[Voice] 'Tis the season, after all...

[prince_of_tides]

Ho Ho Ho and a bottle of rhum
Santa's run off to the Caribbean
Marimbas, calimbas, he's playing steel drums
Ho Ho Ho and a bottle of rhum...

[Text]
It's that time of year again.  Shoot, guess I gotta get working on a list of who to get presents for...

Wonder if that crazy thing with the mistletoe's going to happen again this year.  Hope not.  Got really awkward last year, if I remember right.

ETA, sometime later: Anyone seen Fayt?  His stuff's all here, but I can't find a trace of him.

[Screened from Larxene//Hackable]
Further edit: Nobody tell Larxene where I live.

Comments

[faithfullyslain.livejournal.com]

...Dude, are you drunk?

[nocturncoat.livejournal.com]

No, just singing. I do that occasionally; you get used to it. And also trying very hard to take my own mind off all the people who've been disappearing.

[faithfullyslain.livejournal.com]

I guess I'll have to. Taken to sleeping indoors nowadays--snow igloos aren't really my thing.

[nocturncoat.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Won't catch me trying - I grew up in the tropics.

[faithfullyslain.livejournal.com]

Been to the tropics. Had to rassle an alligator th'size of a horse on steroids--didn't really like my trip all that much.

[nocturncoat.livejournal.com]

Don't blame you. No gators in Hawaii, though. They can't swim that far.

[faithfullyslain.livejournal.com]

Never been. Please tell me it's made of supermodels in Brazilian thong bikinis and suntan lotion because then I'd be so there.

[nocturncoat.livejournal.com]

Guess I gotta say yes, huh? I kept seeing aliens everywhere, but I was weird as a kid.

Take my advice and stay out of Waikiki if you can, though; gets invaded by the tourists worse'n anywhere short of Maui.

[faithfullyslain.livejournal.com]

All this is over? You're taking me home with you. Wouldn't even mind little green men.

[nocturncoat.livejournal.com]

I dunno about with me, but there are ships that can travel between worlds - and I don't mean just normal spaceships - in my universe. Might be able to find you afterwards.

Though eventually I'm probably gonna have to start charging. I think I'd get a lot of business. Technically it's not allowed, but I've never heard by who, and the space between worlds is a big place.

[faithfullyslain.livejournal.com]

That'd be one hell of a pickup line, s'all I've got to say.

[nocturncoat.livejournal.com]

What, "space is a big place?"

[faithfullyslain.livejournal.com]

Or "I've got a spaceship, wanna come see it?" heh.

[nocturncoat.livejournal.com]

Oh.

[silvergeneral.livejournal.com]

...

What happened the last time there was mistletoe?

[nocturncoat.livejournal.com]

It was magic - people got stuck under it until someone else came along. Only ever caught two people at a time - and they had to kiss each other to get loose.

[silvergeneral.livejournal.com]

...Is that all?

[nocturncoat.livejournal.com]

Well, yeah. But most people aren't really so casual about kissing that they like being forced to do it, usually to a complete stranger, every time they walk under a plant.

[silvergeneral.livejournal.com]

As you say. Personally, I've had the... dubious pleasure... of breaking up enough communal (and very, very public) sex beneath sprigs of mistletoe to consider this... positively mundane.

[nocturncoat.livejournal.com]

Nah, gets too cold for that around here. Heck, you've seen this place. It snows in November.

[silvergeneral.livejournal.com]

I've read that they practiced similar traditions here in Iceland. It didn't appear to deter them much.

[nocturncoat.livejournal.com]

Yeah, well, they have hot springs in Iceland.

[silvergeneral.livejournal.com]

Beneath oak trees where wild holly grows? That is convenient.

[thieveryofstars.livejournal.com]

Fayt's not there...?

[nocturncoat.livejournal.com]

No...

His stuff's still here, though. That usually means they're coming back, doesn't it?

[thieveryofstars.livejournal.com]

Usually...

[fulgural.livejournal.com]

Sounds like one annoying habit remains consistent.

[nocturncoat.livejournal.com]

Oh, shut up, Larxene. You didn't really expect me to change that much between worlds, did you? Just 'cause I grew a backbone doesn't mean I can't still sing.

[fulgural.livejournal.com]

Maybe not, but can't we hope~?

[nocturncoat.livejournal.com]

"We?" Developing a split personality, Larxy? Sadism not enough for you anymore?

[fulgural.livejournal.com]

I was being sarcastic, Demmy.

[nocturncoat.livejournal.com]

So was I, Sparky.

We can go on letting the nicknames get more and more insulting if you like. You've probably heard 'em all before, though. Oh, and remember, my name's Nocturne now.

Then again, it's hard to get a nickname out of Nocturne.

[fulgural.livejournal.com]

I remember, I just don't care.

[nocturncoat.livejournal.com]

I kinda figured.

[fulgural.livejournal.com]

Oh good, an improvement; you are capable of learning things.

[nocturncoat.livejournal.com]

Doesn't mean I can't still play dumb to annoy you - especially since you don't know where I live.

[fulgural.livejournal.com]

...I could just ask someone else, you know.

[nocturncoat.livejournal.com]

Oh? And how many people who know do you really think would be willing to tell you?

[fulgural.livejournal.com]

I'll have to see. They don't know me yet.

[nocturncoat.livejournal.com]

We'll see.