Few people can manage to have as little fun at a carnival as Gilbert Norrell.
Unfortunately for him, however, he had forgotten that the thing was happening at all. Norrell (Greatest Witch of the Age, Coven Leader, Founder of and chief enthusiast of the 'Norrellite' approach to magic and owner of the greatest magical library in London1) had been stuck in traffic for the last hour and was now stuck in a crowd.
He was dressed in a long, thick black coat which was not at all appropriate for the current weather and uncomfortably trying to push his way through barely clothed people who were loud, irritating and who quite frankly should be arrested for indecency! He has half a mind to do something about it himself!
Luckily for most people such thoughts rarely come to fruition with Gilbert Norrell. He slinks through another section of spectators and his brow furrows deeper. It is rare enough that he leaves the comfort of his home, but Childermass had been otherwise engaged and he had been so impatient to get this book. And now...!
He makes an impatient sound as someone jostles him and vows to never attempt such a thing again.
BRAWL:
Norrell is not a brave man in his heart. Yet, unfortunately for some, neither is he one who has the best grasp of social situations nor is he necessarily well liked. Gilbert Norrell has opinions and he is not one to hide them, nor is he one to express them gently. He is at best, patronising, at worst insufferably rude.
So it is that he finds himself recognised while trying to find a safe route back to where his driver is, book clutched to his chest and carefully wrapped in brown paper and a plastic bag. He presses his back to the wall, slinks along it as he is drunkenly sneered at.
"Circle Midnight are charlatans and give English Magic a bad name," he insists, all the while eyes flicking this way and that for an opening to bolt.
CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE:
Meet Norrell elsewhere: at a Daybreak Meeting, in the libraries of Redbright disapproving of the content, or somewhere else altogether!
Gilbert Norrell | Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell | Daybreak Witch
Few people can manage to have as little fun at a carnival as Gilbert Norrell.
Unfortunately for him, however, he had forgotten that the thing was happening at all. Norrell (Greatest Witch of the Age, Coven Leader, Founder of and chief enthusiast of the 'Norrellite' approach to magic and owner of the greatest magical library in London1) had been stuck in traffic for the last hour and was now stuck in a crowd.
He was dressed in a long, thick black coat which was not at all appropriate for the current weather and uncomfortably trying to push his way through barely clothed people who were loud, irritating and who quite frankly should be arrested for indecency! He has half a mind to do something about it himself!
Luckily for most people such thoughts rarely come to fruition with Gilbert Norrell. He slinks through another section of spectators and his brow furrows deeper. It is rare enough that he leaves the comfort of his home, but Childermass had been otherwise engaged and he had been so impatient to get this book. And now...!
He makes an impatient sound as someone jostles him and vows to never attempt such a thing again.
BRAWL:
Norrell is not a brave man in his heart. Yet, unfortunately for some, neither is he one who has the best grasp of social situations nor is he necessarily well liked. Gilbert Norrell has opinions and he is not one to hide them, nor is he one to express them gently. He is at best, patronising, at worst insufferably rude.
So it is that he finds himself recognised while trying to find a safe route back to where his driver is, book clutched to his chest and carefully wrapped in brown paper and a plastic bag. He presses his back to the wall, slinks along it as he is drunkenly sneered at.
"Circle Midnight are charlatans and give English Magic a bad name," he insists, all the while eyes flicking this way and that for an opening to bolt.
CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE:
Meet Norrell elsewhere: at a Daybreak Meeting, in the libraries of Redbright disapproving of the content, or somewhere else altogether!