean, things started changing when Emma came to Storybrooke, but the Curse being broken was sudden. Really sudden. It was... Jarring, for sure.
I would definitely not experiment on myself first. I don't need it that bad.
[She's still laughing, but the phrasing suggests she might test it on something else. They have mice in Thedas, right?]
But yeah, I mean... I guess there's no better or worse, but I can't imagine. I found out all at once too, but it was different. It was new context, but I was still who I thought I was. Mostly.
[Like finding out you're adopted. Times several hundred.]
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And in fairness, I'm pretty sure the foundation of science was people asking annoying questions, so you're on the right track. If you keep getting answers, even better.
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Ah, hah. Well, she indulges me, at any rate, for better or worse. Oh, she's really into figuring out different ways to use magic? It's wicked awesome. And Hermione and I are going to try and make a scrabble board. So, I guess when we aren't working there's chilled white wine and scrabble potential?
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I think I've heard her name in connection to healing too?
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I know it's a lot. I'm from a world with magic and it's still pretty wild just falling in here and all the different rules-- yikes. But definitely systematic nerd stuff. Could be a dangerous method eventually, but that's eventually.
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Does the healing mainly work on injury, or is it effective for illness too? Do you know?
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( science man, scary as magic for sure )
I think it depends? There was this fever a while ago that was pretty brutal, and magic could help sooth it but not heal it, because the cause was this magical artifact in the water supply? I mean it was also an on-going issue, but it's not lile waving a wand and zap you're fixed. Probably there's stuff where she'd tell you to suck it up because it's the manflu, but bigger things or whatever might be a case by case on what she can do.
( A huff of laughter, apologetic. ) I'm about as useful as Web MD for this, I'm sorry.
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I mean, unless I had cancer, I guess. But I'm pretty sure I don't. I've looked at my own bloodwork lately.
What's your world's magic like?
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( She has no idea how that works. Whatever.
Annnnnd that'd be a drawn out pause. )
That would depend on some factors. ( "factors" sounds oddly strained. ) And I'd need to tell you something on top of magic being real which might be sort of a stretch for you?
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[She'll get into explaining Dyad... later. Maybe.]
If the magic question is an overstep, you don't have to. We haven't even technically met yet, I know. But, uh, my threshold for believing weird shit is kind of high if you want to try me.
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( A slow exhale. )
So, when I say "fairy tale" to you, what comes to mind?
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Um, Brothers Grimm stuff, mostly. Snow White, Hansel and Gretel. I think Cinderella was maybe French, but. Good people get rewarded, bad people get their eyes pecked out by birds.
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( ooooookkkaaaayyyyy. Inhale. Exhale. )
She's not French, but she really hates the Cinderella thing. Ella and Snow and I sometimes get drinks together, when we have the chance, except there was a time when they went by Ashley and Mary Margaret because of a spell that kind of erased our memories. I don't know Hansel and Gretel personally, but I think they were in Mary Margaret's class that she taught.
The whole good and bad thing is pretty complicated, though.
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I'd imagine it would be, outside a story. So the people those stories are based on... you all live together in a modern town now? Because of a spell, or was that just the memory thing?
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Are you... I mean, it's a lot process.
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[A shaky laugh.]
It is, yeah. But so is Thedas. And...
[She hesitates, but fuck it:]
I recently found out I'm a clone, so I'm kind of keeping a very open mind at the moment.
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( she's silent for a moment, just trying to grasp that. )
Wow. That must be...
Wow. Yeah. Remembering I was Red Riding Hood was a process. ( a pause. ) Are you okay? Cloning, that... that's not exactly a small thing to get your head around.
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[But then she can't resist:]
Red Riding Hood?
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( Softly, maybe a shade guiltily. Ruby hasn't exactly been rushing. )
Beer sounds good. And yes, although everyone just calls me Red. The Hood part is definitely a fictional add on.
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[The fact that she's laughing a little doesn't indicate she's not serious.]
How long ago did you start to remember?
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( teasing, but also seriously please don't go and smoke something magical, new friend. )
It-- it wasn't gradual. I mean, things started changing when Emma came to Storybrooke, but the Curse being broken was sudden. Really sudden. It was... Jarring, for sure.
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[She's still laughing, but the phrasing suggests she might test it on something else. They have mice in Thedas, right?]
But yeah, I mean... I guess there's no better or worse, but I can't imagine. I found out all at once too, but it was different. It was new context, but I was still who I thought I was. Mostly.
[Like finding out you're adopted. Times several hundred.]