The Streets, Saturday

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Min-Kyung, better known as Lightning, was on a mission. If she was going to pay for her room tonight at the onsen jjimjilbang, she needed to sell as many bowls of noodles as she could. Fortunately, she had the determination and drive to set a record for noodle bowls sold in a single day! Staring out into middle distance as she zipped up her jacket and pulled on her rainbow knitted mittens, she gave herself her daily peptalk.

"약 오천년 전, 고대 사람들은 타이어를 발명했다. 1884 년, 빵 왕의 아들은 두 개의 타이어를 사용하여 매우 빠르게 이동할 수 있습니다 오토바이를 발명했다," she reminded herself, not caring (or possibly noticing) that she had a rickshaw rather than a motorcycle. She still attached her helmet with the laser focus of someone who was completely In The Zone. "오토바이는 깨어 있고 실행 중입니다. 완료 준비를 시작."

Immediately, she took off at her dash, racing through the streets of Fandom, occasionally flinging bowls of noodles at people with uncanny accuracy. "검은 콩 국수가 여기에 있습니다! 검은 콩 국수가 여기에 있습니다!"

Hungry? Let Lightning serve you delicious warm noodles with tireless enthusiasm! She was not just well-known, she was legendary.

"당신이 화장실에서 주문할 경우 지퍼가 인상되기 전에, 나는 도착! 아무리 경우에 상관없이 어떤 순서로, 나는 최고의 맛과 온도를 제공합니다 하나입니다 상관없이!"

And all without breaking any traffic laws. Lightning was fast, but she made sure to observe the rules!

[OOC: Kathy is now Min Kyung "Lightning" Kang from the hilarious K-comedy Vampire Idol. She'll be zipping around, pinging into people's posts as I have time, though, uhh, she only speaks Korean though. Sorry! This entire scene taken straight from here, in all its ridiculous glory.

Translation: "Around 5000 years ago, the ancient people invented the tire. In 1884, the bread king's son invented the motorcycle which can move very fast by using two tires." "The motorcycle is awake and running. Starting preparations completed." "Black bean noodles are here!" "If you order in the bathroom, I will arrive before your zipper is pulled up! No matter where, no matter who, no matter what order, I am the one who will deliver it at the best taste and temperature!"]

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And here came the Sesame Street version of the Number 4, so that'll go well.

"Hello," the fuzzy little number said cheerfully. "I am the Number 4. Or 네!"

He was educational, after all.

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Okaaaaay. This might even be weirder than, say, an alien vampire pop idol falling directly in front of her!

"You are a four!" Lightning agreed in Korean, blinking a few times. "Are you hungry?"

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"Four!" the Number Four agreed.

He was from the American Sesame Street, so he could only speak English and a bit of Spanish so Rosita didn't get sad.

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"나는 전에 four 만난 적이 없다! 안녕하세요, 미스터 번호!"

Meeting a walking number was new to her, but once you'd met space-vampires who wanted to be popstars, things were a little easier to roll with. Perhaps this was someone's cute mascot or something? A robot?

[dauntless-four.livejournal.com]

"Lots of things come in fours!" The Number Four said enthusiastically. (The Number Four said everything enthusiastically.) "There are four sides to a rectangle! There are four angles in a rhombus! There are four chicken nuggets in a kids order!"

Aren't you thrilled to know this?!

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Well! He seemed very happy and that made Lightning smile.

"나도 씨 번호를 당신을 만나서 기쁘게 생각합니다. 내 이름은 Kang Min-Kyung 내가 국수를 판매에 최선을 해요! 당신은 그릇을 하시겠습니까?" Err. Hmm. Now that she thought about it... "숫자가 먹는해야합니까?"

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NOooo idea, but the Number Four heard a question there, and so he nodded. Enthusiastically.

With his whole body because the Number Four didn't exactly have a neck.

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Jake was out exploring, and trying to figure out why neither Jenkins nor Baird were answering their phones. Or why he'd woken up in a town with feudal Norman architecture, modern American signage, and apparently Korean delivery drivers.

"안녕하세요!" he called. "Uh. 당신은 할 수 - 나 지시 사항을 제공 ? 아니면 국수 ?"

His Korean was almost as rusty as his Urdu. He'd always been better with ancient texts, anyway.

[Translation: "Hello!" "Could you -- me give directions? Or noodles?"]

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"Oh! Oh!" Lightning said in Korean, letting go of the rickshaw to bow at the man. "Do you need a place to stay? Do you want to go to the jjimjilbang?"

No, Lightning wasn't sure how she'd gotten here herself, but she'd done enough laps around the island to know the important places. Like where she was going to sleep tonight.

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"Ah -- No," Jake said, smiling. "But thank you. Do -- uh. Do you know where the here is?" He winced, knowing his grammar was off. "Speak English? Or Japanese? Mandarin? Russian?"

