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Nov 01, 2007 23:58

Coming ashore earlier was ... interesting ( Read more... )

bootstrap bill, madolyn madden, hecate, jamie hamilton

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walksthebounds November 2 2007, 04:38:09 UTC
Jamie glances over from the chair where he's lounging, and calls out, "No one's going to bite."

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byhisbootstraps November 2 2007, 04:41:16 UTC
Bootstrap glances over at him.

He doesn't look reassured.

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walksthebounds November 2 2007, 04:42:35 UTC
Jamie pulls out his best brightly innocent and unthreatening grin.

Or, in the common parlance: :D?

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byhisbootstraps November 2 2007, 05:07:30 UTC
... that's mildly unsettling.

Bootstrap carries on looking unreassured.

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walksthebounds November 2 2007, 05:35:38 UTC
Jamie tilts his head. The man can't be new, or he'd be coming through the front door, right?

"- sooner or later someone's going to want to go through that door and walk right into you," he tries.

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byhisbootstraps November 2 2007, 05:47:42 UTC
He starts, and moves away from the door.

"I," he starts, and tries again. "...sorry."

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walksthebounds November 2 2007, 05:50:48 UTC
"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."

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byhisbootstraps November 4 2007, 03:30:26 UTC
Bootstrap takes another few steps, and sinks into a chair as his legs begin to tremble again.

"This is ... I've not been here before," he says weakly, by way of partial explanation.

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walksthebounds November 4 2007, 03:38:40 UTC
"Basically, it's a pub."

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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byhisbootstraps November 4 2007, 03:46:16 UTC
"By ship."

He's looking around for the other door.

"We came up in the lake."

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walksthebounds November 4 2007, 03:52:23 UTC
"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."

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byhisbootstraps November 4 2007, 03:55:22 UTC
Bootstrap's head whips around to stare at the boy.

"The what?"

But the Kraken's dead, dead and beached, we all saw it --

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walksthebounds November 4 2007, 04:06:39 UTC
- oh. Right.

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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byhisbootstraps November 4 2007, 04:21:43 UTC
...well, then.

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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walksthebounds November 4 2007, 04:27:11 UTC
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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byhisbootstraps November 4 2007, 04:29:04 UTC
"Different worlds?"

He looks around the room, bewildered.

"How...?"

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