We're happy as can be

[dreamkid]

WHO: Matthew and any Gangseys
WHERE: in the magical place that is the Raven base of operations
WHEN: Backdated to the seventh/eighth-ish? Shortly after Matthew's arrival
WHAT: Matthew is in ur dream house, pleasantly invading ur space
WARNINGS: Probably Ronan's expansive vocabulary, will update if needed (doubtful???)

[ Fact: Matthew loves this place and has decided to give it a thorough exploration. Finding himself on a magic dream farm is indeed so outstanding, it overshadows all of his concerns about Russians and being kidnapped to another world and superpowers and aliens and time travel and Kavinsky and just-- all that business. So he's wandering around very cheerfully, very untiring, very Matthew. ]


INSIDE
[ There's so much to look at. What the heck is up with this thing? That thing? Where does this door go? Maybe he can't open it--maybe he mistook someone's bedroom for a bathroom or something. In which case, oops, he's not TRYING to be rude.

He could be in the kitchen, where he's stopped to eat something (whatever you Ravens have around here, sorry if he took something you were saving. At least he will offer to share.) Or perhaps you've caught him peering out one of the windows that are as perpetually sunny as he himself can be, smiling to himself and holding his palms up to catch the warmth of the light. ]


OUTSIDE
[ There are chickens, there's a duck pond, there's a vegetable garden, sort of! All of these things would draw his attention so feel free to find him nosing around wherever. He's also got to make his way out to the barn to meet Henrietta at some point. ]


OR CHOOSE SOMETHING ELSE and Matthew will stumble across you

Comments

[quaerit]

[ That draws a bright smile from Gansey. He might have been here for months by now, but he still wouldn't say he's used to the fact that there's so many aliens around. It still delights him. ]

Did you? I've talked to a few myself. It's fascinating to me, meeting people from such different cultures.

Who was it you met?

[ He wonders if it's Saint Walker, who is a particular friend of Gansey's. ]

[dreamkid]

[ Oh yes, good, Gansey is smiling. Matthew gets excited about being able to share now, perhaps a little pleased with himself for having had such an interesting experience. ]

His name is Thane. He's a Drell.

[ Matthew assumes he's a 'he", at least. That might not even be a thing with Drell, for all he knows. ]

He was telling me about these things in space, they're like-- [ he lifts his arms, indicating something of great size ] --giant machines that can shoot people around the galaxy.

[ He drops his arms again. ]

He said there's one in our solar system, too, that it got left behind by some other aliens a long time ago.

[quaerit]

So that's how they travel?

[ That's fascinating. Gansey has never heard of either Thane or Drells, but he's definitely interested. He smiles. ]

It sounds like something from Stargate to me. Did he say what they were called?

[ That aliens are brought to this world along with humans doesn't really surprise Gansey. He thinks he would be more surprised if they weren't. He does wonder, though, how many of them - if any at all - exist in his own universe. That part isn't clear to him. ]

[dreamkid]

Yeah, it's pretty cool, right? Real sci-fi.

[ Matthew has it pretty firmly in his head that Thane is from their universe, not because he has a single shred of proof but because one of Thane's passing remarks made it seem possible, and Matthew really wants it to be possible. He's just choosing to believe what he wants, here. ]

He did mention it a couple times. [ He touches his chin and looks up at the ceiling, trying to recall the term. ] Some kind of relay. "Mass Relays", I think.

[ And looking back to Gansey again. ]

Unless you meant the aliens who built them in the first place. I don't know what they were called.

[quaerit]

Mass Relays.

[ Which, at least, is evidence of what Gansey meant. Of course, he's never heard of these Mass Relays before, but as names go, it's a good one. ]

I wonder if they have them in our universe. That would be quite a thing, wouldn't it? Imagine if people could find something like that.

We've not even landed on Mars.

[dreamkid]

They might be in our universe. He said he was from the future, so maybe it's just no one's found them yet.

[ Specifically, he said he was from "what would seem to be" Matthew's future, but let's not split hairs, here. ]

And he said that there's a galactic alliance, of humans and lots of other aliens. It's weird, but cool. I wasn't even sure aliens existed before now.

[quaerit]

No, really? Of course they do!

[ Gansey’s smile is wide, and he aims a vague, expansive gesture towards the window. ]

The sky is full of hundreds of millions of stars and planets. In this galaxy alone, can you imagine the odds of there being only one, tiny planet, on which there’s life? And that’s only our galaxy. There’s dozens of others. The idea that we’d be alone in the midst of all that…it seems unlikely. At least, it does to me.

[ Of course it does to him. Gansey is a person who wants to believe in all the stories, especially the ones in which he’s not alone. He really can’t help himself. ]

[dreamkid]

[ Well, when Gansey puts it that way, it's hard to be convinced of anything else. ]

I've heard some people talking about it at church. They weren't so sure.

[ Matthew's beliefs are a lot more simple, but also dearly held, and when he hears something at church, it tends to carry some weight for him. Not that he's arguing in any way, which would be a very silly thing to do now that the alien debate has been quite decidedly settled. Obviously, Gansey is right, and a handful of the parishioners at St. Agnes are in for a big surprise.

Matthew flops against the back of the futon, relaxed and smiling. ]

Everything keeps getting bigger, doesn't it?

[ Magic in his family, aliens on other planets, entirely different worlds--it's so much more than he could've imagined a year ago. ]

[quaerit]

[ It doesn’t surprise Gansey to hear that of churchgoers. It makes him smile, in fact. ]

Sometimes, even people who believe in something, don’t want to believe in more than what they know. Not everyone wants the universe to get bigger.

[ Which is the difference between those believers, and Gansey. He’s always looking for something more. He always has been. He’s never been able to settle with one discovery and leave it there. ]

The thing is, it’s always growing, always expanding. We can either close our eyes to that or embrace it, and I know what I prefer. I want to know more.

[dreamkid]

[ It's such a Gansey thing to say, and Matthew laughs a little, in fondness. ]

Like with Glendower.

[ It's not a question. Gansey's quest is a well-known one. ]

Seems like it'd be silly to pretend that things aren't happening when they are.

[ Says a boy whose very nature lets him do just that when bad things happen, whose thoughts might be gathered up at the end of the day and fail to fill so much as a pillowcase, much less reach out across the ever-expanding universe. Is it hypocritical if he was literally made that way? ]