http://bakers-boy.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] bakers-boy.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] shatterverse2008-02-06 02:13 am

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Toby slept most of the way from wherever it was Mr Venom picked him up until they reached the farm, and even then, he was still pretty groggy. The washroom was pointed out to him (and what a wonder that is, all shining and clean and good clean hot water right there without having to pump it or heat it on the fire or anything), and Toby did manage to scrub the mud off his face and shuck the outermost, muddiest layers of his clothes.

The kitchen seems like the best place for him, but when he finds it, he decides that it, like the washroom, is too posh for him to use much unless he has to or he's told to. Besides, there's not a proper fire going anywhere in the kitchen, and if there's one thing Toby really wants to find, it's someplace warm. A lot has happened lately-- too much to really, really take in, even-- and if he could just find somewhere warm and easy to sit for a while, to think things through... well, it can't hurt and might help.

He figures, though, that nobody's going to miss just one apple from the bowl, not if what Mr Venom told him about how many people live here is true.

If someone should wander in to tell the lad otherwise, he'll be most appropriately shamefaced-- especially since he's already taken a great big bite out of it.

((The usual note about spoilers applies-- let me know whether you want them or not or don't care.))
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[personal profile] slayer_fray 2008-02-06 12:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Mel forgives the mistake with a shrug.

"Then my name'll have to do," she says.

"How're you liking the place?"
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[personal profile] slayer_fray 2008-02-06 12:53 pm (UTC)(link)
"Neither have I," Mel confides, leaning forward like it's a great secret.
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[personal profile] slayer_fray 2008-02-06 01:11 pm (UTC)(link)
"Beats standing under a broken pipe," Mel agrees, leaning back on the back two legs of her chair, Hana now in her lap.

"Kitchen's all functional too. Goodta have a working icebox."
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[personal profile] slayer_fray 2008-02-06 01:18 pm (UTC)(link)
That earns him a studied look, while Mel mentally assigns a time to him, then she jerks her head towards the oven.

"Powered."
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[personal profile] slayer_fray 2008-02-06 01:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Mel grins, amused at him though not exactly mockinhg.

"Electric, probably. It'll heat itself up."
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[personal profile] slayer_fray 2008-02-06 01:39 pm (UTC)(link)
"No," Mel says cheerfully, watching him. "All I know is you press that button and turn those knobs. Common enough where I come from, if you can afford it."
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[personal profile] slayer_fray 2008-02-06 01:53 pm (UTC)(link)
"Probably see lots of things you haven't before, here," Mel remarks. "Good as well as not so."
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[personal profile] slayer_fray 2008-02-06 02:04 pm (UTC)(link)
"Don't know him," Mel admits. "Teeth're OK if they're biting for your side.

"You oK with magic?"
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[personal profile] slayer_fray 2008-02-07 12:17 am (UTC)(link)
"You'll probably get a demonstration," Mel admits, not volunteering to show how fast she heals, how much she can lift or what Hana does if you tickle her so much she burps.

"Long as you don't freak out, it'll all be jake."
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[personal profile] slayer_fray 2008-02-07 12:34 am (UTC)(link)
"That works," Mel agrees. "And yeah, might as well be magic. Got 'em all over at home, and I don't know how they work."
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[personal profile] slayer_fray 2008-02-07 06:38 am (UTC)(link)
"Should go in my sister's," Mel says cheerfully. "It flies."
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[personal profile] slayer_fray 2008-02-07 06:50 am (UTC)(link)
Mel laughs quickly and smirks at him.

"Not magic either, but pretty cool."

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