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[lady_moon]

Her feet sink a little in the snow-like sand. The sky is a deep lavender with dark clouds and two partial moons hovering high in the heavens. In the darkness, the sand doesn't shine too brightly, and the ocean looks more mossy than emerald, except where it rushes up to meet the land.

In the distance is a tall castle, battlements shadowy and flags flapping in the gentle wind. The air smells pure, clean, with a slight tang of salt.

Moon spins about in the sand, delighting in being home, and her laughter carries over the water.

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[lady_moon]

She gives him a shy glance.

"Is that so, Indy?"

Moon giggles and looks back at her wolves.

"Oh? What was his name?"

Cause names are important.

[henry-jones-jr.livejournal.com]

"Um... heh."

"How'd I know you were gonna ask that."

Chuckling, he shifts his gaze downwards. He's not ashamed. It's not like it's any big secret around the bar.

"The dog's name was Indiana. I... kinda stole it. 'Cause I liked it better than Henry Junior."

[lady_moon]

She smiles at him.

"Does anyone call you Henry, or have you successfully made certain you're only called Indiana?"

Moon thinks it's cute.

[henry-jones-jr.livejournal.com]

"I don't use Henry, ever. Not even professionally. Haven't since I was a kid. So... yeah, I'm pretty much Indy or Indiana to everyone."

He looks back up and meets her smile with one of his own.

"There's only a birth certificate and a movie to prove different."

[lady_moon]

"Names change as personalities change."

She draws a crescent moon in the sand.

"I've gone by so many. The one I tend to hand out around the bar is Luna, because then I don't get odd looks. Most people tend to think I'm some kind of hippie flowerchild."

Moon shoves out her arms and does a spin.

"I ask you, do I look like a hippie flowerchild?"

[henry-jones-jr.livejournal.com]

"I... er.... hippies are kinda after my time," he says, a bit helplessly. "But I've seen 'em on TV. So I'm gonna say... no. Not enough tie-dye, and your hair's too nice. And, more importantly, you don't really act like them. Unless I'm missing the fact that you're secretly a pot-smoking Doors fan, who often fails to bathe for days on end."

He makes a play of sniffing her, then grins.

"Nah. You're in the clear."

[lady_moon]

Moon laughs.

And laughs more.

"I do try to keep myself clean." Moon likes her bathes. "How silly. All because of a name."

She takes a deep breath, giggling a little more, then relaxes.

"Would you like to try a different world now?" she asks.

[henry-jones-jr.livejournal.com]

"Luna's a nice name too, but I'm gonna stick with Moon," he decides.

Then lifts his eyebrows quizzically.

"Huh. So soon?"

"I didn't realize we were on whirlwind tour."

[lady_moon]

"Moon is what I am, it seems appropriate to be called."

Her cheeks colour faintly.

"I've never really had a friend, or even a travel companion, so this is very new for me. If it's too soon, we can wait." She plops down onto the beach, digging her hands into the sand. "Not many people want to have a drink with me since it somehow turns into a reading of their future. And then questions." Not that she minds. It's her job.

But she's begun to think, thanks to Indy and Santino, that there's more than just her job in the multiverse.

[henry-jones-jr.livejournal.com]

"That's kinda sad," Indy remarks.

He lowers himself down beside her.

"It's hard not to get wind of what's ahead for me in a general sense, with so many people from my future in the bar. But I've always tried to steer clear of personal fortune-telling and such."

Tim Hunter did give him a short reading at the fateful 134 cocktail party some time ago, but he was so drunk at the time, he can't even remember what the verdicts were. And the events that followed in Loompaland only reinforced that memory loss.

"So. I'm never gonna want a reading from you," he concludes with a smile. "You're a very interesting girl though. I think I'm always gonna have questions about you, and the nature of your kind."

"Like, right now, what's this world actually called? And is there anything more to it than what we can see right now?"

[lady_moon]

She smiles at him, gratefully.

To be around someone who didn't want to know... it was a relief.

"We never named it," she says, looking back out over the ocean. "We spent decades arguing about the castle, though. I suppose, when more of us come, we'll name it. But there's only twenty of us awake now."

Eventually, all seventy-eight of them would exist, and Moon looked forward to that day.

"And yes, this is pretty much it." She laughs nervously. "Not many of us make this our constant residence. Ruin and the Queen of Swords live in Greece on one of the earths, and Skill lives somewhere on a nearly waterless world. I think only Sorrow makes this her permanent home because she hasn't exactly found her way yet."

