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[video] Sunday Afternoon, Week 39

[ While trying to figure out what path to take, Helga has been studying the communicator device that she was given. It is unlike anything she has ever seen before. It does not resemble something that even great Archimedes would have crafted. It is sleek. There are no gears that she can see nor can she see any moving parts. She cautiously experiments, buttons are pushed. The screen flashes on. People talk. It startles Helga into dropping the device as though it had just burned her.

What is that? The device is pointed up at her and it shows a woman with long, red hair wearing an even longer mustard-colored dress. She is sitting outside of the great ship. There is an expression of uncertainty on her face.

She watches it for a moment before picking it back up. ]

Is this a two-way mirror of some kind? Can anyone hear my voice?

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I do not doubt that.

[ About it being difficult to explain. ]

[Should she just move on at that, or should she actually give said explaining a try? Well, nothing ventured...]

It was only a short while back when something strange happened, and all of us became abruptly...lost, at other points in the the history of this place. Some went to the future, I'm given to understand, but others went...back.

And the things we did there, with or without our meaning to...when we came back again to the point we had known as the present, we found out we had changed some things in time.

[ Helga listens. ]

Are you saying that the fabric of time was altered?

[ She is no student of time or its great workings. Helga leaves the higher subjects to Rowena. However, Helga has a sudden and new found additional wariness of this place. ]

It is not wise to meddle with time. Is time still in flux here or has it subsided?

That is what I'm saying, yes. But nothing else seems to have changed again since we arrived back. Those of us who left remember the way things were, but no one else does.

Oh. You will have to forgive me. I seem to be at a loss.

[ She doesn't know what to make of this. She's been taken or rescued from her own world. This world might be in flux. How does anyone manage? With time, she suspects. ]

Are there any dangers that I should know about?

[ In other words, just how bad is it? ]

It's nothing to apologize more. Many of us were brought here out of out depths. [For Mulan, it's more the technology at times than the situation in general.]

The biggest threats at present comes from the wildlife. If you do not have experience travelling or fighting, you should not leave the confines of the city alone. The Authorities...used to be more of a concern in the other time. But a little wariness of them would not go amiss.

No one is sure, still, how we really came to be here. Or what kind of a role in this world we are meant to play.

How would I recognize these Authorities?

[ Helga does have experience traveling, extensive experience. Fighting isn't entirely unknown to Helga. Sometimes, it is necessary but she would prefer to avoid it. ]

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They tend to announce themselves. They represent the ruling body.

How do they feel about magic?

Complicated question. It isn't outlawed, if that's what your afraid of. And people here are, I think, more or less used to seeing it performed openly by now.

But if others become concerned that your abilities might constitute a threat, or you do something to go against the Authorities, you could end up with them suppressed. There are collars here that when worn restrict or even negate a person's capability to use such powers.

I see.

[ Blending in as a Muggle will not be a problem for Helga, not in the short-term at least. However, she is very certain that she will have to perform some feats of magic to survive and get herself established. ]

Thank you for this information. It will be put to good use.

It's no problem. I'm sorry if there wasn't more I could do to help.

There is no need to apologize. You have been very helpful.

I'm glad to hear I could've been of some use then. My name is Fa Mulan. Hopefully I will be seeing you around at some point in the future.

Is your given name Mulan?

Yes. My family name is Fa. That one is always placed first, traditionally, in my homeland...I understand that's not always the way. Forgive me if it causes any confusion.

Where is your homeland?

[ This custom is not unfamiliar to Helga. ]

The lands of the Emperor, on the farthest reaches of the Enchanted Forest.

[You...make of that what you will.]

Is there a great wall in your land?

Yes. It didn't work, though. Not only did it not keep out outsiders, it provoked a war with the Hun army.

I believe I have heard of your land. I have yet to visit but I have had dealings with your traders and merchants.

It's possible. Then again the worlds we come from may just be similar. There appear to be a great many of them. In the land you know, was it recently plagued by a great and powerful dark curse?

No. I cannot say that it sounds familiar.

Well, one of us could be from a different point in history than the other. Or they might not be the same place at all. It really can be somewhat hard to tell.

I believe you. I couldn't say which it is either.

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