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Dec. 5th, 2004 03:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lastgunslingerRoland, in his room, is still plugging away at Green Eggs and Ham...or at least that's what it would look like to the observer. In reality, Roland is seeing bats coalesce into a woman-shape. Over, and over, and over.
And then there was the man with red eyes and fangs.
And then there was Joe...defending the bat-thing-woman.
And Meg.
And Anthy, standing there. Just standing there. With...purple hair.
He pulls himself out of his thoughts, and running a finger under the text, reads out loud, "I do not like them, Sam-I-am."
Concentrate, gunslinger.
And then there was the man with red eyes and fangs.
And then there was Joe...defending the bat-thing-woman.
And Meg.
And Anthy, standing there. Just standing there. With...purple hair.
He pulls himself out of his thoughts, and running a finger under the text, reads out loud, "I do not like them, Sam-I-am."
Concentrate, gunslinger.
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Date: 2004-12-05 12:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-05 12:50 am (UTC)"It's open."
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Date: 2004-12-05 12:51 am (UTC)No bullshit: "Her name is Mina."
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Date: 2004-12-05 12:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-05 01:01 am (UTC)"I don't know who the purple fella was, but he was hurting her." Joe shrugs. "She's my woman. She's not evil."
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Date: 2004-12-05 01:05 am (UTC)And he's quiet, for a moment. "How many other vampires are here?"
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Date: 2004-12-05 01:08 am (UTC)"I know two people here who hunt vampires--vampires of your kind." Joe chuckles darkly. "One is Mina's sworn brother."
He hesitates. It is a hesitation in which he doesn't like himself for what he is thinking. He lets it hang.
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Date: 2004-12-05 01:12 am (UTC)"Are you absolutely sure you chose her to be your woman? That she does not have...unnatural influence...over you?"
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Date: 2004-12-05 01:21 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-12-05 01:33 am (UTC)"If she's put a spell on me, I don't know to what end, gunslinger. She's made me swear to never let her feed on me." Joe unbuttons the collar of his shirt. "And she never has."
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Date: 2004-12-05 01:39 am (UTC)"And you'd be willing to kill her if she tries?"
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Date: 2004-12-05 01:45 am (UTC)"But if she went bad..." Joe scowls and looks at the floor.
"Most vampires in her world go bad, an' fast. Her best friend went to feedin' on kids in no time flat when she was taken. She's *different.* Mebbe 'cause people killed the one that made her. Mebbe she's just strong."
He looks up and faces the gunslinger, eyes shining. "If I had to, could I do it? Is that what you're askin' me?"
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Date: 2004-12-05 01:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-05 01:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-05 01:53 am (UTC)"You're a grown man," is all Roland says.
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Date: 2004-12-05 01:56 am (UTC)"If her control was broken and couldn't be restored... I hope she'd rather be dead."
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Date: 2004-12-05 02:00 am (UTC)"You just be careful." Roland knows what it's like to lose your head over a woman and have everything go to hell, and Joe might get the idea that he speaks from experience.
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Date: 2004-12-05 02:02 am (UTC)Time to be honest. "If I get unbound, I'm leaving, gunslinger. She can't follow me. This is for Milliways, not forever." He glares at the ground while he says it.
He's not proud of himself. It's just who he is.
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Date: 2004-12-05 02:05 am (UTC)"You still going to look at your poem? Try to find out what it all means? Or does she change things?"
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Date: 2004-12-05 02:08 am (UTC)She gives my life here light and music and hope and
lojoy.She can't make me stop missing the sands and the skies of the place where I belong, stop hating the gods and immortals who aren't my people.
She changes everything and she changes nothing.
"I'll keep looking."
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Date: 2004-12-05 02:10 am (UTC)"How often does she become bats?"
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Date: 2004-12-05 02:13 am (UTC)"She was very very angry at Anthy." A pause. "An' so was I, come to that. I just understand Anthy a little better, I think."
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Date: 2004-12-05 02:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-05 02:17 am (UTC)"We kissed. If we hadn't been interrupted, more could've happened. Would've. We were interrupted, luckily, and Anthy got found out." Joe's voice remains controlled throughout, but it's apparent he's turning the dials higher and higher to keep it that way."
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Date: 2004-12-05 02:19 am (UTC)"You were both right to be angry." Is Roland sorry he pulled his gun in defense of the bats now? Never in life.
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Date: 2004-12-05 02:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-05 02:29 am (UTC)Roland's not a particularly nice person, when the mood takes him.
"Why did Anthy do what she did? Is she mad?"
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Date: 2004-12-05 02:30 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-12-05 02:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-05 02:49 am (UTC)He frowns. "I don't know what's left for her to try. Mina an' I have a code phrase, to know for sure when we meet."
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Date: 2004-12-05 02:57 am (UTC)And because it's got to be said: "This place keeps trying to give me a headache." He lifts his left hand, rubs his left temple briefly. "A Dream-lord. A shape-changer. More wizards in one place than have been seen in all In-, Mid-, and End-World in a thousand years. A cloud of bats that turns into a woman. God and the Man Jesus."
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Date: 2004-12-05 03:01 am (UTC)"You're preachin' to the choir, gunslinger."
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Date: 2004-12-05 03:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-05 03:13 am (UTC)"And in mine..." He shrugs. "What magic there was in my world died a long time ago, though the Manni still have faith in its persistence. It was replaced with machines. There are such stories in my world, as well, although magic is...more common."
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Date: 2004-12-05 03:18 am (UTC)He sighs. "I should go." He pauses. "Thank you. I know it ain't easy to look past the way things are in your world."
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Date: 2004-12-05 03:25 am (UTC)And now it's Roland's turn to pause. "Wish you joy of your woman, Joe. For as long as it may last."
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Date: 2004-12-05 03:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-05 03:30 am (UTC)He reaches for Green Eggs and Ham again. Might as well finish the story, even though he knows how it ends.