I will. Yeah. Bloody thieves? Really? I thought this was better than that--Riftwatch, and all--that's mental. While we were off in the bloody jungle half dying.
Look, I'll help, if you like. I'll help find whoever it is what did this, if I can. I reckon you can sort it on your own, but I'll do whatever I can as well.
[That's a small and welcome distraction from spiraling into how do you catch a thief what did all the thieving while no one was around, maybe a month ago.]
I'd like to see her. It's been awhile. I'm in the Forces office now--there's a load of paperwork. Practically bloody buried me when we were first back.
[ In addition to being longer, she's much more apt to slip away and do mysterious cat things!!!!
But once Laura finds her and convinces her to be held, she brings the cat down from her tower and to the Forces office, knocking before she comes in. Biter is a long teen clinging to her chest. ]
[Too loud, and too eager: Matthias, stumbling out from around a corner. Ready, but not quite ready enough, to intervene and receive Laura. Not that she can't be here talking with people, she can, of course she can, but he wants to see her. And he's nervous, still, of the personal intersecting with the professional, though he'd never know to put it in those words--]
Here. [And, unnecessarily:] Hi.
[There's a smudge of ink on his nose where he'd rubbed in irritation, and his hair is still all curls from the jungle--less so, without the humidity, but still in need of a trim. Laura, meanwhile, looks amazing: sleek and beautiful and slender like a blade. And holding a cat that Matthias would hardly recognize if he hadn't been told. His grin--already stupid--breaks stupider.]
[ He is working, and while Captain Flint is not currently here, he might show up at any moment. So she doesn't make any attempt to kiss him. But she does look up at him--and finds herself pleased by the sight of his face, even with ink smudges and too-long hair.
Somehow, he looks as if he belongs here, as much as he does anywhere else, and somehow, that feels admirable. Even when Matthias is breathless and stumbling, he seems capable to Laura. She shifts how she's holding the cat, so Matthias can take her if he likes. ]
She is still not an adult. [ This much, she knows from observation. ] But she is bigger than I expected.
[He does take Biter off of her hands--careful, so he doesn't startle the cat.]
Oof, yeah. Grown up like a weed. Good for you!
[Biter squirms only a little as Matthias cuddles her close, tucking her under his chin. That settles her a bit, her tail lashing slowly against his side.]
She must've been hunting like mad while we were gone to have grown up so big, eh?
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Date: 2020-07-12 11:13 pm (UTC)You all right?
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Date: 2020-07-12 11:23 pm (UTC)Are you all right?
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Date: 2020-07-12 11:36 pm (UTC)Look, I'll help, if you like. I'll help find whoever it is what did this, if I can. I reckon you can sort it on your own, but I'll do whatever I can as well.
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Date: 2020-07-12 11:39 pm (UTC)...Biter is much longer now. You will have to come see her.
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Date: 2020-07-13 09:24 pm (UTC)[That's a small and welcome distraction from spiraling into how do you catch a thief what did all the thieving while no one was around, maybe a month ago.]
I'd like to see her. It's been awhile. I'm in the Forces office now--there's a load of paperwork. Practically bloody buried me when we were first back.
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Date: 2020-07-13 09:48 pm (UTC)I could bring her to see you.
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Date: 2020-07-13 10:20 pm (UTC)He isn't around now anyways, so I reckon it'd be safe to bring her. If you're not busy.
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Date: 2020-07-13 10:22 pm (UTC)[ In addition to being longer, she's much more apt to slip away and do mysterious cat things!!!!
But once Laura finds her and convinces her to be held, she brings the cat down from her tower and to the Forces office, knocking before she comes in. Biter is a long teen clinging to her chest. ]
I have business with Matthias.
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Date: 2020-07-14 03:01 am (UTC)[Too loud, and too eager: Matthias, stumbling out from around a corner. Ready, but not quite ready enough, to intervene and receive Laura. Not that she can't be here talking with people, she can, of course she can, but he wants to see her. And he's nervous, still, of the personal intersecting with the professional, though he'd never know to put it in those words--]
Here. [And, unnecessarily:] Hi.
[There's a smudge of ink on his nose where he'd rubbed in irritation, and his hair is still all curls from the jungle--less so, without the humidity, but still in need of a trim. Laura, meanwhile, looks amazing: sleek and beautiful and slender like a blade. And holding a cat that Matthias would hardly recognize if he hadn't been told. His grin--already stupid--breaks stupider.]
Maker's teeth. That isn't our Biter, is it!
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Date: 2020-07-17 02:43 am (UTC)[ He is working, and while Captain Flint is not currently here, he might show up at any moment. So she doesn't make any attempt to kiss him. But she does look up at him--and finds herself pleased by the sight of his face, even with ink smudges and too-long hair.
Somehow, he looks as if he belongs here, as much as he does anywhere else, and somehow, that feels admirable. Even when Matthias is breathless and stumbling, he seems capable to Laura. She shifts how she's holding the cat, so Matthias can take her if he likes. ]
She is still not an adult. [ This much, she knows from observation. ] But she is bigger than I expected.
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Date: 2020-07-17 06:42 pm (UTC)Oof, yeah. Grown up like a weed. Good for you!
[Biter squirms only a little as Matthias cuddles her close, tucking her under his chin. That settles her a bit, her tail lashing slowly against his side.]
She must've been hunting like mad while we were gone to have grown up so big, eh?