kayeaton: (tell me more.)
Kay Eaton ([personal profile] kayeaton) wrote2011-05-15 07:47 pm

second draft || [written]

All right, I've got to know: Are there any publishing outfits here? In a town this size, the chances seem slim, but for all I know, there's a paper no one's mentioned to me. I've got a story or two started, and if I could see them in print, I wouldn't mind dropping my asking price to zero cents a word. It won't hurt them to sit in handwritten piles in my apartment, of course, but stories are always better when they're shared.

It's strange to think that it's May here. It was November back in Manhattan, and that meant a lot of gray skies and windy days, and some rainy ones. Thanksgiving was coming up; between Julius and I, a whole turkey is a waste of a bird, but we were going to have something nice for dinner nonetheless. And in the meanwhile, it would have been a whole lot of pounding on typewriters and talking, no doubt.

At least I left near the start of the month. Just in case time here doesn't run faster than every other world's time, he's got a few weeks to plan out a story or two about the drunken scientist or the mutant hillbillies, and from there...well, ideally, he'd show up here one of these days, too. And if not, he's written plenty on his own before; he's not about to starve to death just because I'm not there to do my share.

I do miss him, though.

((OOC: And just in case you're curious, when she says drunken scientist and mutant hillbillies, she is, uh. Completely serious.))
all7seas: (distasteful)

[personal profile] all7seas 2011-05-16 03:37 am (UTC)(link)
Lass.....he were Norwegian. They're all torn from Thor's left knee or whatnot up there. Not sure there's any lovely romantic dalliances whatsoever in those dark and sinister lands.

[identity profile] poorneedyand.livejournal.com 2011-05-16 03:41 am (UTC)(link)
All those Norwegians do have to come from somewhere.

Besides, the other explanation is that there's no explanation, and wouldn't that be a shame?
all7seas: (must be a tiny thing behind the Pearl)

[personal profile] all7seas 2011-05-16 03:45 am (UTC)(link)
Thor's left knee. My final word on the matter, Mistress.

[identity profile] poorneedyand.livejournal.com 2011-05-16 03:47 am (UTC)(link)
A mystery for the ages, then.
all7seas: (WTF OH NO YOU DI'INT!)

[personal profile] all7seas 2011-05-16 03:49 am (UTC)(link)
Thor's. Left. Knee. SOLVED. Erm---drat it, woman, now I'm hungry for turkey. I missed your Thanksgiving last year because I were raving mad at the time.

[identity profile] poorneedyand.livejournal.com 2011-05-16 03:52 am (UTC)(link)
Catch me in the mood to cook something someday, I'll make you some turkey. [Which'll be the twelfth of never, but that's neither here nor there.] Were you raving mad here or back in your own world?
all7seas: (me? Never!)

[personal profile] all7seas 2011-05-16 03:59 am (UTC)(link)
Here. There. Everywhere. Even that place down in the cracks between. I'm a bit better now, though. Not so bad.


Will you truly make me the turkey, Mistress?

[identity profile] poorneedyand.livejournal.com 2011-05-16 04:02 am (UTC)(link)
Glad to hear it.

Maybe I will. For Thanksgiving, if nothing else.
all7seas: (not a hero really)

[personal profile] all7seas 2011-05-16 04:09 am (UTC)(link)
Lovely!

[Oh no. Don't Feed the Pirate, Kay.]

[identity profile] poorneedyand.livejournal.com 2011-05-16 04:17 am (UTC)(link)
Very.

[You feed them, you'll never quite get rid of them! She is counting on the word "maybe" and the intervening months to get her out of this.]
all7seas: (convincing you)

[personal profile] all7seas 2011-05-16 04:20 am (UTC)(link)
[And he will find a way to hold her to the bargain---SOMEHOW.]

A jewel. A jewel of a woman, you, Mistress Kay.

[identity profile] poorneedyand.livejournal.com 2011-05-16 04:35 am (UTC)(link)
You're too kind, Captain Sparrow.

[Someday, the November of their discontent. o/ At least she didn't offer to make him some aspic, she'd really be regretting that.]