Tasslehoff Burrfoot is not a thief (tas_wanderlust) wrote in valarlogs, @ 2016-10-24 16:34:00 |
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Entry tags: | !complete, olivia moore, tasslehoff burrfoot |
Who: Tas and Liv
What: Tas goes to visit Liv in the morgue, gets a magic show.
When: Early October
Where: The morgue
Warning/Rating: Uh, it's in a morgue? But otherwise none
Status: Complete
Tas had a made a lot of friends since moving to the OC, and he liked to keep up with them as much as possible. Which meant when he saw Liv entering a government building, he was excited to be able to catch up with her. Of course, before he managed to follow her into the city morgue, he’d been waylaid by an adorable dog that was all but begging to be pet. And then he’d seen a magpie making off with a very shiny spoon, so he’d followed her to her nest to see what other goodies she had.
In fact, by the time he recalled seeing Liv, passing the building again on his way home, a couple of hours had passed. He wasn’t sure if she’d still be there when he snuck in - after all, maybe she was only visiting someone - but he was pleased to spot her, dressed in a white lab coat and cutting open the chest of a body. He hadn’t realized this was a morgue. The sight of it made him a little sad, as people dying was always sad, even if he had never seen the person before.
“Oh,” he said, walking nearly silently up to the table and standing on his tiptoes so he could get a better look. “Hi Liv. I saw you come in here, so I thought I’d come to say hi. I didn’t realize you worked here.” Or that the place would be filled with bodies. “How’d he die?”
Liv was waiting for her boss to return. She had stored a water bottle in one of the cold chambers to do a magic trick when her boss returned. He was into that sort of thing. She was lucky that he was so chill and they mostly had a good time when working. Well as good of a time as you could have while autopsying a body.
Liv decided it’d probably be a good idea to get some work done while she waited for her boss. Especially because Leon would get annoyed if she took too long with the autopsy report and she knew she already annoyed him enough. Not that she could really control it, but still.
She was just beginning the autopsy when someone walked in. Liv looked up with a smile already on her face expecting her boss. Instead she saw Tas. Well, he’d work too. “Hey!” she replied not quite as cheerfully. Could anyone really match Tas’ cheerfulness? “Oh yeah, I’m a ME,” she explained. “I don’t know I was just about to find out, but hey want to see something cool? It’s not dead body related. Promise.”
“I do want to see something cool!” Tas said, not the least bit upset to be moving away from the body. As interesting as an autopsy might be, seeing her cut into the man on the table would really be far too sad.
Liv put down the scalpel and went to retrieve the water bottle from an empty cold chamber and a cup from her desk. “It’s a magic trick,” she said as she began to pour the water into the cup. As it hit the cup it went from being liquid to ice.
“A magic trick? Really?” Tas asked, his attention fully commanded at the word magic. He set to watch Liv with all of his attention. He gasped out loud when the water began to magically turn into ice as she poured it. “Oh wow!” Tas gasped. “You know, my roommate can do magic too. He’s really good. But you’re really good too! That’s amazing! Did you learn that from your dreams too?”
Right. This was Orange County. Where zombies roamed freely, or well one zombie. It didn’t surprise her in the slightest that there were people who could do real magic too. “Nah,” Liv said shaking her head at his question as she set the bottle down. “Taught myself that one,” if Tas knew real magic he probably knew that was just a trick. “But your roommate got powers from his dreams?”
To Tas, magic tricks were just as much real magic as anything else. “He did! Just like I got short from my dreams.” Raistlin’s powers had also come with that worrisome cough but at least it didn’t seem as bad as it was in Krynn. “How did you teach yourself magic? Was it very difficult?”
Of course Liv’s first reaction was to ask if he was okay. But clearly he was. So she refrained. “It was fairly simple actually. I can teach you, if you want.” Yeah it was true a magician wasn’t supposed to reveal the tricks, but Tas was just too adorable. How could she not?
Tas gasped. “I would love that! Raistlin’s never taught me any magic. Well, there was the one trick in the dreams, where I take this magic crystal that he gave me when I’m outside and say ‘Abra Kadabra’ and then it makes rainbows! But other than that he won’t teach me anything. Too much studying and training, he says.” Of course, Tas didn’t have much desire to huddle in front of a bunch of dusty old books every day memorizing and rememorizing spells in order to cast them. It was far too boring.
“Wow,” Liv said honestly impressed. But that sounded like real magic. Not just a trick. “I don’t do anything like that. Not spells or anything. More like the magic you’d see at a Las Vegas casino, but it’s still pretty awesome.” If you asked her at least. Though if you asked next week who knew if she’d still feel the same.
It was less magic and more basic prisms shining through a crystal, but Tas really didn’t know the difference. “Well, even if you don’t know spells, this stuff is still pretty exciting! I sure don’t know how to turn water into ice. At least, not yet.” He gave Liv a sly look, as if they were both in on the same secret. Because soon they would be.
Liv had pictured more actual rainbows appearing in the sky the way Tas described it than light going through a prism. But it was best to not rain on his parade. Time to teach him the water trick. “It’s pretty simple,” Liv assured Tas. “But you can’t tell anyone.”
“I won’t tell a soul!” Tas promised, in his own way. As in, he wouldn’t tell a soul so long as it didn’t come up. Which it probably would as soon as he went home to tell Raistlin all about the magical medical examiner he’d just met.
Good enough for Liv. “Well,” she began her explanation. “You just put a water bottle until it’s almost frozen.” That was the key. It couldn’t get frozen solid. “Then when you pour the water out it freezes.”
Tas frowned a little, mulling the idea over in his head. “Wait, that doesn’t sound like magic at all!” he exclaimed. Then again, maybe it did. He wasn’t really sure how magic worked, but he guessed the really cold water bottle might not be that much different than the spell components Raistlin sometimes threw around for his spells.
“Sorry to disappoint,” Liv replied though her tone was light. “Like I said it’s just a trick. I’m not a wizard like your roommate.”
He supposed she had told him that before she’d shown him the trick. He’d been expecting some exciting explanation, but even without it, he was glad that there was magic that even he could do. “I’ll have to show it to my roommate anyway!” Tas said cheerfully. “How do you know when the water’s almost frozen?”
Tas sure bounced back from disappointment quickly. Liv liked that about him. “I’m sure he’ll be impressed.” Actually Liv doubted that he would what with him knowing how to do actual magic but whatever. “Oh, it usually takes about two hours. Depends on how cold the freezer is, but I’d go with two hours and you can adjust from there.”
Tas had yet to encounter anything that would keep him down for long. As far as he was concerned, clouds didn’t have silver linings, they were entirely made of silver. Silver and rain. “Wow, thanks!” Tas said cheerfully. This really was his best, if not his first, visit to a morgue ever.