http://livingasheth.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] livingasheth.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] fandomtownies2008-12-04 01:21 am
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Book Haven: Thursday [12-4-08]

Millie buzzed around the store quite cheerfully, straightening and looking to see what she might need to order more of. She might even be caught singing some of her old temple songs, which were not exactly - or even close to being - Christmas carols.
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[identity profile] cowboy-sailor.livejournal.com 2008-12-05 03:01 am (UTC)(link)
"Guess not. Around this time of year there a bunch of holidays in this world."

[identity profile] livingasheth.livejournal.com 2008-12-05 03:03 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh yes, quite true. No then, not at all holiday themed."

[identity profile] cowboy-sailor.livejournal.com 2008-12-05 03:13 am (UTC)(link)
"Have you been in this world long?"

[identity profile] livingasheth.livejournal.com 2008-12-05 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh, nearly two years now," Millie said cheerfully.

[identity profile] cowboy-sailor.livejournal.com 2008-12-05 03:31 am (UTC)(link)
"Ah so you already know about Christmas and Channukah."

[identity profile] livingasheth.livejournal.com 2008-12-05 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
She shrugged. "Enough, I suppose."

[identity profile] cowboy-sailor.livejournal.com 2008-12-05 10:22 pm (UTC)(link)
"Got any fun holidays where you're from?"

[identity profile] livingasheth.livejournal.com 2008-12-06 06:22 am (UTC)(link)
"Not really," she said looking down. "Only the one where they'd take me out of the city for one day a year and parade me around to all the villages and people would jump up and try and touch me for luck. It would take days to recover and I'd be exhausted and bruised."

[identity profile] cowboy-sailor.livejournal.com 2008-12-06 06:51 pm (UTC)(link)
"Jesus." Tully said sympathetically. "Glad you got out of there."

[identity profile] livingasheth.livejournal.com 2008-12-06 06:59 pm (UTC)(link)
"Oh, I had to," Millie said matter-of-factly. "They planned to kill me."

[identity profile] cowboy-sailor.livejournal.com 2008-12-06 07:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Tully stared at her, appalled. "Why?"

[identity profile] livingasheth.livejournal.com 2008-12-06 07:40 pm (UTC)(link)
"When a Living Asheth gets old enough they kill her and replace her with a new one," Millie said, again very matter-of-factly. "I escaped before that happened."

[identity profile] cowboy-sailor.livejournal.com 2008-12-06 07:47 pm (UTC)(link)
"I hope you won't be offended, but I don't think I think much of that religion."

[identity profile] livingasheth.livejournal.com 2008-12-06 11:27 pm (UTC)(link)
She shrugged. "It's the way things are there."

[identity profile] cowboy-sailor.livejournal.com 2008-12-07 12:05 am (UTC)(link)
"Then I'm glad you're here instead." he said, smiling.

[identity profile] livingasheth.livejournal.com 2008-12-07 12:08 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh, so am I," she said lightly. "That's why I ran away to another world where they couldn't find me."

[identity profile] cowboy-sailor.livejournal.com 2008-12-07 12:37 am (UTC)(link)
Tully nodded, and looked around the store for a bit. Lots of interesting books. Shakespear plays translated into alien languages, and even Elvish. He thought this would be a great place to find something for Ixnay for Christmas.

"So what do you do for fun?"

[identity profile] livingasheth.livejournal.com 2008-12-07 12:38 am (UTC)(link)
"I read," she said promptly.

[identity profile] cowboy-sailor.livejournal.com 2008-12-07 12:52 am (UTC)(link)
"Convenient to run a bookstore." he chuckled.

[identity profile] livingasheth.livejournal.com 2008-12-07 12:52 am (UTC)(link)
"Well, choosing to run one wasn't a coincidence," she said with smile.

[identity profile] cowboy-sailor.livejournal.com 2008-12-07 12:57 am (UTC)(link)
"Good choice. How did it feel, to choose for yourself what to do?"

[identity profile] livingasheth.livejournal.com 2008-12-07 12:59 am (UTC)(link)
She looked at him curiously. "I'd been choosing what to do for a long time before I got here."

[identity profile] cowboy-sailor.livejournal.com 2008-12-07 01:18 am (UTC)(link)
"Right I meant, the first time you did that. It was a long time in my life that I really felt like I'd made a choice that was really my own."

[identity profile] livingasheth.livejournal.com 2008-12-07 01:26 am (UTC)(link)
"I was very happy to escape and not be dead," she said honestly.

[identity profile] cowboy-sailor.livejournal.com 2008-12-07 02:14 am (UTC)(link)
"Huh, me too." Actually he hadn't been too worried about death. Incarceration for shit he hadn't done, on the other hand...
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