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[gil_whimple]

OOM

Enter one faun with a very large tray of little bowls and baskets of snacks. Anything you might fancy is probably going to be there so stop him and ask.

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[asar_suti]

"Gil!"

Asar-Suti comes bouncing down the stairs, three books under his arm, but with a hand free to either steal a snack or hug the faun.

So which one?

He hugs the faun, careful not to upset the snacks.

[gil_whimple]

"Sooty," Gil says and leans a bit to nuzzle Asar-Suti's cheek.

"How are you? What are you reading? Hungry?"

[asar_suti]

"I'm fine, and now I'm happy as well because I see you!" Asar-Suti likes. "And of course I'm hungry."

He looks around.

"There's one very pissed-off blonde I am avoiding, but she's not here at the moment, so I'll be safe having a snack and a snuggle with you!"

He shows Gil the books -- one about the care and feeding of kneazles, one a muggle book about the Axial Age, and the third a novel about werewolves.

[gil_whimple]

"Why would a blonde lady be annoyed with you?" Gil asks. "You're lovely. Come on, let's sit down and I'll ask - um - Holly to fetch us coffee. Yes? Thanks Holly, there's a good rat."

[asar_suti]

"I was a dark-haired lady a week or two ago," Asar-Suti tells Gil, sitting down on a sofa and holding out his hand for the faun, "when I got this really damn awful pass made at me by this blond fellow. He just didn't know when to stop. Admittedly, Yrael egged him on. So, I took the rat Oonagh aside, told her, magicked the fellow's next drink, and voila -- blonde lady!"

He grins.

"Now she's looking for me, the Goth says. Of course, when she finds me, I'll go all 'Ooops sorry' and turn her back. Unless she doesn't want to any more."

[gil_whimple]

"Oh you are naughty, Sooty," Gil said, chuckling.

[asar_suti]

"I try and do my best!" Asar-Suti says. "Yrael found it as funny as I did, which was of course a bit of an encouragement. It's not really serious, you know, like Whatshisname the Death Eater from your world whom I turned into a rat."

Holly arrives with the coffee, and Asar-Suti takes his, gratefully.

"So -- how's things with you, today?"

[gil_whimple]

Settling down with a sigh, Gil smiled at Sooty. "Ah but he got better," he says.

[asar_suti]

"I hope so," Asar-Suti says. "I haven't seen him since I let him go to return to your world. Lots of people died in that fight, didn't they? Perhaps he did, too."

[gil_whimple]

"Which fight?" Gil asks, reaching for one of his own paradoxes.

[asar_suti]

"Wasn't there one in your world?" Asar-Suti asks, taking a paradox as well.

[gil_whimple]

"I'm not sure, Sooty," Gil admits. "I haven't seen anyone from my world since - well Rabastan ground his cigarette butt out on my chest."

[asar_suti]

"That was Rodolphus," Asar-Suti says, "and that was the one I turned into a rat. Then, I turned him back when his world called him. And there were rumours about a fight."

Beat.

"I hope he was killed! I'd be glad not to see him again. And without a funeral in Milliways, there is no way he can come back if he was!"

[gil_whimple]

"Ah, well good," Gil says. "We really don't want people like that here."

[asar_suti]

"No!" Asar-Suti says, not catching up on the irony (if there was any). "Not people that burn my lover's skin. I don't want them at all. I want you to be safe, and live happily ever after with you!"

[gil_whimple]

"Oh Sooty," Gil says, heart thumping, just once. "You say the nicest things."