Who: Julian Gold and Gulliver Mills What: Cleaning Julian's house When: Friday night Where: Julian's house
The first day that Julian returned home, he found his home in a state of ruin that could only have been accomplished in a house that was often visited by supernatural predators. His vases were broken, his glasses were broken, his plates were broken, and his silverware was embedded in the wall. There was blood - his blood - on the floor in his bedroom and his duvet might as well have been a pile of rags and downy feathers. There were scratches in the front door near the doorknob where Bart had struggled before busting out to gallop out into the forest where he was doubtlessly still out there hunting deer and ducks. The first couple of days Julian had spent in a kind of haze, cooking up chicken in the kitchen and sleeping off the aches in his skin and his joints. He had taken a couple of baths with mineral salts to make him feel a little better. And now, a few days later, he was ready to rejoin the land of the living, the dead, and every one and every thing in between.
He did want to clean his house, he really did, to make it look better before Gulliver showed up. But something about what he had gone through made him weak and sluggish. He bent down to pick up a shred of his former couch, straightened up and then dropped the shred down on the floor, and made for the kitchen. He poured himself a glass of wine and took a seat on the floor, his back pressed against his refrigerator, the bottle at his feet.