Cal has summoned the vidscreen back up and been quietly asking a few questions; now he's contemplating it in silence when Sam approaches. He takes in Cal and the vidscreen - and a room key on the Bar - and looks at Cal inquiringly, the better to let him start this particular conversation ( Read more... )

When Cal and Sam arrived from Milliways, they lost no time in hitting the shower: sand in the bed isn't much fun for anyone, after all.

So now the bottom of Cal's tub is finely coated with sand, but the bed is comfortably sand-free for post-coital lounging.

Cal holds the door open for Chandler, saying,

"My dog'll probably jump on you, but don't worry, she's friendly. We're, uh, working on that." The jumping thing, that is, not the being friendly thing.

And Chandler is almost immediately, as promised, investigated by a very curious (and not very big) puggle. It's far from the first time Cal's had ( Read more... )

Cal, more focused on Sam, isn't really paying attention to where they're going until he realizes, about ten doors past where they want to be, that he's automatically heading toward the room he used to live in.

"Shit," he says. "Turn around. Back that way."

He finds the right door without further incident, and opens it to let them both in.