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Tweak says, "They're all wasted!"

Henry 'Mutt' Williams (switchbladecomb) wrote in undertherainbow,
@ 2008-06-06 21:31:00

Entry tags:

candy quackenbush, henry 'mutt' williams, keller cheevy, solvei samuels

So, this is weird.

At least that tornado didn't trash my bike.

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	switchbladecomb 2008-06-08 11:47 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah. I was holding onto it for dear life. I think I'll be alright. Thanks for the welcome. Name's Mutt. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	toitshour 2008-06-08 11:54 pm UTC (link)
	It's good it didn't crush you then. Candy. ... is Mutt a nickname? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	switchbladecomb 2008-06-08 11:57 pm UTC (link)
	It was close, but I've broken a leg or two before. Yeah, but I hate being named Henry. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	toitshour 2008-06-09 12:03 am UTC (link)
	Well, yeah, but nobody wants to break more bones. Still. Glad you and your bike came through not broken. I hate being called Candy, but nobody really ever gave me a nickname. I think I'm stuck being Candy Quackenbush, but that's okay. It could be worse. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	switchbladecomb 2008-06-09 12:06 am UTC (link)
	That's not horrible. I could probably come up with a nickname for you. Mutt was what we called the stray dog that we fed off the porch. Figured it fit, since I kinda wandered around aimlessly, but always headed back for the company. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	toitshour 2008-06-09 12:08 am UTC (link)
	Only if you want to. You're lucky your dad wasn't mine ~~for a lot of reasons~~. He would've ended up calling the dog - and you - Rambler. Do you know that song, "Ramblin' Man"? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	switchbladecomb 2008-06-09 12:14 am UTC (link)
	No, I don't. And my dad wasn't around. It's a long story. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	toitshour 2008-06-09 12:16 am UTC (link)
	I'll have to send you a copy. ... I'm sorry. Don't go into it unless you want to. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	switchbladecomb 2008-06-09 12:19 am UTC (link)
	That'd be nice. I'll have to find a record player, I don't know if the clown I replaced has one. No, it's nothing like that. Just a long story. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	toitshour 2008-06-09 12:22 am UTC (link)
	People don't really use those so much anymore. There's CD players and MP3 players and stuff. I can help you with those, if you want. I think everyone who's brought here has a long story. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	switchbladecomb 2008-06-09 12:26 am UTC (link)
	Uh, sure? What's yours? I'd like to hear it, Candy. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	toitshour 2008-06-09 12:32 am UTC (link)
	I can try to explain how they work, too. But that's a little bit harder. I don't even know if you'll believe me if I try to tell you. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	switchbladecomb 2008-06-09 12:35 am UTC (link)
	These days I'll believe pretty much anything. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

toitshour
2008-06-09 12:45 am UTC (link)

Where I lived in Minnesota, there was this abandoned lighthouse - in the middle of nowhere. A man and his brothers asked me to go up into the lighthouse and light the light. I didn't think anything would come of it, so I did it anyway. Turns out it summoned a sea that took me to another world - the Abarat. I learned how to do magic there, which helped a lot. Still does. That's where I was when I was brought here.

Let me guess - and now you think I'm crazy.

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	switchbladecomb 2008-06-09 12:48 am UTC (link)
	I've seen aliens with skeletons made of crystal, been shot at with poison darts, and watched my mom marry a guy who turned out to be the one who got her knocked up with me in the first place. So, no, not really. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	toitshour 2008-06-09 12:56 am UTC (link)
	Wow, and I thought Dad polishing off three twelve-packs a day was a little hard to believe. Did the aliens have skin, or were they just the skeletons? That almost sounds pretty. ... sorry, morbid curiosity, Mom called it. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

switchbladecomb
2008-06-09 01:00 am UTC (link)

Wow. he must have had a liver of steel. Not to make light of it, I'm sure that was hard.

They were kind of pretty, really. But very scary. Just looking at them was enough to make my skin crawl. They messed with Ox, the guy who helped Mom raise me, made him go insane. And then they tried to do the same thing with Indiana, the guy my mom married. He's an archaeologist.

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	toitshour 2008-06-09 01:06 am UTC (link)
	He's not here. It's a lot easier now. Things that can make you go crazy are the worst. Kind of like the Fugit Brothers in the Abarat - their eyes and noses and mouths walked around independent of them. Worst thing I've ever seen. And archaeology's neat. Do you get along with him? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	switchbladecomb 2008-06-09 01:09 am UTC (link)
	Oh, gross! And now we get along okay. Except when anyone mentions school around him. I never finished, even though I was smart. It was a waste of time, since I already knew how to do what I wanted. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

toitshour
2008-06-09 01:28 am UTC (link)

They almost drove me completely crazy. I'm glad I escaped them when I did.

Well, that's good. And let me guess - he wants you to finish and then go to college? The person I replaced is... well, a princess. They wanted me to go to this fancy boarding school. I'm going to go to a school where I can learn magic too. Useful things. I will never, ever need calculus. I mean - I got shot by a Nazi a couple of weeks ago.

... time's kind of loose here.

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	switchbladecomb 2008-06-09 01:35 am UTC (link)
	Hey, my dad fought them! I noticed that one. You're alright? Bullet wounds are nasty. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	toitshour 2008-06-09 01:38 am UTC (link)
	Then your dad's an awesome guy. They're ... let's just say they're the worst things I can think of. I'm fine. Someone healed my leg for me. The people here are really nice, you'll find. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	switchbladecomb 2008-06-09 01:52 am UTC (link)
	I've seen that already. it's nice. And the Nazis were pretty bad, but the Soviets are really creepy. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	toitshour 2008-06-09 01:54 am UTC (link)
	If it makes you feel any better, we're not at war with them anymore. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	switchbladecomb 2008-06-09 01:57 am UTC (link)
	No, now we're at war with the Arabs. It's just trading one nationality for another, really. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)