[video]

[candothat]

[The video starts with a shot of a car that, to those who know (or knew) Dean Winchester, will look very familiar. It's impeccably polished, gleaming even in the waning daylight.]

I now have a car.

[He sits down in front of the bumper (a move indicated by some very careless camera work) before rearranging the camera so that it points towards him. Chekov is, mercifully, wearing clothes. Fairly nondescript clothes, but clothes nonetheless.]

I cleaned her very well today, although she may get dusty when I drive her back home... after midnight, I think. [Because there's nothing more awkward than spending the day with your 19th century girlfriend when she's naked.]

Before you ask, yes, I am old enough to drive and yes, I can operate a vehicle like this. I have a license to pilot anything as large as a military shuttlecraft, and that is not so maneuverable. The Impala is the first ground vehicle I have piloted outside of a simulator and, although I know very little about vehicles as old as she is, I think that she handles well. Maybe she would be better off with Sulu--he has many hobbies, and twentieth century cars must be one of them--but I will be careful with her.

I am trying to decide which is better: driving or riding a horse. Driving is simpler, but when I knew how to ride a horse, that was more exciting. Horses are easier to find, also. I have been visiting the barn where they live to talk to them--the horses. The brown one stabled there is a good listener.

[His somewhat pensive and subdued mood (not a normal mood for Chekov) becomes very serious as he jumps to a new topic.]

What I also mean to say today is that no one else that I know is allowed to leave the City without telling me, not even if you leave a car for me.

[He knows just as well as anyone else that no one can control when and how they leave, but it's a nice, empty threat to end the video on.]

Comments

[synanthrope]

I can help.

[candothat]

Miss Wallace?

[synanthrope]

With the car.

[candothat]

Ah! Yes, I would appreciate that. I do not know my way around an internal combustion engine so well.

[synanthrope]

It isn't difficult.

[video]

[claimyourself]

Wow, nice ride! Is it really so bad that your friend went home?

[video]

[candothat]

I would prefer him to be here with his car, but this is not so bad. His car--this is a Chevrolet Impala from 1967. At home, it would be ancient!

[video]

[claimyourself]

[She laughs.]

Even more of a classic in your time than in mine! But hey, you were talking about visiting horses. That's great! Are you getting riding lessons?

[video]

[candothat]

[Laughing only encourages him!]

Classic enough for a history museum. Yes, the horses... I hope to find someone who will teach me, but, so far, I have found only horses and no horse-riders.

[uprouse]

What a nice thought to end on.

[candothat]

And a wishful one. Also a stupid one, maybe.

[uprouse]

Aaaa, are those the first adjectives to spring to your mind? Personally I would have said "unambitious".

[candothat]

I try not to ask for too much. What would you consider not unambitious?

video:

[charring]

Horses are the best listeners.

video:

[candothat]

They are less given to talking back than many people.

video:

[charring]

And they don't judge. Necromancer doesn't. [Said oh so casually.]

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[candothat]

This was the horse you had as a child.

[He doesn't make much of the tense change. He changes tenses all the time.]

[primrosella]

The brown horse in the Barn? Oh, do you mean the one with the patch of white on his head?

If so, that's my Valor, and I'm pleased to hear he's been such a good listener for you.

[candothat]

Yes, that one! Valor, you said?

[Walor.]

I hope you do not mind if I give him sugar cubes. I was told that horses like them, and he agrees.

[primrosella]

Goodness, I should say he does! Sometimes I think his sweet tooth is as bad as mine, really. Just please don't spoil him too much, you know, or it'll go a bit to his head.

[candothat]

I will be certain to criticize him if his ego becomes problematic.

If I may ask--how did you get a horse in the City? I have never seen them for sale.

[likeboudica]

We should go riding together one day.

[candothat]

Once I am capable of staying on a horse, I would like to do that. Do ride in the City ever, or was this only at home?

[likeboudica]

I have, a few times, with Dr McCoy.

[candothat]

Then we will go riding, very soon. I will tie myself to the saddle if necessary.