[002] Baby's First Port

[beetleboyblue]

[Video comes on to show Jaime holding the Admiral's flyer and grinning.]

Just testing my reading comprehension skills, but does this say what I think it says? We're going to Mexico? Wonder if we'll be close enough that I can visit my grandma...

...Yes, we can try to find a Cinnabon. Or pan de muerto. I'm sure someone will have something sweet

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[sixthanimorph]

... okay, at the risk of sounding like a moron, what the hell is 'panda murto?'

[beetleboyblue]

Panda... Oh. [He grins.] Pan de muerto. Literally, it means bread of the dead, which sounds kind of terrible and maybe poisonous, but it's really not. It's a sweet bread.

[sixthanimorph]

... Huh. [He shrugs.] Guess it must be a Spanish thing. Don't they have a holiday for dead people too?

[beetleboyblue]

Día de Muertos? Yeah. [grin] It looks like that's what we're heading into, actually.

...Also not morbid and terrible.

[sixthanimorph]

And here I thought that was just an island on Jurassic Park. Shows what I know.

... Okay, just tell me there won't be any zombies and we're cool.

[beetleboyblue]

Well, there shouldn't be? Día de Muertos is mostly about remembering the people we love that have died.

[sixthanimorph]

You just jinxed us, you know. Now there's definitely

[beetleboyblue]

That is so not encouraging. But I'm pretty sure that we could handle zombies if we had to. They're supposed to be slow and stupid, right?

[sixthanimorph]

I thought I could take dinosaurs too, but that didn't stop me from almost getting turned into dino lunch back when we docked at Jurassic Park.

[beetleboyblue]

[loooooong pause]

...Dinosaurs? Jurassic Park?

[sixthanimorph]

Hey, don't look at me like that. It wasn't my idea.

[beetleboyblue]

Well, I didn't figure you had, but... seriously? That was a port?

[sixthanimorph]

Seriously. Ports are insane. Half the time you don't even get to remember who you are when you're in one.

[beetleboyblue]

So... maybe I should be a little more careful about getting excited, huh?

[sixthanimorph]

Yeah. Ports are less about getting excited and more about finding the nearest hole to hide in and cover your ass until it's all over.

[beetleboyblue]

[laugh] I'll try to keep that in mind next time.