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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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[A beat.]

But it's polite.

[His smile can be heard.]

...Screw politeness.

[ and an audible smirk to match. ]

I think you've been in Scotland long enough to become a bit Scot yourself, my dear.

...Does this mean I have to wear plaid? Because tartan and this complexion? Not happening.

Only on very formal occasions.

[ brb, the slayer is imagining a plaid prom dress and gagging. ]

Fine. Next formal occasion? You pick my outfit. Except for the part where I'm serious about not wearing plaid.

[ she had, after all, picked out his clothing for dawn's birthday. and now he was tender over how people expected HIM to change while they remained the same. perhaps she ought to give ground, here. no matter how banal that ground may be. ]

[A laugh.] Luceti will never have a formal occasion for which I know how to dress.

[ a beat. ] Halloween.

Halloween is a formal occasion?

Formal enough. [ hah. ] And I have a precedent for wearing outdated stuff. It all works out.

Whatever happened to the customary capers of the holiday, I wonder?

Don't ask me. I try to remain caper-free on Halloween. Back home, it's my one night off. Or it's supposed to be, when costumes aren't magically turning people into what they're pretending to be.

Costumes, is it? Gone the route of the pagans, you Americans.

It's called fun.

Invent that, did you?

Mmhm. Right after I invented eating Chinese on birthdays and was the first person to ever wear an odd number of earrings.

[He laughs. Getting a few things off his chest has done wonders for his spirits, although he won't admit it.] I meant Americans in the future. They don't have fun in my time because it hasn't been invented yet?

People've always have fun. I can't claim we invented it when, if I'm lucky enough, I'll see centuries of other people's fun in my dreams.

[ it's not always young girls dying, after all. ]

In your dreams? [He thinks this is another joke. He hasn't heard about her dreams yet.]

In my dreams. We...Slayers? We have dreams. Dreams of things that might happen. Dreams of things that have happened -- to other Slayers. Past Slayers. In my dreams, I've been all kinds of girls. From a few decades behind me, to your time. To older. All the way back to the first.

That's...sort of an unnecessary thing to subject you to, isn't it?

...I'm nut sure that the second part was intentional. But it comes with the lineage. Part of the package.

The other slayers have them?

We're all supposed to, yeah. Some of them I know as well as I know me. The one in white, from the Middle Ages...

What was her name?

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