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You've made it out of the prairie and underbrush, congratulations! But with the lack of supplies from the journey around Alderwood has left you beat. Your horses hate you, you've got sand up in places where it's not welcome, you're hungry, cranky, and if you've been riding you'll be walking like Dean for a little bit. Lucky enough for you, the next town isn't much of a detour, so you can restock, trade, and try not to burn anything down.

[Mission: Stock up, let the horses rest, treat your cholera, etc]

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[tosses steampunk corset back into the pile]

You know someone would be into it.

[ditches the idea of an outfit change and goes fishing for ye olde tights or stockings or whatever it is they have there. looks up to catch him with a paper. surprising enough that there is any sort of publication in this place. do they have tabloids.]

Anything good?

[leans back against a fencepost while she montages and browses ye olde headlines for anything that jumps out]

Nostradamus came down with the plague and King Arthur stepped out on Gwen to bang the lady of the lake.

[that would be a no. snags a piece of jerky that's sunbaking off a nearby stall while the dude's turned to talk to a peasanty lady]

[did you just steal .this is why alderwood hates us.]

Ooh, I hear the lady of the lake is a fox.

[eyebrows at and swipes it from him as she passes by onto the next stall. yeah i stole your steal. and its delicious. holds it out like you can have it back now while she chews. stares at maps, all the maps, hook might shit himself.]

So we got american west, roman, persian, whatever. This place makes less and less sense.

[he would be making eyebrows at the lady love comment but he's too busy being righteously offended at her jerky thieving. holds a hand out like EXCUSE ME and catches up with her to snatch it back when offered. don't just steal a man's meat. what's wrong with you]

Earth's greatest hits?

[stuffs the rest of it in his mouth before anyone can take it away from him again. we'll never be apart again. of course this results in gross mouth full talking]

Maybe someone's a fan. I don't know. It's a rat maze, I don't think it's supposed to freakin make sense.

[folds arms and watches his jerky fiasco. don't choke there cowboy]

Keeps us on our toes, I guess. Not that any of us's really game for that sort of thing so much anymore. Well, except for the Doctor.

[looks over the maps again and picks up a blue roll from one of the baskets to open it up. star map, she's found someone a present. cracks a smile at it as she rolls it back up]

Not more than a couple days after grand theft wagon, and he's already getting antsy.

Yeah well you just tell his ten pounds of ADHD in a five pound bag ass to settle down, cus I'm sure we'll pass go here soon enough. Never not trouble around the corner with this place.

[jerky cheeks. leans over with a tight smile at uppity shopkeeper slash cartographer and drops a coin for it before turning back to her with 'seriously' face]

[apologetic?]

[turns to tuck the map into her bag for later and starts moseying to the next stall]

I did. He'll deal with it. He just needs something to keep him busy because he's lost his precious little shortcut machine.

[that wasn't bitter. maybe a little. boys and their toys etc]

[folds paper up and sticks it in a pocket as they dodge the occasional horse and other market-y traffic to window shop]

You mean his...[ugh don't make me say it. his spaceship. he's not going to say it. it's ridiculous.] -you're sounding a little green-eyed. You know the bond between a dude and his wheels is sacred right?

Yeah, yeah you boys are always so typical.

[and it doesnt like her]

[picks up a fresh roll from the bakery and bites into it as they pass. thieves be thieving]

And I'm not jealous, it's just weird.

You're a little weird yourself.

[steps up to cover her as she yoinks a roll. ok aladdin. it's like following a kid with fingerpaint and cleaning up as they go]

So how long have you two been.. doing the time warp or whatever?

[excuse you, im plucky]

Not long, actually. [pauses, worrying at the roll as she thinks.]

Well, no longer than I thought, but not long enough.

[there's that brief paranoia where you're talking about someone and you don't know where they are but that they're probably somewhere close by.]

[you died and came back completely different. you're weird.]

Not long enough? [pauses and looks around like it's contagious. i mean he knows that feeling. angel on his shoulder and all.] You don't trust him.

[seriously he's already wary of the guy just give him a reason. validate his paranoia]

[wets her lips and looks at him. wow does she really trust him more than the doctor right now. she does. okay moving on]

It's...complicated. But don't jump the gun here, he's still a good person.

I think person might be a stretch.

[slows to a stop once they hit the end of the stretch of stalls and there's less bustling people around them]

But it's not like I'm about to gun him down. Gimme something more than a facebook status here.

[you want to get into definitions i thought you didnt believe in aliens]

[stops with him and turns towards him slightly reluctant]

I don't know. [okay that was a cop out. rubs at her eyebrow while she tries to find the delicate vocabulary of this situation] I mean, I don't know what it is. He's keeping something from me, a lot actually. And not just skeletons in a closet sort of thing, things he's afraid to tell me.

[he doesn't but he believes in non-people things. tries not to look too uncomfortable at that because isn't that exactly what he's been doing too? he just shifts and glances to the side with a slow nod]

Doesn't seem like the kinda guy that's afraid of much.

[i mean he did pose solo as an executioner in the middle of a town that wanted to kill him. looks back to her with an offhanded sort of smile, kind of flippant but he makes a move to cover the way it trails off into nothing by rubbing a hand over his mouth]

[yeah its really similar, and probably would be even more if half the beans weren't spilled on the situation of hers when she got there]

[watching him closely for a moment while he sideeyes away and back.]

No, he's not. [bites her lip a moment. thinking and concluding and turning her attention back to him before turning away] Sorry, this isn't the way you want to spend your afternoon.

What, digging up info on the freaky dude that's clearly not human? Nah, not how I usually spend my time at all.

[gurl. don't u dawson's creek turn away from me. watches her with a worry of his lip before he pastes on an i don't give a shit smile and moves in front of her to keep this drama train moving in the general direction of somewhere that will feed him]

You don't wanna get into it, I get it. Forget about it.

[watches him roll ahead before picking up her pace to keep up]

Oh, I'd get into it. But neither of us will enjoy it. [in all honesty]

So how about you keep deflecting, tell us where we're going.

[yeah that's right, ill call your bullshit shrug off and then tell you to keep going]

[glances at her with an inscrutable look, burrowing hands into jacket pockets without another mention of the adventures of her unfortunate deadness]

This place has gotta have pie. It's like a basic food group.

[get in loser we're going grubbing]

[yeah that's what I thought. I'm sorry I had to make it painfully obvious.]

Pie. [datasses him for a moment]

Good thing we walk a lot.

What? Pie's good for you. It has...fruit.

[kanye shrug. don't diss on pie or we're through]

[she's not dissing pie, she's dissing your absurd diet of pie and burgers. seriously are you so dead inside that it all goes into an empty void]

At least where I'm from, sometimes they got the decency to put meat in them.

[very likely]

The meat comes before the pie. If you do it at the same time you're just flying in the face of the natural order.

[emphatic gesture. there's a way you do things clara. you eat the burger. then you eat the pie. or you eat the meat pie. then you eat the pie. this is serious]

[this is serious.. he's really serious about this]

To think I've been doing it all wrong...

[tries to say that straight faced. lasts about half a second before busting up with a tiny laugh]

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