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Adam Vasic ([info]halfexustio) wrote in [info]wariscoming,
@ 2010-01-17 20:30:00

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Entry tags:adam vasic, shay

Who: Adam and Shay
What: Out for a walk
Where: Street
When: Evening
Rating: PG
Status: Complete

So he had to face the cold, hard truth: the vacation he planned on taking after the council meeting was not going to happen. It wasn't as if the place didn't exist, but his reservation and his surfboard certainly did not. On the upside, the rental car was pretty much his now. He didn't think Enterprise was going to be sending their employees across dimensions to retrieve it. The SUV was just a lttle more reliable than his old jeep.

He was pretty sure that his stepfather would have loved this place and the differences in demonology for their world. Even he was interested. The rules of his world had been turned upside down, which had brought up a few good questions. Like could a halfdemon be possessed by one of the Lost-like smoke demons?

"Why me?" He hadn't realized he'd spoken outloud. "Not that the dimensional exchange student thing is all bad but seriously..." He hesitated and started patting down his pockets. "I really hope I didn't forget my wallet."


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[info]1st_cutter
2010-01-25 06:22 am UTC (link)
She, nodded, "I know, guess we'll just have to wait and find out." She said with a shrug, though she sighed at his first statement, fingers brushing against the spot behind her ear for a moment, "But yeah, the being cut off part's totally bogus."

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[info]halfexustio
2010-01-25 01:41 pm UTC (link)
"Seriously. Then again, I guess if the lines of communication were kept open, it'd turn into one big mess and the whole dimensional community would collapse." A small shrug followed. "But that's just me. I skipped on all those physics classes. They usually just put me to sleep."

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[info]1st_cutter
2010-01-25 03:28 pm UTC (link)
"It'd probably be something like that, yeah." She shrugged, "We didn't have classes about interdimensional travel, so I wouldn't know." She shook her head, "I'm used to being able to hear the rest of my clique." She had to remind herself not to call them by name, "I mean, we're not as bad as the Swarm, but close."

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[info]halfexustio
2010-01-26 05:45 pm UTC (link)
Adam started laughing. "Neither did we. I mean, you should've heard people's reactions when they found out there was a demonology class at Stanford. I think they would've rolled their eyes and mumbled about it being useless if there had been." He held out his arms. "Guess it doesn't sound so stupid now."

He lowered his arms, crossing them on the table in front of him. "You guys could hear each other? Like telepathy?"

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[info]1st_cutter
2010-01-26 07:38 pm UTC (link)
She shook her head, then nodded, shrugging, "Something like that, imbedded mic in the jaw." She brushed her fingers against her jaw, right about where the mic was, "And speaker in the ear, antenna behind, we call it a 'skintenna'" She shrugged again, "So kind of like telepathy, for people who don't know about the implants." She sighed, running a hand through her hair, "Sometimes I wake up thinking I've heard one of the others, it's starting to freak me out."

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[info]halfexustio
2010-01-26 11:10 pm UTC (link)
"That sounds so..." Adam trailed off as he searched for the appropriate word. It came, accompanied by a wrinkled nose. "Uncomfortable. Knowing that there's others in my head? I only got room for the one, most of the time." But he could sympathize with waking up and thinking someone was there, only to find that they were not. "It's getting used to this place, I think. Sometimes after reading the boards, I'm like 'oh, this is something Paige would get a kick out of' or 'Dad would love reading this conversation' and then yeah, there's the whole realizing that you can't get in touch with them."

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[info]1st_cutter
2010-01-26 11:51 pm UTC (link)
"It wasn't so much having someone else in my head as we were kind of all one entity, we always knew where we were." She shook her head, "I read some stuff for an assignment once, about how in the old days when people still lost limbs and couldn't have them re-attached they'd sometimes feel the one that was missing. Not having the rest of the Cutters around is like that, I think, sometimes I think I can feel them or hear them even though I know they're not here."

She shook her head then, smiling again, "And there I go, being all depressing, I'm just going to shut up now."

