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aimedforthemoon ([personal profile] aimedforthemoon) wrote2009-02-16 04:06 pm

MM: taking Cal on the Baba Yaga

Outside, it is raining. Hard. Not impossible to walk through, but the kind of weather where you'd get drenched within a couple of minutes unless you had the right clothes. They are obviously in a city, and a major one at that; although Cormond is built on the salt-flats, overpopulation has meant that people build up, and given one side of the street has no buildings, there is a wide view of the rest of the city. It looks not unlike an Earth city, at least from a distance.

The buildings themselves are built in a style that is both functional and stark at the same time as being organic, and there is a science-fiction feel thanks to the airspeeders and the aliens (some rather obviously alien) mixed in with the humans.

"The port is just at the other end of the street," Esfir explains as they stand under the eaves.
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[personal profile] isaysimplewords 2009-02-17 06:42 am (UTC)(link)
Cal is completely caught up in watching; he doesn't even realize Esfir's back until she sits, and then only because it puts her back at the edge of his vision. He blinks once or twice, then glances over.

"How's he doing?"

Because there are priorities.
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[personal profile] isaysimplewords 2009-02-17 06:53 am (UTC)(link)
Cal knows that smile.

He misses wearing that smile. Even the beauty of hyperspace can't stop the sudden tug of loss. He smiles his own smile back at Esfir, though, saying,

"Good. He's a great kid, Fira."

(Someday he'll have that smile again.)
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[personal profile] isaysimplewords 2009-02-18 01:41 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh, c'mon, cut me some slack. I didn't even know you were pregnant, then you show up with a kid. I needed a minute."

He's laughing a little as he says it, though.
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[personal profile] isaysimplewords 2009-02-18 01:51 am (UTC)(link)
"Might - what?" Confusion.

"Well, yeah. You've never said anything about kids. I didn't know you wanted any."
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[personal profile] isaysimplewords 2009-02-18 02:06 am (UTC)(link)
"Well." Cal echoes the shrug. "I don't know about later, but kids - still not really an easy subject right now. Not really something I'd ask about."
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[personal profile] isaysimplewords 2009-02-18 02:10 am (UTC)(link)
"Uh - what? Yes?"

He'll figure out that it's not the random subject change it seems. Give him a minute.
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[personal profile] isaysimplewords 2009-02-18 02:14 am (UTC)(link)
"Seemed like a nice guy. Kinda slick. Wh - oh."

Theeeere we go.
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[personal profile] isaysimplewords 2009-02-18 02:24 am (UTC)(link)
". . . Great guy. Really liked him."

As of now.
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[personal profile] isaysimplewords 2009-02-18 02:30 am (UTC)(link)
". . . So?"

Cal is not always the best at mounting an on-the-spot defense.
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[personal profile] isaysimplewords 2009-02-18 02:39 am (UTC)(link)
"Well, he did seem like a good guy. But I've worked with a lot of guys who seemed like good guys. Politician. But it's not like I hang out with him all the time or anything, I don't know him that well, first impressions aren't always accurate . . ."

You gonna take away that shovel, Esfir, or you gonna keep right on letting him dig himself a nice hole?
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[personal profile] isaysimplewords 2009-02-18 02:44 am (UTC)(link)
"I'm sure he's great. I mean, you're not the type to let just any guy knock you up, you're more careful than that, so. Of course he's great."

Really. Any time now.
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[personal profile] isaysimplewords 2009-02-18 02:56 am (UTC)(link)
Cal's expression says oh thank god.

His mouth says, "See, that's the important part. You've got good taste, Fira."

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