some characters just don't understand being retired, canon is Dracula

[damngod]

Ah, look who has returned, the prodigal daughter, the woman behind the impressively advanced typewriter.

I must say you have disappointed me, dear girl, for all this terrible neglect. You must work very hard to make up for it, and do so with all haste. Let us find someplace new, shall we? I think my very presence livened up the old place, do you not?

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[slaegr]

A fast worker, if ever there was one.

[damngod]

My good man, you've not gotten any idea just yet.

Disappointing she may be, I did have the time of my life in the land of the dead.

[urbanhero]

[Unnerved hero is unnerved.]

Uh...

Okay, just one before I run!

[shorthanded]

....it can't be...

yes, yes, flee before him, good, good, this is going well already

[damngod]

[Well, well, look who's...alive.

Someone's wives are getting a stern talking-to the moment he's back in Romania.]

Ah, Mister Harker! Here you are! I had begun to wonder—yes, wonder—how you were faring! Odd, truly, to come to London without the very best of its solicitors with me, but stranger things have happened than a solicitor ignoring his duties, have they not?

[esotericism]

I'm not certain that many places are entirely.. prepared for you.

[damngod]

[Not even going to dignify stammering with a response.]

[damngod]

You speak as though you know me.

[esotericism]

It's my duty to know.

[damngod]

[If that was supposed to impress him...]

I am not very hard to know of in this day and age.

[esotericism]

[ he's not the type. ]

In multiple incarnations, yes. That wasn't precisely the point, but I suppose I do have the tendency to be abrupt.

[damngod]

Better to be straight-forward than coy, is that your meaning?

[esotericism]

In some instances. I don't always have the luxury, so I enjoy it when I do. Secrets don't keep themselves.

I suppose you've a notion already of where you might next reside. I won't pry, but you might naturally understand my concern.

[carriesparasol]

I would be careful not to rely on the mundanes for hard work too often.

[damngod]

A notion? Oh, no. Not just yet. There is a manner of picking and choosing, you know. Settling is not exactly a trait I carry.

[scarlet_discord]

Wow, it's classic Muse reawakening week. I'm now sharing headspace with a Phantom of the Opera and a Boromir.

I think it's pretty awesome, actually. Though I admit that I'm pretty biased.

[damngod]

Not all mundanes are the same, it should be stated.

[damngod]

[Wanda, sweetie. It's not even the twentieth century for him.]

I...must confess, my dear, that I do not follow.

[carriesparasol]

No. Though most do share a great many habits.

[damngod]

Wasting time is a knack of theirs, yes.

[scarlet_discord]

[Her jaw drops as she realizes what the problem is, and she...blushes. A lot, and cuts her eyes down.] Um. I'm sorry. Please let me start from the beginning.

I am from the late twentieth century, my life is very strange, and I do a great deal of reading. I keep running into people from tales I have read. In fact I am sharing headspace with some of them. My typist is of the opinion, which I agree with, that some of the most interesting people come from the most classic stories.

Into the blistering heat of the summer sun! Where Harker would very much like to be.

[shorthanded]

[ His mind is having trouble coping with the very idea of what stands before him. And he speaks more to himself, trying so very hard to not address what is being said to him. ]

...but I killed you...

[carriesparasol]

It is one of their highest priorities, I suspect.

[damngod]

At least some seem to have some taste about who they waste their time with.

[Thanks, Vlad, glad to know I'm tasteful because of you.]

Sorry bb he'll just follow sun ain't no big deal to him WHERE IS MY DAZZLE ICON

[damngod]

[What? Good, good. He, at least, realizes there's no "who" to Vlad. He's far, far surpassed being anything related to human at this point.]

I left you in the supposedly capable hands of my bridges, Mister Harker, I assure you that I am just as surprised as you are to meet yet again. I am not, however, going to lower myself to the level of stuttering, gobsmacked dolt because of my shock, so I am pleased to see you filled the role so readily.