3-choo! (now with real sneezing!)

[waffuport]

Phone

Everybody, I got my rune back in the mail today! I can use it to send you places, so if anybody ever wants help going somewhere you can just ask me! Then school and work and the ice cream place won't seem so far away anymore, if you think they're far away. Oh, also I---ah......ah.....ah.........

[a long moment of silence.]

....ah-choo!!

[This is followed by the sound of someone dropping the telephone! and then failing to hang up. Oops?]

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[Hello Mayfield. How's life today? Are you at home? At work? School? Going shopping, maybe? Wherever you are, there is now also a Viki. She might even have landed on you! Don't worry though, she's not hurt!

Feel free to run into her wherever, whenever, however! Hope she doesn't embarrass you.]

Comments

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[nanocerancowboy.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't want to slip an' hurt your head, right?

[Or worse! Gat sets her back down.]

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[waffuport]

Right, right! That'd be horrible, I wouldn't want to do that.

[Happily reseated! And now she's investigating the dashboard.]

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[nanocerancowboy.livejournal.com]

[Gat studies her reaction. Something about it reminds him of the way Aurica behaved with the telephone, which probably means ...]

I reckon you ain't got vehicles like this where you're from?

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[waffuport]

[The question stops her in her tracks.]

Oh! How did you know?

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[nanocerancowboy.livejournal.com]

You're actin' like you ain't never seen one before.

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[waffuport]

Oh, oh, um...that's because it's true! I've never seen anything so big and red like this before!

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[nanocerancowboy.livejournal.com]

[Gat chuckles slightly.]

I was speakin' more about th' vehicles around town, generally. Th' cars and trucks. Not just this here fire engine.

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[waffuport]

Oh...well, I've seen those car things on the street before! But I've never been in one before.

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[nanocerancowboy.livejournal.com]

[Gat nods.]

'S'what I thought. They didn't have anythin' like 'em back in your world, I figure.

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[waffuport]

There were ships and carriages and dragons! I'd like to ride a dragon someday.

[The thought brings a smile to her face.]

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[nanocerancowboy.livejournal.com]

Heh. Personally I ain't ever met a dragon that wasn't a mean cuss.

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[waffuport]

A cuss? What's that?

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[nanocerancowboy.livejournal.com]

[Whoops. Gat admonishes himself; not everyone's going to understand his diction!]

I uh—I meant th' dragons I've usually faced were th' hostile, rampagin' type. Never met a docile one.

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[waffuport]

Oohhh. There's hostile rampaging ones where I'm from too! Or at least there's hostile ones. I don't think I've ever met one myself. But Futch has his very own dragon! It's big and white and friendly.

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[nanocerancowboy.livejournal.com]

[Gat allows himself a slight smile.]

Nice to hear they ain't all that bad where you're from. That Futch fella ever let people ride his?

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[waffuport]

Umm...he does! But I never asked him for a turn.

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[nanocerancowboy.livejournal.com]

That'd be somethin' to do when we finally get outta this town.

[Just better do it before you sneeze yourself out of the space-time continuum again!]

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[waffuport]

Yeah! Maybe I can go find him again and ask.

[Sadly she's already sneezed away all chances of riding Futch's dragon.]

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[nanocerancowboy.livejournal.com]

[You could say she ... *sunglasses* Futch'ed up!]

Speakin' of which—

[Gat holds out a hand for Viki to shake.]

Name's Falk Gatt.

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[waffuport]

[Oh nooooo not the puns...!!]

Falk?

[o-oh wait introductions she totally forgot about that---taking that hand then!]

My name's Viki! Viki, um.....Adamant! [Mayfield names yaaay~]

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[nanocerancowboy.livejournal.com]

[And a firm handshake ensues, with a slight nod!]

You can jus' call me "Gat," though, if you like. Most folks from home call me that.

[Gat picks up on her hesitation when Viki gives her own name ... He looks a tad bit skeptical.]

I reckon "Adamant" is th' family name th' town gave you?

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[waffuport]

Okay, Mister Gat!

[And she nods enthusiastically at his guess.]

That's right, that's right, it's on the mail and everything!

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[nanocerancowboy.livejournal.com]

You don't hafta use it if'n ya don't want. I still use my "wife's" real last name when we ain't dealin' with th' drones.

[Then again, Viki seems to like it. Or at least goes along with it.]

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[waffuport]

Well I never had a last name before, so it's kind of fun, I think!

[She really does enjoy it.]

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[nanocerancowboy.livejournal.com]

[That catches Gat off guard.]

Huh. You ain't got a family at home?