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[denokandafaran]

 Look. It's not that I particularly WANT you to "find a plot" to do with me, but you've seen me. You know me. If you can't think of anything to do, that's on you not on me. 

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[laceandfringeshawl]

Any chance of gettin' while the gettin' is good?

[denokandafaran]

Getting what, out of Dodge? Or New Dodge, so to speak? [Oh Kit, you are sooo funny.] Probably not.

[laceandfringeshawl]

[Totally a card. A real maroon. Articulate. Say. Who learned you how to spoke, Kit Kyle? What did you do to yer hair?]

Honey, if you walked in y'could probably come on out the same. What's the girl gotten you into now?

[denokandafaran]

Walked in? I flew in on a shuttle. And it was a long ride, and smelled awful.

Girl? Which girl? [He knows so many girls!]

[laceandfringeshawl]

Shuttle? Fancy. Well, can't you hitch another? Maybe since that was so bad the first time stick to a bus.

Witch girl. Zoe. I knew it was probably too soon to let you go.

[denokandafaran]

You know, I don't think they have busses in space.

Zoe. Can't say I've met a Zoe. Or you, though you do look like this nun I used to know. Better hair, though.

1/2

[laceandfringeshawl]

Oh y'poor, sweet darling.

[laceandfringeshawl]

You've gone and lost your mind! I'm sorry about what I said, Kyle. You just took so much work. You broke Stevie like-like she meant nothing! What was I s'pose to do?

I can fix this.

I dunno how...but I should try.

[denokandafaran]

Now, hold on. I absolutely have not lost my mind, and my name's Kit. Kit Walker.

Who I guess broke Stevie. Stevie who? Or what?

[laceandfringeshawl]

Are you sure? You don't remember being in pieces? You don't remember the swamp?

[Good thing you're used to crazy people.....right, Kit? It sounds like you found another.]

Stevie Nicks. The only Stevie who matters.

[denokandafaran]

No, and I think I'd remember that.

[He doesn't mind the confusion, at least.]

Oh, I love Fleetwood Mac.

[laceandfringeshawl]

....You'd be surprised what does and don't stick.

[Is this reassuring? She's not even sure just yet. He's speaking in sentences!]

Now that's more like it.

[denokandafaran]

You know, I bet that's true. [Give him a second to light a cigarette.]

I saw them once, in...'70. In Boston.

[laceandfringeshawl]

I remember. I remember everything.

...You did? How's that possible-?

Wait. First tell me everything. How was it? What did she wear?

[denokandafaran]

Actually, I don't think she was in the band yet, so it wasn't that great. But I think they're going to be back around in a coupla months, so I might check that out.

[laceandfringeshawl]

Then I don't think you really saw Fleetwood Mac. I mean, they had heart but she gave em a soul. That's what they needed. Her and her magic.

[She's srs.]

[denokandafaran]

You're probably right. I like them better now then I did back then.

But Clapton was there, so that was kind of cool.

Anyway, you said you remember everything?

[laceandfringeshawl]

Uh huh. They got me first with fire. And I came back in the cool, wet waters of the swamp. The second time it was because I was buried. The third-? Listen to me. Yammering.

Didn't he sing about cocaine though? Not very good for you.

[denokandafaran]

You've died three times? I've only gotten twice. So far. I don't really remember anything about it.

No, he didn't sing at all. Just played the guitar.

[laceandfringeshawl]

I don't like to think of it as death because it didn't last long. Technically you're right.

You came back? How?

I never got to listen to much music that wasn't played in church. If I did it had to be in secret. Stevie was my secret.

[denokandafaran]

Aliens. Apparently I'm "important" to them.

That's awful, I'm sorry.

[laceandfringeshawl]

Aliens? Like little green men?

Some of it was real beautiful. Except you can't compare the two.

[denokandafaran]

Yeah, but more really big and gray with spindly fingers.

No, you can't. I meant though that it's awful you had to hide it. You shouldn't have to hide things like that.

[laceandfringeshawl]

I never heard of nothing like that. Did they hurt you to begin with before bringing you back?

Hiding it saved me from getting the whooping I had waiting for me. It'll never happen again. I'm never going back there.

[denokandafaran]

They've hurt me, yeah, but they didn't kill me. They bring me back. I don't think they understand how they hurt people.

No, you shouldn't ever go back there.

[laceandfringeshawl]

But somebody killed you? If it's not one thing, it's the other. Why're people always killin' one another?

I think I'll just go on back to my little shack. I'll try and get money and get another player so I'll have my music again. I'm not going to no games or no boxes or nothin'.

[denokandafaran]

Some games aren't so bad. The one I'm 'in', I've got a nice little bar with a jukebox and a piano.

[laceandfringeshawl]

Might be good for you, Ky...Kit. I'm a country girl to start with, and a nature girl even more. I'm not supposed to be in space or games.

[denokandafaran]

Well, I don't know about anything like that. It's pretty frontier out here, and we've got a really nice greenhouse though.

[laceandfringeshawl]

A greenhouse? Like the kind they got in hardware stores?

[denokandafaran]

More like something you might find someone growing food and flowers in.