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[balletrat]

*Meg's original plan, in coming downstairs, was to get drunk.

Recent events have only furthered her resolve.

Therefore, after this, Meg can be found at the bar, still covered in stone dust and scratches, drinking a cup of coffee. Into which has been poured a liberal dose of absinthe.*

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[xan_shaped]

See Xander.

See Xander frown.

See Xander not bother to finish this corny tag format and sidle over to Meg.

"Hey, Meg ... you okay?"

She looks kind of ... injured.

[balletrat]

Hi, Xander! *Meg says, brightly.*

- well, I'm not being abducted and held hostage at the moment, which is more than I can say for most of my week, so I'm doing pretty good - you?

[xan_shaped]

"... Can we slow down to the hostage situation before I start in with my witty anecdotes?"

[balletrat]

Two, *Meg says, with a gloomy sort of triumph.*

Two hostage situations.

[awesome_lilly]

Lilly is coming up behind them just in time to catch that.

"Two hostage situations? Damnit, Meg. I leave you alone for like, what, a few hours, and you go get held hostage again? Didn't we talk about that being not of the good?"

The words are deliberately light, but Lilly's face is concerned as she stops next to Xander, punching him gently in the arm by way of greeting.

[xan_shaped]

Xander pretends to wince in a perfunctory kind of way, but his attention is on Meg.

"So who had you hostage? The Guild of Angry Stonemasons?"

[balletrat]

*Meg counts off on her fingers.*

Number one - the Antarians. They didn't like us because we're not blue.

Number two - Jubal Early.

Number three - well, I guess we'll see if anybody else decides to take on the task -

*She glances at Lilly and Xander, and adds, her own voice light,* Maybe I should just take to wearing a sign, you know? DO NOT ABDUCT. QUOTA FILLED. FOR LIKE EVER.

[awesome_lilly]

Lilly blinks at the mention of Jubal Early, but the fact that Meg's sitting here mostly unharmed if still a bit dusty keeps her from freaking out.

"I could abduct you up to the suite," she offers. "That'd stop anyone else from trying it and you kinda look like you could use a nice long hot tub soak. I mean, assuming you don't need any healing or anything?"

[xan_shaped]

"And I could help!" Xander chimes in.

"... With the kidnapping. The tubs and the soaking and the length of said soaking I will leave to the professionals."

He glances at Lilly as if he is considering revising this label.

[balletrat]

Non - no, I'm not hurt, *Meg says, and it's only a minor lie.*

And. I mean, if you really want to kidnap me, *she adds, with a pretty good effort at a believable smile,* I've already proven I'm not so good at resisting it, oui?

[awesome_lilly]

Lilly sticks her tongue out at Xander. Of course she is a professional hot tubber. It's not like she has to keep her amateur status for the Hot Tub Olympics.

"Well, we're pretty irresistable, too," she points out, smiling at Meg a little more believably than the ballerina managed. "At least, I am, and Xander's not so bad once you get to know him."

[xan_shaped]

"Gee, thanks, Lil."

He glances Megwards.

"My powers of irresistibility make her look like the Warsaw Uprising."

[balletrat]

Well, *Meg says, light again,* I guess I've got to be pretty irresistable too, since everyone in the universe seems to want to carry me off -

*Though there are always - crucial - exceptions; but Meg's not thinking about that, not now.*

You guys talk to me again when you've been forcibly abducted twice in one week, and we'll consider whether you're getting close in the competition.