6th Fight

[nosoul_nomind]

[1. Barton is standing out on the curb near the mail box. She's wary when she gets a package with her name on it - there's a lot of things she doesn't want back. But there's a small box with something obviously tangible in it, and the things she's trying to avoid are most definitely intangible. Risking it, she opens it up to find her trust old

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[pants_yourmove]

[[He's going to stop as he was walking by.

Watching her work a moment he smiles.]]

Want any help?

[nosoul_nomind]

Oh. Uh. This kinda stuff ain't too hard. Though I guess I can use an extra set of hands for a second.

[pants_yourmove]

It isn't but it's beyond some people in town. It's not that they are dumb, it's just that they have really weird concepts on how things work.

[[He'll come over. He hasn't had any projects lately.]]

Just let me know what part you want me to start on.

[nosoul_nomind]

Didn't think anyone else in town'd be interested in stuff like this. But if someone in town can't figure out how a damn doghouse works, I feel sorry for 'em. Pretty easy thing to build.

Those planks over there need to be cut, if you think you can do that. I already have 'em marked, just cut along the line.

[There's a sawhorse with the planks and saw on it. No power tools, we do things the old fashioned way with Barton.]

[pants_yourmove]

[[Easy enough, saves him the extra time. He has gotten used to the "old fashion way" around here. Going to work on them.]]

Imagine if you spent your entire life in a world where you didn't have to nail, saw or construct something like this from scratch. I'm sure the common sense stuff to us would be hard.

I keep trying to think that way. How things must work in their worlds and how to deal with things here.

[nosoul_nomind]

I guess. I can see someone maybe never doing it before, but not bein' completely unfamiliar to it. I mean, stuff's gotta get built somehow.

[pants_yourmove]

Maybe, maybe it just builds itself.

You see Lucas's walking table?

[nosoul_nomind]

Lucas... [Oh right, she met him.] Wait, a walking table? How does that work?

[pants_yourmove]

I don't know, the legs just bends funny like real legs do.

See what I mean though? Lucas seems to see it as normal.

[nosoul_nomind]

Huh. I guess. Guess it's good I at least know how things work around here.

Well. Kinda. Still learnin' a lot of this stuff.

[pants_yourmove]

Yeah, also the town doesn't always make sense.

I like doing these things because at least they seem normal.

[nosoul_nomind]

'S all I know how to do, really. Of course, the town won't let me do it for a living so I gotta do it on my own.

[pants_yourmove]

Yeah, I used to work on cars back home and they have me stuck at the bowling alley because I'm not technically 18.

[nosoul_nomind]

I know they won't let me do it cuz I'm a girl, but have ya tried switchin' jobs?

[pants_yourmove]

Yeah, but it's a job "for adults".

I'd like to just quit and do some stuff on my own time but I guess the money is useful too.

[nosoul_nomind]

I'm an adult, but ya can't tell them that. Won't listen, of course.

They gave me a job, kinda. It's volunteer so I don't get paid. Talk about BS.