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[slaying]

[Jacketed and scarfed, Buffy is hard at work on the lawn of House Seven. She has in her hands a most fierce and gruesome weapon--long and pronged, wickedly effective for roping in and dealing with rogue...leaves. Yes, today Buffy is devoting her time to raking the leaves on the lawn (a task she takes even into the early but dark evening). And while

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[markofthewise]

[Sokka is just passing on by. He finds her in the middle of sweeping up the leaves, which is a curious task. Why? Because this is his first autumn ever. And he doesn't know why you would bother piling up all the leaves.]

Hard at work, huh? [Do Slayer powers also work on knowing how to use work tools?]

[slaying]

[Beware the over-happy smile, Sokka.]

Very hard at work. Nothing like a day of raking to make you seriously want a leaf-blower.

[markofthewise]

[That IS extremely cheerful.]

Or you could just leave them there. Would it hurt anything?

[slaying]

Lawns gotta breath too, y'know? Have you ever seen grass that was left all winter with--like--a piece of wood on it? Next year, it's all dead and yellow. Very much with the not nice. Too many leaves and the same'll happen all over.

[markofthewise]

Not really. We didn't have grass where I grew up.

[slaying]

[Seriously?]

Where did you grow up? A desert?

[markofthewise]

... the South Pole. I wasn't kidding when I told you that.

[slaying]

...I didn't realize anyone could actually live at the South Pole.

[markofthewise]

Well, it's not the same as the one from your world. And we didn't live at the magnetic south pole or anything.

[slaying]

You...don't get any beaches, do you?

[;_; she pities you and your probable lack of beaches]

[markofthewise]

We live next to the ocean, actually! But uh. Going swimming is a good way of getting yourself killed.

[And he does love his beaches...]

[slaying]

Because of hypothermia, right?

[She thinks she's so clever.]

[markofthewise]

There's that, yeah. Or you could run into some angry Artic Hippos.

[Or any number of deadly, angry South Pole wildlife who like it in the water...]

[slaying]

...Arctic Hippos?

[markofthewise]

Yeah yeah, I know. You don't have those in your world.

[slaying]

Or we do, but no one's found them.