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Adventures in Vinnie De Soth's bed, as chronicled by... the Hooded Hood

Subj: I hadn't exactly expected that solution.
Posted: Sun May 04, 2008 at 07:51:58 am EDT
Reply Subj: The Bride
Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 at 09:51:55 pm EDT (Viewed 1 times)


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>     Liu Xi Xian always felt slightly uncomfortable walking into Alto Tumour’s occult bookshop. Perhaps it was the musty smell of the rotting paperbacks that haphazardly lined the shelves. Perhaps it was the musty smell of the customers. Whatever it was the young elementalist quickly slipped into the back of the shop, past the rack of tarot decks and behind the cabinet of plastic-sealed tantric volumes.
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>     Vinnie De Soth, exorcist for hire and outcast white sheep of the De Soth sorcerer clan, was waiting nervously at his tiny desk under the staircase. He jumped up hurriedly when he saw his visitor had arrived, thumped his head on the low slope of the steps above him, and managed to scatter his pile of paperwork all across the floor then spill his coffee over it.
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>     Ã¢â‚¬Å“Sorry,” he apologised as he mopped up the mess with a pile of bills. “It’s turning into a difficult evening, that’s all. Sorry, Liu Xi.”
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>     Liu Xi sighed and used her elemental gifts to separate out the caffeine from the invoices then helped Vinnie stack them back on his cheap old desk. “What did you call me for, Vinnie? It’s two in the morning. You said it was urgent.”
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>     Vinnie nodded. “Um, yeah. I have, um, there’s this favour I need to ask you for. But it’s kind of personal.”
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>     Liu Xi’s eyebrow flickered a little. “Personal?”
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>     Ã¢â‚¬Å“Er, yeah. It’s not the sort of thing a guy asks a girl to do for him when they’re not even officially dating. Or dating at all. I didn’t mean to imply that the time we spend together counts as… I mean I don’t think of you as… well, if I do it’s not because I…”
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>     Ã¢â‚¬Å“What do you want, Vinnie?”
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>     The young occultist swallowed. “Would you like to sit down?” He offered her his rickety typist’s swivel chair. “Only mind because there’s a castor loose.”
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>     Ã¢â‚¬Å“I just want to know what you’re after,” Liu Xi told him a bit impatiently. “This is way past my bedtime.”
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>     Vinnie looked even more uncomfortable at the word ‘bedtime’. “Well,” he babbled, “you remember that time we looked at the ruins of Ys and that seagull nearly crapped on me and then you said never mind because my jacket could only be improved by it and…?”
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>     Ã¢â‚¬Å“I remember,” Liu Xi cut him short. “It was an interesting day.”
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>     Ã¢â‚¬Å“Yeah. And you told me some things about… about you. Secrets. About how you, um, discovered your elemental powers.â€






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