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[UPDATE] Path of Least Time 11th May 2006
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Juxta
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 		[UPDATE] Path of Least Time 11th May 2006
Kurt McAllister wrote:
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Thursday, May 11 2006, 01:32 PM

Violet returned to Perplex City today. We had a disagreement about what to do next, and it was clear that she wasn't interested in catching Miranda. It's a shame - she was very useful yesterday, stopping Miranda from getting on the ferry.

Right now, the only place Miranda could realistically be heading to is Stone Mills, the next town west. Luckily, it's a fair distance away and I was able to book a direct train there. When I arrived at the station in Drowsington this morning for my train, the staff constantly fussed over me, trying to carry my bags, offering me a wheelchair, as if I couldn't do anything myself. After I lost my patience and snapped at one of the younger porters, she just looked at me steadily and told me she was only trying to help.

I looked down at the floor for a second, and then apologised, handing over my bags. They also arranged for me to have a few seats to myself, although I wonder whether that was just for my benefit or to prevent me from snapping at the other passengers as well. I propped up my leg on the opposite seat, and looked blankly out of the window. Violet must have been here just a few hours ago.

When the train was underway, I took out Miranda's first aid kit and had a look through. Everything was the same as it was before - there were no startling new insights inside, just a bunch of random bandages, pills and creams. Out of boredom, I inspected some of the creams. Most of them were generics, like antiseptics and burn treatments. A couple of them simply had serial numbers on them. I looked them up with my key, and discovered that one of them was an experimental tissue treatment; clearly something Miranda would use if she'd had some sort of running accident.

I limped down to the bathroom and applied the cream around my ankle, poking the new wounds gingerly. They seemed to be healing fine, but nowhere near fast enough; I still can't much weight on it either. I can't describe how frustrating it is to be stuck relying on a walking stick. But it's obvious that I'll get absolutely nowhere if I don't let it rest and try to act smarter. I finished up, putting away the cream and replacing the brace, and walked back to my seat, feeling slightly happier.

"That was a risky move you pulled back there at the pharmacy," I tell Miranda.

I spend a lot of time talking to Miranda when I'm on my own. Not the person with red hair, but the girl I used to know. She's become a concept, an ideal, in my mind, someone who has a goal that I can't understand but desperately want to. She speaks back to me enigmatically, only answering in my own voice.

"I knew you were going to be watching, so I had to do something drastic," she replies.

"Like threatening someone's life?"

"You forced me into it. You're the person following me."

I don't have an answer for that.

"Were you after the Granier diary? Why did you have to kill Cymbalisty?"

"You wouldn't understand. Let me ask you a question, Kurt. Why are you still following me?"

I ignore her, resting my hand on her first aid kit, and look at the empty landscape flow past.


Oh good. Kurt's now talking to the voices in his head. Shocked

...and Violet's had a strop and left him on his own, to continue following his psychotic ex-girlfriend.

Anyone have any recommendations on how today could get any better?

J
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 		Maybe we could get him some bonkers cream.

and that cream's obviously a bit not right.
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European Chris wrote:
Maybe we could get him some bonkers cream.

and that cream's obviously a bit not right.


Yes.

Mmm.. unknown experimental skin-repair mind-control cream... I think I'll put it on my wounds.

The betrayal has clearly sent Kurt crazy.
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 		For what it's worth, I really don't think Kurt is that crazy. He's clearly distraught, betrayed, emotionally and physically scarred...but I don't think that he's gone absolutely hatstand just yet.

He's attempting to come to terms with the fact that he's been completely used by Miranda, lied to and then discovered that she's an entirely different person from what she led him to believe. He's just trying to rationalise it inside his own head...everyone rehearses conversations in their head - or..uh...is that just me?

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 		so kurt is one of those ignorant bastards who puts his dirty feet on the seat that other people will have to sit on
they normally have tattoos and are covered in paint and/or mud Smile
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 		Ssshhhhh! I'm trying to listen...

No, nothing but echoes & tumbleweed in my head.

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Juxta wrote:
For what it's worth, I really don't think Kurt is that crazy. He's clearly distraught, betrayed, emotionally and physically scarred...but I don't think that he's gone absolutely hatstand just yet.

He's attempting to come to terms with the fact that he's been completely used by Miranda, lied to and then discovered that she's an entirely different person from what she led him to believe. He's just trying to rationalise it inside his own head...everyone rehearses conversations in their head - or..uh...is that just me?

J


No, I do that and it's understandable in his case. It's the use of unlabelled experimental tissue treatment intended for a lying, betraying, knife-wielding murderess that makes me think he's lost it.

What does anyone else think is the way forwards? As I see it options are to wait and see, talk Kurt or Violet into calling the Stone Mills police, talk Violet into returning to help Kurt, or... uh... something to do with Anna?
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 		I think the new-fangled cream might be a way to repair Kurt's leg to put him back into a semi-level playing field with 'Miranda' as at the min in his condition he doesn't stand a chance - just [spec] though

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 		Are we sure Violet has returned to the City?

From her post last night;
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I said: "We could stop now. Before you... before either of us gets hurt more."
He didn't answer. After a few moments, he pulled my hand away. His leg wasn't bleeding anymore. He rolled down his trouser leg and, leaning on his stick, got to his feet again.

isn't it more likely she's gone ahead to Stone Mills to protect Kurt from himself?

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Braxis wrote:
Are we sure Violet has returned to the City?

From her post last night;
Quote:
I said: "We could stop now. Before you... before either of us gets hurt more."
He didn't answer. After a few moments, he pulled my hand away. His leg wasn't bleeding anymore. He rolled down his trouser leg and, leaning on his stick, got to his feet again.

isn't it more likely she's gone ahead to Stone Mills to protect Kurt from himself?


From the PoLT entry at the start of the post:

Quote:
Violet returned to Perplex City today.


QED?
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Muffin wrote:

From the PoLT entry at the start of the post:

Quote:
Violet returned to Perplex City today.


QED?


Ahhh, but this is only Kurt's belief. As the entry says:
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Violet must have been here just a few hours ago.

Definitely implying that he wasn't there to wave her goodbye...

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Braxis wrote:

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Violet returned to Perplex City today.


Ahhh, but this is only Kurt's belief. As the entry says:
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Violet must have been here just a few hours ago.

Definitely implying that he wasn't there to wave her goodbye...


True. Maybe that's why we haven't heard from her about the fight this morning - she wouldn't want us telling Kurt what she's doing. Total speculation but hey, don't know what else to do at the moment.
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 		1. Anna = useless. She's more of an emotional wreck than Kurt at the moment, if that's possible.

2. I really wish Violet was still there. I'd like to think that she'll have gone on to Stone Mills ahead of Kurt... but I think he's heading towards facing his personal demons alone.

3. The voices in the head? I'm not worried. Not just yet. He's having to come to terms with a lot in a very short space of time. Although we could see that Miranda was most likely evil, Kurt was in love. Which makes you blind, deaf and stoopid, among other things. He's got to be asking a lot of 'why' questions at the moment, not only about the things that she did, but about whether or not she ever really felt the same about him... and I'm guessing that he's coming up with a load of 'don't know' answers. Hell, I did the same when I was last dumped. I wonder if I should be more concerned about that?

/me ph34rs the crazy.
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duckiemonster wrote:
Hell, I did the same when I was last dumped.


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 		I just rattled off an email trying to talk some sense into Kurt. I know it probably won't do any good, but you never hurt anyone by trying. Unless you're trying to kill them of course.

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