Date: Feb. 7 Characters: Church, OPEN Location: Around Floor 1 Summary: It's walkthrough time, and Church is out and about on patrol. Warnings: Language, Church being a douche
Church hadn't spent much time on the agricultural levels. He didn't know why. When he was younger he'd occasionally fantasized about living out in the country someday, maybe having a couple animals and a vegetable garden. He liked the city well enough, and Austin in particular was a nice place to have grown up, but the ever-present myth of the West, of living off the land, of going horseback riding in the grasslands between the flat-topped mountains out at the base of the Rockies had always held a special interest to him, that someday he'd achieve that dream
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The Count turns to face Church and gives a welcoming nod. "I suppose so, but I prefer to spend more time here among the plants. Besides, the sooner we plant the sooner we shall have fresh food. Will that not be pleasant, monsieur?"
"...Yeah. Looking forward to it," he replied dryly. One of these days they were going to notice that he and Tex never ate with the rest of them. Or at all. That was an explanation he never liked having to give.
Noting the sarcasm but unsure as to what caused it, the Count decides to simply ignore his tone. "And what brings you down here? Come to work on the hydroponics too?" He pronounces the unfamiliar word carefully.
"Nah, I'm doing the walkthrough, figured I'd see what was up down here. Gotta say, I'm impressed you guys haven't broken anything yet." He looked over at the Count's work. "What've you guys planted so far?"
Making a deliberate effort to focus on the "impressed" and ignore the "broken anything YET" the Count narrows his eyes in irritation but says civilly "Mostly those plants which were already started, the tree cuttings and the like. Then the seeds. Perhaps you could help me, this kelp? That is seaweed, is it not? Why would we grow that?"
"Uh..." Well crap, he had to think of something quick. Better than admitting he had no fucking clue why they needed seaweed. "Well, we've got snails and shrimp, too, right? Maybe it's to give them something to eat." Yeah, that didn't sound too far off, he figured.
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