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sixwordstories2020-11-04 04:21 pm
conjuredrabbit) wrote in sixwordstories2020-11-04 04:21 pm
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I am not ready for winter.
I mean, some people get big into the winter thing, like it's their favorite or best season, you know? Not me, I'm Autumn through-and-through, but also I like the springtime a lot.
But this year, feels like winter's going to do a big old winter thing.
But this year, feels like winter's going to do a big old winter thing.
Yeah. Still, it could be worse. We could be in the Arctic. Or the Antarctic, where this is summer.
Either or both, you know those places probably don't have any vampire problems at all in the summer ever.
[This has the tone of something that's mostly a joke. Mostly.]
[This has the tone of something that's mostly a joke. Mostly.]
*Palmer laughs.* But they'd be a favorite in the winter, man.
[Bunny's nose twitches slightly, as he lets out a bit of a laugh as well. If Palmer's paying attention, there's something of a smell around the young man that doesn't entirely make sense. Like rabbit fur, perhaps.]
Oh, man, someone's got to write that horror novel--or screenplay!--if they haven't done yet. Research station in Antarctica receives a shipment just as the sun goes down for the long winter, with nothing in it but a coffin...
Oh, man, someone's got to write that horror novel--or screenplay!--if they haven't done yet. Research station in Antarctica receives a shipment just as the sun goes down for the long winter, with nothing in it but a coffin...
*Palmer manages to laugh still, but it takes a bit more effort.* Yeah. That would make an excellent story, wouldn't it?
It'd have all kinds of special effects. For the vampire and the gore...
Yeah, it'd be pretty awesome. Definitely scary, playing especially on fear of what you don't get to see or nothing.
Yeah, it'd be pretty awesome. Definitely scary, playing especially on fear of what you don't get to see or nothing.
You got amazingly close, then :D More sci-fi than fantasy though
palmerthing
2020-11-05 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
*For a moment Palmer wants to complain that he's not a vampire, but that would be a bit too weird.* I was actually at one of those stations for a while. Just a mechanic, but still. Winter down there fucking sucks, and it's all switched around from our side of the world so it starts in May or some shit.
Oh, ol' Winter's always been ready for me, maybe more than rea...
[Beat.]
You're not no normal rabbit, huh? That kinduva question doesn't tend to come to them to think to ask.
[Beat.]
You're not no normal rabbit, huh? That kinduva question doesn't tend to come to them to think to ask.
Yeah? I don't think I'd be able to stand it. I need the seasonses, even if I don't love the wintertime so much as all the rest.
You're a mechanic, though? How'd you end up in all of that?
You're a mechanic, though? How'd you end up in all of that?
[She blinks at him, eyes wide.]
What's normal?
What's normal?
I mean, not neither of us, I don't think. Not like how most people tend to think of rabbits out there, yeah?
Also it's a classic, so it's probably been copied at least once
palmerthing
2020-11-05 03:49 am (UTC)(link)
You need to have a mechanic or two down there, man, you really don't want anything to break down in Antarctica.
Yes, well, no, of course. But another rabbit might.
[His nose twitches slightly as a smile grows across his face.]
Might I have the honor of an introduction?
[His nose twitches slightly as a smile grows across his face.]
Might I have the honor of an introduction?
Oh, well, of course of course.
[She bows grandly.]
I am the White Rabbit.
[She bows grandly.]
I am the White Rabbit.
Right, that makes sense. Don't want to be caught in a place like that with a clogged toilet all through the dark months. Or anything else that's broke, neither.
Oh! Of course you are. I'm, ah, Bunny. Most people just call me Bunny.
[He considers giving her his other name, the name that's on the fake ID he carries, but that seems inappropriate. They are what they are, though he's not entirely sure she's like him. He was made a rabbit--he thinks she might maybe always have been one.]
[He considers giving her his other name, the name that's on the fake ID he carries, but that seems inappropriate. They are what they are, though he's not entirely sure she's like him. He was made a rabbit--he thinks she might maybe always have been one.]
Imagine if the heating system broke. You'd be fucked, wouldn't you? Even in summer.
It'd be real, real awful. You're pretty important, aren'tcha?
In a way. Big people forget about the little people, man. The ones who actually keep the wheels turning. *He smiles slightly. It feels nice for someone to think he's important, even someone who seems a little off. Palmer is more than slightly off himself, after all.*
Big people forget they ever was little people, especially. They get big and want to stay so big as they can, right? Doesn't matter who has to get hurt to make it happen. It's just the law of the jungle, like Kipling wrote.
The real thing is crueler than any from a story, I'm afraid. *Why does this guy smell so much like rabbit, anyway? It's starting to get to Palmer a bit. He forces his tongue to stay human, not to become a snake tongue or something in his search for that smell/taste.* Humans could be better, in any case, and yet . . .
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