27 || Video - Locked to Alex (easy to hack)
What did you do to Bhamba to piss him off enough to pawn one of his freaking crocodile eggs off on me?
*He turns the camera to show the incubator giving off a warm healthy glow in the closet next to Markus' potted tree.
There MAY be the smallest twinge of a smirk as he says*
If we go on crocodile playdates I bet mine is better than yours.
*He turns the camera to show the incubator giving off a warm healthy glow in the closet next to Markus' potted tree.
There MAY be the smallest twinge of a smirk as he says*
If we go on crocodile playdates I bet mine is better than yours.
Also, Tim? He actually has a light on in his room. For, like, the first time since his mirror invaded it and gave it a window. Feast your eyes on it: it's there on a trial basis. ]
Uh.
I didn't. He's going round dumping the stupid things on everyone.
[ Well, on three people so far including Alex. But this is clearly but the start of a nefarious plan to populate the whole mansion with snappy reptiles. ]
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How many of these does he have? Are we gonna have 50 crocodiles running around the mansion in a few months?
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[ Alex pulls a face, very much on edge, very much trying to appear like he isn't. ]
If tiny crocodiles start showing up everywhere then I'm laying down mouse-traps.
[ He doesn't mean it seriously, but all the same... fucking crocodiles. ]
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So do I have to do anything? Or does it just sit there.
Mocking us.
*He glares towards the closet at the stupid egg.*
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[ This in response to the big one and the siccing. Alex knows where you're coming from, man.
...We'll be totally honest here, he's kind of in shock that he's holding an ordinary conversation with someone who presumably doesn't hate him for atrocities committed. ]
I think you just leave it until it starts chirping. And that's when it's ready to hatch, apparently. [ He's reluctantly done some homework. ] Surprisingly there weren't any books called 'So You've Been Duped Into Hatching A Crocodile'. In the library.
[ Okay, now he's trying a little too hard to appear at ease and not totally weirded out. Honestly, he's irritated at himself for finding this weird. That defeats the definition of 'normal conversation', and he hasn't completely forgotten how to carry those on... right? ]
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There should be. What uh.. what are we supposed to do with these things when they hatch? Is Bhamba expecting us to keep these FOREVER?
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*He gets up and grabs a flashlight off his bookshelf and lays it in the incubator behind the egg. You can definitely see the outline of a little embryonic croc in there. It occasionally twitches and squirms about.*
Kinda cute this small I guess.
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Hang on.
[ He's definitely trying this out, though. Even if he's still thinking in terms of how well it'll distract him from thinking about the event.
It only takes a moment to nip to the closet, grab a flashlight and return. Then Alex is leaning down and pushing his glasses up his nose as he peers at a genuine pink 'n' veiny big-eyed crocodile embryo. It quivers at him.
He's more impressed than he thought he'd be. It really is still alive, then. Hardy little bastard. ]
Yeah...
[ Not that he'd ever admit to a positive impression about a crocodile. He makes sure his tone is dubious when he says: ]
Cute until it gets bigger than a baby chick, yeah.
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There's no reason why he should stop, shudder, blanch.
No reason Tim needs to know about, anyway. ]
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Not trusting himself to speak, Alex stands up quickly, waves the flashlight - it needs to be put away, it's a viable excuse, stop looking at him like that - and moves out of sight of the camera. 'Course, the closet is in plain view of the screen, so he then has to go into it. He leans against the wall inside, just barely out of sight, and prays for the guilt and the images and the nausea to pass. ]
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*He mentally goes over everything they were talking about. What did he say? Was it the eating dogs comment? What's going on? He sits there silently watching Alex with pretty obvious concern.*
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The two things spinning in his mind are that it must have been a hallucination, not a real thing that happened, and that he mustn't let a hint of it out. Those two things are vital.
'I had to put the torch away really suddenly' isn't going to hold much water, is it? ]
...Sorry. I... I'm ill, a bit. I just felt a bit sick.
[ He'd be a better liar if he weren't so tense all the time. ]
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*He doesn't believe that for a minute. Tim suddenly looks down and moves the camera a bit so he's not on the screen anymore.*
Did... *audible gulp* Did .. I do something?
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