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For Kal (again)

Jul 07, 2007 18:32

It's been a while. Time flies when you're having fun ( Read more... )

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downsidedarling July 12 2007, 00:41:50 UTC

And so it goes.

Roughly two-thirds of a year later (less a week, perhaps), there they are again, Eights resting on one side of the bubble and Clark across from her. It hasn't been long since they last spoke. A day, perhaps. Eights stirs, and thoughtfully declares, "Not long now, I don't think."

hero_farmboy July 12 2007, 00:48:24 UTC

Clark stretches a leg out and his arms up over his head.

"God, how can you tell? It feels like it's been forever for me."

downsidedarling July 12 2007, 00:49:42 UTC

Eight-Hour laughs gently. "You livelings have such a strange definition of forever."

She hasn't answered his question, but that's not particularly by design.

hero_farmboy July 12 2007, 00:53:50 UTC

"Yeah, we're all about the over exaggerations," he chuckles. "Although I'm fairly certain it has, in fact, been forever since I had one of my mom's pies."

downsidedarling July 12 2007, 00:57:32 UTC

"Oh, pie," says Eights dreamily. "Don't even, you're not the one who just starved to death for about the sixtieth time in a row."

hero_farmboy July 12 2007, 01:07:34 UTC

"My mom's the best cook. You'll see soon enough." Even if he's going to try and make sure his mom's not really around that much, but still. There should be at least pie.

downsidedarling July 12 2007, 01:09:35 UTC

"Glad to hear it," says Eights. "Now enough of the food talk. Fuck, the first thing I'm going to do when I get down from here is make myself a waffle the size of the Grand."

(It's a library. She's mentioned it in passing before.)

hero_farmboy July 12 2007, 01:18:22 UTC

"Waffles are nothing compared to my mom's banana pancakes."

What? She started it again.

downsidedarling July 12 2007, 01:19:57 UTC

"Oh, for--" She laughs, flapping her hand at Clark in a shushing motion. "New subject! New subject! Something that's not food!"

hero_farmboy July 12 2007, 01:24:44 UTC

"All right, all right," he relents, laughing along with her. "Fine, new topic. What do you want to do while we're on vacation?"

downsidedarling July 12 2007, 01:30:24 UTC

"...I don't know," says Eights, with a thoughtful smile. "I haven't been out to a living world in a long time. What's it like, where you live? Besides 'on a farm', I mean."

hero_farmboy July 12 2007, 01:42:31 UTC

"You realize that's about the best way to describe it, right?" Clark teases.

"Well, it's Kansas. Rural Kansas, so it's flat and there's a lot of corn. The town I live in is called Smallville and it very appropriately named; one horse town they used to call them. Metropolis is a few hours away - it's a huge city. Maybe bigger than new York. We could go there for a day or something."

downsidedarling July 12 2007, 01:45:38 UTC

"Metropolis," says Eights, raising her eyebrows. "That's an amusing name for a city. Yeah, I think I'd like that."

She grins, softly.

"And come on, you live on a round planet. This is flat." A swift gesture down at the endless planar expanse of land beneath them. "At best you're going to get 'minimally convex'."

hero_farmboy July 12 2007, 01:50:44 UTC

"Whatever. It appears flat, that good enough? And what's so funny about Metropolis?"

downsidedarling July 12 2007, 01:52:07 UTC

"Oh, c'mon, I'm just funnin' with you. And naming a city Metropolis-- it's basically like naming it Big Fucking City, y'know? I mean, it's a little unimaginative, is all."

hero_farmboy July 12 2007, 01:59:13 UTC

He shrugs. "Maybe, but that's what it's called. Besides, it's better than Gotham."

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