002. ✝ voice.

[crossbearing]

( The speaker, whoever she is, speaks with perfect English, but she's got a pretty strong Sicilian accent; she plays it up, a little. It helps to have another barrier between herself and when she's Huntress. Helena has no need to sound anywhere near so rough and terrifying, save for when she's living up to her last name.)

It looks like I chose a bad time to get acquainted with the city. ( A beat, and maybe you can hear that wryness in her smile. ) Or, maybe the city chose a bad time to get acquainted with me.

( Really. She could imagine more ridiculous accusations at home, though she tries not to let the slow-burning and eternal irritation show; and she's good at that, at the very least.

Hardly a moment to breathe, let alone think, since she got here. Spoiler being alive, Grayson being Robin, and then plague, bombs-- no, she's really not had much time to get a feel for the place. Using this thing seems to be the done thing, though, and at the very least, is a means for keeping tabs on people, known or otherwise. )

I imagine, with all the rebuilding that everyone will be busy for quite a while. Are there any programs that need support staff, right now? I'm a history teacher, at home.

( Let's see what we get. There's no time like the present, right? )

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voice;

[wolfchild]

History of where?

voice;

[crossbearing]

Earth. My version of it, at least. ( Another child, though? This city, really. ) Do you like history?

voice;

[wolfchild]

I like hearing people's stories. Especially when they're from far away.

voice;

[crossbearing]

This place does give "far away" a new meaning.

( She's heard of other worlds and dimensions, back home, even time travel, but never experienced it for herself, until now. )

I'd be happy to tell you things. ( She has missed her students, don't even call her sentimental. ) Where are you from? I'll try to pick the furthest thing from that.

voice;

[wolfchild]

You won't have heard of it. No one has.

I am tempted to try and write up some bamf history lesson but I think we might both despair lmaojdkj

[crossbearing]

It's better than being from somewhere everyone's heard of.

( Just saying. Siciliy, Gotham, both notorious in their own special ways.

However, she is going to take that as possibly meaning Not Earth. All right, then. )

There are a lot of Americans here. I could tell you a little about American history, if you want.

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[wolfchild]

All right. Are you American too?

BEST BELIEVE SHE'S AN AMAZING TEACHER OKAY JUST BELIEVE IT

[crossbearing]

No, thank God.

( Shhh, details. It's good natured mockery to all of her American friends. All... two of them. Or so. )

I'm Sicilian, but I've lived in America for a few years.

[wolfchild]

You're like me then. I was born in the Seven Kingdoms, but I live in Braavos.

[ It's hardly a secret. She cannot pretend to be Braavosi. Not with her accent. ]

[crossbearing]

( She hopes for the child's sake that she is nothing like Helena, but there's not need to go saying that out loud. )

Oh? What took you to Braavos?

( She likes the way it sounds. Good word, Huntress approved. )

[wolfchild]

My father was the oarmaster on the ship Nymeria. He brought me with him across the sea.

[crossbearing]

Just you?

( That isn't necessarily the start of a happy story, a young girl on a ship, with only her father. Not all fathers were as awful as her own, and yet. )

[wolfchild]

My mother was dead.

[crossbearing]

I'm sorry.

( She is, genuinely. It doesn't mean a great deal, and it is hardly anything unusual, where she comes from, but it can be at least a position of understanding. Not that, she imagines, it will be anything much when she isn't even this girl's teacher, but rather a random stranger in an even stranger place. )

I'll need to give you some background information about England, before I can explain America.

( This is easier to think about. )

voice

[gevurah]

You arrived with the last group earlier this month?

permavoice.

[crossbearing]

That's right. You, as well?

audio

[postpones]

How did that "acquaintance" go? [more deets are needed '^'

okay, she has some idea, but]

permaudio.

[crossbearing]

I didn't know if I should take all the coughing and wheezing personally.

( Dry. )

voice;

[ensorceler]

You teach history? Then you know the history of this land, of how is once was?

permavoice.

[crossbearing]

I'm not from this version of Earth, or this point of time. ( Let's get that clear-- it may have sounded a little too blunt, it's an unfortunate side effect of being... Helena.
However:) There are areas I know better than others, but for my version of Earth, I could tell you a lot about how it used to be.

( And maybe she sounds faintly pleased, that people are showing some interest in the history side of this broadcast; it can be tough to get a room of teenagers interested, let me tell you. ) I take it you enjoy history?

[ensorceler]

[ She scoffs, taking a moment to actually respond. ]

I know not of...versions, but I know of mine own time. I would hope and pray it to be the same thriving England no matter what style of world you claim. How is it you know it not to be the same?

[crossbearing]

Call it hopeless optimism.

( Her sarcasm might give an idea of exactly how optimistic she isn't. )

Where I come from the idea of time travel and different worlds are pretty well accepted. There are countless different realities and versions of Earth.

( She rather likes how refined this lady sounds, and the way she speaks is making her wonder if maybe they aren't from the same time at all. )

England's doing well. ( A pause. ) It's hard to say how well it's thriving compared to the time you're talking about without knowing what that is.

[ensorceler]

[ Time travel is normal? Well, maybe this isn't someone who's sane enough to be associating with. Then again, she's met some pretty interesting characters, far more mind boggling than this... ]

Pardon, how asinine of me to speak as if you would know. It is the year 1526. And for yourself, if I may ask?

comic timelines why!! I might need to retcon that by a year or so later :'|

[crossbearing]

( She is being a little blase on account of vigilante!! but she's heard a lot about it from Dinah and Barbara. She had been mercifully spared until, well. This whole mess. )

Not at all.

( Helena can just feel herself starting to speak more formally in response, and some part of her is grimacing a little. Being a teacher and a vigilante is so much more simple than being an heiress. )

I'm from 2009. ( Anne might be able to pick up a faint smile in her voice. ) We're only a little bit apart.

( In the greater scheme of how long the world has existed? )

[ensorceler]

A little?!

[ Even then, it's still an enormous amount. And maybe that's why she's so accepting of things. This future is freaky, maybe 2009 isn't that different. Also let's pretend she said "in the year of our lord" before that year because the mun wasn't space-casing during that tag or anything nope. ]

I suppose it is a marvel we can communicate so well at all, but then I am glad. To hear of such an educated woman, and making your way by teaching, I can do nothing but nod to your ambition and wit. Do you have a name?