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❝ bones ❞ — ᴅʀ. ʟᴇᴏɴᴀʀᴅ ʜ. ᴍᴄᴄᴏʏ, ʟᴄᴅʀ ([personal profile] sufferably) wrote2023-05-30 10:22 pm

( i've been working on a cocktail called grounds for divorce )




❝ IF IT'S AN EMERGENCY, PRESS SOS. IF IT'S IMPORTANT, LEAVE A MESSAGE. IF IT'S ANYTHING ELSE, HANG UP. THAT MEANS YOU, JIM. ❞

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proudofwhatiam: (i think you've found something)

[personal profile] proudofwhatiam 2014-03-27 07:02 pm (UTC)(link)
[Evy laughs--gently, kindly. Whoever this fellow is, she likes the cut of his jib.]

Overconfident or not, he sounds like he has...[And she searches for a satisfactory word.] Panache.

I wonder how we could apply that here in Asgard. Make ourselves a little more than--than mere pawns in the gods' game of chess. [As nice as some aspects of life in the city are, the encroaching giants aren't exactly pleasant.]
proudofwhatiam: (thutmosis)

[personal profile] proudofwhatiam 2014-03-28 01:37 am (UTC)(link)
So it is. [Even dying doesn't free one from noticing the fighting outside the city walls. She's been less engaged than usual, perhaps, but it never escapes her notice.]. It's a pity your friend isn't here, or we might take a lesson from him.
proudofwhatiam: (serious business)

[personal profile] proudofwhatiam 2014-03-29 05:56 pm (UTC)(link)
We've beaten back giants too often to be doing poorly.

[Evy falls quiet then, crumbling off a bit of her scone without actually eating it. When she speaks once more, she's graver.] Thank you for coming by today. I really do appreciate it.
proudofwhatiam: (unknowable)

[personal profile] proudofwhatiam 2014-03-30 04:47 am (UTC)(link)
That's--[she clears her throat]--it's kind of you to say. Thank you.

[She glances down again at her tea, a sort of of demureness that mostly serves to give her a moment to collect her thoughts. The thought of discussing it, discussing her feelings on it, still leaves her feeling sick, but at the same time...part of her wants to try.]

It's...it's maddening, really, all of it. I never minded being here before now, not really. But if I could go home--right now--I would. [She sighs.] I never thought dying would make me homesick. [And jumpy, and listless, and inclined to buy matches, or better yet, electric torches with batteries.] But it seems it has.
proudofwhatiam: (not quite what i intended)

[personal profile] proudofwhatiam 2014-03-31 08:04 pm (UTC)(link)
So am I.

[She might have the uneasy feeling of camaraderie with Imhotep, but she's hardly a shambling corpse--and she'd like to keep it that way, thank you. One thing for which to be grateful to the gods of Asgard.]

There was a--a saying, I suppose you'd say, or perhaps an admonition--that I ran across at home. 'Death is only the beginning.' It ended up being true there...but it's truer here. Mere mortality doesn't stop any of us. [Evy can't bring herself to smile at the thought, but there is a sort of cold comfort to it.] It's only a matter of getting used to it.
proudofwhatiam: (thutmosis)

[personal profile] proudofwhatiam 2014-04-01 01:47 am (UTC)(link)
[All question of nature aside, his terminology is unfamiliar. Evy frowns.]

'Airlock'?
proudofwhatiam: (oh dear)

[personal profile] proudofwhatiam 2014-04-01 02:15 am (UTC)(link)
Oh--

[What a horrid way to go. She couldn't blame anyone for having nightmares about that.]

Well, it makes quite the vivid metaphor.
proudofwhatiam: (intrigue)

[personal profile] proudofwhatiam 2014-04-01 02:53 am (UTC)(link)
I suppose so. Well--I'd hate to ruin tea with all this talk of death and airlocks. [Feelings time is over. Those feelings, anyway.] Were you always interested in becoming a doctor?
proudofwhatiam: (good show)

[personal profile] proudofwhatiam 2014-04-01 03:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[She's smiling again, looking now like she's biting back a bit of laughter.] There's no escaping it, is there? My father was an Egyptologist.
proudofwhatiam: (and rip out your brains)

[personal profile] proudofwhatiam 2014-04-01 07:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Got it in one. [She hesitates visibly for a moment before forging ahead.] Quite literally, in my case; my mother was Egyptian.

Well, when I was a little girl, I was convinced they might need me in Oz, so I oughtn't make too many plans for the future. [Evelyn Carnahan, secret heir to Ozma's throne.] But after a point...I suppose I always wanted to have reason to return to Egypt.
proudofwhatiam: (under consideration)

[personal profile] proudofwhatiam 2014-04-02 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
Perhaps we'll make a home of it yet. [She shrugs. That was going fairly well for her up until recently, in truth. Even now, she can't bring herself to hate the place, however much she despises her current situation.]
proudofwhatiam: (keeping an eye out)

[personal profile] proudofwhatiam 2014-04-02 05:23 am (UTC)(link)
I did that, too--at first. [She gives him a rueful little smile.] But you get used to the place eventually, home or not.
proudofwhatiam: (just try selling that)

[personal profile] proudofwhatiam 2014-04-02 05:59 am (UTC)(link)
[When Evy glances down for a moment this time, it's because she's genuinely a little abashed, that small smile still curving her lips.] I'm sure we're all glad to be of service there. [She pauses.] This place would be intolerable if not for the people.

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