((Okay, I don't know WTF happened the first time I tried to post this, so here we go again))
She'd thought the passageway between the Room of Requirement and the Hog's Head was a neat trick, but that definitely trumped it. Susan had never heard of a charm that could do something like that, though it didn't surprise her that there was one. Her eyes traced the lines, turning them into something like a map in her head (complete with a distance key, because she was Susan and therefore weird like that.) Some of the similarities that Charles and Camilla shared--similarities of expression, of mannerisms--were almost unnerving, and she found herself wondering again if it was a trait of all twins, or if they were unique.
"He nearly froze to death?" she asked, looking at the little bright area that was Vermont. "We get snow in Ankh-Morpork--that's the city I live in, back home--but it never usually amounts to more than a foot. People don't tend to freeze to death unless they drink too much and pass out in a back alley somewhere." Which was a fairly common occurrence, especially in the Shades.
She had to translate 'north' and 'south' into something approximating hubwards and windwards, and came to the conclusion that the average temperature might be comparable to that of Genua (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genua), even if the geography wasn't swampland. In that case, Camilla and Henry probably were living it up in Greece, especially compared to everyone still stuck in frozen Scotland.
"How did you do that, anyway?" she asked, sipping her cocoa. "I've never seen a charm like that." She wondered (because she'd fixated on it so long that she had to wonder) what such a thing would look like to someone who'd taken her potion. She was impressed, and impressing Susan was not an easy thing to do.
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Re: (( part 2 of 2 ))
Date: 2007-12-09 03:07 am (UTC)She'd thought the passageway between the Room of Requirement and the Hog's Head was a neat trick, but that definitely trumped it. Susan had never heard of a charm that could do something like that, though it didn't surprise her that there was one. Her eyes traced the lines, turning them into something like a map in her head (complete with a distance key, because she was Susan and therefore weird like that.) Some of the similarities that Charles and Camilla shared--similarities of expression, of mannerisms--were almost unnerving, and she found herself wondering again if it was a trait of all twins, or if they were unique.
"He nearly froze to death?" she asked, looking at the little bright area that was Vermont. "We get snow in Ankh-Morpork--that's the city I live in, back home--but it never usually amounts to more than a foot. People don't tend to freeze to death unless they drink too much and pass out in a back alley somewhere." Which was a fairly common occurrence, especially in the Shades.
She had to translate 'north' and 'south' into something approximating hubwards and windwards, and came to the conclusion that the average temperature might be comparable to that of Genua (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genua), even if the geography wasn't swampland. In that case, Camilla and Henry probably were living it up in Greece, especially compared to everyone still stuck in frozen Scotland.
"How did you do that, anyway?" she asked, sipping her cocoa. "I've never seen a charm like that." She wondered (because she'd fixated on it so long that she had to wonder) what such a thing would look like to someone who'd taken her potion. She was impressed, and impressing Susan was not an easy thing to do.