[Silence is golden, or the inevitable result when a fifteen year-old social recluse (by design, not choice) realises he might have a whole network of people listening to him
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Why are you talking Latin, dude? Kind of a dead language, you know? [Andrew couldn't understand what the Latin meant, as he only knows Latin from spellwork, but he knows what the language sounds like.]
...wait, huh? Why? I mean, like, what's it for? I mean other than naming stuff. I mean, like, why? Are you doing it? And who's "we?" 'Cause I don't know Latin all that well, dude. I can do Italian, though! But I'm guessing you don't mean me with the "we," 'cause we totally just met, and met isn't even a very good word for it, 'cause, like, we're just talking over walky talkies. You know?
[Have a Daddy!Infernal that is just... staring at you, Andrew. He's not going to say anything, of course, that would be downright intrusive, but you are definitely getting put on the mental list of 'people to label Non-Infernal, should Eliot ask.']
[Those are a lot of questions and Eliot takes a few seconds to digest them.]
It's kind of something we do.
[He is transforming into recalcitrant teenager with all these people poking him about the vocabulary insult (that he had been pleased about winning, even by default. Catch the pout in his tone?]
I meant my sister. She knows Italian though.
[Then, because he knows its polite and he is curious.]
Oh, whoops, my bad. I coulda been less rude, huh? I'm Andrew. Andrew Wells. [He feels like now that he can fight and stuff, he's allowed to introduce himself like James Bond.]
[He should get to know Andrew better. It'll make him feel better.]
Oh... Well, hey, none of my friends are here, either. You're, not, like, all alone in that or anything. [He was hoping Eliot's sister was here, because that would have given Andrew hope that his friends or his Slayers might arrive.]
Uh-huh. Got kidnapped just, like, yesterday. Totally cool... [Which is to say he's trying to sound like it's not cool at all because he has responsibilities and things like that, but a part of him really does think it's pretty cool...]
Mind, Eliot was the one dorking out about a 'cellphone' when it happened to him. He had reason, though - first time in his life getting one! And the whole Immortal mindfuck that has been his fifteenth year.]
Uhm... not... to me. Personally. This is my first time doing the whole "other dimension or world or whatever we're gonna call this" thing. But I have friends who've done this. Sort of. I mean, they didn't have to kill rats and stuff, but they've been to other dimensions.
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[Fiona better than he does, but that's outside the here and now - and gives her too much credit besides.]
It's how binomial nomenclature works anyways.
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It's kind of something we do.
[He is transforming into recalcitrant teenager with all these people poking him about the vocabulary insult (that he had been pleased about winning, even by default. Catch the pout in his tone?]
I meant my sister. She knows Italian though.
[Then, because he knows its polite and he is curious.]
Who are you anyways?
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What's your name?
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I'm Eliot Post.
[Man, he wants to add 'Immortal Hero' at the end, but that feels off. As if it is only part of who he is and not worth the full mention.]
Nice to meet you.
[Hard-wired to be polite. You can thank his grandmother for that.]
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Cool, dude! Yeah, you, too!
So, wait, hey, your sister's here with you?
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Even the SUN is.]
She's not. That's the problem.
[Annnnd he's sounding a bit defeated there.]
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Oh... Well, hey, none of my friends are here, either. You're, not, like, all alone in that or anything. [He was hoping Eliot's sister was here, because that would have given Andrew hope that his friends or his Slayers might arrive.]
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Thanks.
[He thinks. If that was meant to make him feel better, well... he's not certain if it worked.]
So, you're new?
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Mind, Eliot was the one dorking out about a 'cellphone' when it happened to him. He had reason, though - first time in his life getting one! And the whole Immortal mindfuck that has been his fifteenth year.]
Does this happen to you often?
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