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[curseshit]

The rain stops eventually and you find yourself in a forest much younger than the one you just walked through. The moss is nearly gone and the sun shines through the branches.

They're not just any other trees. They're apple trees! Cute, right? Judging by the (somewhat) straight lines someone planted them. Underneath the trees you find baskets full of freshly-picked apples and since you can hear voices, the people who picked them aren't that far away. The map isn't showing any tracks of your next destination yet, so you might as well ask if they know of a B&B nearby.

[ mission: inspect the voices. ]

Comments

[armedarchaeologist]

No, some of them are, but the majority aren't.

[good thing he didn't bring up roswell grays.]

[wolfsoul]

That... was sarcasm too.

[ he's so bad at this. ]

[noshoes]

[ offensive sarcasm ]

[armedarchaeologist]

Well, some of them are green. Some of them are gray. Most of them look like us, though. Most of the non-Tau'ri. The, uh, non-Earth people I've met are human, they're just...

[cuts himself off before graham can.]

You know what, never mind.

[pats neri's shoulder. never mind the weird scruffy guy.]

[wolfsoul]

[ oh what's wrong. ]

Is it something I said?

[ that was a joke too. it couldn't have been. ]

[noshoes]

[ tilts her head to him and just smiles, before picking up another apple ]

Good apples. [ chews ]

[armedarchaeologist]

[looks down for neri's lead, shrugs when she smiles. if she ain't mad i ain't mad.]

No, it's nothing.

[this is some good cider. i like this place.]

So what did you do? Do, I mean. What do you do when you're home? Which is, I assume, Earth.

[wolfsoul]

I'm afraid it's a bit more complicated than that.

[ looks at his glass. ]

I was a sheriff, kind of. In Maine.

[noshoes]

[ looks up at scruffy ]

Like the sheriff in the desert? [ she's not sure exactly what a sheriff is ]

[armedarchaeologist]

Which, last time I checked, was on Earth.

[not as sarcastic as you might expect, but then everyone here comes from some kind of individualized freaky alternate universe.]

[wolfsoul]

Yeah, but that's not where I was originally from. I come from Enchanted Forest.

That's not on Earth.

[ driest tone. he really shouldn't talk about this before the ouat plot. ]

[noshoes]

[ that sounds nice. enchanted forest.

turns head to the armed men ]

We go with them?

[armedarchaeologist]

Oh, that's. Huh.

[doesn't sound like an alien planet, unless it's a native name for like endor or something. which is pretty plausible. maybe he's a nox.

hah hah.

frowns at the (other?) armed men when neri turns to them.]

Well, yes and no. I mean, they're going to lead us to town, I assume, but they're going to have a celebration there, so it's not like we're getting arrested.

I hope.

[dinkyroyal]

[ laughs loudly. the guards are here only because of the forest creeping behind them. ]

Now, now, no one's being arrested!

The sooner we're done here the sooner we can go to the town.