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maskormenace2018-11-11 06:33 pm
patchricide) wrote in maskormenace2018-11-11 06:33 pm
VIDEO | 04
[As the camera turns on, your eyes are immediately directed towards a massive pile of leftover Halloween candy spread out over a table. At least, most of it is Halloween candy, and some of it is really good, like those peanut butter cups and little candy-coated morsels. But there's not a lot of quality control here, so some of it is terrible Halloween candy, and some upon further inspection is not Halloween candy at all.]
[In fact, there's some Christmas candies as well, including those really good hazlenut chocolates, and a few peppermints. There's also some of those mysterious strawberry hard candies that old ladies keep in candy bowls, tiny boxes of raisins, and... cough drops? Yup, those are cough drops. At the edge of the screen, a pair of mouse are helping themselves to one of the oddities, a small bag of peanuts like you might find on an airline.]
[And then there's Allura, sitting at the table with a pout of discontent on her face. After all, she had been invited to a Halloween party at the last minute, and she didn't have roommates to stay home on Halloween, so...]
If I had known I wasn't going to be handing out any Halloween candy, I would never have bought so much.
Particularly since I can't feed most of this to my mice. [As if on cue, a bigger, chubby yellow mouse picks up a bag of sour gummies and starts inspecting it — and without looking, Allura reaches over and pulls the bag out of his tiny little paws.] In fact, some of it I'm not sure if I ought to be eating.
This one is made with boiled animal bones, and coated in dried, powdered acid. It's supposed to be so sour that you will start crying in pain. Is this actually supposed to be a 'treat'?
[She gives a long sigh.] What am I supposed to do with all this? No matter how dubious the ingredients are, it seems like such a waste to throw it all away...
[In fact, there's some Christmas candies as well, including those really good hazlenut chocolates, and a few peppermints. There's also some of those mysterious strawberry hard candies that old ladies keep in candy bowls, tiny boxes of raisins, and... cough drops? Yup, those are cough drops. At the edge of the screen, a pair of mouse are helping themselves to one of the oddities, a small bag of peanuts like you might find on an airline.]
[And then there's Allura, sitting at the table with a pout of discontent on her face. After all, she had been invited to a Halloween party at the last minute, and she didn't have roommates to stay home on Halloween, so...]
If I had known I wasn't going to be handing out any Halloween candy, I would never have bought so much.
Particularly since I can't feed most of this to my mice. [As if on cue, a bigger, chubby yellow mouse picks up a bag of sour gummies and starts inspecting it — and without looking, Allura reaches over and pulls the bag out of his tiny little paws.] In fact, some of it I'm not sure if I ought to be eating.
This one is made with boiled animal bones, and coated in dried, powdered acid. It's supposed to be so sour that you will start crying in pain. Is this actually supposed to be a 'treat'?
[She gives a long sigh.] What am I supposed to do with all this? No matter how dubious the ingredients are, it seems like such a waste to throw it all away...
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Was this after you had to leave home? Or simply one of those times that he would be returning shortly?
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Look, I was young and impetuous! Mistakes happen!
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[It's not a question, but at the same time, it's like she's waiting for a confirmation on that from his own mouth.]
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Allura.
I'm young at heart.
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[That smug smile is only riling her up worse.]
You're lucky that you even still have a forge!
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Really, how many things have you destroyed in there by now?
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If it weren't for luck, I'd never have met you!
[This is his attempt at trying to be smooth enough to change the subject.]
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You say that, but I am going to hold you responsible for not blowing up the house.
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I keep all of my testing to the forge, and Momo is there to keep me from doing anything too stupid.
And like I promised, work stays at the forge. That means no experimenting or tinkering at home.
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[She really doesn't sound surprised, though.]
About that, though... putting aside what I said about your work, shouldn't something come home? Your house has an astoundingly empty feeling to it.
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Why am I the one being invited to move into your house?
[Do you know how much packing she still hasn't done.]
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I don't really get what you're saying here.
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Should we cancel the move then?
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what I am saying is that you should move to my house, instead.
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What's wrong?
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And I'm...
Wouldn't people...?
I mean...!
Isn't that kind of...???
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... exactly what you were asking, but reversed?
[She's giving him a weird look now.]
Have you changed your mind, then?
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But it's like...you moving in here? People would say 'oh she's just staying there to look after Darin because he can't be trusted to take care of himself' and they'd kind be right??
Me moving in with you seems...
I mean...what would I even be doing there?? Isn't that way more scandalous??
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I think you might be reading too much into things. They would both be a target of gossip, but not that scandalous, I'm sure.
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