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.]

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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?

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[waffuport]

Hm?...I never though about that before....I guess I don't?

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[nanocerancowboy.livejournal.com]

... You never thought about it?

[That's ... kind of troubling to Gat. He can't help but wonder if Viki's an amnesiac sort.]

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[waffuport]

Well, I've got a home, but I always seem to end up somewhere else, so I haven't been there for a really long time.

[She seems strangely unbothered by this.]

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[nanocerancowboy.livejournal.com]

[There's a look of dawning realization on his face.]

... That ain't connected to how ya wound up in this here fire engine, is it? How ya said you sneezed an' wound up in here?

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[waffuport]

Oh right, it is! It happens a lot. I'll sneeze and suddenly I'm somewhere else! I'm glad I didn't leave town this time.

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[nanocerancowboy.livejournal.com]

Frankly, if I had that kinda power I'd be glad if I got outta this place. What with how our captors love torturin' us.

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[waffuport]

A lot of people have said that...but I've got friends here! If I left I don't know when I'd get to see them again.

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[nanocerancowboy.livejournal.com]

Well—that's a fair point. Plenty'a folks I've met I wouldn't've ever seen back home.

But I ain't sure if it's worth th' kind of things they put us through. Like when that sorry Milkman got picked to be th' Chief of Police 'round here.

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[waffuport]

Oh, that was pretty bad, wasn't it? Everybody looked really unhappy then. But things like that happened a lot in all the other places I went to, too--I mean, there weren't any milk problems or anything, but there were other problems, you know?

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[nanocerancowboy.livejournal.com]

You wind up gettin' sent to a lotta bad places, I take it?

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[waffuport]

Oh, I liked all those places! There were a lot of nice people. But for some reason there's always a war, too. Isn't that weird?