LA has more natives. [He frowns. Giving the details out to any newcomer is something he hates (it makes him feel crazy) but there's her own insane background to take into account. If any of it's still the same, maybe the culture shock won't hit so hard.] It's this kind of... nexus? Between dimensions?
[And she does fit, comfortably, a term normal circumstances might find trouble applying to her odd arrangement of angles. He shrugs his arms around her and she's a neat alignment.]
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Doctor Robert has beautiful abs of gooooooooold!
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Cooee would have done the job.
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Well now everyone knows your secret.
[And up she goes, until she's next to him]
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[He leans back against the wall and looks her over.]
You've had a look round the city?
[The inflection is there, but it's barely a question.]
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I don't...even know where I am.
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Nobody's enough of a hippy to buy that they stumbled into this place on a wrong turn from their roadtrip for long.
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[Oh, man, that was a stupid thing to say and she knows it. She just shakes her head]
Fuck I've been watching too many monster movies.
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Maybe.
[Pause while he awkwardly examines his hands. Its a flipped coin between what might reassure or make things worse.]
The thing about monsters, is they're only called that by whatever's afraid of them.
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[There are tears, Chase. Sorry. She's not sobbing or anything, but she is wiping tears away from her eyes]
Fuck, I'm sorry, this isn't fair.
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Come here? It's ok, you're not...stuck.
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It'll look different in the morning.
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I hope so. I hope wherever this is, Scholar figures it out, or I do, or - I don't know.
[She hopes.]
Can I stay with you?
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He pulls back a little, just enough to glance down.]
You kind of are.
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You own this place?
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[A nod to the upper half of the stairs.]
Next floor up.
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I don't know, my idea of horror is kind of wacky. You're note going to try and perform surgery without anaesthetic, are you?
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Why don't you come up and see?
[It's more scooby-doo than spooky.]
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I'll warn you, I know kung-fu.
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I believe you.
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This is not the scariest place I've stayed in, by the way.
There was this place in Newfoundland, once, I'm pretty sure it was an old meat-packing factory or something.
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[He feigns uncertainty, blinking at her.]
Well I've been using the meat hooks as clothes hangers, but if you think they're atmospheric...
[And flashes a bright grin, half hidden by the sheepish head-duck that follows.]
Sorry. Do you scare easily?
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