<img style="Alrec Reynolds" style="max-width:25%;float:right;margin:0 0 18px 18px;" src="http://i1299.photobucket.com/albums/ag76/danixiewrites/Alaric_Reynolds-1_zpssrztspdl.png]Alrec smiled uneasily at the girl beyond the threshold then sent a sideways look toward Ambrose, whom she could clearly see. She technically wasn't part of the tour-group-personal-space-edict/parley of the week, but neither was she running away screaming. Yet. All the same, he had high hopes.
"The Caretaker? No. But it was either answer the door..." Before Ambrose...whoops. "or tell you this establishment was not privy to doorstep sellers. The latter seemed rude and I...I'm just...forgive me, young miss." He took a step closer and extended a hand to be shaken, and hopefully to encourage her to step inside. "Doctor Alrec Reynolds. Parapsychologist and purveyor of spectral tours here at the Manor. Was the Caretaker expecting you...?"
He waited for a name and perhaps even a purpose as the wind beyond the doorway picked up and the hairs on the back of his neck told him things were about to get...strange. At least she seemed the sort who could handle strange, given the way she simply took Ambrose's appearance in stride. He was further convinced of this when she leaned around him to spy what he really hoped was the vampress...
...and what, when he rotated slowly on the toes of his loafers, was determined to decidedly not be the Lady Dahlia. He suspected heads would do more than roll if the vampress were ever caught in a...sheet.
Good Heavens. Am I the only one in this madhouse with a shred of modesty?
Alrec's eyes went comically wide behind his glasses and his hand fidgeted with the corner of the light frames. "Well, yes. Of course." Why not? And what else could the day possibly bring?
Bullocks...I did not just invite Murphy along for the jaunt, did I?
All he needed now was for the whole of the ghostly barrage that existed beyond the Veil here inside the walls of Lavenza to spring forth and assault him with insults. Honestly, he was only in residence to soothe the needs of the ghostly crowd--to learn more about them up close and personally. The rest of the paranormal types in Valesport? Not his forte. At all.
As he too stared at the box in the zombie's hands, his lips twisted with the irony. What had the creature done, then? Recalled he shouldn't be digesting occupants of the Manor, rifled through the pantry, shucking through boxes with the usual coordinate effort, stopping for a ponderous moment: "Oh yes, STUFFING, hmm...something something INSIDES...yes, quite." Yet, even on the heels of his internal monologuing--okay...rude, half-delirious mocking, because he was running on fumes and frustration and had to do something, lest he yank out all his hair and run around without his wits--Alrec knew he'd do what he must.
The needs of the occupants of the Manor, beyond the Veil and displaced around it, took precedence over all else.
And right now, that need was clearly food. He glanced frantically down the hall to where he'd left a hopefully-not-in-the-mood-for-bloodsucking diva to deal with intruders, then to the esteemed--well-built, or at least put together, and yet shambling, brain-eating--personage before him, and finally back over his shoulder to the overly-emotive ghost. Then closed his eyes and momentarily wished the Caretaker would answer the door for a change, so he could -hide out in- retire to his room. "Don't worry, young miss. I'll...uh. Take care of it."
Onward to the kitchen, then. He scooped the box from the zombie's arm and gave him what he hoped was a reassuring pat on his sole elbow. "Do shut the door behind you, if you please."
"The Caretaker? No. But it was either answer the door..." Before Ambrose...whoops. "or tell you this establishment was not privy to doorstep sellers. The latter seemed rude and I...I'm just...forgive me, young miss." He took a step closer and extended a hand to be shaken, and hopefully to encourage her to step inside. "Doctor Alrec Reynolds. Parapsychologist and purveyor of spectral tours here at the Manor. Was the Caretaker expecting you...?"
He waited for a name and perhaps even a purpose as the wind beyond the doorway picked up and the hairs on the back of his neck told him things were about to get...strange. At least she seemed the sort who could handle strange, given the way she simply took Ambrose's appearance in stride. He was further convinced of this when she leaned around him to spy what he really hoped was the vampress...
...and what, when he rotated slowly on the toes of his loafers, was determined to decidedly not be the Lady Dahlia. He suspected heads would do more than roll if the vampress were ever caught in a...sheet.
Good Heavens. Am I the only one in this madhouse with a shred of modesty?
Alrec's eyes went comically wide behind his glasses and his hand fidgeted with the corner of the light frames. "Well, yes. Of course." Why not? And what else could the day possibly bring?
Bullocks...I did not just invite Murphy along for the jaunt, did I?
All he needed now was for the whole of the ghostly barrage that existed beyond the Veil here inside the walls of Lavenza to spring forth and assault him with insults. Honestly, he was only in residence to soothe the needs of the ghostly crowd--to learn more about them up close and personally. The rest of the paranormal types in Valesport? Not his forte. At all.
As he too stared at the box in the zombie's hands, his lips twisted with the irony. What had the creature done, then? Recalled he shouldn't be digesting occupants of the Manor, rifled through the pantry, shucking through boxes with the usual coordinate effort, stopping for a ponderous moment: "Oh yes, STUFFING, hmm...something something INSIDES...yes, quite." Yet, even on the heels of his internal monologuing--okay...rude, half-delirious mocking, because he was running on fumes and frustration and had to do something, lest he yank out all his hair and run around without his wits--Alrec knew he'd do what he must.
The needs of the occupants of the Manor, beyond the Veil and displaced around it, took precedence over all else.
And right now, that need was clearly food. He glanced frantically down the hall to where he'd left a hopefully-not-in-the-mood-for-bloodsucking diva to deal with intruders, then to the esteemed--well-built, or at least put together, and yet shambling, brain-eating--personage before him, and finally back over his shoulder to the overly-emotive ghost. Then closed his eyes and momentarily wished the Caretaker would answer the door for a change, so he could -hide out in- retire to his room. "Don't worry, young miss. I'll...uh. Take care of it."
Onward to the kitchen, then. He scooped the box from the zombie's arm and gave him what he hoped was a reassuring pat on his sole elbow. "Do shut the door behind you, if you please."
Dreams come in a size too big so we can grow into them.
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