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[errandry]

FOR SALE
one (1) crow

all offers considered. delivery free.
[ VIDEO;; ]
[ the attachment's tilted to show only empty floor—for all of five seconds. there's a squawk in the unseen background, then, and in a blur, the camera's presented with two hands full of cranky-looking bird. ]

Gotch--damn it!



[ you know, two seconds before the hand gets bitten. ]

Comments

[triessence.livejournal.com]

Get over it. Fuck, it was only a month's rent.

[aettir.livejournal.com]

What, you want to pay it?

[triessence.livejournal.com]

Don't want to.

[aettir.livejournal.com]

Saw that one coming a mile away. Just don't go and steal him back in the night.

[triessence.livejournal.com]

It's just a stupid bird.

[aettir.livejournal.com]

And you totally didn't care if he got better, right?

1/2

[triessence.livejournal.com]

Shut up! I wasn't going to just leave it there! Fuck!

[triessence.livejournal.com]

Make sure you don't leave it with some asshole who's just going to eat it.

I didn't put in all that effort for nothing.

1/3

[aettir.livejournal.com]

[ this part's directed off to the side. ]

You hear that first part? Kinda sounded like Shark-speak for something else, didn't it?

[aettir.livejournal.com]

Anyway, I'll ask 'em before I take him over—

[aettir.livejournal.com]

[ ... ]

All that effort, huh.

1/2

[triessence.livejournal.com]

It's not as if lugging it all the way back to the apartment with all the trouble it was giving me was easy!

[triessence.livejournal.com]

It liked you better, anyway.

[ Maybe. ]

[aettir.livejournal.com]

You wanna test that? He's still free.

[triessence.livejournal.com]

It's unnecessary.

[aettir.livejournal.com]

Up to you!

[ good thing this is voice, 'cos there's the sound of thumping as Kazu flops on the floor next to the device to keep an eye on the crow. He's been running over the City all morning trying to figure out what the fuck was up with that rent, after all. ]

Hey, Agito.

[triessence.livejournal.com]

Yeah?

[aettir.livejournal.com]

You busy today?

[triessence.livejournal.com]

I'm free, until Akito wakes up.

What do you want?

[aettir.livejournal.com]

Wanted to run a trick by you before the snow comes back. We got one day of this already, so...

[triessence.livejournal.com]

Fuck, alright.

Let's see if the useless beanpole has gotten any better. Pick a place, I'll be there in a minute. Is it better than your last shitty trick?

[ The sound of those treck wheels rolling is pretty obvious, over the feed. You've got his attention, Kazu. ]

[aettir.livejournal.com]

[ ... A SHIFTY SILENCE. ]

It wasn't—was it seriously that bad? Uh—downtown, abandoned building with the chainlink fence!

[triessence.livejournal.com]

It needed a lot of work. So much that I suggest you pretend you never even came up with that crappy trick.

[ He shut off the feed with that-- and despite all the slush on the ground, managed to work around it by trecking on the parts that didn't have snow on them; the edges of buildings, places that got quite a lot of sun, and the sort. ]

[ --until he was up in front of the building, opening the door. The fence wasn't hard to get over at all. ]

[aettir.livejournal.com]

[ Curses got kind of patchy—what was charcoal grill weather in other parts of the City left lingering frost in cracks and corners downtown. Kazu got lucky, at least, picking a mostly-dry route to the named place. He liked the building--abandoned but not quite falling to pieces, with an indoors space knocked open just enough to make a decent run in winter. That there was a fence made it even better—the building felt kind of like a base, then, with an unspoken air of claimed territory. Only a few minutes behind Agito, it wasn't a surprise that he'd spot the figure at the rusty doors. ]

Yo, Agito!

[ The words sounded out as Kazu dropped from the top of the chainmesh and made his way over. ]

[triessence.livejournal.com]

[ He raised his hand up in response to Kazu's greeting-- a wave, without the waving. It was good enough, for the moment. ]

[ Then, he walked into the building, shaking out what water had gotten into his trecks. ]

Alright, show me what you got. It better be worth the time I'm spending over here, because if it's not, I'll make sure you're not going to waste my time on shitty tricks again.

[ Aka, training boot camp. ]