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Husk ([personal profile] bartenderbitch) wrote2024-11-15 08:35 pm

Inbox for TLV

"Yeah, yeah, leave a message and I'll get back to you at some point."

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[personal profile] reargunner 2024-12-09 11:00 pm (UTC)(link)
My bets would be on something else. Especially if Alastor was waiting in the wings with a deal that was too good to be true.

[Maybe it's just his natural suspicion but that's how it reads to him.

Whatever it was, it isn't as if it changes anything now.
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'S it really that weird to you to be getting this kind of attention, though?
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[personal profile] reargunner 2024-12-09 11:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Mmhm. Says the guy in shorts and a hoodie hiding in my cabin.

[He chuckles lightly as he finally works his hand underneath the hood to push it down and free Husk's ears.]

It's fine. You can hide out here as long as you want. I can get Angel to pick you up later.
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[personal profile] reargunner 2024-12-09 11:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[Cain just hums.]

Think you could learn to enjoy it?

[His head cocks as he looks down at Husk, two fingers sliding back behind his ear to scratch gently there.]

I mean think about it, Husk. This isn't Hell. Alastor's not fucking here. You don't need to be an ex-Overlord or a bartender or a fucking victim. You don't have to worry about someone yanking on your leash. You can do anything you want.
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[personal profile] reargunner 2024-12-09 11:31 pm (UTC)(link)
You still owe me a magic show.

[Amused.

He curls his arm carefully around the demon's head to nudge him in closer, giving him a dark and quiet spot to tuck himself into if he wants. Kind of like a cat might.
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Haven't forgotten. You got a stage name to go with it?
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[personal profile] reargunner 2024-12-09 11:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[Grumbly cat noises. Adorable.]

You gonna say what that name was, or just be vague as fuck about it until one of us changes the subject?

[He's not gonna push it but the topic is right there. And, well, maybe the whole names thing is an issue in the forefront of his mind right now.]
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[personal profile] reargunner 2024-12-09 11:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Nikolai?

[Muffled and grumbly as it was, he picked it out. He gives one of those large ears another gentle scritch.]

Nice. 'S a good name.
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[personal profile] reargunner 2024-12-09 11:47 pm (UTC)(link)
... You're talking to a guy called Alexei.

[Cain rolls his eyes. As if Alexei isn't one of the most common and generic Russian names there is.]

At least neither of us are called fucking Ivan.
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[personal profile] reargunner 2024-12-09 11:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[He quiets a moment, shifts a bit, then snorts out a laugh.]

I was nearly called Sasha. I'll take Alexei any day of the week.

[It gets a little less strange every time he says it out loud.]

Can you fucking imagine?
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[personal profile] reargunner 2024-12-09 11:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Never been the skinny kid anyone could throw over their shoulder. [He tilts his head slightly.]

... Well...

[Then he moves, reaching over Husk to the drawer in the table next to the bed. He pulls pulls out a small box, taps his fingers on the lid, then opens it.

There are a few things inside. A couple of folded pieces of paper, some little trinkets, and a few photographs.
]

... Not since my sister could still do it, I guess.
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[personal profile] reargunner 2024-12-10 12:03 am (UTC)(link)
I have an older sister. Calina.

[He tilts the photo in his hand so Husk can see it. It's of three people huddled together on the steps of a house in the snow. One of them is clearly Cain, though quite young, along with a slightly older girl and a woman who is obviously their mother. They're all smiling like someone just said something to make them laugh.]

And that's my mom. Ulyana. [Husk may note there that the name he gave - Alexei Ulovich - comes from his mother, not his father.]

I remember this being taken.
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[personal profile] reargunner 2024-12-10 12:12 am (UTC)(link)
[He huffs a soft breath out through his nose.]

Yeah. Colony life is... it's fucking hard. They have us shoved out in buttfuck nowhere and it's cold all the time, no prospects for much of anything except working the factories.

[Cain's voice trails off and he rubs his thumb gently against the photograph.]

I was really young when our dad died. It was an accident, they said. My mom, she tried really fucking hard with me, but...

[Shrug.]
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[personal profile] reargunner 2024-12-10 12:18 am (UTC)(link)
... I went to prison, Husk.

[Had he mentioned that? God, he'd take running off to find his fortune over the shitty decisions he made that led him to that conclusion.]

I was fucking seventeen.

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