He didn't look up. Too busy reading the rest of the sentence. "It's actually the name of the Emperor. He's the hero of the play." He finally looked up after taking a drag of his crumpled cigarette and both brows shot up. "A bird?"
Talking birds were rare for him, he'd never met one, you see.
"Christopher Marlowe. Apparently his works had been lost by the time we left Earth."
He gave a rueful smile. "Usually I'd shake hands when introducing myself, but for the time I'll give a nod." He nodded, "The name's Nicholas D. Wolfwood. I'm dead."
He hasn't seen anything larger than a housecat in ways of felines. So the big cat gets a startled reaction, by way of him almost falling out of his chair and clutching his chest.
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"It's actually the name of the Emperor. He's the hero of the play."
He finally looked up after taking a drag of his crumpled cigarette and both brows shot up.
"A bird?"
Talking birds were rare for him, he'd never met one, you see.
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He gave a rueful smile. "Usually I'd shake hands when introducing myself, but for the time I'll give a nod." He nodded, "The name's Nicholas D. Wolfwood. I'm dead."
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A rather big cat.
Been introduced to the concept of lionesses yet, Wolfwood? If not, then there is one just here.
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So the big cat gets a startled reaction, by way of him almost falling out of his chair and clutching his chest.
"CHRIST ALMIGHTY!"
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By which we mean that she starts laughing, and it's a low and husky and very familiar laugh.
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"... AJ?" He asks, more perplexed than scared just then.
"Goddamnit, Darlin'," He was talking to bar, "You turned AJ into a cat?!"
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