Quis Custodiet Monday Snippet (late because i spaced)
“You know, any other member of the Watch showed up for their shift with eyes that bloodshot, I’d assuming they’d been drinking all night,” Wade told Nettles, smirking up at him over the top of the parchment she was reading with the overnight crime numbers. “But since your religion expressly forbids anything quite as much fun as alcohol…”
“One, I don’t believe in the gods, so the idea of me subscribing to a religion is absurd,” Nettles grumbled, sitting down and lifting his flask to his lips. “Two, being unwilling to poison myself for fun doesn’t mean I don’t know how to enjoy myself. And, three…”
Wade smirked as he trailed off. “Three?”
“I had one,” he told her quickly. “You just distracted me.”
“Sure I did. Meet a girl?”
“I was working.”
“Working?” she repeated, raising an eyebrow at him.
He smiled weakly and sat unsheathed his sword, pulling his whetstone from the pouch around his waist and sitting down to sharpen it.
Wade groaned. “Not another new spell, Nettles?”
“Maybe.” He shrugged, sliding the stone across the edge of the blade. “It’s my downtime and I can spend it as I see fit.”
“Chasing women would be easier on your ego. Remember the last spell you tried to create from the ground up?”
“It did the job.”
“You grew a tail!”
“A minor complication which AJ took care of in about five minutes.”
“And which she has never let you hear the end of, Nettles. With good reason, I might add.” She spoke the next words slowly to get her point across. “You. Grew. A. Tail!”