5th Contract - [Video]

[conesoldstober]

What do you think, Sophie? It's not a castle, but I suppose it will just have to do. I got a rather good deal as well.

[The camera spins until Howl's beaming face fills the screen.]

Pavel, you're invited, of course. And ask your lady friend if you like. In fact, we may need to find a few boarders. There are rather more bedrooms than we can fill on our own, and I hate an empty bedroom in a house. It feels like bad luck.

[Howl isn't bothering to filter to this, despite it being directed at one person in particular. You could call it laziness or his desire to show off. More likely a combination of both. He spins it back round to show the house again.]

So how soon do you reckon until you can have us packed up to move?




[ooc: In which Howl is a fickle spendthrift and bought a house.... open video/audio/action from anyone!]

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[mrsnose]

[What do you think, Sophie? -- it's funny. She would've expected him to direct his first statement to whoever he was showing the house to, not to her. Unless she is the person he's showing it off to, in which case - now she has to validate him, doesn't she?

After she packs, apparently.]

And who exactly is going to be sweeping and cleaning the floor to this whole thing? At least the castle only had three rooms.

[conesoldstober]

No one is going to make you clean it, Sophie. I believe it to be fine the way it is.

[mrsnose]

No, of course not, you're just going to dirty it and mess it all up and fill it with bottles and baubles and expect me to simply navigate around them - I don't think we're pigs, Howl.

Definitely not the kind who afford houses.

[conesoldstober]

I've been selling enough hair potions and protections spells and the lot.

Don't you like it?

[mrsnose]

[Vain products for vain people, and yet for some reason that'd gotten him rich. Of course it has. Meanwhile, she still has to find a job, still has to figure out whether she wants to make hats or sell flowers, or be something else again. (A witch. A good witch.)

She pushes the jealousy aside, and looks away.]

I didn't say I didn't like it.

[conesoldstober]

So will you say you do like it?

[Be reasonable, Sophie. He bought a house. Act a little impressed?]

[mrsnose]

[Stop asking for so much. Or for so little. She worries her lip between her teeth for a second, and looks back up.]

I like it. I don't remember ever setting foot in a house that big, so it's still odd. But it's very pretty.

[Nevermind that, if it weren't for the castle or the idea that she somehow never wants to leave it now (or, well, back home), that would've been a house to dream of living and growing old in. Nevermind.]

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[likeabreath]

Nice.

[conesoldstober]

I'm glad someone's appreciative at least.

[likeabreath]

Someone else isn't?

[conesoldstober]

Honestly. I don't know why I even bother trying to impress anyone anymore.

[likeboudica]

That is a lovely house. [ Is she— the lady friend? ]

[conesoldstober]

It is rather good, isn't it? There's a lovely room next to Sophie's with a view into the garden, if you're interested.

[likeboudica]

Oh, but I couldn't.

[conesoldstober]

Why not? It's alright, isn't it?

[likeboudica]

But it is your house.

[conesoldstober]

Yes. Which is why I'm the one inviting you to live in it. Do I need to be more clear?

[likeboudica]

No, but— you hardly know me, truly.

[candothat]

This is a good house!

Also, if you do mean Tessa, please be less forward.

[conesoldstober]

Would you prefer I used 'paramour'?

[candothat]

No! Howl, please.

[conesoldstober]

What's the problem, then? She seems interested.

[candothat]

It isn't appropriate!

[conesoldstober]

Why not? I didn't take you for the old fashioned type, Pavel.

[Especially... considering.]

[Private]

[candothat]

I am not old fashioned, but Tessa is from a different time--a more conservative time. I have read about this.