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merryeccentricities ([personal profile] merryeccentricities) wrote2015-07-25 04:08 pm

After Many Things

The dream with the inventory and the surplus of penguins is familiar; that the penguins take off flying is (also familiar) not at all, and Joly blinks half-awake in some confusion. Which turns to panic because he's gone he's gone where is he, and that sets him gasping, awake completely.

As soon as he is entirely awake, the weird panic vanishes. No one is missing; Bossuet is right next to him, the cats are asleep on the furniture that they should least be sleeping on, and even the beetle is still on the ceiling where he'd flown last night before they could put him in his warren.

Joly rubs his eyes and curls up closer to Bossuet again, already starting to fall back asleep , half smiling. Maybe they'd both had a little too much last night (last week) after the fireworks, but that's all right, everything's all right, they're both here and Bossuet is missing Guignon she's gone too--

Joly frowns. He's used to fretting, but there is...nothing wrong? Maybe things are a little complicated now, but it's a complication he doesn't mind. Of course he is upset, they're all upset with the political situation being what it is,all that fighting at the barricade just to see another king--

He blinks and sits up. He hasn't thought about the barricade in weeks, really; not since the anniversary. And the barricades of 1830 haven't been on his mind in months and months, even though it just happened--

--three years ago.

Maybe he's having a stroke? Or drank something he really shouldn't have? That would be comforting, he knows how to worry about medical problems.

He's just sure he isn't having one.

"Um." he says, very quietly, to a room somehow missing everyone who should be in it.
tire_moi_mes_bottes: (You must be joking)

[personal profile] tire_moi_mes_bottes 2015-08-05 12:22 pm (UTC)(link)
"Always thought...?" He'll let it go, though, if Joly doesn't answer. "Ah, well, computers! I suppose I ought finally to learn to do...whatever one does with them. I keep meaning to, you know, and never quite get around to it. I recall the ones in the library had suggestions about curious books one could find..."

Eyebrow waggle.
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[personal profile] tire_moi_mes_bottes 2015-08-05 03:13 pm (UTC)(link)
It's hard to say which is more predictable: the several minutes spent looking at pictures of naked people, or the subsequent discovery of Cat Videos.