01 🍎 Pleased to meet you; hope you guessed my name

[sauntervaguelydownwards]

[Video]
[It’s a new face, but a transmission that’s been made scores of times. This time the speaker is a dark-haired young man with great cheekbones, wearing sunglasses and a bewildered expression. He’s standing on the deck a healthy distance from the chapel, and when he speaks his voice is British, clipped, and dry.]

All right, when’s the next stop? I want to get off. Getting shanghaied onto Twilight Zone Cruise Lines is bad enough, but the maniacal holiday displays and the church are starting to make me nervous. I am not sitting through a Christmas sermon or anyone’s rendition of “Away in a Manger.”


[Deck/Greenhouse spam]
[Crowley had mostly been blowing hot air on the network; in truth the decorations delight him. They spark up an idea, and as soon as it flashes through his mind it takes hold and he knows he has to do it – it’s too tempting. There are cut trees everywhere, and a Greenhouse.

A smirk grows on his lips.

He wrestles an especially bright small tree through the Greenhouse door, dragging it to a spot directly in front of an array of orchids.] Pretty, hmm? [he asks the plants around him. He enjoys talking to – or rather threatening – greenery.] So shiny and delicate. Enjoy it, take a good look. [He tipped the tree, letting the water from the stand drain out.] Someday, this might be you.

Comments

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[tricksandmischief]

You are not a god.

[Private]

[sauntervaguelydownwards]

Hell no. That sounds like a horrible job.

[Private]

[tricksandmischief]

It is not a job. It is a state of being.

[Private]

[sauntervaguelydownwards]

You say tomato, I say tomahto.

[Private]

[tricksandmischief]

Is creating fire all that you can do?

[Private]

[sauntervaguelydownwards]

Will you be less interested if I say yes?

[Private]

[tricksandmischief]

No. There's ... something else that's intriguing.

[Private]

[sauntervaguelydownwards]

You know how to flatter. I like you.

[Private]

[tricksandmischief]

[Loki grins.]

I do what I can.

[Private]

[sauntervaguelydownwards]

Do you?

[Is this a line? Oh God.]

[Private]

[tricksandmischief]

I do.

[He's thinking to keep an eye on this one, whether he's inmate or warden.]

[Private]

[sauntervaguelydownwards]

Then I'd love to hear more sometime.

[Smart move, Loki.]

[Private]

[tricksandmischief]

Then once you have settled in we should meet up.

[Private]

[sauntervaguelydownwards]

I'll talk to you soon.