endgames | 026 -- [Voice || Written || Action]

If I see another mountain again, it'll be too soon. Did any of you know that sirry means "ridiculous"? [He snorts.] Explains a lot. Avalanches. Yetis. More freaking snow. Man, that mission was a pain...

[/whine and complain]

Anyways. I'm back. [Technically has been for two days albeit not in town, so he'll make it official.] Anything interesting hap- [His disinterested tone gives way to irritation as he turns his attention to something off-screen.] Oi that's not for you-

[The journal snaps shut with a sigh. He never finishes speaking, but about an hour later the post is transcribed... minus the interruption, and now with complete sentences.

If you're out today now that the heavy rain of the few days is finally letting up, you might spot Shikamaru coming back into the village from the North... closely followed by a deer much larger than Luceti's usual fare ((think five feet at the shoulders, six at the head, and eight feet with antlers)). The stag seems pretty content to follow him around - even into town or just standing around when he sits - despite sticking to the tree-lined paths when he can. Shikamaru talks to him sometimes.

Yes, talks, shut up.]

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I don't rock the tunnel keyboard but I do keep an eye on things.

[ alongside albert. but it also goes unsaid. buffy doesn't often verbalize her deep commitment to the man. ]

Things? Or people?

Maybe goings on is the better term.

[He raises and eyebrow. But all right.]

What? A girl can't pay attention to her surroundings?

Sure she can. Conversations like these just lend themselves to specifics.

If you want specifics, you should ask for them. You're charismatic enough but...let's just say I'm not naturally nor habitually inclined to share. Not outside my Scoobies.

That's fair.

[And actually sets him at ease, for the moment. Unless he's just so far off-base he understood it completely wrong.]

Means you're still evaluating me for whatever it is that made you curious, yeah? Nothing today.

[Because while you can throw him in a situation blind, he won't be as effective. Not at the peak of it, anyways.]

Evaluating is kind of a cold way to put it, y'know.

Is it? It inspires a lot of warm, friendly feelings in me.

[And despite the sarcasm, he means that.]

I just...like knowing who's planning to be both a mover and a shaker.

To be honest, it sorta just happened.

...To be also honest? That's how most things seem to go.

[He shrugs. That's true enough. He's starting to strongly assume that's how things were for Albert too. People work like that.

He knows this. Well enough that it shouldn't bother him like it does.]

[ and so the conversation slows. buffy glances over her shoulder. ]

I've got inventory to, uhm, do. But I'm glad you decided to come around.

Yeah. It worked out.

[Shikamaru finishes off the last of his lemonade, sliding the glass over in a silent 'thanks for that', before hopping off his seat.]

...I'll think about that. And the other thing.

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