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i_speak_softly) wrote2012-08-31 09:26 pm
i_speak_softly) wrote2012-08-31 09:26 pm
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Sixty-Second Theory [Action]
[Today, Don can intermittently be found standing outside House 55, eating a large but careful amount of the household's remaining food, and watching a long line of Kin'corans walk - or be forcibly herded - into the barracks to be teleported to wherever they're going.]
[In between these breaks, he will be industriously stripping the plaster from the walls of one of the house's long-vacant bedrooms, demolishing it right down to the studs. He has the windows open to help ventilate the inevitable dust, and the sound of his efforts can be plainly heard in the surrounding area.]
[Ask what he's doing in there? Complain about the noise? Or just join him to observe the sad parade of refugees?]
[In between these breaks, he will be industriously stripping the plaster from the walls of one of the house's long-vacant bedrooms, demolishing it right down to the studs. He has the windows open to help ventilate the inevitable dust, and the sound of his efforts can be plainly heard in the surrounding area.]
[Ask what he's doing in there? Complain about the noise? Or just join him to observe the sad parade of refugees?]
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What happened to taking it easy, Don? [He's leaning on the door frame of the room, looking around at the stripping of the walls. His tone slightly amused. And Don was telling him to take it easy?]
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[Don tosses Leo a second pick-ax. He helped with your butchering; you're going to put in some time on his construction project.]
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He easily catches the pick-ax before he pushes off the door frame and walks further into the room.]
So, what are you turning this room into?
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[He sizes up a still-intact section of wall, then starts going at it with his own ax.]
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Cold thing? Give him a minute as he tries to figure out what Don meant.]
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[He looks over at Don. You're not turning it into a walk in cooler, are you?
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You know. The thing we do, in the cold.
[Action] /fights headache
[Something to help with the cold, got it. He's silent for a bit as he works, before he speaks up again.]
Perhaps it's time to take a break. [It's obvious to him that Don's been at this for a while. He'll stop his own work to emphasize.] I wanted to talk to you about something anyway.
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[When Leo stops working, Don does too. He's pretty sure he hasn't been at this for 24 hours or more, but he trusts his brother's sense of time more than his own.]
[What did you want to talk about, oni-san?]
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What do you think of going on a camping trip? [He turns to look at Don as he asks.] This time taking Robert along with us. [Leo's sure it'll take some convincing to get the human to come.]
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[Action] Yes Don, he probably is. /shot
Hear me out. I know this won't be easy. But getting Robert out of his element might do him some good. Not to mention that after everything that's been going on. [Including Don dying.] He could probably stand to get away from the village too. Or at least some place that's not just practice...or work.
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...wait, don't answer that.]
I believe we can make it work, we will just have to convince Robert.
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Damn.][And good luck with that.]
Where?
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[Yes Don, a 30 mile hike.]
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[Seriously, Leo, if you wanted Don to build an extension to the teleporter network, you could have given him more notice. He's kind of in the middle of another project right now.]
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Don, I'm serious.
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Leo, there? Him?
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This will have upsides to it in the end. You'll see, Robert will be better for it.
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