vor: (Stop giving me a headache)
[Almost two weeks spent in Malnosso captivity and what does Gregor have to show for it?

Lots and lots of band-aids, mostly. Also a minor cold that has turned into a chesty cough.

Instead of any great torture, drugs, or whatever he'd been expecting, the Malnosso mostly took DNA samples. Blood samples. Tissue samples. He's from further in Earth-universe's future than most besides Ivan, so maybe his specific point in human evolution was of interest. He understands the "lab rat" metaphor pretty well now. There hadn't been a lot of space in his cell, so he's a little stiff and sore. At least the hallucinations are gone. That had been the worst part--having to assure himself that this was a normal reaction to solitary confinement. He slowly heaves himself to his feet, blindly scrabbling for his journal. Writing is not easy with all his bandaged fingertips, so he speaks, sounding hoarse, slightly congested, and exhausted.]
 

Ivan. [A pause. ] Buffy. Adele. Whoever's...interested, this is Greg. I'm back. [He coughs a couple of times, fairly hard.] The Malnosso...anyway, I'm fine. It...wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. I'm heading home now. Did someone take care of my horse?

[He'll take about fifteen minutes to walk home from his spot in the woods.]

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Date: 2012-08-02 10:27 pm (UTC)From: [personal profile] herotypical
herotypical: [ angry ; snarky ] (✝ thanks that was fun)
So, what? Greenhouses? Or is that still too natural?

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Date: 2012-08-02 10:32 pm (UTC)From: [personal profile] herotypical
herotypical: [ happy ] (✝ they made a statue of us)
[ finally, she could pour out the coffee. buffy hovered briefly over the hot and fragrant steam. ]

Oh? Anything both native and delicious?

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Date: 2012-08-02 10:38 pm (UTC)From: [personal profile] herotypical
herotypical: [ snarky ; pout ] (✝ oh for the love of god jack)
...Bummer.

[ she stirs in generous spoonfuls of sugar -- one heaped portion each. ] Sucks to be the pioneer who learned that one.

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Date: 2012-08-02 10:42 pm (UTC)From: [personal profile] herotypical
herotypical: [ wtf ; uncertain ] (✝ i was hoping i could just blame you)
Here's hoping. [ she lifts the milk jug in a cavalier salute before pouring a measure into first one mug and then another. then followed the clink of a stirring spoon before she was striding her way back to the living room, fingers looped around handles. ]

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Date: 2012-08-02 10:46 pm (UTC)From: [personal profile] herotypical
herotypical: [ neutral ; angry ; arms crossed ] (✝ but it came back)
Do you guys have a day for it? [ she gently delivers the mug into his hands before sitting once again. ] Commemorating your empire's beginning, or whatever? Your version of the 4th of July? Your Bastille Day?

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Date: 2012-08-02 10:52 pm (UTC)From: [personal profile] herotypical
herotypical: [ happy ; snarky ; mug ] (✝ it's like a bullet to the head)
Do regimes change often? [ she quips over her coffee. ] Often like a pair of socks or often like your desktop wallpaper?

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Date: 2012-08-02 10:59 pm (UTC)From: [personal profile] herotypical
herotypical: [ snarky ; pout ] (✝ and i could work weekends)
...I'm guessing that wasn't a rip-roaring game of make believe.

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Date: 2012-08-02 11:03 pm (UTC)From: [personal profile] herotypical
herotypical: [ neutral ; sad ] (✝ beat me up on the beach)
Probably for the best, what with you being...five.

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Date: 2012-08-02 11:09 pm (UTC)From: [personal profile] herotypical
herotypical: [ action ; arms ; neutral ] (✝ of losing all capacity)
But would you? Let yourself be hid? Let them make that call for you?

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Date: 2012-08-02 11:17 pm (UTC)From: [personal profile] herotypical
herotypical: [ angry ; snarky ] (✝ i'm faking that i'm aching)
[ her nose wrinkles at owned. but then... ]

Heirs? A few of them? [ huff. ] You're young, yet. What's the rush? Does the inheritance have to go strictly top-down? I mean, not everyone is parent material.

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Date: 2012-08-03 12:35 pm (UTC)From: [personal profile] herotypical
herotypical: [ neutral ; sad ] (✝ i am displaced)
[ war. ]

I guess that's the downside to having a succession not dictated by...[ prophecy. magic. potential. ] Someone else.

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Date: 2012-08-03 11:39 pm (UTC)From: [personal profile] herotypical
herotypical: [ neutral ; angry ; snark ; bite me ] (✝ protège moi)
Well. There's your problem. Sexism. [ she says it wryly, knowing full well (and privately) that her own lineage was similarly one-sided. ]

I guess that makes you kinda doubly important, huh?

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Date: 2012-08-03 11:42 pm (UTC)From: [personal profile] herotypical
herotypical: [ snarky ; angry ; sad ] (✝ we will meet you)
Replaceable doesn't always equal out to...improveable.

[ ... ] I guess that means that you're in the market for a wife, back home. Unless there's one already?

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