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Ramon Salazar ([personal profile] latino_menace) wrote in [community profile] milliways_bar2005-07-27 10:19 am

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Ramon's back in the bar again after managing to sleep for about an hour or so. Saying that he looks a mess would be something of an understatement.

Twelve hours to go. He's wondering how much he can drink in that time.

[identity profile] underwater-owl.livejournal.com 2005-07-27 12:38 pm (UTC)(link)
"One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish. Ramon Salazar; terrorist and murderer, the temperature in Ottawa is 16 degrees in the shade, Roy; another victim of AIDS and abusive relationships, and all the lyrics to the latest Dixie Chix hit."

He shrugs.

"Weird things, on and off, like remembering a dream. If I'm not looking to know."

[identity profile] underwater-owl.livejournal.com 2005-07-27 12:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Mentioning it would be a waste of energy.

"I didn't give him much of a choice, I think."

He nods.

"Silly thing. But rather sweet. You have my word that your name came up in our conversation only in my instructions to him to tell you everything I'd said, should you ask."

He arches an eyebrow.

"And should you find that insufficient, I can always wipe his mind after we speak. Then you won't even know that about it."

[identity profile] underwater-owl.livejournal.com 2005-07-27 01:02 pm (UTC)(link)
"I like him. And a small geiss to not think of me while he is in your presence will do him less harm than it does you. I merely make this offer because I would rather not have our meetings be clandestine."

He shrugs, and his eyes flash.

"Nor would I have my actions cause him any more pain. You've done enough of that for the both of us, it seems."

[identity profile] underwater-owl.livejournal.com 2005-07-27 01:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Random rolls his eyes at that.

"Something tells me you're already feeling my only answer to that rediculuos claim yourself."

He cocks his head at Ramon, lips twisting in amusement.

"And you haven't long to wait. I was beginning to doubt your sanity would survive this lesson intact, however it seems you will pull through after all."

[identity profile] underwater-owl.livejournal.com 2005-07-27 01:26 pm (UTC)(link)
"I've caused pain and felt pain. I've tortured before and been tortured for years at a time."

He stares levelly at Ramon.

"I know that there's a kind of personality who's perfectly willing to strike a man with a whip when he's tied to a bed, but should that man be on his feet, he'd be surrendering his weapon before you could say 'Fucking Coward.'"

[identity profile] underwater-owl.livejournal.com 2005-07-27 01:40 pm (UTC)(link)
A smirk crosses his face.

"Interesting that I display a garment, and you assume it's cut to your fit."

His expression sobers.

"Though I said nothing to indicate I thought such a thing of you, Ramon. I do not like you, nor do I respect you. But I'm not blind. No coward would have kept his sanity thus far."

[identity profile] underwater-owl.livejournal.com 2005-07-27 02:00 pm (UTC)(link)
"Not Roy."

He shakes his head.

"He's considerably braver, in the human sense of the word, than you are."

It's not clear what he thinks of this particular fact. Perhaps most evident is a wry amusement.

[identity profile] underwater-owl.livejournal.com 2005-07-27 02:52 pm (UTC)(link)
"Bravery is to feel fear and comfront it."

He nods, mostly to himself.

"It's your choice what you think of him, I suppose. But I like him."

An arched eyebrow.

"And respect him."

[identity profile] underwater-owl.livejournal.com 2005-07-27 03:03 pm (UTC)(link)
"I don't need to read either, with you two."

He snorts.

"You're easy. If I'd been that open when I was your age, I'd have been knocked off just to keep me out of succession for the throne."

[identity profile] underwater-owl.livejournal.com 2005-07-27 03:17 pm (UTC)(link)
"Prince Random danOberon."

He cocks his head.

"And you're right. I'm not like you."

[identity profile] underwater-owl.livejournal.com 2005-07-27 03:37 pm (UTC)(link)
"Unless perhaps it is the fairy king?"

He gives Ramon a look that tells him he's being an idiot.

"What? The strange little man with pointed ears and magic tricks a relative of Oberon? With the Celtic word for 'son' (being 'dan') tacked onto the front of his name? Good Lord. What a coincidence."

Not quite a God.

[identity profile] underwater-owl.livejournal.com 2005-07-27 04:06 pm (UTC)(link)
"Would I tell you if he was?"

He mutters something along the lines of 'Is cuirfidh siad ruaig ar Ghallaibh. A bhuí le Rí na bhFeart go bhfeiceann.'

And smirks.

"And it explains more than that, if you look closer than the fairytale of 'This weak and idle theme, no more yeilding than a dream.'"

[identity profile] underwater-owl.livejournal.com 2005-07-27 04:23 pm (UTC)(link)
"I think that'd be making things a little too easy."

He folds his arms across his chest, and raises an eyebrow.

"Go enlighten yourself."

It's amazing how dirty he manages to make that sound.