♕ |[102]| Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.

[had_not_lived]

I'm missing books. Not all of them, but enough of them that I can tell, though I'm not sure what all of them were. Not in the shop-- or maybe there too, but it's harder to tell-- but from our shelves at home.

I don't think it can be a curse, really, after the weekend, but I think maybe those things took them.

Is that crazy? I don't know anymore when something is, I think.

I really hope I get them back, though.

Comments

[deadmanbusiness]

Generally, from what I've seen, things that get eaten don't come back.

Annoyingly.

[had_not_lived]

They ate them?

[deadmanbusiness]

Nomnomnom.

[had_not_lived]

Pardon?

[deadmanbusiness]

Sorry. That's what my cousin says is the sound of a kitten she babysits eating things he's not supposed to do. Like the silverware. The worms seem to be doing the same thing.

[butweneedyou]

If you help us, we can get them back.

[had_not_lived]

Silverware? But-- [well, some questions don't bear answers.]

Anyway it's a curse, I think. Usually the messes those make don't really last. Usually.

[had_not_lived]

Are you with them?

You make a lot of promises, but I still don't understand what you want me to do. Or why.

[deadmanbusiness]

He's an irritatingly weird kitten.

It probably is. I've spent a good deal of the afternoon cursing when I miss one.

[had_not_lived]

It's just been strange lately. Strange for the City, I mean, the City's always strange in its own way. But this feels like something unusual, and all that with the Deities... And the strangers...

I don't like any of it.

[deadmanbusiness]

Yes. It's probably some plot to figure out who is working against the deities and kill them all.

[had_not_lived]

No, I don't think that's it-- I'm sure they're not happy about people trying to undermine them, but I don't think that's what's happening. It's not like people were quiet about how they felt before, and there've been other attempts, I think, and I don't think anyone was killed.

It's different, maybe something bigger.

[butweneedyou]

Join us. Help us. Agree with us.

It's all for you.

( v i d e o ) finally i will tag you >D

[studmuffin]

At least you could stock the Very Hungry Sand Worm?

[had_not_lived]

I don't know if I trust you.

( v i d e o ) i am eminently taggable what can i say

[had_not_lived]

Is that what they are?

[deadmanbusiness]

Possibly. Or that's possibly what they want you to think.

[had_not_lived]

I don't like to think that way.

Besides-- I don't think... she wouldn't let them--

I don't think they can just get rid of people that easily, not the way things work here.

[othersdie]

Have you seen any worms in the apartment?

[had_not_lived]

I don't know. I saw one in the hallway, and I thought I saw something slithering into the bathroom but I didn't see anything in there. Maybe it went down the drain?

[deadmanbusiness]

Thinking that way has kept me alive and my family alive for quite a long time.

Really? I mean, people seem to come and go all the time without warning.

[had_not_lived]

The City isn't like most places, though. Maybe that's what you need to do wherever you're from, but it doesn't seem quite right.

Coming and going isn't the same as killing people.

[deadmanbusiness]

Paranoia is always helpful.

People are dying?

[othersdie]

After taking your books? Stranger things have happened.

[butweneedyou]

We understand.