driftfleet | Chapter Seven [video]

Who: Richard Castle and YOU
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: N/A unless Windrose crew wants it
When: June 7th

[When the feed clicks on, Castle has his feet propped up and is reading aloud from a book, although the cover is obscured from view. Also, his Scottish accent is atrocious. Bear with him. He's discovered the cheap vending machine romance novels.]

"Lass, from 500 years intae the future ye may be, but theh be things ye kannae ken." Lord McKraken then doubled over in pain, holding his stomach.

"But I love you!" Elizabeth cried out, rushing over to her Lord's side, holding his sweating form in her arms as he grimaced in agony, running her hands along his feverish pectorals. "I've promised to never leave your side no matter what comes between us."

"Ah beg ye, lass, get thee away before it be too late- AUUUUUUGH!" Elizabeth was forced to back away as McKraken's skin became slimier and slimier. "Ah'm... Ah'm..."

"What is it?"

"Ah be a were-cuttlefish!"

[Castle then has to place the book face-down on the table and lean his head back, laughing.]

Sorry, I just had to share that with someone.

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Oh.

...really?

I mean, that's nice, but that seems kind of...boring. Narratively speaking.

Personally, I'd write some kind of twist... like... like she has to become a were-cuttlefish, too, so they can be together.

Oh my gosh. She'd give up her entire lifestyle for him? That would be so romantic. [he's seventeen and stupid]

Plus, the heroine is a time-traveler. Staying in the past to be with her true love and becoming a tentacled creature for him... what could be better?

I mean, when you put it like that it seems sorta. Y'know. But I guess she must've been incredibly in love with him to give up her career and her body and her lifestyle and everything. That's nice. I hope they stay together.

Hey, thanks for sharing the story with us! Not all the books are in languages everyone can read, so that's awful kind of you.

Yeah... admittedly I didn't read too deeply into it to figure out how the whole time travel thing works. Sometimes it's a one-way ticket. And hey, maybe someone might find they like the past better.

No problem! I might make this a regular things, since it never occurred to me that some people might not be able to read these. I mean, we always seem to be able to understand each other just fine.

Which is totally weird, right? I know it has something to do with the augments, I think someone mentioned that, but it's still bizarre! It completely ignores grammatical structure- I mean, I suppose it's something like automatic translation to the subject's native tongue, but what about multi-lingual people? If I say something in another language, do you hear it in the same language you're used to?

Hmm, I've never been able to try it out myself. I speak English as my native language and remember a few Chinese phrases from college, but that's it. And you're right, because every language has its own grammatical structure, but whenever someone speaks, it sounds perfectly natural to me.