Arriving here is the closest thing to arriving in what would become Cairo, Illinois that Jacquel has experienced in the millenia he's seen: it is an odd experience, to say the least, but he's adapting. It's how he's lasted all these years and he's ready to adapt to this place as well: death might not hold any grip here, but one never knows when his
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So that's why he's coming around to the door Jacquel is lounging beside from the outside, having decided that outside isn't doing him much good on the wandering front. It's the feel of the stranger - familiar, not necessarily good but contrasting with not necessarily bad - that stops him, though Dean completely misses it on the conscious level in amongst everything else. He only knows that it stopped him long enough to tilt a nod.
"Hey. I think your tan's done." Humor is always his first stop. Well. Mostly.
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"Handy, that." He means the sun thing; the other is a foregone conclusion as Dean moves within range, already a bit too intent on the idea of accepting Jacquel's offer. "Sure, if you don't mind. I ain't one to come between a man and his beer."
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