folklorist | ϡ - Chapter One; we all fall...in [voice]

[ There’s a very loud thud as something crashes to the ground from the sky. The journal turns on from the subsequent actions of the fallen object nearby. Most likely a body, actually it is, and a cough erupts through the preceding silence. So if you're out wandering about in the woods to the left of the village you'll find a blonde haired man walking around very confused albeit chipper and amused. ]

Haha! That wasn’t the entrance I was expecting! Marvelous how snow can break a fall though! I think if it were anything else I might not have been as fortunate. Must thank Mother Nature when I get back! She always does such a wonderful job with the seasons. But, oh my, th-this place is certainly rural. I-I don’t think this is Romania, ah, no, probably not. At least not any part I'm familiar with. The mountains perhaps? I've always wanted to visit those; they're always so magnificent this time of year. [ There's rustling as if the man whom the voice belongs to is looking around. He still hasn't noticed the journal so he continues on. ]

Hmm. Hello?! Anyone out there? Ah, well as long as there aren't any Yetis here think I'll be quite all right, or those pesky pixies. They always were a fussy bunch. Something seems…a bit different though and I’ve lost my clothes too. I rather liked that outfit, a bit too cold to go without a shirt though. [ Some more silence...wait for, wait for it...bingo! Clothes have been spotted. ]

Ah hah!

[ There’s another pause for a few moments with only ruffling and shifting of fabric against skin and against one another. Fortunately our headmaster's clothes were neatly placed beside him in the snow, how nice! ]

That’s better at least I won't get frost-! What...are those. Wings?! How…how absolutely fantastic! I’ve always wanted to know what it felt like to have them! This place is getting better by the moment! I simply have to investigate now! I think I'll be needing a pair of scissors actually, there aren't any holes in the back of my shirt...

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Two thousand and ten to be more precise.

I see. Personally, I'm not a fan of blaming games for anything of that sort.

I guess it's all a matter of opinion, haha! I'm sure people say the same thing about books and the like. I believe it depends on how much of an impression it makes, hm?

More like it depends on whether someone can draw the distinction between the world of fantasy and the world of reality. If you can't, it doesn't matter what you're given.

Oh? But what if the between fantasy and reality was distorted, like fiction come to life? I don't suppose you'd believe in that would you?

Then what was previously percieved as fantasy would becoming integrated into the new reality. There would still be a line of what is "not real" no matter how maleable it was.

True I suppose. But people are always unwilling to accept such drastic changes. Like saying that vampires from myth are actually true and have always been living among that which has always been considered real. People would panic naturally despite having known that line of what is real and what is not.

That's because people are too attached to the familiar, too afraid of the new or the unknown.

Correct! That's why I- [ He stops not going further into details about it. He usually doesn't talk about his work openly anyway so...change of direction is go! ]

I do wish people would give such things a chance. It's really not that bad when you get to know it better. Actually it's all rather...eye opening.

Vampires exist in your world, don't they?

Oh...well they might. But who's to say what I say is the truth? I think if you believe in something it has the potential to find its way to becoming a reality. Even if it's in the most ludicrous of things. It still all matters on acceptance really.

Ah, but personal reality can be wrong. Just because you believe or don't believe in something, it doesn't mean there is something or nothing in your world equivalent to that belief.

I want to say it was personal reality but I'm rather wrong in that regard. They've just been blending in quite well for a rather long time. I'd like to think making everyone come to terms with that would be easy, but it's going to be a long time before any such thing happens. Haha all of this is hypothetically speaking of course!

[ He stops to think for a second, if you could see him he'd be tapping a pointer finger to pursed lips. ]

So...are you insinuating Joshua that you have vampires in your world, then? [ Hint of excitement and curiosity in his voice? Check. ]

There aren't. Some number of imitators, but no real ones.

Imitators you say? Hmm I've never encountered imitations of certain things before.

Imitators in that they'd like to think that they are. Delusional, if you will.

Ah. The poor dears, living like that. Has anyone ever well...told them the bad news? It must be dreadful living under the influence of such a thing especially if they're hurting people.

Plenty. And still some refuse to listen. It gets rather funny actually, in a pathetic sort of way.

Hm. I think...it's very unfortunate, really.

Of course, but it's hard to help those who refuse to accept it. Usually it takes something drastic, and such opportunities don't present themselves in a useful capacity that often.

I see that is a bit of a problem. Well hopefully they'll come to terms with it and perhaps seek help themselves?

Hope is a funny, empty little thing.

Oh I don't know about that. I think hope is something special. It sparks enthusiasm and that leads to people doing great things if they really wanted. But everyone is entitled to their opinions.

It also crushes dreams and abandons people in the depths of despair at its whim.

Yes but so does anything as finicky as hope or even faith. It all depends on a person's willpower to make what they want come true. I think if you have a strong heart, and firm resolve anything is really possible.

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