Any of the several other languages he spoke better than Korean?

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Lightning shook her head, looking suitably abashed. "I have only Korean. My English is terrible and I speak none of the others."

She'd gone to school as much as she could, but she was very poor and had to work several jobs just to survive. That didn't leave much time for studying.

"As for here, umm..." She looked around and shrugged. "I'm not sure? It's not Korea though." Weird, she hadn't really been concerned about that. "I'm sorry, you must think I'm very stupid."

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Jake shook his head. Well, at least they were managing to understand each other. Probably. "Magic makes all stupid," he said. "I librarian. We solve magic. You just wake up here also?"

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Far better than anyone else on this island so far!

"I thought librarians just dealt with books," Lightning said, looking confused again. "Magic? Like vampires?"

She had a history with them. And terrible, terrible Hallyu pop music. "Yes, I just woke up here. But with all of my things."

Not that she had many.

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"Yes!" Jake said cheerfully. He loved magic. "Well. I mean." He cleared his throat, reminding himself to stick to Korean. "Not me. Other librarian meet Dracula. I wake up here also. Big house with dog. I should be Portland. This looks France. You . . . Seoul?"

[whoisalicewhite.livejournal.com]

"Your hair is stupid today." What did Eliot do to it? Parker had just done her appearing act behind Jake, and was studying him with a frown. "What's with the scarf?"

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Jake startled like a cartoon character, all flailing limbs and nonsensical vowel sounds. "Don't do that!" Then he blinked at the blonde woman standing behind him. ". . . Do I know you?"

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Parker reared back a little, glaring at him. "Did you get bitten by a gremlin?" Legit question! As Hardison would say.

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"What? No!" Jake blinked. "You mean, like, little monsters that break machines?" He sounded kind of excited by this prospect. "Is that -- do they cause amnesia? Maybe the clippings book sent me to take care of them, but I got whammied or --" He patted himself down, frowning. ". . . I'm not findin' any bites."

He was wordier than Eliot. And way more cheerful. To go with the stupid hair.

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"No! They're little green guys, and when they bite you they make you think you're somebody else." She squinted at him. "With a different fashion sense and not as much grumpiness and a clippings book?"

Okay, gremlins, that was just Weird. "Who doesn't know me." And harsh!

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". . . That doesn't match up with any legend of gremlins I've ever heard." Jake pulled out his cellphone and scowled at it. "And if Jenkins ever answers, I can get him to tell you, too. And we've never met. I never forget a face, darlin'. Certainly not one as nice as yours."

When she wasn't scowling suspiciously at him, anyway.

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Oh! This had to be one of Jake's friends! Was she going to help Jake find out about the magic? Perhaps she would like a bowl of delicious and fragrant black bean noodles to help keep her strength up!

"안녕하세요, Jake의 친구! 당신은 당신이 마법을 조사 할 수 있도록 검은 콩 국수의 맛있는 그릇을 하시겠습니까?" She held a bowl in her hands, offering it to Parker. "500 원!바겐 세일!"

[whoisalicewhite.livejournal.com]

"Kathy?" Or... "Not Kathy," Parker said definitely. Really, Island, this was annoying. "I don't speak that. Korean?" She was totally guessing. "Ooo, food!"

Yes, she would very much like that, but five hundred what?

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Won, of course! Or...whatever legal tender the local jjimjilbang would accept, though Lightning didn't know the current exchange rates.

"Yes!" she agreed, one of the few English words she did know. "Korean! 한국의 전통 검은 콩 국수. 아주 맛있는! 온천과 신선한!"

Fine Korean cuisine, fresh hot and delicious at your convenience, Parker!

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Which she could probably get at the Diner for free, if she asked the right person. (Darnit, Eliot, where were you?)

"Noooo," Parker said, shaking her head and then showing how empty her pockets were. And peeking down her shirt to show that there was no money tucked in the edge of her bra. Or socks. Hopefully that was clear enough? "Thank you. Danke. Gracias. Merci." Do you know thank-you in any other languages, Not-Kathy? Parker pointed to herself. "Parker." Then at Not-Kathy. Wait, what had Jake said? "Lightning?"

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Awww, nobody had any money on this island. Was it an island of very poor people? That didn't bode well for Lightning to earn a living while she was here.

On the bright side though--and Lightning could always find a bright side, even if she had to look for it really hard--maybe the jjimjilbang would be extra cheap since nobody here had money!

"Yes! Lightning!" She beamed at the woman. Parker. "내 이름은 Kang Min-Kyung, 하지만 내 별명이다 Lightning 나는 매우 빠른이기 때문에! 내가 너무 빨리 해요 자동차 사람들에게 국수를 제공 할 수 있습니다! 그러나 나는 어떤 교통 법규를 중단하지 마십시오. 나는 매우 신중하고 책임이다!"