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[innocentmage.livejournal.com]

Asher turns abruptly as he suddenly finds himself away from the crowded streets of Dorana. He looks even more surprised at seeing the agitated horse behind him. Acting on instinct, he grabs the reins, and places a soothing hand on its neck. The horse snorts, and stamps his feet. Asher heaves a sigh, and tightens his grip on the reins. "Easy now, Cygnet, y'fool. You'll cause yourself a mischief, and then it'll be my head Matt'll be out for." At the sound of Asher's voice the horse stills, though his ears are pinned back and his eyes flicker nervously around the room.

"What's goin' on here, any road, eh? Barl knows where we've ended up, and what with Gar takin' a tumble off his horse right afore there'll prob'ly be a right panic goin' on. Bet that ole Crow Darran's pissin' his panties over his bloody parade goin' all wrong already. Either that or findin' some way to blame everythin' on me. Maggoty ole fart."

He snorts, casting narrowed eyes around the room as he scuffs the ground with a leather boot. "Ain't never seen nowt like this place afore. Don't even look like Doranen magic done this."

"Still, let's not be hangin' around, eh?" He tugs the reins, leading Cygnet towards the door. "Reckon I'll have a story to tell down the Goose when we get back. May be I even get a couple of free drinks out of this."

Upon discovering he can't get through the door, all pretence at patience disappears. He grimaces, stamping away from it. "Sink me bloody sideways. What's the point in a door if it ain't goin' to let you through?"

Cygnet starts prancing nervously again. Asher doesn't even seem to notice.

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[lilgreasemonkey.livejournal.com]

Well this gets Kaylee's interest all right. She hasn't seen a horse since she was last visiting her family at their home ... which was actually here now thanks to Taxon.

She flips on her tablet.

"Ya gotta come pick up this tablet thing here first then the door'll unlock for ya," she says. "'s the thing I'm talkin' at ya with. Over here! On the pedestal!"

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[innocentmage.livejournal.com]

Asher starts, turning to where the voice is coming from. He doesn't move for a moment when his eyes fall upon the tablet, too preoccupied with staring at it with utter incomprehension.

He tugs Cygnet's reins, cautiously leading him to the tablet and picking it up. The girl on the screen looks Olken, so he suspects a Doranen must have used magic on her. What else could possibly make a person this small? It would be illegal, and he's never heard of a spell that could do this before, but he doesn't much care for magic. For all he knows it could just be an uncommon Doranen trick.

"Sink me..." Asher breathes, for once lost for words. "How'd you get in there?"

[lilgreasemonkey.livejournal.com]

Well, that wasn't an answer Kaylee was prepared to hear. After all, anyone she'd come across since arriving in Taxon seemed to have at least some basic tech skills (or enough to fumble around on the tablet with).

"I ain't in the tablet. I'm out walkin' 'round explorin',"she said, a bit of an amused smile in her voice. The idea of her being all small and stuck in a tablet is funny after all. Funny and flat out strange. And very science-fiction sounding. "Guess ya don't got a lotta tech back home then huh?"

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[demonmagnetism.livejournal.com]

Xander frowns with a great deal of confusion as he tries to decipher what exactly Asher just said.

"Nice horse! And if I understood you correctly, you're new here and confused, so-- you're in a city called Taxon. That door will open into a building called the Sanctuary, if you pick the tablet up and take it with you. The tablet is the thing I'm talking to you on, by the way."