ext_84426 ([identity profile] empath-wiggin.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] milliways_bar2005-08-22 10:00 pm

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Val's sitting in the bar, unsurprisigly pouring over some papers in Antarian. It would seem that she's rather boring lately. Perhaps something should be done. Boredom is a strange fish sometimes.

[identity profile] puckishly.livejournal.com 2005-08-23 03:49 am (UTC)(link)
And suddenly, there is a fairy glancing down at them as well.

"What a dreadful-looking assembly of scrip and scrippage."

[identity profile] puckishly.livejournal.com 2005-08-23 03:52 am (UTC)(link)
He rolls his eyes dramatically. "You ought to burn the lot."

He is ... probably kidding.

[identity profile] puckishly.livejournal.com 2005-08-23 04:00 am (UTC)(link)
He tilts his head to one side. "Not young Max?"

[identity profile] puckishly.livejournal.com 2005-08-23 04:07 am (UTC)(link)
"Was I there?" Puck says absently, before chuckling. "Quite all right. One of the reasons that I myself have chosen not to take up writing. Ink seems to have a habit of seeping into the blood."

[identity profile] puckishly.livejournal.com 2005-08-23 04:15 am (UTC)(link)
He looks a little too curious about this.

[identity profile] puckishly.livejournal.com 2005-08-23 04:22 am (UTC)(link)
"... There is a way to find out."

Look at the innocence.

[identity profile] puckishly.livejournal.com 2005-08-23 04:29 am (UTC)(link)
Pout.

"It needn't be. Not if we're careful." A little prick ought to do it.

[identity profile] puckishly.livejournal.com 2005-08-23 04:33 am (UTC)(link)
Puck beams.

"You're a marvel of a woman, dear Val."

[identity profile] puckishly.livejournal.com 2005-08-23 04:45 am (UTC)(link)
He snatches up the paper deftly and laps at the blood experimentally.

"Hm. Tastes the same as well."

[identity profile] puckishly.livejournal.com 2005-08-23 04:57 am (UTC)(link)
He smiles sweetly.

"Probably for the best.

"Aside from the usual papering about, what have you been doing with yourself?"

[identity profile] puckishly.livejournal.com 2005-08-23 05:05 am (UTC)(link)
"You've a horse?"

How Freudian.

[identity profile] puckishly.livejournal.com 2005-08-23 05:16 am (UTC)(link)
He grins.

"A pegasus ... wherever did you acquire one of those?"

[identity profile] puckishly.livejournal.com 2005-08-23 05:24 am (UTC)(link)
Puck considers this.

"I'm not in the habit of using creatures for their labor. Though your Solon does right to protect you."

[identity profile] puckishly.livejournal.com 2005-08-23 05:35 am (UTC)(link)
"Well ... it's still slightly different for one of my kind," Puck explains. "We're a good deal closer to bird and beast than are mortals."

For example, would you ask your cousin to pull a carriage? Even your second cousin? The one you only see on Christmas and Easter? Well, then.

[identity profile] puckishly.livejournal.com 2005-08-23 05:42 am (UTC)(link)
Puck just tilts his head, watching her come to whatever conclusion she'll come to.

[identity profile] puckishly.livejournal.com 2005-08-23 06:01 am (UTC)(link)
Puck grins. One might say that he is delighted.

"What mindset should replace it?"

[identity profile] puckishly.livejournal.com 2005-08-23 06:13 am (UTC)(link)
"So I've been told," he says, thinking of Nita Callahan.

[identity profile] puckishly.livejournal.com 2005-08-23 06:17 am (UTC)(link)
"Except when there is miscommunication, of course," he puts in cheerfully.

[identity profile] puckishly.livejournal.com 2005-08-23 06:24 am (UTC)(link)
"You may just be right," he says with a laugh of his own.

What? No, of course he will not admit to a similar failing among his own kind.

[identity profile] puckishly.livejournal.com 2005-08-23 06:29 am (UTC)(link)
He nods thoughtfully.

"That seems logical."

[identity profile] puckishly.livejournal.com 2005-08-23 06:40 am (UTC)(link)
A curious pause.

"Does anyone understand himself-- or herself, as the case may be?"

[identity profile] puckishly.livejournal.com 2005-08-23 07:07 am (UTC)(link)
A snort. "Not even by their creators, it seems."