001. everything is beautiful and nothing hurts.

[rudolphofvamps]

Phone.
[Spike sounds oddly manic, not that you would know it was odd for him.]

I guess this is like a conference call, huh? So who's on the other end. [a few crickets...] Not sure what to make of all this, but. Haven't seen a phone like this since--[sudden throat clearing]What do you lot do around here? Go to the drive-in with your steadies and

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[dearmungandr]

[Upon being run into, he just stops in his tracks and gives a bit of a disdainful look at the man who did it.]

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[rudolphofvamps]

[He sure loves being looked at that way. Spike quashes the urge to roll his eyes, crossing his arms across his chest.] What?

[dearmungandr]

[Jormungandr looks at him curiously for a moment, then shrugs. It's nothing. It's pretty obvious the stranger isn't a drone, but honestly that doesn't make much of a difference in Jormungandr's mind.

Oh by the way he doesn't talk much. Comes from being a giant world-circling sea monster turned into a human and being forced to learn how to speak. He doesn't like it. He avoids it whenever possible. It's hard and stupid. Etc.]

[rudolphofvamps]

[Spike just looks...alarmed.]

Does it speak?

[dearmungandr]

[He'd grin at that, if he were the type to grin. But it is kind of amusing.]

Yess.

[The slight hiss on the s sound is almost involuntary. Not that he minds too much.]

[rudolphofvamps]

[Well okay then. He shrugs, figuring he could get some information yet.]

I'm Spike.

[dearmungandr]

Jormungandr.

[At least this guy didn't start off by immediately annoying him. That's good.]

[rudolphofvamps]

Mouthful. [He's never going to call him that.] Where're you headed?

[dearmungandr]

[He looks around for a moment then shrugs.]

Nowhere.

[rudolphofvamps]

Right. Mind if I tag along?

[dearmungandr]

[He stares at Spike during a moment's indecision. He doesn't particularly like people tagging along. But he's got no destination in mind and no plans and who knows maybe this one won't be as annoying as the other one who's been overly familiar lately.

He shrugs again.]

No.

[rudolphofvamps]

Right then. [And following Like a following thing. It's one of Spike's better skills.] How long've you been around here, mate?

[dearmungandr]

[He meanders down the road. He really has no clue where he's going. He's just going.

And the question catches him off guard. He had never really had a need for timekeeping before, but now that he was here, and in human form... he had noticed the timekeeping and had sort of gotten the hang of it by now. It still took him a moment to figure out how long he had actually been here.]

...Two monthss.

[And he was probably never going to get the hang of that t sound. He hated it.]

[rudolphofvamps]

Seems like two months'd take forever, place like this.

[dearmungandr]

[You have no idea, Spike. It's not just that he's been here two months, it's that he's been here two months stuck in a tiny puny pathetic mortal body, forced to learn how to speak and communicate, put in a pointless job that means nothing, put in a house full of incessantly irritating drones, it's that his seemingly endless reserve of patience is about to be worn through, it's that he's traded one prison for another through no choice of his own, surrounded by humans who think their lives are somehow important and meaningful and don't understand the meaning of eternity, that they mean nothing at the end of times.

Jormungandr understands eternity. He understands forever. He knows what forever feels like.

And two months, yes, two short, insignificant little months, they have felt like forever.

He's silent, as all this runs through his head. And, because he is incapable and unwilling to articulate it, he simply responds with one word laden with the endless frustration that has become his life.]

Yess.

[rudolphofvamps]

[Spike can only look sympathetic. He still doesn't know what it means to be human, and somehow, he thinks Jormungandr might just get it. he runs a hand over his hair, sighing.]

Hell, I've only been here a few hours and it feels that way.