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thisTo Jamie's relief, the world they have stumbled onto onto is pleasant and green - almost natural, with real nature noises going on all about them. And while Jamie's not normally one to appreciate nature, there are far worse things when you've been expecting dead demon-ray silence
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"I would like a lettuce," she concedes, tucking a portion of her hair back to observe their surroundings.
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Jamie feels ever so slightly guilty about this - but it isn't as if they're forcing Joris to go off and fetch things for them. He just does it.
He settles himself onto a patch of green grass and leans back, watching Joris searching through the gardens.
"I suppose he'll notice he's not a slave any longer in the end."
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"Not in a hundred years, at the rate he's going," she says dismissively. "If he talks about ten-foot Konstam again I shall bite him. I shan't be able to help it."
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Even Piotr doesn't fit quite all that description - he's only seven or eight feet tall at the most, Jamie reckons.
Though a picture does come into his head, at that moment, of him on his rock. He must have been near ten feet tall, though it was difficult to tell, what with the chains. But Jamie doesn't like thinking about him on the rock; it always upsets him. He digs his fingers into the rich dirt, and tries to banish the image.
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"I once met -" he begins.
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Well, he and Helen did ask for them, so-
Considering how long it has been since Joris has even seen a garden, (it is not high on the list of things demon hunters need to know about), he is pleased that he was able to tell the difference between the carrots and radishes before he pulled them out.
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"That looks good!" he says, in the bright encouraging tone of a kindergarten teacher. You always feel like Joris needs over-praising somehow.
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It is her lettuce, after all. Jamie's tone makes her roll her eyes, but she does smile a bit at Joris.
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Which is why Jamie makes what might be one of the stupidest attempted jokes he's ever made: "Nothing but the best for the young master and mistress, eh?"
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The 'half' is because her teeth are closed on the leaf, but she is so startled she just shoots a look of utter disbelief at Jamie, before her glance slides to Joris worriedly.
She swallows the piece of leaf gingerly.
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That last bunch of carrots gets set down with more care than one usually uses with vegetables. This is to keep them from being tossed. Hard.
More than likely Jamie.
"I'm not your slave." Joris takes a deep, careful breath. "I'm Konstam's."
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"I know that, you fool!" Defensive; obviously it's Joris' fault, for not asserting his own independence. "Can't you get it through your head that you're not even that any longer?"
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