cud you not

[doneisdone]

FORM: sending crystal
SENDER: Teren
RECIPIENT: errbody
WHAT: Teren made a friend
WHEN: whenever
WHERE: wherever
NOTES: we're meant to be together, I'll be there and you'll be near

[She hates these things and it is clearly with great chagrin that Teren's voice echoes over the crystals at all.]

Are any nearby farmers missing a druffalo. Or butchers. Livestock enthusiasts. Please collect it imm--[the muffled, angry sound of a very tall middle-aged woman being affectionately headbutted by an enormous bovine]

Comments

[aforethought]

Tried conscripting it?

[ :) :) :) ]

[doneisdone]

Hilarious.

[unbrokenoath]

Me. I am. It's mine. Can I have it.

[doneisdone]

Come get it then--OW [thump]

[unbrokenoath]

--Wait, really?

[ Nice. ]

Where are you, exactly?

[doneisdone]

No, not really, we don't have room for it-- [thump] GET LOST

[unbrokenoath]

That's really druffa-low of you, Teren. Got my hopes up and everything.

...Do you need help.

[doneisdone]

I'm fine. Go away.

[unbrokenoath]

Your lips say druffa-go, but your eyes say druffa-no.

[doneisdone]

Kaisa

[justice_is_blond]

I'm rather certain that they attach much like mabari, and now you belong to it. In fact, they're not too dissimilar from mabari.

Congratulations. It's a boy or a girl, I can't tell over the crystals but I'm certain you've the keen observational skills needed to tell.

[doneisdone]

You'll regret this.

[justice_is_blond]

It's not like I brought you a druffalo. It could be the Maker's will that you and they are friends. Who am I to interfere with that?

[sunshinethroughgrey]

....You stole.

A druffalo.

Hah, that rhymed!

No, but really, why did you steal a druffalo?

[doneisdone]

I didn't steal it, you fool girl, it followed me.

[sunshinethroughgrey]

Why are you going places where druffalos would follow you? I thought you hated the country.

[doneisdone]

[....

....

....]

Never you mind.

[sunshinethroughgrey]

If you didn't want anyone to mind, Teren ... you shouldn't have offered up a free druffalo that you may, or may not have stolen.

[Sing-song amusement? Sing-song amusement.]

[doneisdone]

[muffled cursing]

I didn't steal the bloody druffalo

[sunshinethroughgrey]

Yes, so you've said. But you're out in the country, so if you're not there to steal the livestock ... why are you there?

[All the innocence in the world.]

[doneisdone]

.....I suppose you'll see soon enough. If you must know. [it's totally legit]

[sunshinethroughgrey]

You know, every time someone has said that to me ... it's not turned out particularly well.

[See - the last twenty years.]

[doneisdone]

Pity, that. [She is unmoved.]

[sunshinethroughgrey]

I cannot way to hear all the details of this particular trip.

[Yes, there is the faint hint of a smile again.]

[doneisdone]

Well you'll be waiting a while. [Another thump and muffled curse. Teren's end of the crystal goes silent, no doubt completely by accident.]