Nightshift 34: M31-M40 Hallway
[M39]
You could get outside now?
Well, he'd heard mention of the walls coming down, but the lack of any reports of successful escape were conspicuous in their absence; Zelnick was inclined to believe Landel that going outside would do as little towards your escape as staying indoors.
Of course, Zelnick did have plans for indoors ( Read more... )
You could get outside now?
Well, he'd heard mention of the walls coming down, but the lack of any reports of successful escape were conspicuous in their absence; Zelnick was inclined to believe Landel that going outside would do as little towards your escape as staying indoors.
Of course, Zelnick did have plans for indoors ( Read more... )
'The plan' arrived with a grin and a knock on Zelnick's door before he proceeded to burst on in, beaming like anything. His bow was strapped to his back and his three arrows were in a makeshift belt, along with the three knives and the pokeball- well, that was shrunk down in his pocket, but still. He was loaded for anything, yet what he really noticed was the Oreo package.
...which drew him like a moth to a flame, his eyes and feet ever shifting towards it. "Yo, Cap'n. Doin' well?"
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Zelnick couldn't help but grin back, laying his notebook aside and waving invitingly at the stretch of empty bed on the other side of the Oreos. "I'm doing fine," he said, then wriggled his fingers at Xigbar. "Still in one piece, and all that jazz. And you?"
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"Dude, where did you even get these?" He hoped Zelnick told him, because then he'd know where to launch the first test of his Mobile Arsenal of Death.
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Xigbar seemed pretty happy with the treats, which was awesome. "I tagged along with someone else my first night, and we ended up in a kitchen on the second floor. It's also where I got my stash of apples-- though I handed those off to Princess Alita for moonshine-- and my knife 'n skillet. Are they good?" He plucked one from the package and held it up for his own examination. It looked tasty, really, but he'd been saving them for, well, this, so he hadn't tried them yet.
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And needless to say, Xigbar ate his Oreos in a very particular manner. Gently unscrew the top wafer, so as little frosting as possible remained on it. That part was consumed quickly, almost as a necessary evil. Then? Then he nibbled around the white center, trying to remove as much of the bottom wafer as possible without losing the frosting. Then, when there was no possible way to remove any more of the cookie part... the white center was devoured all in one go, a rush of sugar that was only made more intense by the effort involved in creating it.
"Dude," he said with a horribly indecent amount of satisfaction, "that's how an Oreo should be. ...wait, moonshine?" He got moonshine? Some jerk had raided his whiskey cache and swiped it, and Captain Zelnick had ( ... )
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"Yeah, moonshine, as soon as Alita gets the fermentation going. There was talk of a still and everything." Done examining the Oreo, he took a bite out of it.
Then paused, chewing that bite, staring at the cookie in his hand.
"... wow. That's good." He'd have to go find more of these. Possibly tonight. After he found sulfur and charcoal.
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"Sweet stuff," he pronounced sagely, grinning as he did so. And a still... man, he'd love to be a part of that. "We definitely need more booze in here. Tell you what; if you think there's anything you'd need me for, you just lemme know. Totally willing to give my life for the noble cause, dude," he added with a sly wink and a teasing grin. But seriously, alcohol was an important matter. One that he probably would kill over, if he was desperate enough. But who needed to know that?
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"I'll share it-- low cost, too," Zelnick assured Xigbar, laughing a bit. "Unless keeping me company is too great a price to pay?" He couldn't help but imagine someone as... Xigbar as Xigbar would be an awesome kind of drunk, especially if he was drunk enough to appreciate it.
And then there was a knock on the door.
Blinking a bit, he got up and went to open it a bit, then opened it wider.
"Oh, hey, Tanaka." He'd have to direct Tanaka up to Usopp's room, he wasn't anywhere near done chatting hanging out with repaying Xigbar for the Twenty Questions hint. "Get here all--"
Wait a moment.
"... you don't have a flashlight."
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"Yo, Tanaka~!" Xigbar lazily waved at the newcomer, just assuming that Zelnick had given the right name for the guy who'd just knocked on the door. Not that he minded too tremendously much; he lazed on the bed and scarfed Oreos, kinda wishing he had some of that moonshine to wash it down with.
Ah well. He was feeling kinda mellow, so he'd let Serious Business be done with before he resumed hanging with his homie taichooooou~! bud.
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The "Go away for a bit" order should have been fairly obvious, really.
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Though, when Zelnick made that 'favor' comment, Xigbar snickered to himself. Really, the human was far too cute for his own good, and... compared to the current run of people running out on him or ignoring him quite dramatically, he kind of preferred this turn of events. Especially considering what he already knew about the guy. "Yeah," he muttered under his breath with a grin, "you're gonna repay me for that favor..."
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However, it seemed that the Captain did have some items for him - the aforementioned knife, which would do as a weapon even if it was a little short for his tastes, and a flashlight similar to the one Vlad was using. Tanaka nodded and gave a "thank you, Captain" as he received these, glad that he would have some kind of defense against the alleged "monsters" (although he had seen none himself ( ... )
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When Tanaka closed the door, Zelnick turned back towards the bed, smiling as he sat down a Oreo package away from Xigbar. "I will need to get going eventually," he noted, snagging up another cookie and nibbling the edge. He didn't particularly want to leave Xigbar and the Oreos, but he did need to wok towards getting out of here, and the last few nights had been woefully lacking in progress. In a thoughtful murmur, tapping the half-eaten cookie against his lips, he asked nothing-in-particular, "What else did I promise...? Oh, yeah!
"You've never seen or heard Into the Woods, have you?"
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