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It had been far too long now. Over five days since he had last heard anything from The Dreamfinder. His own magics had shown that the man was not even in Main Street! An enormous danger to all of them but more so to Blair himself. As it was, even the Mirror Portal had begun to malfunction without it's builder to maintain it.

A quiet inquiry had been sent out through the Land, to be on the look out for The Dreamfinder. Any news was to be sent straight to Merlin or Hades...none had come. Which was why he now sat at his table, staring at his own small communication mirror.

There was evidence of the old walkway to Tiki Oasis having been used. No one had used it since the Oasis had become the Dark Jungles. Whatever survivors having been the last ones through ages ago. It was a rather long shot but, Merlin had nothing else to go on.

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[The video turns on to show a very grumpy looking Merlin.]

I am calling all Sorcerer's Apprentices that are currently with in the Magic Kingdoms. I am afraid I have rather worrisome news.

[He rubs the bridge of his nose.]

It seems that The Dreamfinder, has gone missing. I am assuming it has been of his own power but, as he is still a new Kingdom Spirit, and the last Kingdom Spirit, I am afraid he will find himself in great danger.

So I am asking for volunteers. I need to send you out into the Dark Jungles to find the Dreamfinder or else the last beat of imagination this place has will be snuffed out and everything we have been working towards will be destroyed.

[His voice grew far more grim.]

That includes your own worlds. If The Corrosion destroys Main Street, then there is nothing left between it and your worlds. And...once it leaves the Kingdoms- it can not be stopped. If you wish to volunteer please, let me know.

The fate of Imagination is in your hands, Apprentices. Do with that, what you will.

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Comments

[bigbadrose]

There'll be more in the future. We just gotta rescue it. By which I mean explore, find, and let you devour.

Yeah.

I worked for an organization called Torchwood. [The shortest version] And time traveled, and dimension traveled. Also yes, Fenton really is a duck, be cool about it, it's hard for him being the only one like him right now. Just remember, humans look really weird to other species too. And don't even get the immortals started about us being mayflies. They always go on about how it's a good thing and gives us unique perspective, and it's seriously annoying.

[az_shrimp_horny]

Mayflies. Well that's better than cockroaches... And I'm already dead so I'm not sure if that really applies anymore anyway.

[So much info...]

Dude that's a duck. Check. You've seriously time traveled? What's that like?

[bigbadrose]

Amazing. Although my tour guide was a bit of a namedropper and way too obsessed with Earth. Lava surfing and ski trips on asteroid belts where we don't uncover Martian warriors, is that too much to ask for?! Instead he's like, oh hey, let's go look at this fancy old telescope. And all the field trips I skipped in school anyway. Or the world fair in London Nineteen-ten, like... really?

So I guess I'm more into the space and dimension travel.

Did Michael ever explain Jeremy Bearimy to you?

[az_shrimp_horny]

Ugh! That sounds like snooze city. That's the kind of stuff Chidi would've gone nuts for. Me? Sign me up for lava surfing.

[bigbadrose]

RIGHT?! And Michael's been swimming in lava pools!! No fair at all!!

Although he says he's never been in a regular one, so there's that.

[az_shrimp_horny]

Ugh. Demons. 'course not all of the demon shit sounds fun. Like... They drink antimatter.

[bigbadrose]

I would too if I could.

[az_shrimp_horny]

Really? That's a big nope from me. I'll stick to good old fashioned tequila.

[bigbadrose]

Really? Not even a little curious?

[az_shrimp_horny]

Not really. I mean it's called "anti-matter." That makes me feel like I'm gonna get sucked into a black hole or something.

[bigbadrose]

Nah. Gravity for black holes. And apparently TimeLords made them, so they act as good traps for demons, because they can't control the physics inside of them.

Anti-matter's more like...

You know how coffee makes you feel electric charged? Like restoring a battery? Antimatter would be like a super concentrated amplified version of it. Like instead o' pluggin' in your cell phone and chargin' it gradually from one little plug in a wall, imagine just sucking all the energy from the entire West coast USA and using that to... repair every cell in your body and also your tank-armor and download all the information on the internet in one go. [That is how the daleks do...]

Only you know... you'd drink it instead. Like hot cocoa.

Okay, look... that thing I said earlier? About how I'm not really so good at keepin' people out of trouble? That goes times ten for myself. And I might have fused my soul with a time vortex... so I don't have a normal human perspective on things like -- anything to do with time and dimensions, to be honest.

