Eliot Spencer - Leverage - Bar

[mm_anathomical]

The door slams open under the force of a size thirteen combat boot. "I have had it up to here with being jerked around by you people! Where! Is! The! Monkey

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[likethemermaid]

"Uh. Probably not here," says the fairly young-looking redhead who's still looking a little startled by the kicked-open door.

"Unless it's a very clever monkey."

[mm_anathomical]

"Considering it's inanimate, I rather doubt it's very clever." At least he hopes not. Because that'd be weird.

[likethemermaid]

"So why d'you want an inanimate monkey?" she asks, head tilted just a little. She's still holding a glass flower pot, empty, as she's turned more or less towards the back door.

[mm_anathomical]

"Someone's looking for it." And they're willing to pay for it.

[likethemermaid]

She gives him a dry look. "I figured that part out, sugar, when you kicked in the door and started yellin' about it," she says.

[mm_anathomical]

"You'd think that a little thing like a monkey would be easy to find."

[likethemermaid]

"You'd think," she agrees. "But clearly it ain't. So where's the least likely place you'd look for one?" Lorelei asks, shifting the glass to hold it against one hip.

[mm_anathomical]

"Well... a bar for one." This bar, anyway. There are plenty of bars he'd look for the monkey, after all.

[likethemermaid]

She chuckles lightly. "Well, yeah. I know you can ask the bar for things from your own world, and usually she'll give 'em, but I dunno about monkeys. Never asked for one of those."

[mm_anathomical]

"Yeah?" Eliot glances over at the bar with a frown. "How does that work?"

[likethemermaid]

"You walk up and ask, just like a person," she says, and tilts her head in that direction. "C'mon, she won't bite."

[mm_anathomical]

...

"There's no one there." She knows that, right?

[likethemermaid]

"I know. There usually won't be. The bar's sentient."

[mm_anathomical]

...

"How's that work?" He sounds like he isn't really sure how to take that.

[likethemermaid]

"Hell if I know," she says honestly. "I'm told it's magic. I ain't gonna ask past that..."

[mm_anathomical]

"I think I might follow your example on that one."

Magic. Huh.