[/img]"http://i1299.photobucket.com/albums/ag76/danixiewrites/Alaric_Reynolds-1_zpssrztspdl.png" style="Alrec Reynolds" style="max-width:25%;float:right;margin:0 0 18px 18px;]Alrec tugged on the hair at the back of his neck, again more absently, higher up, strands that stayed out, unkempt and looking as scattered as the inside of his mind presently felt. If he had any notion that he was beginning to look like he wore a plushie porcupine atop his head he didn't show it. This day had too far to go and by the end of it he simply would have ceased to care.
Was it his imagination, or did the zombie seem more alert than he'd first thought--assumed? The response didn't seem to be some mish-mash of vocal cord muscle memory but rather an attempt at coherent speech. Still, he barely stopped himself from scooting out a chair to keep a barrier between the other man and himself. It would be rude, afterall, since he'd realized the sink, not Alrec, was the zombie's target.
He was growing concerned with the possibility of drowning when the zombie stopped and finally spoke with...surprising clarity. Alrec froze, registering his accent and now smoothly flowing words with a flicker of intrigue.
"A century? Truly? Where, pray-tell, have you been hiding all this time?" Because he'd come from within the manor...not without. He suddenly swallowed hard. "Not...surely...surely not...is there a crypt downstairs I should know about? One in danger of rising up and suddenly populating these halls with...well. Uh. Other...uh. Do you object stridently to the term 'zombie', Professor Benett?"
Hesitating only a moment more, Alrec grasped the tattered man's outstretched hand. It was less handshake than rapid squeeze, quickly retreating as the other man joked about edible entrees.
"Professor...of what, may I ask?" After a century, perhaps whatever it was he studied was a long dead pasttime by now; it made it no less interesting, and Alrec found his curiosity for such things well and thoroughly piqued. "My own studies focus on spiritual realms, ghosts and spectors, the like. The Veil. Which seems to be quite thin here at Lavenza Manor."
"I'm not sure stuffing is quite the thing one deserves after a hundred year fast...but this should be near done." He turned slightly, one eye on the stove and the other on the man he cooked for. Lifting the lid, a billowing cloud rose from the moist breading and he ducked away blind, his glasses fogged with steam.
Was it his imagination, or did the zombie seem more alert than he'd first thought--assumed? The response didn't seem to be some mish-mash of vocal cord muscle memory but rather an attempt at coherent speech. Still, he barely stopped himself from scooting out a chair to keep a barrier between the other man and himself. It would be rude, afterall, since he'd realized the sink, not Alrec, was the zombie's target.
He was growing concerned with the possibility of drowning when the zombie stopped and finally spoke with...surprising clarity. Alrec froze, registering his accent and now smoothly flowing words with a flicker of intrigue.
"A century? Truly? Where, pray-tell, have you been hiding all this time?" Because he'd come from within the manor...not without. He suddenly swallowed hard. "Not...surely...surely not...is there a crypt downstairs I should know about? One in danger of rising up and suddenly populating these halls with...well. Uh. Other...uh. Do you object stridently to the term 'zombie', Professor Benett?"
Hesitating only a moment more, Alrec grasped the tattered man's outstretched hand. It was less handshake than rapid squeeze, quickly retreating as the other man joked about edible entrees.
"Professor...of what, may I ask?" After a century, perhaps whatever it was he studied was a long dead pasttime by now; it made it no less interesting, and Alrec found his curiosity for such things well and thoroughly piqued. "My own studies focus on spiritual realms, ghosts and spectors, the like. The Veil. Which seems to be quite thin here at Lavenza Manor."
"I'm not sure stuffing is quite the thing one deserves after a hundred year fast...but this should be near done." He turned slightly, one eye on the stove and the other on the man he cooked for. Lifting the lid, a billowing cloud rose from the moist breading and he ducked away blind, his glasses fogged with steam.
Dreams come in a size too big so we can grow into them.
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