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[diastereomer]

[ For the next nearly six minutes, Yusuf's device is going to send one of his favorite scenes from Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam over the network! ]

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[ The video cuts off to leave Yusuf's smiling face, delighted at the blast from the past. He was only, what, in his early twenties when that came out? When was the last time he watched anything with Aishwarya

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[shifts]

She never gets any less gorgeous.

Did this device come with Netflix and I was totally unawares?

[diastereomer]

Age hardly knows what to do with her.

I thought you were holding out on me.

[shifts]

I'd hardly know what to do with her, so I can't blame time.

And deny us both of Bollywood classics? Yusuf.

[diastereomer]

And I cannot imagine a single thing I would not want to do with her; funny how that works.

You can be a cruel man when the mood strikes, and the holes in your leg are hardly helping. Arthur makes a rather austere nurse.

[orangetoughguy]

Is this a musical?

[diastereomer]

Essentially, yes, but it has a genre all to itself, called Bollywood.

[orangetoughguy]

Bollywood--oh I get it. Pretty upbeat.

[diastereomer]

Indeed! Makes you want to dance.

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[diastereomer]

[ Kitty!

Wait what? ]

Do you suppose the video store would stock Bollywood classics, oh omnipotent cat-bum?

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[diastereomer]

No problem at all, I have cats of my own.

[ Well, as of right now, a cat. The rest of his menagerie is still at his home in Mombasa, hopefully being fed by the man who sits sentinel in the den. Yusuf can only hope. ]

Perhaps I will have to find my way to this video shop. It would be well worth it for a little reminder of home.

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[signoftheviolin]

[Click, click, click. That's what the spider is doing against the surface of the camera.]

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[diastereomer]

[ Yusuf frowns at the device, showing him a very clear picture of a spider- it's legs moving against the camera. ]

I was not aware this place gave a device to every living thing?

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[signoftheviolin]

[click click click. It's morse code. C-U-R-S-E-D.]

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[diastereomer]

[ Yusuf doesn't know morse code-- just about as useful as smoke signals, he's thought-- and so he doesn't recognize it as such. He clicks through preferences until he gets to a list of languages. At this point, he isn't above looking up Spider as one of the languages in The City.

Spider isn't an option, but oh look, International Morse Code! He switches it on figuring, if anything, it'll be a lark. ]

C U R S E D

Oh- OH, yes, I am very sorry. Is there anything I can do for you?

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[faroffdream]

Pretty impressive! The only thing harder would be doing it underwater...I think.

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[faroffdream]

[ BUT WAIT IMPORTANT BACKTRACK... ]

There's more?

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[diastereomer]

There is a whole movie's worth of more. Quite an entertaining one to watch, if you can find it in The City.