[henry-jones-jr.livejournal.com]

Indy nods acknowledgingly at the information.

"Earlier, I didn't mean to suggest that I didn't wanna meet your family. I do. Just... not right now."

He reaches down and takes her hand in his.

"I socialized my butt off at the party over the weekend, and I'd just kinda like some alone time. With you. Y'know? To get to know you better, without any distractions."

[lady_moon]

She turns her eyes to him and her expression shows she hadn't even had a second thought about her offer to take him to the castle. Moon smiles, understandingly, and nods. "I don't mind. Alone is fine by me."

Moon leans over and rests her head against his shoulder comfortably.

"Not that I think there's much to know about me," she adds with a giggle. "I like strawberries, pink and yellow, dancing, and I have a very large family."

[henry-jones-jr.livejournal.com]

"I'm sure there's a little to you than that," Indy asserts. "At the very least, we're gonna find some more things that you can add to your 'like' list."

"Right?"

[lady_moon]

She nods.

"I certainly hope so!" Moon digs her toes into the sand and wiggles them. Mare thinks this interesting and sniffles the ground near her, stalking her wriggling toes.

"And I know there's a lot about you I don't know. You're not one often in my sphere of influence, so you're more of a mystery to me than most of the people I meet."

Another plus for Indy.

[henry-jones-jr.livejournal.com]

"Heh. Feel free to explore me then," he says, smirking slightly.

"I won't hold back."

Innuendo is just in his nature, regardless of whether the other party actually gets it.

"How come I've escaped your attentions?"

[lady_moon]

"My attentions, maybe," she says, the innuendo indeed lost on her. "Not others of my family. I'm very particular. You're not magical, you're not insane, you've no creative drive... You have been through my realm when you have experienced primal emotions, but those moments are fleeting for most people."

She kicks some sand at Mare who sneezes, gives her a Look, and trots off down the beach with Mons.

[henry-jones-jr.livejournal.com]

"No creative drive indeed."

He gives a sniff of feigned indignance.

"I'll have you know that I made a very fine sock puppet for Bernard when he was in hospital. And I did a pretty decent glitter job on Raph's fake DVD rewinder."

He looks sideways at her, gauging her reaction to the blatant act.

[lady_moon]

Moon laughs.

"I'm sorry, Picaso, I forgot about those particular masterpieces."

She hops up and closes her eyes, listening to the wind and the sea, then begins to dance. It's not ballet, exactly, but it's graceful and quiet. Her movements are slow, and she dances to the sound of her world. It's something she's done in Milliways, during the full moon out by the lake, but it was wild and broken dance then.

Now, she just twirls and bows, then looks at him from under her hair.

"Creativity," she murmurs with a grin.

[henry-jones-jr.livejournal.com]

Indy watches the impromptu dance with wide eyes and a rapt smile. He can't detect the music that's guiding her, which makes the arrangement all the more hypnotic. He marvels at the elegance of her motion, and follows each alluring step until she's done.

"Yeah. Point made. I think you've got me beat there." He doesn't clap, but there's no lack of appreciation in his expression. "That was divine, sweetheart."

"Permission to breathe again?"

[lady_moon]

"You will keep me laughing all night with your comments," she says on the wave of another giggle. "Of course you can breathe again; it would be a difficult thing to explain to your friends how it is you came to suffocate while on a beach with only me around."

She sits back down on the sand, pleased and relaxed.

[henry-jones-jr.livejournal.com]

Indy makes a show of taking a big breath, then chuckles. "Yeah, that might be a bit awkward."

He slides his arm back over her shoulders.

"I'd have died happy though."

[lady_moon]

Moon happily snuggles against him in a very innoncent manner.

"Would you?" she asks with a grin. "My dancing is not that awe-inspiring, Indy." She gives him a gentle nudge with her elbow.

[henry-jones-jr.livejournal.com]

"Yeah it is, compared to most everything else I've ever seen," Indy counters. "Y'can be as modest as y'like about it, but I reckon the coroner would've had a helluva job getting the goofy smile off my face."

He waggles his eyebrows at her.

"Don't forget, my opinion's the only one that counts."

[lady_moon]

She holds up a hand in a swearing motion.

"Oh, heavens forbid I forget that universal truth: Indy's opinions is the only one that counts."

Moon is enjoying herself.

And it surprises her.

She looks out at the sea again, then looks at him.

"Do you... swim... Indy?"