simplestgift | Nine Bells: [VOICE/ACTION]

[Archie doesn't do a lot of voice posts. They make him feel weird. So he's speaking this one like he's reading it from a piece of paper he wrote out beforehand. Which he is.]

This is Mister Kennedy. As some of you already know, I am attempting to organize a regular goodbye ceremony for the friends and family of those who have been sent home. In preparation for this, I shall need a list of names of those who have gone on. If any one of you has had any person you care for sent home, please tell me their name. These names are to be read aloud at the ceremony.

If any one of you has a suggestion or should like to volunteer help, your aid will be appreciated greatly. The ceremony will take place monthly, God willing, on a day that shall be decided before long. You may approach myself or Miss Dawn Summers about this.

Thank you.

[There's a relieved sigh cut off halfway as the transmission ends.

He'll be outside today, writing ideas and names and plans on non-journal paper, but looking like every movement hurts but still doing it without sound or complaint, as if absolutely nothing is wrong. Later, of course, he'll be at Good Spirits, drinking very, very, very stiffly, as if raising the glass to his lips is painful.]

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Trying to kill me, more like it. Jack Bloody Sparrow. I'll beat him, mark my words.

[He doesn't actually sound bitter about this. Now that he's past the worst of it, he's actually enjoying the knowledge that he's getting stronger.]

[that gets a laugh] Well, if he kills you, I'll yell at him.

How kind of you, Jilly. How brave and generous of you to yell at him. For my part, I shall come back with a vengeance. I won't lose to him again.

I do what I can.

[A chuckle.] How have you been?

Good. And happy to be able to draw again.

The experiment didn't treat you too badly, did it?

[smiling] No...I kind of liked it, actually. I'm more comfortable being in my own skin, but I can't really complain.

How about you...did you get to try out all the powers you were hoping to try?

[A wince.] Yes. Actually. [His voice hushes to a whisper.] Except I didn't mean to curdle all the milk. He was actually very well-behaved.

[aww, Archie]

All of it?

[her voice hushes as well, but amusement laces every word] Does he know?

Not that it was me, but he was furious about the milk.

[a bit of a laugh] It's just milk. And it's free here in town. You wouldn't have hurt him, any.

I made him curtains. Out of spiderwebs.

[eyes widening] Full curtains?

...that seems like it would take forever.

Apparently not for a little goblin. I even dyed them with onion skins. Didn't know how to do that before.

Do you remember how, now?

More or less, yes, but I couldn't do it. Not with the spiderweb, at any rate. I could dye cloth with onions, since it was no worse than boiling a few things in a pot.

I don't know how big of a demand there is for spiderweb curtains, anyway.

[she kind of wants to see them, though]

Well, I've never used any other sort of fiber, either.

It sounds like he got a fair deal out of it. Beautiful curtains for a little spoiled milk.

He did say they were beautiful. [He says it with a degree of pride, actually.] And without even knowing who made them.

I'd love to see them, sometime.

If he hasn't torn them down in a rage, they'll still be at his house.

You don't tear down gifts from fae folk. Especially if you don't realize who they really are.

I'm not fae folk, Jilly, I'm quite human, and that's what concerns me.

[Not a LOT, but still.]

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