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[It's hard to tell what the gentleman is thinking as a pair of sunglasses cover half his face. From the tone of his voice it's easy to tell that he's exasperated, tired and pissed off. He's dressed in a very expensive business suit that is currently a bit singed, has some blood on it, and very rumpled. Clearly someone has been busy before they arrived here and hasn't had a chance to change.]

Another kidnapping? Really. Don't you people ever get tired of it?

I have to say it's pretty good for a kidnapping. I mean, I didn't even feel the transfer and that's damn hard to do.

[He pauses and looks around to get a better sense of his surroundings.]

Are you fair folk? It doesn't feel like Faery.

[That said, he shrugs dismissing the matter out of hand. Faery or not, he's still been kidnapped after all. That's what needs to be dealt with.]

Anyway. It'd be best to let me go back right now for everyone's sake. My father will be pissed off when he finds me missing and his temper is already frayed and my fiancee will be pissed off and her temper is even more frayed.

This seems like a nice place, if odd. So instead of pissing off the god of the dead and the warmage just let me go home and I won't mention it. This will save a lot of lives in the long run.

I've got enough on my plate already.

Please, don't add any more.

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Dry cleaner. Though, I think this suit may have had it.

Hotel?

A good place to eat dinner?

[He laughs. Tired Theo is tired.]

The undead around here, what can you tell me about them?

Oh gosh. I'm not going to be able to help much.

Um... maybe there's a cleaner place in the main streets of the City, I don't know.

I don't think there's a hotel, but there's a Welcome Center where you can stay or you can just pick an empty apartment and stay there, the City doesn't mind.

There's tons of places to eat dinner, but mostly I don't go to them so I don't know what a good one is.

And I don't know about the undead. Do you mean like vampires? Or like someone who's City dead?

Just random open apartments? How do you prevent others from coming in?

[That doesn't seem safe.]

Do you have a place you like to go?

Both.

Oh no, you can get keys and stuff. It's just part of how the City works.

There's a little place right around the corner from the Library. Sometimes I go there for a special treat.

Huh. Well... I don't know a lot about vampires except that here they're all different. They all seem to have different rules and abilities.

City Dead happens when you die here. You come back to life except you're cold and you have no pulse and stuff. But sometimes you can bargain with the deities to get your life back.

That's really strange. I wouldn't trust them.

What do they serve?

Huh. Possibly why I feel funky.

I don't live in them 'cause I get too scared. I live out in the woods.

Oh, all sorts of things! They have soup and they make me grilled cheese sometimes and they make fancy things too but I don't really know what they'd be like so I mostly have simple things.

Really? Are you dead where you come from?

The woods are less scary than the buildings? How scary are they then?

Grilled cheese sandwiches are fancy things!

[Says the rich kid.]

No. I'm a necromancer, but things that can detect or notice undead things generally think I'm one of them.

I... I get scared inside of closed up places. Apartments... there aren't enough ways out, especially if you're up high. There's lots of room in the woods. So you can run if a Bad Man comes.

Plus a friend made me a little house in the woods and it's all open so I don't get scared. Animals are safer than most people, anyway.

Silly! Even I can make a grilled cheese if I get brave enough to use the stove, so they can't be very fancy!

Oh... I'm not dead, so I probably wouldn't notice, I guess.

[Well that doesn't sound good at all. He'll file that away for future reference. Hey. He does the hero thing a lot.]

That sounds nice.

I'm used to people cooking for me or lots of take out. I didn't get stuff like grilled cheese sandwiches often.

Possibly not. I'm sure it'll go away once I've been here a bit. Like getting sea legs.

[And now the mun wants a grilled cheese sandwich for dinner.]

I love it. It makes me very happy and I feel safe.

It can be a little lonely, though.

Well, the place I go makes a really good one!

Sea legs?

Maybe you should get a cat. A co-worker has a cat and she goes everywhere with him. The cat has him fairly well trained, too.

I'll have to look then.

You know, when you go on a boat and everything is all wobbly until you get used to the motions of the boat in the water?

I had a dog for a while, but then I think he went home like his old owner did.

I never thought about a cat. I have a mechanical bird, though. And I can always go to the Library and be there if I miss people. Or go out in the woods and be around the animals there. Just sometimes in the night, well... we'll see.

Oh yes, I've read about that in books. So you need to get adjusted. Okay!

One of my co-workers has a cat. She takes care of him.

It's too bad he's not here, she just had kittens and we'd love to get rid of them all.

[Teleporting. Kittens. Just... teleporting kittens.]

I never thought of libraries as places to talk with people.

Exactly, yes!

A kitten might actually be kind of fun. And tiny and snuggly.

I miss having someone to snuggle with at night.

Oh, well... I don't really talk a whole lot at the Library unless I'm helping someone, but there's almost always a bunch of people there during the day.

As long as you don't mind them growing up into cats.

I'm going to miss snuggling with someone at night.

[He sighs.]

Ah, I see.

Oh, I wouldn't mind that!

Well... I guess you could snuggle with me if you wanted to. If you're nice.

I'm not a very snuggly person.

People tend to be uncomfortable around me, so I don't think that would work out well.

[He has undead vibes and is a bit cold to the touch.]

That's okay. I just thought it would be nice to offer.

It was very kind of you to offer. And I'm flattered you did so.

Really? Why?

[She's honestly confused.]

Because you're offering it to a perfect stranger and I'm glad you would try and trust me enough to do so.

Oh.

[She hadn't really thought things out that far. It wasn't really one of her strong suits. Empathy and kindness on the other hand...]

Well, you're welcome. I guess I just - well, you seem nice to me. And you were saying you'd miss snuggling with someone too, so it made sense.

[Theo is kinda noticing that.]

You're very kind.

Oh, well... I try to be nice.

Especially to people who are new. It's hard enough to just show up here.

You're doing a good job of it!

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