"Hey, I'm not trying to get through the door," Jamie says, settling back amiably. "Just offering useful tips, you know. You looked skittish enough to leap ten feet in the air and hit your head on the ceiling if someone bumped into you from behind."
Jamie decides, after a moment of consideration, not to mention the display window for now - the poor fellow looks shaken enough as it is.
"Lots of funny types about, and a right odd serving system, but a pub for all that. How'd you get here, anyways? Most people come in through the front door."
"Huh." Jamie blinks, and cranes his neck around Bootstrap Bill towards the door. "I didn't know there was a Bounds there - wonder if that's how the tentacley thing got in."
Jamie remembers his earlier plan not to unnerve the old man - old sailor? - and says, in the reassuring tone specially reserved for the young to the elderly, "Ah, just a squid - you get them in the oceans, I reckon. I'd never seen one before, see. I'm a city boy."
Jamie names a city that almost certainly does not exist in the other man's version of England.
"It's on a different world, though, likely," he adds, helpfully. "All the people here come from different worlds. Which is how you get all the funny types, but on the bright side, no one ever thinks you're odd once they're used to the place."
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He doesn't look reassured.
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Or, in the common parlance: :D?
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Bootstrap carries on looking unreassured.
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"- sooner or later someone's going to want to go through that door and walk right into you," he tries.
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"I," he starts, and tries again. "...sorry."
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"This is ... I've not been here before," he says weakly, by way of partial explanation.
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Jamie decides, after a moment of consideration, not to mention the display window for now - the poor fellow looks shaken enough as it is.
"Lots of funny types about, and a right odd serving system, but a pub for all that. How'd you get here, anyways? Most people come in through the front door."
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He's looking around for the other door.
"We came up in the lake."
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"The what?"
But the Kraken's dead, dead and beached, we all saw it --
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Jamie remembers his earlier plan not to unnerve the old man - old sailor? - and says, in the reassuring tone specially reserved for the young to the elderly, "Ah, just a squid - you get them in the oceans, I reckon. I'd never seen one before, see. I'm a city boy."
All of which is true!
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No one who's seen the Kraken would refer to it as just a squid.
"What city?" he asks, after a moment.
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"It's on a different world, though, likely," he adds, helpfully. "All the people here come from different worlds. Which is how you get all the funny types, but on the bright side, no one ever thinks you're odd once they're used to the place."
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He looks around the room, bewildered.
"How...?"
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