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[info]halfexustio
2010-01-27 12:54 am UTC (link)
"So it's more like a security blanket kind of thing." The name of the condition she was describing alluded him for a moment, his brow furrowing in thought. It was going to annoy him until he remembered it. Finally, he snapped his fingers. "Phantom limb syndrome," he stated, proud that he'd remembered before getting back on topic. "I can see how that would happen. That sucks."

He grinned. "You're not depressing at all."

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[info]1st_cutter
2010-01-27 01:54 am UTC (link)
She brightened, "That's it! It's like having a phantom Clique, which kind of makes it sound like I'm totally haunted or something, and I'm really not. Well, I don't think I am." She shrugged then, "And I'm glad you don't think so, how about you? How's this place treating you? I'm getting used to it, I guess, I mean, still boarding after dark the same as I always did back home, and getting used to actual food, that's kind of neat."

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[info]halfexustio
2010-01-27 02:01 am UTC (link)
Adam started laughing. "Yeah, it kind of does. Clique is a word I used to associate with the popular crowd so it kind of sounds like you're being haunted by the dead popular crowd, which is absolutely terrifying." He leaned into the table a little more. "You never know around here."

He shrugged. "It's all right. I mean, I came into this knowing this stuff existed, even if there are different rules where I'm from. The real mindbender though is that I know someone else here. The thing is? She's an adult here and back where we belong?" He held out a hand at knee level. "She's that high."

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[info]1st_cutter
2010-01-27 02:31 am UTC (link)
She tilted her head, "That'd be weird, like meeting Tally as a littlie, or as a crumbly, either way." She shook her head then, smiling broadly up at the waitress when their food was brought out, waiting until everything was settled before adding, "And back home Clique is just what we call our group, like, there's the Hot Airs and the Bashers and the Swarm." She shrugged, digging in, taking careful bites, "And each one has their own thing."

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[info]halfexustio
2010-01-27 02:39 am UTC (link)
"Crumbly? Sorry, I ask a lot of questions. My teachers used to say there was no stupid questions, but there was such a thing as too many questions." He shrugged, grinning. "I can't help being curious."

When the food came, Adam leaned back out of the waitress's way. "Thank you." He eyed the paper wrapped chopsticks and the fork, hand hovering over each one before he picked up the chopsticks. If Paige and Lucas could work those things, so could he. "I take it back. It kind of sounds like the West Side Story now, only with cooler names."

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[info]1st_cutter
2010-01-27 02:47 am UTC (link)
Shay worked the chopsticks like someone who'd been doing it since birth, "I don't even know what that is." She said, shaking her head once, " and crumblies are the old folks, the Late Pretties, grandparents and stuff." She shook her head, "And it's not a stupid question, I forget that you wouldn't know, the language is different, well, sort of different." There was only a momentary pause as she finally braved a bite of chicken, grinning, "That's really good, kind of reminds me of the Smoke."

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[info]halfexustio
2010-01-27 05:54 pm UTC (link)
Adam snapped the chopsticks apart, shifting the two halves in his hand uncertainly. The first attempt at wrangling a piece of chicken between the two points failed. "Ah. That makes sense. Crumblies like older buildings deteriorate and don't tell any elderly I made that comparison. They're scary with their motorized chairs and canes." He nodded. "The slang. I feel old admitting that even today's slang trips me up sometimes. I'd like to think it's just the constant change that does it." He gave her the thumbs up. "Awesome. You spotted a good place."

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[info]1st_cutter
2010-01-27 07:39 pm UTC (link)
She smiled at the praise, shrugging and nibbling at her food again, "Sometimes the first place is the best. I might have to do some research though, just to see."

She shrugged then, continuing the previous thread of conversation, "And I like to think that's exactly why we call them crumblies, because they're starting to crumble."

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[info]halfexustio
2010-01-28 12:13 am UTC (link)
"Now you sound like my best friend. I swear, she can't pick a hotel without doing research on three different websites and even then, she's not sure," he said, shaking his head as he grinned. "It's a compliment, even if it doesn't sound like one."

He managed to pick up another piece of chicken, popping it in his mouth. "It's very appropriate. Crumblies. I like that."

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[info]1st_cutter
2010-01-28 01:14 am UTC (link)
She nodded, "And kids, like, the under-twelves are Littlies, on account of they're little." She shrugged, "Usually we're pretty sense-making with the mouth-words." The crooked smile gave away that she was mostly teasing on that last one.

