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Twenty-one Bells: [ACTION/VOICE]

[Archie has barely been around town lately, but he does appear in town this afternoon, dashing about to various shops and stores and picking up various one-use items and lots and lots of groceries. He seems to have one thing on his mind.

Later, he'll sit at the fountain and send out the voice message:]

This is Mr. Kennedy. If anyone is in need of me, I shall be at the beach house for most of the week. You can reach me there or on the journals.

Moreover, Mr. Hornblower and I are wondering if anyone would be interested in helping to build a ship. A sloop-of-war, to be specific, with room and ports enough for eighteen or twenty-two guns. I cannot claim we have a practical use for itm besides exploration, but it would be something to do. We have the plans drawn up, and all we need is enough hands to make it possible. We would be grateful for any help at all.

[After this, he'll be walking back to the beach house, where he's been babysitting Jack Sparrow since yesterday.]

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But you will go back to him.

I will. I don't know how much back -- like all-the-way-tattoo-back or provisionally-let-us-start-over-back. But I will. Go back. Absolutely.

Good. That should make the rest of the week a bit easier.

Easier?

[ hah, she thinks. ]

Speaking selfishly, Buffy.

[ oh.

guilt. ]

Being in the middle sucks. I remember that.

It's worse to be on one of the ends, I should think.

You get used to it. After the...oh, Hell. One, two three, four, fifth time. Maybe sixth. Depends on how you define time.

I know little about it. Dawn and I only had trouble the once.

It's what made you two shine.

Me, though. Men like to leave me. I've been on Jack's side all my life. This is my first time on this one.

Well. If it doesn't get better, it isn't likely to get worse.

You have no idea how worse things usually tend to get after someone says something like that.

[ ... ] On the plus side, it'd actually be a really pretty tattoo.

No idea, do I? [He'd only been trying to cheer her up. But it's not the time to press that.] Well, what would it look like?

...It's just a way people say things, Archie.

A bird. It'd look like a bird. [ she doesn't need to identify the sort. ]

[That is met with silence, at first.]

Well. You have your distance, and perhaps by the end of it you'll know whether or not you want to wear a bird for the rest of your stay.