hello milliways

[callmeleo]

Another day, another mysterious bar appearing out of nowhere. Leo is acquainted with Milliways and its lurking habits. He doesn't even bother calling Zanna; it'd take her too long to come over, and they get doors fairly regularly, so he just goes in and gets some absinthe with crushed cochineal. (Demonic tastes make for very odd mixed drinks.)

Comments

[callmeleo]

"Well, she was my friend before she killed people too. Then she got turned into a vampire, and, to be honest, she hadn't really changed that much except that she had a reason to kill people now. Didn't really see a reason to ditch my oldest friend over a couple of humans."

[liakoura]

"People get turned into murder friends. I mean, into vampires. That's disturbing."

[callmeleo]

"Eh. You get used to it."

[liakoura]

"Or you get eaten, apparently. Your world sucks. I wonder if I can get Kiri out of the library and in here somehow so she can go, I don't know, Kiri at it. Probably not. She can't read me through a wall and she'd have to burn holes in the house to get out while the door's doing the thing."

[callmeleo]

"Well, while fire and mind shit would be a decent starter on dealing with my world, you'll forgive me if I don't let in someone whose first action would probably be to kill my best friend."

[liakoura]

"Kiri doesn't approve of murder! She would want there to be less murder. Including of your murder friend, if she can have it both ways. Kiri hasn't ever killed anybody. But I don't think I can get her in here in the first place."

[callmeleo]

"Pretty confident you couldn't get Zanna to promise an alien not to kill anyone. Well, she'd promise, but she'd absolutely refuse to give a shit. And it sounds like your sister wouldn't like that. So I'm not too put out about not getting to meet her."

[liakoura]

"She's going to be annoyed when she finds out that this place showed up and didn't let her in."

[callmeleo]

"Maybe Milliways didn't let her in because she would've wanted to take the fight to the forces of darkness and it disapproves. Or because it wanted to give me a nice quiet drink and a talk with a confusing doppelganger instead of forcing me to handle a pyromaniac alien crusader."

[liakoura]

"I'm personally confusing, or the part where we look the same is confusing?"

[callmeleo]

"The doppelgangerness is confusing. You're fairly vanilla."

[liakoura]

"It's especially strange given you're not even a human."

[callmeleo]

"I mean, most demons do kind of specialize in looking like humans. Makes hunting easier, keeps them from setting you on fire with lemons."

[liakoura]

"If I lived someplace where lemon-vulnerable things wanted to attack me I would probably just keep candied lemon rind in my pocket all the time."

[callmeleo]

"If you wanted to keep the weakness of every obscure demon in your pocket, your pants would weigh more than you did."

[liakoura]

"Oh. Too many kinds?"

[callmeleo]

"Literally millions. Most aren't going to eat you, but there are still thousands and thousands of different kinds that will."

[liakoura]

"Ugh."

[callmeleo]

"Diversity is a beautiful thing."

[liakoura]

"You're very gung-ho about this, I guess nothing eats you except fruit and fruit doesn't run very fast."

[callmeleo]

"Well, back in Uvalranda the Atame have some natural predators, but that would be why Mom left the motherland. And the demons running around California generally prefer purebred human. Apparently shadowblood is kind of gamey."

[liakoura]

"California's your country?"

[callmeleo]

"Eh, close enough. It's a state within the country of America, but America's enormous and conveniently subdivided, so we generally just say what state we're from. Plus I'm pretty sure New England has some folks running around who'd love a filet of Ataman, which is why I can't just say America in that case."

[liakoura]

"...Okay. I live in a country called Welce. There are regions but we bounce around between three different houses these days, plus visiting people, so generally I just say Welce."

[callmeleo]

"Well enough."