She shrugged, "And researching to make sure you've got the best place is usually a good thing. I'm usually sure I've got the best once I find it though. Usually. I've been wrong before, though I don't usually admit it."

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[info]halfexustio
2010-01-28 04:35 am UTC (link)
"Littlies. All right, that sounds like something I'd call a kid that came up to my knee but probably would've kicked an adult in the shin for when I was a kid. Littlies," he said slowly. "That's a fun word." He snorted. "Mouth-words. I like that."

Yeah, that definitely sounded like Paige. Only usually threats were involved and then he was a little bit scared of her. Don't mess with the studious witch. "No one likes to admit when they're wrong so unless you really don't like that person, it's like 'hey, everyone look that way' and completely and intentionally missing that the person is wrong."

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[info]1st_cutter
2010-01-28 05:03 am UTC (link)
She nodded, "A bit like that, yeah." She shrugged, "I know some people are way worse at being wrong than others, it's just that nobody really talks about it at all."

Another smile, "And feel free to use the phrase, if you like it that much, that's how the really bubbly stuff gets started anyway. One person likes it and passes it on and somebody else picks up on it and spreads it around, language is kind of like a virus that way."

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[info]halfexustio
2010-01-30 03:47 am UTC (link)
"With the right people, I talk about it," he said, giving her a grin. "Of course, then my best friend threatens to do unnameable things to my manliness and in the interest of self-preservation, I have to back off." He poked the sticks at another piece of meat. "Which is probably where it would be a good idea not to talk about it, huh?"

He definitely was. Any twist of the English language was all right in his books. "Exactly. Many a cool word has been started that way."

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[info]1st_cutter
2010-01-30 03:54 am UTC (link)
She nodded, "Really I think most words were started that way, not just the cool ones." She shrugged, "I mean, that's all any language is, just sounds people made up a billion-zillion years ago."

Which was one of the things she liked knowing, pre-Rusty history, and if it was something she didn't know, she made it up, nobody else would know it either.

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[info]halfexustio
2010-01-30 08:35 pm UTC (link)
"Yeah. Sometimes I wonder about it, like how did things get their names? Like who looks at a dog and goes 'yeah, I think I'll call that dog'." He shook his head. "Probably will never get an answer to that."

He picked up another piece of chicken. "Yeah, I think I'm definitely coming back to here. Good food."

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[info]1st_cutter
2010-01-30 09:02 pm UTC (link)
She nodded, already finished with her rice, just savoring the chicken, it really did remind her of the Smoke, and just at the moment she wasn't sure if that was a good thing or a bad thing, but the food was good, and that was all that mattered, "Yeah, me too, especially now that I know where it is." She shrugged, "I've kind of just been scavenging, not like, roots and berries, but there's usually food in the big kitchen."

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[info]halfexustio
2010-01-31 04:29 pm UTC (link)
He started to ask what big kitchen she meant when it clicked in mind. "Right, the apartment complex place," he said, waving off the nearly asked question. "What's it like there? I mean, that many people in one place from all different places? Is it kind of weird?"

He pictured people having their own set ways of doing something and clashing over it but from what he'd heard so far, that wasn't the case. Still, he wasn't sure about living there. Although with his financial situation, it did look like a better possibility.

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[info]1st_cutter
2010-01-31 05:46 pm UTC (link)
She shrugged, "It's okay, I guess, I haven't been in group housing like that since I was younger, but it's not bad. I mean, unless everyone's hiding all their anger-management issues because I'm new, but I don't think that's how it works."

Her brow creased just slightly, "You don't live there?"

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(no subject) - [info]halfexustio, 2010-01-31 11:22 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]1st_cutter, 2010-01-31 11:26 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]halfexustio, 2010-01-31 11:41 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]1st_cutter, 2010-01-31 11:52 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]halfexustio, 2010-02-01 12:14 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]1st_cutter, 2010-02-01 12:20 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]halfexustio, 2010-02-01 03:39 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]1st_cutter, 2010-02-01 03:45 am UTC
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