- forty-third year waiting -

[nurse-boy.livejournal.com]

[dictated]

How does everyone plan on celebrating Christmas here? Has the castle ever had a, uh--a normal one?

Last year--the only one I've spent here--it was mental. Literally. Everyone had these really... vivid dreams, and I think we could, you know, dream-hop or something. Visit other peoples' dreams. And then--[sigh]--the castle turned into a Jane Austen novel or something, and it all ended when everyone turned into these tiny toy versions of ourselves inside a dollhouse or something, and we all got chased out by giant rats. I think. I just remember a lot of running.

Is something nice and normal and, well... normal too much to ask for? Just a plain regular Christmas?

[Rory is currently in the library looking at picture books, trying to get ideas for Christmas decorations and tree trimmings for his and Amy's room to wish for. A half-forgotten mug of hot coca is sitting on a nearby table. Come join him!]

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[nurse-boy.livejournal.com]

[nods agreeably, pursing his lips as he thinks]

That's... that's the thing where a spot in space doesn't shine or scatter light or something, right?

[syntax-error24.livejournal.com]

[Dairine grins, despite the heavy topic.]

More or less. It's does not emit the radiation we are familiar with, the opposite of regular matter. Thus, dark matter.

[nurse-boy.livejournal.com]

[takes a few seconds to process this; it's obviously not his forte, however much he does know about it]

It doesn't... emit anything at all, right? It's just a dead spot in space. Or am I thinking of something else?

[syntax-error24.livejournal.com]

Pretty sure you're thinking about the same thing. But it's not just a spot in space. It's matter. It's has a gravitational pull. We don't know if dark matter emits anything. It might just emit something that we are currently unaware of.

[Dairine gives a dark look straight ahead, not aimed at anything in particular.] But I can assure you, the dark matter I know is very much alive. [And hostile.]