Point bein'... I really wanna make antimatter chocolate, but even though he's a demon too, Crowley thinks it's pretty daft, and he's probably right. Still wanna try though.

Photon salt water taffy? Chewable gamma rays?

[And just like that, Rose is no longer Eleanor's favorite, oops.]

[az_shrimp_horny]

[..................]

You know... this like seeing a unicorn. [A beat] Or not, because I've actually seen a unicorn, but you get the point. A blonde beauty who's almost as much of a hottie as me who is a complete nerd. It's very confusing.

[Don't be so quick to judge, Rose. She did fall for the biggest nerd she'd ever known.]

[bigbadrose]

I.... I'm not a nerd!?

[She's far from insulted, just mildly stunned. She's spent the last ten years surrounding herself with the smartest blokes on any planet, and by far just getting by on improvisation, luck, and heart.]

[She does like reading but...] I can barely say.... Raxicoricofallip-- [Crosses her eyes. She can do this!!!] Prius Taurus. [Please don't notice that those are car models....]

And Aziraphale is like... ungodly hard to pronounce. What kind of a god names their angels really hard things anyway? And all the demons are easy! Like Shawn and Michael or Crowley or Aahz. See? Easy! I don't know, there's probably an important lesson in that.

[Pouts cheek to side.]

[It's not that she has a problem with being a nerd, but...]

[Of all the Torchwood agents, of all the universes, and all their bases, Rose was like the least nerdy of all of them. She usually felt like the opening of 2001: A Space Odyssey with the apes going well, ape, over the obelisk and just smashing rocks together expecting it to do something.]

[Blimey Mickey wasn't exactly the toughest little dweeb out there either, but he was still a brave little soldier, and also definitely more of a nerd than Rose could ever be.]

[Was her father a nerd?]

[Peter Tyler was an inventor and that made him a kind of a scientist...]

[But he didn't exactly like labs, or hate parties. And he was a salesman through and through.]

[Rose shakes her head. The easiest litmus test of all:]

I'm just an adventure junkie. The Doctor is the smartest person I've ever met, I mean daft yeah, but brilliant. And because of it... he likes to do some really [Boring. Dull. Annoying.] Quietly tame things like check out telescopes or museums. The Louvre. World Fair. I'm more into rock concerts, running from monsters, meeting werewolves, that kind of thing, yeah?

I don't want to drink antimatter because it's antimatter, I want to do it because I like the feeling of nearly exploding, and being shot out of a cannon at the speed of void. [Yes.] Annnnd I only know what it is because... I'm surrounded by geniuses all day every day. Not just the Doctor. Human scientists too. It rubs off a little.

[az_shrimp_horny]

Oh you beautiful innocent thing, you.

You just explained how black holes and antimatter work and you don't think you're a nerd? That's so adorable!

[And oddly sexy. Fuck, is she turned on by brains, now? Damn you, Chidi! But the difference is she doesn't realize how smart she is.]

Hey. Screw this mirror shit. We defo need to hang out.

[bigbadrose]

Yes! Absolutely. Have you gotten much exploring in yet? Like I said, it's cramped.

[az_shrimp_horny]

Not really, yet. Know any good places to get a drink?

[bigbadrose]

A few... Well, one. But I'll treat you so long as you promise to come to at least one class, just to see how hilarious they get.

[az_shrimp_horny]

Guilt and bribery? I have a feeling we're gonna get along just fine.

[She laughs and nods.]

Fine, fine. You've got it. I'll go to one stupid class.

[bigbadrose]

You won't regret it, I swear. And this is coming from someone who fled school entirely, yeah?

[az_shrimp_horny]

Yeah and it's probably gonna be better than ethics classes, right?

[bigbadrose]

[A beat, and then just like Michael:]

Unclear. I've never had ethics lessons. Only history and science... oh, and English. The Doctor's a super nerd for British authors. Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Agatha Christie. At least he also digs the cool ones like Tolkein and J.K. Rowling. Even if we never met them. We did meet the Queen though, a couple of them, and got exiled by Queen Victoria right after she knighted us.

[az_shrimp_horny]

You should be happy. They're boring as shiiiiiit. It's no wonder people hate moral philosophy professors. And they all have different theories about.....

Did you say you met queens? Like... Plural?

[bigbadrose]

[That was both a successful and failed distraction.]

Yeeeeah. Sorry. That's part of the stuff about the Doctor that gets weird.

[az_shrimp_horny]

The time travel thing, right?

[bigbadrose]

Yeah, exactly! [Laughs.] Jeremy Bearimy.