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[likeajoan.livejournal.com]

[Buffy doesn't so much ~appear~ on the Plane as she does 'come hurtling into it backwards, roll over, promptly vanish into thin air and then reappear a second later brushing dust off herself, and coughing'. ...With a wooden stake in one hand.]

God. [cough cough] That actually never stops being gross.

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[likeajoan.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm fine. [Buffy appreciates the gesture! Also, she is thumbs-upping. And nodding!]

It's just with the fighting, and then the dusting, and if you forget to keep your mouth closed? It's all 'I breathe dead people', which, really, I don't think I can express my eww enough. And would be why you should always slay in well ventilated areas. Umm. Hi?

[galeforcehero.livejournal.com]

Well, I can see how that'd be a problem, if the people you fight tend to... y'know, combust, in that way.

[Dorothy sticks her hand in her back pocket and produces a pack of cinnamon gum, which she proffers to Buffy. Hooray!!]

Gum?

[likeajoan.livejournal.com]

Oh my god, you're amazing!! [Yay! Buffy will be popping some gum in her mouth now, and handing the pack back to Dorothy, then chewing happily.]

Thank you so much. I can already feel my taste buds being cleansed of vampire ick.

[galeforcehero.livejournal.com]

[Dorothy beams AND SORT OF BLUSHES A LITTLE BIT at being called amazing, because shy.]

Aw, well, I wouldn't go THAT far.

[taking her gum back, she jams it back into her pocket]

Gum is probably the least appreciated and yet most important substance known to man. Well, to me, anyway. Anything that tastes good that you can blow bubbles in is pretty much the greatest thing in the world.

[likeajoan.livejournal.com]

I would. [Buffy smiles and will stop with the compliments now.]

I agree! I love gum. It's squishy and comes in a variety of flavors and is also a very useful tool for pissing people off. I once had a roommate who was umm... well, long story short, kind of a soul-sucking demon who played Cher all the time- and I used to leave gum lying around just to make her mad. Incredibly satisfying.

...that probably makes me a terrible person.

[galeforcehero.livejournal.com]

Absolutely. And it can be used in a pinch to stick things to other things, which actually happens to me a lot more often than it probably should. The need to stick things to other things in a pinch, I mean. Wonder if that's saying something.

[....HELLO CHANGE OF SUBJECT HOW ARE YOU TODAY]

Well! I mean, she was a Cher fan, I can say you're pretty much justified. ...And, y'know, the soul-sucking demon thing, that's... pretty bad too.

[likeajoan.livejournal.com]

[the change of subject finds itself in blooming health, tyvm for asking! Except Buffy's got mileage in this one, sorry]

I'm not sure it says anything. Except maybe that you're a quick thinker in a tricky situation? And that you're good at improvising? I mean if you were dreaming about sticking things to things in a pinch, I guess Freud might have something to say about it, but otherwise...

[and okay moving on]

Well that's good. I feel less evil now. And the Cher really was the worst part. Okay no, I revise that, the scorpions were the worst part.

[galeforcehero.livejournal.com]

Or that things tend to break around me in tricky situations more often than... y'know, they oughta. Which makes a lotta sense, when you think about the tricky situations I get in!

[this is Dorothy ignoring complements because she doesn't know how to deal with them haha :(]

Scorpions! That's... vaguely horrifying. I hope they were the de-stingered pet type in a terrarium!

[likeajoan.livejournal.com]

Alas no. They were the disgusting on your stomach while you sleep crazy ritual type. You really don't want any more details. [there's a lot of grimacing going on]

Aaaand I think tricky situations tend to involve things getting broken in general. I'm curious about yours though. Your tricky situations, that is.

[galeforcehero.livejournal.com]

Oh. Well, in that case I'd say leaving gum around the place is resting squarely in the "justified" column. Don't get me wrong, I like bugs, I'm just not big on the ones that can conceivably kill me.

Most recently? Stealing a dragon egg from a tribe of upside-down cannibal people. I think "tricky" is kind of an understatement, there, but that's... more or less a typical day for me.

[likeajoan.livejournal.com]

Well I feel firmly absolved of my gum-related guilt, thank you.

[you'd think it would be nigh impossible to surprise Buffy, but apparently Dorothy has managed it!]

A dragon egg. From cannibals. Upside down cannibals. Which is typical. I-- wow. What did you want with a dragon egg?

[galeforcehero.livejournal.com]

Well, they were gonna eat it! The poor mother dragon was all upset, we had to do something, and lord knows we can't just waltz up to a tribe of cannibals and ask them politely to return it.

[she rubs the back of her neck, a little embarassed]

Didn't make a clean getaway-- there was a little bit of a... chase. But we got the egg back to the mom without even a scratch, so I'd call it a win.

[likeajoan.livejournal.com]

No, I guess cannibals aren't the 'let's sit down and discuss this over a nice cup of tea and a finger' type. [she laughs, shaking her head because she's still wowing over the whole concept in general]

Certainly seems like a resounding victory to me! That's crazy.

[galeforcehero.livejournal.com]

No, especially when they're throwing their heads at you.

[...don't explain that or anything, Dorothy, thanks]

That's life! I don't mind doin' that sorta stuff, don't get me wrong! Better me than somebody else who can get hurt a lot easier or doesn't have as much experience. And anyway, I like getting to explore, go to new places, meet new people, climb new trees, y'know? I try to learn something new every day.

[likeajoan.livejournal.com]

[Buffy's going to not ask on that one]

You know, that's very cool. The fun adventuring. And that you enjoy it. And still find time to bake somehow, is that like a magical power or something?