poly_chromatic | [ VIDEO ] / DESERT CITY

[ There's a bit of a glitchy video feed showing Eames' mug in the cramped room provided by the safe zone housing. ]

I'm not sure whether or not someone has already offered a solution to our little slimy problem- [ there's jostling movement as Eames flicks a slug off of his shoulder before he turns the camera toward the ground where he has a shallow pan set up. There's amber fluid in the pan with a rather large congregation of slugs floating inside it, a neat stack of a rather ratty looking six-pack of emptied beer cans nearby. ]

You can use beer to create traps for the slugs. It doesn't particularly matter what brand as slugs aren't the pickiest of the bunch - they'll try to get to the source and promptly drown themselves.

[ He pokes at the pan with the tip of his shoe - the slugs roll around with the momentum, dead. Eames makes a bit of a disgruntled sound. ] Yeast makes the compound a bit more appetizing for the bastards, but I hardly expect anyone to have packets of the stuff around on this side.

Enjoy yourselves.

[ Blip! Off goes the feed. ]

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[ There's no real amount of relief, because now the slug is just sitting there and Eames is occupied with the other slugs. She glances between the two -- dead slug and Eames with other dead slugs -- before sighing. ]

What are you planning on doing with them?

Flush them down the toilet.

[ He looks over at her curiously. ]

Do you have a better idea?

[ There's a pause. ]

Burn them. You'll use less water.

[ Ew. ] I don't want to burn them. It'll smell awful.

I didn't mean in here. Burn them outside in the sand.

[ But. Toilet is right here. And sand is out there. Then again, he doesn't want to think about these slugs ending up in the water system, either. ]

I'll just ask Charlie to take care of it, then.

I have my lighter still, you know.

[ Pause. ]

Unless you traded it.

I traded it for your shampoo.

Oh. [ :C Arthur gave her that for Christmas. Still, necessities first. ]

[ Oh? What is "oh?" ]

What?

Do you want me to get it back?

You don't have to.

[ Pause. ]

Arthur gave me it for Christmas, since I gave yours back.

Oh.

[ Well, she should have told him that before. He thought it was some $10 purchase from the drug store. ]

I'll see what I can do.

[ How was she supposed to know he'd end up taking it out of her bag and-- oh, Eames. Right. ]

Thanks.

You do love your presents.

I like having a lighter.

You musn't smoke so much.

I don't.

[ Not as much as she had been; she really has been cutting back. ]

All right, then. I'll see if it's not been traded off since.

Don't worry about it if you can't track it down.

[ He eyes her. ] Are you certain?

[ If both Ariadne and Arthur were to get mad at him, well. That's one household he doesn't want to deal with. ]

Yeah. There are more important things to worry about than my lighter.

[ She can prioritize. She'll just give him shit about it later, if he can't find it. ]

[ Well, that's true. ]

I likely should have told you what I was doing beforehand.

Yeah, you should have.

[ At least he can admit it. ]

[ He shrugs a bit, rubbing the back of his neck. ]

I hear Weasley visited.

[ She glances back up at him, one eyebrow raising slightly. ]

Yeah, for a little bit.

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