<img style="Alrec Reynolds" src="http://i1299.photobucket.com/albums/ag76/danixiewrites/Alaric_Reynolds-1_zpssrztspdl.png" style="max-width:25%;float:right;margin:0 0 18px 18px;]Alrec was losing his mind.
His greatest fear, insanity, and between sudden, monstrous peals of thunder--Good gracious! Is someone hurling lightning bolts directly from the roof, now??--it was currently unraveling around him. Why was he here in this madhouse? Why was he even trying?
He dropped the box of stuffing onto the counter and plucked a pot from the stovetop that looked scoured clean and smelled of detergent. Filling it halfway with water, and then rinsing it several times since whoever had cleaned it hadn't actually gotten the soap out, he set it on a burner to boil.
Trying. Bullocks. The reality was he didn't have a choice. If he wasn't here, the nightmares were so strong as to be tangible. And if he wasn't trying, if he was pandering to his own whims, well. That drove the air from his lungs too.
Surrendering to his lot in life made things much easier. Much easier to accept that at some point, Lavenza had acquired a seemingly sentient, shambling man on its roster. Maybe the Caretaker had a list somewhere. Other occupants, holed up in nooks and crannies and rooms Alrec hadn't yet discovered, just waiting until the day they felt inclined to emerge for a bite.
Food...Do zombies really eat stuffing?
He cocked his head toward the approaching zombie--who, it seemed, was not one of the fast-moving variety--with a slight adjustment of his glasses and no small degree of concern. He couldn't see the front hall. He'd left the newest guest alone with Ambrose. Abandoned her and those in the music room, really. For the sake of the brains of the living. But there were certainly other parts of the living that could be...taken advantage of. Feeling more than a little out of his depth, he turned back around to run his hands over the marble countertop.
Lavenza's kitchens were vast, made for a staff that didn't exist. Had, once. As the story went, they too had been there one day and then...not. For all that he expected to have been employed here, however, Alrec found himself a bit skeptical about what had actually happened in the manor: The kitchen seemed the lightest place of spectral activity in the whole place.
Well. Ghosts don't exactly have to eat.
He turned down the heat once the water boiled and poured the stuffing mix into the pot. As the zombie entered the kitchen he popped the lid on.
He turned again to face the zombie once the stuffing was set to steam to a nice fluffy mix. Then he took a deep breath and smiled. "Forgive me, but I don't believe we've become acquainted. I am Doctor Alrec Reynolds...and probably I should have asked if you wanted this cooked." Dismay struck his gut at the last moment, and his cheeks turned faintly pink. What if he'd wanted it as raw as someone else's brains? He might not have wanted to know about supernatural things, other than ghosts, but it was becoming more and more evident that eventually, he was going to have to expand his range of study. Or at least ask more questions. Just to keep up.
For example: Did the zombie before him even speak, and in English, or had he followed because Alrec had both his box AND brains? Answers meant a world of difference where etiquette was concerned, too. Keep a table or counter between himself and the sheeted stitched-up man at all times or offer a friendly handshake? He mapped out the route to the servant's door just in case as he continued, "It...ah...seemed...prudent...at the time."
His greatest fear, insanity, and between sudden, monstrous peals of thunder--Good gracious! Is someone hurling lightning bolts directly from the roof, now??--it was currently unraveling around him. Why was he here in this madhouse? Why was he even trying?
He dropped the box of stuffing onto the counter and plucked a pot from the stovetop that looked scoured clean and smelled of detergent. Filling it halfway with water, and then rinsing it several times since whoever had cleaned it hadn't actually gotten the soap out, he set it on a burner to boil.
Trying. Bullocks. The reality was he didn't have a choice. If he wasn't here, the nightmares were so strong as to be tangible. And if he wasn't trying, if he was pandering to his own whims, well. That drove the air from his lungs too.
Surrendering to his lot in life made things much easier. Much easier to accept that at some point, Lavenza had acquired a seemingly sentient, shambling man on its roster. Maybe the Caretaker had a list somewhere. Other occupants, holed up in nooks and crannies and rooms Alrec hadn't yet discovered, just waiting until the day they felt inclined to emerge for a bite.
Food...Do zombies really eat stuffing?
He cocked his head toward the approaching zombie--who, it seemed, was not one of the fast-moving variety--with a slight adjustment of his glasses and no small degree of concern. He couldn't see the front hall. He'd left the newest guest alone with Ambrose. Abandoned her and those in the music room, really. For the sake of the brains of the living. But there were certainly other parts of the living that could be...taken advantage of. Feeling more than a little out of his depth, he turned back around to run his hands over the marble countertop.
Lavenza's kitchens were vast, made for a staff that didn't exist. Had, once. As the story went, they too had been there one day and then...not. For all that he expected to have been employed here, however, Alrec found himself a bit skeptical about what had actually happened in the manor: The kitchen seemed the lightest place of spectral activity in the whole place.
Well. Ghosts don't exactly have to eat.
He turned down the heat once the water boiled and poured the stuffing mix into the pot. As the zombie entered the kitchen he popped the lid on.
He turned again to face the zombie once the stuffing was set to steam to a nice fluffy mix. Then he took a deep breath and smiled. "Forgive me, but I don't believe we've become acquainted. I am Doctor Alrec Reynolds...and probably I should have asked if you wanted this cooked." Dismay struck his gut at the last moment, and his cheeks turned faintly pink. What if he'd wanted it as raw as someone else's brains? He might not have wanted to know about supernatural things, other than ghosts, but it was becoming more and more evident that eventually, he was going to have to expand his range of study. Or at least ask more questions. Just to keep up.
For example: Did the zombie before him even speak, and in English, or had he followed because Alrec had both his box AND brains? Answers meant a world of difference where etiquette was concerned, too. Keep a table or counter between himself and the sheeted stitched-up man at all times or offer a friendly handshake? He mapped out the route to the servant's door just in case as he continued, "It...ah...seemed...prudent...at the time."
Dreams come in a size too big so we can grow into them.
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