Video | The Name Game

[redlightgreenlight]

[Valdis is smiling, her braided hair hangs over one shoulder and you can clearly see that she is in the Hotel.]

I was thinking...

[She says, looking thoughtful, her eyes glazing slightly.]

We might not originally be from Keeliai, but we live here now and are doing our best to make it our home.

[She fingers the wolf pendant hanging around her neck absently.]

I don't think that we should call ourselves 'Foreigners' anymore, it gives the wrong impression and it continues to separate us from our neighbors.

[Her eyes focus again and she smiles at the camera.]

I think we should change our name to 'Planeswalkers,' because we've walked the three planes of Life, Dreaming and Death. It would give us a place, I think, and it gives off a more...settled feeling. Like we're a family or something.

[She sighs]

What do you guys think?

Comments

[redlightgreenlight]

The kedan call us Foreigners...so there's already an us and them mentality.

[deadclumsy]

I suppose that's true.

"Foreigners" is a vague term; they don't have a specific word for "those folks who were brought here against their will" as opposed to "those people from that town that isn't on our turtle"?

[redlightgreenlight]

I suppose we could ask.

[deadclumsy]

I'd be afraid to find out. "Pardon me, Miss, but what do you call us when we're not around to hear it?"

[redlightgreenlight]

[she laughs]

I certain it's not as bad now as it once was. They seem a bit more accepting now.

[deadclumsy]

So I hear. I missed the worst of it, seems like.

How long ago did you get here, anyhow?

[redlightgreenlight]

A little over two years.

[She remembered that at least]

If you count the year we were trapped in the Dreaming.

[deadclumsy]

Do you count it?

[It's the simplest question she can ask, because delving further into that particular quagmire requires her to reconcile the fact that people here can get stuck in a different plane of existence.

And that's not something that really happens, even in her world so full of magic.]

[redlightgreenlight]

I suppose I do...

[The Dreaming didn't exist in her world, hence it was part of her time in Keeliai.]