One rainy street looks much like another

[cptn_carrot]

When: Friday night, August 26
Where: Coming into town along Main Street
Who: Carrot Ironfoundersson & OPEN
What: Someone's about to be very, very, very confused
Rating: Depends on who finds him! For Carrot's part, probably no higher than G

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[cptn_carrot]

At Abraham's counteroffer, Carrot sighed. The sound was part relief and part reluctant surrender. He didn't really have a choice at this point; it was either leave without paying or eating, which already felt wrong because they would already have begun to cook the food, or let his companion pay. So he could only be relieved that Abe was prepared to let Carrot pay him back in some fashion.

On the other hand, paying him back would necessitate staying here for some length of time. When he found a way to get back, he wouldn't feel right about leaving if he were still in debt. Then again, if he had got here and was able to get home again, maybe he could return at some point to pay his debt.

He would have to make it work. He didn't have a choice. He nodded, trying to mask his reluctance with gratitude. "Well. Thank you, sir. I will repay you as soon as I'm able." Almost, he could hear Nobby and Colon laughing at him. The two of them mooched off others whenever the opportunity presented itself, and Carrot didn't hold it against them; it was just their way. But he just couldn't be comfortable behaving like that himself.

Much easier to talk about the Discworld, and the ways in which it differed from the world in which he now found himself. If this was the wizards' work, he admired their attention to detail. "Only the one orangutan," he reiterated. "I'm told he used to be a wizard, only some sort of magical accident transformed him into an orangutan, and he's never wanted to be changed back. Good man, though. He was on that flight to Cori Celesti, too. Of course he stowed away," he added matter-of-factly, "and nearly caused us to run out of air. But once we solved that, he was quite a good comrade."

He listened to Abe's description, the puzzled line reappearing between his brows. "But why should so many of them be dangerous? That is to say, of course some vampires and werewolves do cause trouble. I've run into a few of those." Literally run into, as in physically tackled, in one particular case. "But every race has a few bad apples, don't they? Most of the nonhumans are every bit as civilized and law-abiding as most of the humans - well. Generally law-abiding." He thought about it some more. "The really important laws anyway."

Not that Carrot thought any laws were unimportant. But he'd come to understand that certain crimes, like Tax Evasion for instance, or Loitering, got broken fairly regularly as a matter of course, and weren't worth getting bothered about. Whereas he had a much lower tolerance level for, say, unprovoked bloody murder. Or showing disrespect toward the elderly.