🔥 aventurine

[ablazement]

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w0, monday.

[tactic]

[ Guess who's outside of the mortuary, starting at the plaque of names with the most confused look on his face. He's also got the word "losing" floating around on his cheek. For fun. ]

Huh. [ And then, upon spotting Karlach, he has to ask. ] People can actually stay here?

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[he's just got the loss comic scrawled on his face got it (no)

she comes over to stand next to him, head tilted.]

Apparently. There's even a coffin my size.

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They're making you sleep in a coffin?

[ You know what. Maybe the barn is okay. ]

[ablazement]

Eh. I could sleep somewhere else. I probably will, Astarion's already made a nest in the big one.

[she seems unbothered, apparently]

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... Right. Because that's what Astarion does.

[ HE DOESN'T KNOW. Actually, that dramatic man making a nest tracks. ]

[ablazement]

He's all about the drama.

Where'd you end up, threads?

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[ Groans because now he has to THINK ABOUT IT. ]

The barn.

[ The heaviest of sighs. ]

[ablazement]

[i'm sorry to report she laughs like an asshole]

Oh no. You poor thing, your sensibilities! [BE NICE TO HIM]

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[ That's okay, he understands. He would have done the same had their positions been reversed. ]

It wouldn't be so bad if not for the constant smell of hay. Oh, and of course I can't forget the rats.

[ablazement]

Maybe Tara will hunt 'em down. I'll ask Gale to give her the suggestion.

Which d'you prefer, smell of hay or smell of blood? Because it could be worse.

[tactic]

Right... I guess I wouldn't be sleeping inside of a coffin, either.

[ But also. TARA MENTION AGAIN? ]

Right, Tara. Gale's friend. [ Hesitates. ] And Tara is... a person?

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[ablazement]

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She's a cat.

Did he make you think Tara's a person? He really has got to stop doing that.

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[ WHA??? A CAT? ]

He didn't even flinch when I asked if Tara was his girlfriend!

[ablazement]

[HELP ME]

Yeah! He does that! He did that to me, once. And then he had to explain to me that she's a very intelligent cat familiar because I was so very bwuh about it.

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[ HELP THE BOTH OF THEM ]

It's that worm in his brain.

[ablazement]

[that

catches her off guard, cat shenanigans aside. she splutters.]

What? He told you about that?

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Down to the finer details that I almost wish I hadn't heard about.

[ It was a lot. It was an experience. ]

[ablazement]

[an experience is right. another pause...]

Gods. Alright. Well, that's great, wonder how many other people he's told about that little problem.

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He's...

[ How to describe Gale. ]

Very forthcoming.

[ablazement]

You don't have to be nice about it, he's a blabbermouth.

[tail flickies.]

What's he told you about me, then, anything?

[tactic]

No, I only realized you were from the same cosmos as him from this conversation.

[ Pause. ]

I imagine that comes as a relief.

[ablazement]

A bit, yeah. Look, I don't mind telling things, I just want to be the one who tells them, you know?

[tactic]

You better be quick and beat him to it.

[ablazement]

Clever. [snort.] I've got to know what to tell, first. Nobody wants to hear my whole sad backstory in one go.