003 ⇨ one day you will miss a step

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Mavis Mae Crawford
She danced...
...and then she didn't.

[ooc; has no idea this epitaph is out there. there are risks to the types of dancing Mae does.]

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Not to mention witty, intelligent, courageous... [He could keep going! He is full of endless praise when it comes to his sister, okay.

He pauses a little. He knows Mae, and he knows how determined and stubborn she is-- and also how bossy. She'll make a good leader. And he knows that if she says she's going to change things, she will. It's comforting, in a way... especially after Nick's comment about the Market, and after all of Gerald's comments about him and his magic.]

You'll do great. You might even make magical history books. If they have those. Do they have those? You know, other than all the myths and legends.

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[She stiffles a grin and a blush, and taps her chin thoughtfully.] I'll commission Alan to write one. In exchange for maybe five magic swords. Negotiable price.

[That's counting chickens before the eggs are even laid, but Mae can dream while she's here. She can dream of a happy ending, where they've mourned their dead, where the Market is bustling with activity, the Ryves brothers are laughing with Jamie in her caravan and Sin is her trusted right hand, where no-one hates and no-one discriminates, and no-one kills. A Market leader with a demon mark - won't that be new.]

Can we keep this between us, though?

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You better get busy finding those magic swords, then. [... oh, god. Jamie would love for that to be the future-- a future where he is definitely no longer in love with Gerald, too, because that was quite possibly the worst decision in the entire world.]

Between us? Sure. [He frowns, looking a little contemplative.] Alan's... he's from before us, isn't he? I mean... not that he's said exactly when or anything, to me, but I think he gets confused sometimes when I mention things, so I'm wondering if it's because they haven't... happened for him yet.

[Like the whole Nick back at school with him thing. Jamie knows that Mae is ahead of him, timeline-wise, but he trusts her to tell him things if he needs to know them.]

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Yeah, he's from before...[Everyone's from before her, as far as Mae knows, which makes for some probably wrong decisions taken with all the best intentions of the world. Telling Jamie their mother dies after proving she loves them, or telling Alan how both of them have a mark now and how he's under Gerald's control in exchange for Sin's brother's safety - she wants to avoid giving them that sort of pain in a place where they can't do anything to fix it. But she has a feeling it'll hit her in the face, eventually.]

I don't think I know how time works here, but I don't think it'd be safe to say what happens in the future, in case...we change it.

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Neither do I. ... I was never very good at science, though. [And he thinks this is probably a bit beyond him, anyway. The space-time continuum and all that.]

But-- I get it. No spoilers. Well, other than the Market thing, anyway. But I've heard that people sometimes forget they were ever here when they go back home.

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I think no-one's good at that sort of science yet. [Time travel. Pfft, ridiculous. Of course, so are demons, supposedly, and look who can't stop kissing one.]

I don't think knowing that part would affect you. Besides, I wanted to share...Bit of optimism.