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the marquis de Carabas ([personal profile] mattersverymuch) wrote2013-08-20 05:30 pm

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[It's been so many years since the marquis was young that he'd almost forgotten what it was like. He had been so small, ill-fed and underweight, and so easily broken. Which, really, explains a lot about what he's become - none of which he particularly wanted explained to the Barge as a whole.]

[To distract himself somewhat from this unfortunate reality, he has begun work on a compendium of stories, as he has nothing else to do with his time. Much of his work is done in the library, but much is also done in the CES, which becomes, variously, an abandoned city in a mishmash of styles, a thick, temperate, and foggy hardwood forest, and a riverside. He works mostly from memory and attempts comprehensiveness, though his writings as late veer toward tales of the trickster.]
deadly_ned: (!digby)

[personal profile] deadly_ned 2013-08-21 12:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[It's a little bit like cheating, when the Piemaker sends his beloved dog Digby down to the library with a picnic basket tied around the golden retriever's neck. The basket has pie, of course, but also sandwiches, chips, and (against the Piemaker's better judgement) a bottle of wine.

He won't seek out the Marquis and keep pretending they're friends.

But he will pretend to be penpals for a while]
deadly_ned: (!digby)

[personal profile] deadly_ned 2013-08-21 02:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[With a wag of his tail, Digby's set off to deliver the near-empty picnic basket back to the Piemaker.

Fifteen minutes the dog is back, this time with a glass bottle of chocolate milk. The Piemaker is a quiet person who avoids confrontations, but he is ridiculously stubborn]
deadly_ned: (!digby)

[personal profile] deadly_ned 2013-08-21 02:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[Satisfied with a mission completed, Digby moves under the table and lies down at the Marquis' feet, just as silent and annoyingly present as his master can be.

No. He won't be moving.]
deadly_ned: (!digby)

[personal profile] deadly_ned 2013-08-21 04:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[By and by, Digby seems to inch closer, until his head is lying on the Marquis' knee, watching him as he works]
deadly_ned: (curled up in bed)

[personal profile] deadly_ned 2013-08-22 02:27 am (UTC)(link)
[That's okay. Digby will stay still, head still on the marquis' lap. As if you thought he'd move.

From behind the marquis, the Piemaker approaches after a few hours]


Digby, come.
deadly_ned: (icon frame)

[personal profile] deadly_ned 2013-08-22 03:18 am (UTC)(link)
Yeeeah.


I'm sorry. I.

I thought he'd go back to my room.

[Digby does not, in fact, come. Digby stays right where he is, head in the marquis' lap]
deadly_ned: (chuck is concerned)

[personal profile] deadly_ned 2013-08-22 03:36 am (UTC)(link)
He sort of.

Does what he wants.


...Digby, off.

[Finally, Digby listens and trots away from the marquis]

...So, I, um.

How are things?
deadly_ned: (by the way smile)

[personal profile] deadly_ned 2013-08-22 03:41 am (UTC)(link)
In the capacity of a stern and overbearing warden harassing an inmate's peace of mind for the purposes of interrogation.
deadly_ned: (blown away)

[personal profile] deadly_ned 2013-08-22 03:46 am (UTC)(link)
Good.

Good, I'm.

I'm glad.



....


I....really wanted a picture of your little self.
deadly_ned: (kiss sneaking around)

[personal profile] deadly_ned 2013-08-22 03:49 am (UTC)(link)
I know. But you would have eventually figured out my true purpose for showing up and then it would have just been worse.


...



You were pointlessly adorable.
deadly_ned: (content)

[personal profile] deadly_ned 2013-08-22 03:56 am (UTC)(link)
Small things are adorable. It's a fact of life. Like gravity.
deadly_ned: (did I do that? sorry)

[personal profile] deadly_ned 2013-08-22 11:09 am (UTC)(link)
It was the haircut. I can't make excuses for it.

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