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.))
littlestcooper: (devastation)

[personal profile] littlestcooper 2008-02-08 11:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Soft nod.

Yeah, Lucy knows what it's like to lose someone.
littlestcooper: (kind smile)

[personal profile] littlestcooper 2008-02-08 11:30 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yes."

Like a mother to her: Renee, whose claw-carved gravestone Lucy still visits, up in what's left of New York. And Anne, out back of the house in a little overgrown part of the field.
littlestcooper: (giggles)

[personal profile] littlestcooper 2008-02-08 11:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Nod!

"This," she says, tapping the appropriate dial. "It turns. Further around, more heat, after you wait for the oven to catch up."

...what? Lucy totally knows how to cook. Or at least how to help Anne cook, and that's the same thing, isn't it? Yes. Right. Mmhmm.
littlestcooper: (look to the sky)

[personal profile] littlestcooper 2008-02-08 11:49 pm (UTC)(link)
"How hot it gets."

She really doesn't know much more than that, alas.
littlestcooper: (sharp shadows)

[personal profile] littlestcooper 2008-02-08 11:53 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yes?"

She doesn't really get the attraction. It's an oven, for heaven's sake. You cook things with it.
littlestcooper: (kind smile)

[personal profile] littlestcooper 2008-02-09 12:01 am (UTC)(link)
Nod.

She can understand that.
littlestcooper: (look to the sky)

[personal profile] littlestcooper 2008-02-09 12:05 am (UTC)(link)
Encouraging nod! (They come in many flavours.)

Also, at some point her apple core has vanished into the trash, to be replaced by... well, a second apple.

Lucy doesn't face strangers without food. Recipe for disaster, that.
littlestcooper: (other self)

[personal profile] littlestcooper 2008-02-09 12:15 am (UTC)(link)
Grin!

"Have? No. Dragon? Yes."

She makes sure to keep her teeth covered when they lengthen into fangs and scales flow over her skin like ink over paper. People don't generally react well to the other self's smile.

And Lucy only stays dragon long enough to blink once before the spill reverses and she's an ordinary girl again.
littlestcooper: (kind smile)

[personal profile] littlestcooper 2008-02-09 12:21 am (UTC)(link)
"That you will," she says kindly.

And hey. Hasn't eaten him yet.

Might not ever, come to that.

(Might.)
littlestcooper: (look to the sky)

[personal profile] littlestcooper 2008-02-09 12:26 am (UTC)(link)
"Dragon lady."

Well, it's closer than witch, at least. And a fairly apt description.

(...Lucy has never been considered this awesome before! At least not so soon into a meeting. She's starting to warm to Toby a bit.)
littlestcooper: (giggles)

[personal profile] littlestcooper 2008-02-09 12:33 am (UTC)(link)
"A bit."

Beam! (With utterly normal teeth, thank you. At the moment.)
littlestcooper: (kind smile)

[personal profile] littlestcooper 2008-02-09 12:38 am (UTC)(link)
"Yep."

Slightly smug, that. Flying is fun!

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