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[not_lugosi]

Bela arrives, moving a little more slowly than usual, but with her familiar smirk. It's been an interesting day. In the end it was a quite profitable one, even if she's paid for it in bruises.

Ghosts can be so pesky when you try to take their treasures.

Tiny tag: Bela Talbot, Cal Chandler

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[not_lugosi]

Marshmallows? No, really, are those marshmallows? Maybe he's a Boy Scout.

Bela laughs and salute back.

[walksthebounds]

Hey, what else are fireplaces good for?

Jamie grins, and gestures with the stick in a way that is meant to indicate his willingness to share, if people are so inclined.

[not_lugosi]

No way. Boy Scout is actually offering her a marshmallow. This is too much.

She heads over anyway. Why not?

"You're pretty free with your marshmallows, it looks like."

[walksthebounds]

"Well," Jamie says reasonably, "they're cheap."

More expensive things do not get offered away so easy.

[not_lugosi]

Bela huffs, mock offended. She takes a marshmallow anyway.

She never got to be in Girl Guides when she was little. Toasted marshmallows taste much better than she ever thought they would.

"Not bad."

[walksthebounds]

"Not bad?" Jamie echoes.

"That's pure toasted sugar you're eating! I think it deserves a little better than a 'not bad.'"

[not_lugosi]

"It's very good. I've never had one before, but I knew what they were. In theory."

[walksthebounds]

"Are they not something you eat on your world?" Jamie asks, tilting his head.

Perhaps Bela's people don't like pure sugar!

[not_lugosi]

"No, they have them," she says. "I simply don't end up near campfires often."

[walksthebounds]

"I'm not overly fond of camping out when I can avoid it," Jamie admits. "Give me proper civilization any day. Marshmallows are nearly the only perk."

So having marshmallows plus civilization is clearly the best bet!

[not_lugosi]

"I'm a city dweller myself. I will visit the country, but I don't want to live there. So what's your name, Marshmallow Man?"

[walksthebounds]

"I find myself in the country more than I'd like, but believe me, it's not by choice.

"I'm Jamie," Jamie says, and sticks out the hand that is not holding a stick-ful of marshmallows. "Pleased to meet you. And yourself?"

[not_lugosi]

"Bela," she says, shaking back. "Are you from Earth or elsewhere?"

[walksthebounds]

"I'm from Earth - an Earth, at least - but it's been a long time since I was back there."

He grins. "Most worlds I've been to call themselves something that means Earth anyways."

[not_lugosi]

"You're a space traveler, right? I've met a few of those here."

[walksthebounds]

Jamie shakes his head.

"Not space. Never been in a spaceship at all."

He watches to see how she takes this. (Not that he's enjoying being cryptic or anything. Never!)