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[key-youth-bert.livejournal.com]

One ka-mai in the bar with coffee and a thoughtful look on his face. Have at.


[Summary: Cuthbert talks about Cort's visit to the bar with Roland, who seems a bit disappointed that Bert didn't get hit, with Lilly, who finds the idea of apprentice gunslingers having to prove their manhood by beating Cort up and taking his stick amusing, I can't imagine why, and with Susan, with whom he is angstily nostalgic about Gilead.]

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[key-youth-bert.livejournal.com]

"Nope. We had to beat him up and take his stick in order to prove ourselves as men."

And no, that's not Freudian in any way.

...Shut up.

[awesome_lilly]

Lilly tries desperately to stifle giggles for at least ten seconds before she gives up entirely.

"Ohhhhh, that kind of 'trial,'" she says in between gigglefits. "Why didn't you say? I understand so much more about you guys now."

[key-youth-bert.livejournal.com]

Cuthbert glares at her.

"What? It was a tradition going back centuries."

[awesome_lilly]

"Kinda like the ancient Greeks?" Lilly asks innocently before collapsing into giggles again.

[key-youth-bert.livejournal.com]

Eyebrow quirk. "The who?"

[awesome_lilly]

"Ancient Greeks," Lilly says. "Founders of my type of civilization, full of wise men... who liked the company of beardless boys, but that's incidental really."

[key-youth-bert.livejournal.com]

Cuthbert blinks.

And then catches up.

"Your mind is going places it shouldn't, young lady."

[awesome_lilly]

Lilly looks at him, all innocent and blonde.

"What do you mean, Koosh? I shouldn't think about ancient traditions?"

[key-youth-bert.livejournal.com]

Blonde innocence does not fool Cuthbert. Cuthbert met Meg on his first night here.

He just eyes her.

[awesome_lilly]

Lilly grins.

"Would you believe attempting to respect your traditions no matter how giggle-inducing they might be?"