Dossier Fourteen

[fireintothesky.livejournal.com]

[Henrietta is raiding the Astral kitchen. Not for food, though she's putting some of that into a little handkerchief on the counter--no, she is taking weaponry. Currently she's gathered up several bread knives, a cleaver, two spits and a cast-iron skillet, and now she's pulling the rest of the knives from a knife block on the counter and inspecting them one by one.]

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[fireintothesky.livejournal.com]

I stopped him from trying to take them.

[....>>;;;;]

[exserpens.livejournal.com]

[he stops in his tracks, abandoning the cabinet he was poking through]

How did you stop him, Henrietta?

...you are sticking to it, aren't you?

[fireintothesky.livejournal.com]

I stabbed him. [A little defiant. >>;;]

[.........>>;;;]

[exserpens.livejournal.com]

[weakly] You...stabbed him...?

[he takes a step toward her, though there's still a large portion of the kitchen between them] Henrietta, you haven't let them cut you up, have you?

[fireintothesky.livejournal.com]

[Looking down and sounding sullen] Only in the arm.

[Looong pause.] I keep coming back here. I don't--I do want to. But I don't know why. I keep trying to let them fix me, but I can't.

[exserpens.livejournal.com]

The arm? The arm...right. Could've been worse...

I thought we'd agreed that you would stay here until things blow over?

[fireintothesky.livejournal.com]

[Still looking down.] Signore Hei said I should do what I wanted to do. But I keep trying, and it doesn't work.

[exserpens.livejournal.com]

He did, did he? Well the fact remains that we had a deal, Henrietta.

[fireintothesky.livejournal.com]

I'm wrong.

[exserpens.livejournal.com]

I can't let you go back. Not like this.

[fireintothesky.livejournal.com]

[Glaring at the ground] How would you stop me?

[exserpens.livejournal.com]

I don't have to, do I? You keep coming back all on your own.

[fireintothesky.livejournal.com]

[Opens her mouth, looking desperate, and then she closes it again and looks down. YUP, MISERABLE.]

[exserpens.livejournal.com]

[sldkfjsd *inner flailing*]

Cheer up, it's only for a short while longer.

[fireintothesky.livejournal.com]

But what if it's not, and I keep coming back here and never get fixed?

[exserpens.livejournal.com]

If it lasts longer than a week we'll figure something out, I promise.

[fireintothesky.livejournal.com]

Like what, signore?

[exserpens.livejournal.com]

I don't know just yet. We'll burn that bridge when we get there.

In the meantime, does this kitchen carry ice cream, do you suppose?

[fireintothesky.livejournal.com]

Ice cream? [Abandons her weapon-gathering to search the fridge. She likes ice cream :x]

[exserpens.livejournal.com]

I could certainly go for some at the moment, I don't know about you~

[he wanders over to the fridge and peeks inside, over her head]

See anything?

[fireintothesky.livejournal.com]

[Rummage rummage. There are some really weird things in there. :\ ] I think there are things from other worlds in here. [Holds up a corkscrew-shaped blue fruit.]

[exserpens.livejournal.com]

What...?

[he takes the fruit and looks at it...and lifts his sunglasses and looks at it some more]

I'm not sure I even want to ask...

[fireintothesky.livejournal.com]

It's very... bright.

[exserpens.livejournal.com]

[he lets his sunglasses back down and stuffs the fruit back in the fridge]

No ice cream, hm? Not even a bit of devil's food cake?

[fireintothesky.livejournal.com]

[ D8 She wants ice cream now.]