Eight Bells: [Action/Written]

[simplestgift]

[Luceti, Jack Sparrow now has drapes. They are lovely drapes, made of something like spiderweb silk and dyed a nice, neutral, manlyish color. The furniture and silver are both polished. There is even a new rug on the living room floor. Everything looks very home-ish.

Jack's clothes, on the other hand, are strewn all over the place, and every drop of dairy is badly curdled. Missing is a pair of trousers and Jack's Jolly Roger t-shirt.

Archie Kennedy comes dashing into town from the Cullen House wearing a pair of trousers and a Jolly Roger t-shirt. He'll make his way as quickly as is possible to his own apartment to get dressed properly so no one will suspect he spent the week with Jack--least of all Jack. He can be run into at any point.

After all this is accomplished and he's eaten something at Seventh Heaven that does not include porridge, honey, or cream, he will sit down to write this note.]

May I speak with a tailor in this town?

Comments

[simplestgift]

I meant staying with a lady, Giles. I could have ended up in worse.

[consultmybooks]

I'm sure you could have. Someone could have taken it into their heads to try and eat you.

[simplestgift]

There were cats who tried. [And by his tone, PHAILED. Mostly because they were actually people in cat form who came to their senses in time.]

[consultmybooks]

They're fairly notorious, in that regard.

Cats and brownies have never gotten on.

[simplestgift]

You didn't mention that before.

[consultmybooks]

I didn't know anyone who kept a cat besides Buffy.

And I hoped most of the villagers would think to ask first, under the circumstances.

[simplestgift]

Well, I wasn't eaten. That speaks for them.

[consultmybooks]

Yes, it does. Thankfully.

...so, I must say, I'm curious. What was it like being a brownie?

[simplestgift]

Not very much like being a man. I told you I made him curtains out of spider's web, didn't I?

[consultmybooks]

Yes, you did. Brownies are handy like that, although I never knew one quite that enterprising.

[simplestgift]

I haven't heard of anything like it. I was bored. That house was desolate.

[consultmybooks]

And so you made curtains.

Perhaps it's some sort of instinct.

[simplestgift]

Are you studying me?

[He definitely sounds more amused than offended.]

[consultmybooks]

No. [Maybe.] But brownies are one of the few supernatural creatures back home that won't do humans grievous bodily harm at the first provocation. So of course I'd never spoken with one before.

[simplestgift]

[consultmybooks]

[...why are you giving him that look, Kennedy?]

[simplestgift]

So you...often converse with creatures that would as soon tear a man apart as look at him, do you?

[consultmybooks]

Converse? Good Lord, no. Not if I can avoid it.

[simplestgift]

[He's trying to decide if he wants more of an explanation than that. He knows Buffy talked about vampires, but...]

[consultmybooks]

...I get that look rather a lot. It's fine.

[simplestgift]

Buffy hunts things besides vampires, then?

[consultmybooks]

Oh, yes. She's managed to defeat well over two dozen species of demon by her time.

1/2

[simplestgift]

De--

2/2

[simplestgift]

Never mind. I'd rather not know.

Re: 2/2

[consultmybooks]

[...vampires you can process, but demons you can't?

Giles does not get you sometimes, Kennedy.]

No, you probably wouldn't. That's fine.