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[bestsellingego.livejournal.com]

A man sits at the bar, his dress shoes tucked under the beam of the stool he's currently perched upon. He's got a hell of a shiner and half a mind to believe the rumours now that he's got proof: lefties can throw a punch, and then can do it hard. His black bow tie is undone, lying limply around his neck. He's in deep discussion with Bar:

"No, that thing Hemingway said about drinking. You know what I'm talking about. 'Something something sober, you'd know better if you kept your mouth shut.' Come on, you've gotta' know this --" he leans forward, half imploring.

Bar produces a dry vodka martini and a copy of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations.

Rick Castle takes a sip of the martini and uses the Bartlett's as a coaster. "Succinct," he says, "Hemingway would have liked that."

[ short, declarative tiny tag : rick castle ; kate beckett ]

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[bestsellingego.livejournal.com]

"So you really just," he spread his hands, "make it up on the spot like that? Or do you have a system? I mean, if I asked you to make up a song about me, right now, off the cuff, could you do it?"

[penderwydd]

"It is not like that," snapped Tegid, "YOu are insulting and vulgar."

He ordered beer and the dark brew appeared in a bronze bowl.

"Do you speak like this to people from your own world?"

[bestsellingego.livejournal.com]

Insulting and vulgar. Well, he'd gotten worse. At least this guy had the decency to use words with more than a couple of syllables. Castle almost felt bad about stepping on the guy's big red toes. "Unless they're paying me not to," he said. "I'm a writer."

[penderwydd]

"Tell me Richard Castle, are you well liked?" asked Tegid standing from his stool, "For, I am surprised your head has kept company with your neck."

See what he did, Castle needs to somehow figure out that not everyone here is from Manhattan. Tegid's eyes burned with a fury that he had not experianced in a long time.

"Do you not know where you are?" asked Tegid, finally, "In this place there are far more dangerous than I. They will think little of breaking the rules here. Be warned."

[bestsellingego.livejournal.com]

Castle leveled two fingers at his brow and ticked them off in a 'will do' salute.

[penderwydd]

Tegid rolled his eyes and headed to a table to drink and watch the door.

He may apologize for being rude later.