video:

[grigio]

[Julie's set the video camera up on the kitchen table. It's covered in various objects that she's...er...well, there was this curse and she was a ninja and now a bunch of stuff is missing from the garage.

Also there were a couple appliances missing from the kitchen. And she somehow stole R's hoodie.

Anyway, short of it? Julie wants to apologize so a moment later, she pokes her face in with a very embarrassed smirk.]

So...uh...R? Mercy? I am really, really sorry about yesterday. I was cursed. Here's your stuff. I just found it in my closet this morning and remembered what I was up to yesterday.

It's all fine. Not a single bit of damage.

[R's hoodie even looks clean and she took a moment or two to sew up some of the smaller holes so it doesn't look awful. Just loved.]

I'll be in the kitchen, willing to apologize personally.

Comments

[saturniapavonia]

Doing some projects at home?

[grigio]

Kind of. I was cursed yesterday. Thought I was a ninja and kept stealing stuff and moving stuff around.

It was kind of fun.

[saturniapavonia]

You know, someone could easily say they're cursed and do weird shit when they're really high.

[grigio]

Probably.

You realize now that I will have to ask you if you were high or cursed if you do something weird, right?

[saturniapavonia]

Only if I'm allowed to return the favor. It's just logic.

[grigio]

You are. My answer will always be an honest "I was cursed."

[saturniapavonia]

Tell me another story.

[grigio]

[Just an eyebrow for now, Roman.]

Sorry to disappoint you, but that was entirely non-fiction.

[saturniapavonia]

[Her world is in peril and she's a square? Really?]

...As in can't or won't?

[grigio]

As in, tried it, found it to be a disagreeable coping mechanism along with a few others, and now I just stick to alcohol.

[saturniapavonia]

Alcohol is mood altering. I'll ask if you're drunk too. Just to be perfectly clear.

[grigio]

That one is acceptable, then.

[saturniapavonia]

Speaking of acceptable, how's Slow Moe?

private to Roman:

[grigio]

Getting better.

[does she sound surprised? She probably sounds surprised.]

I can't put my finger on how, exactly. But he's changing.

private:

[saturniapavonia]

[He doesn't believe her. Getting better then dead? Tolerating supernatural shit is still new. Not out of entire disbelief, but disbelief in positive... The vargulf for one example. Maybe it's because a great percentage of the time he isn't being all that serious too.]

Into what?

Re: private:

[grigio]

I dunno. Into a human again?

[Maybe she shouldn't imply that R isn't human? She doesn't know. At present, she thinks that being a zombie is just another state of being. A violent and terrifying one, but R is neither of those things so that just leaves the question of what he is.

What he's becoming.]

They usually just go Full Dead or turn into Boneys. R is unprecedented. He sleeps. He's...faster, somehow. He moves differently than other zombies. Hell, he moves differently than when I first met him. He's more...fluid, I guess.

It makes literally no sense to me because zombies don't just start living again.

[Julie, you sound just like your dad. Fix your shit, girl.]

Maybe they can.

private:

[saturniapavonia]

They don't. So how do you know he's actually a zombie? What if it's like a state of being he's meant to change from? How do you know he won't go back?

[Were-zombie?]

Re: private:

[grigio]

I saw him attack and eat my friends. That's kind of a huge clue. He also doesn't bleed or have a heartbeat.

private:

[saturniapavonia]

But he saved you.

[All the important details right?]

That makes him a winner?

Re: private:

[grigio]

I don't know what it makes him. I don't even think there's a word for what he is.

[coyote_walking]

Mercy shook her head, with a smile.]

That was you? You were making me crazy!

[grigio]

That was me. I am so sorry.

[And so amused. Oops.]

[coyote_walking]

How'd you like being cursed?

[Mercy's a bit amused too, now that it's over and she has her stuff back. Besides, she's been cursed before too.]

[grigio]

That was a fun one. It's not my first curse. My first one kind of sucked.

But being able to move that fast? That was amazing.

[coyote_walking]

Speed is always fun, so it's good this curse didn't suck.

I guess it wasn't so bad as curses go.

[grigio]

Not at all. I think R was cursed, too.

[coyote_walking]

Was he ninja-ing around too?

[grigio]

Yeah. He stole my hairband as I was wearing it.

[coyote_walking]

Amazing!

[grigio]

And kind of hilarious.

I'll have to ask him if he enjoyed it.

[coyote_walking]

Yeah, I can imagine that must be very different for him!

[lovesthecure]

[oh.

Julie.

He's holding your hair tie.]

[grigio]

You were cursed too, huh?

[She grins, grabbing his hoodie and holding it up.]

Trade you?

[lovesthecure]

[He nods, faintly.

His Hoodie. He feels sort of weirdly naked without it. Not that he isn't wearing other clothes. But it's defined him for so long - it's all he knows.]

I'd... like. That.

[grigio]

[Julie stands, smiling a bit sheepishly as she carries it over.]

I fixed the bullet holes for you.

[And washed it.]

Sorry. For taking it.

[lovesthecure]

It's... Fine. Just a sweater... [It's also defined his entire existence. It's why he thinks he';s unemployed, It pretty much describes everythuing about him.]