The Gig: Thursday [5-7-09]

[elephantgadget.livejournal.com]

Another day with the horses at The Gig.

Helen was happy.

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[cowboy-sailor.livejournal.com]

Tully didn't usually use the rickshaw services available on the island, but he needed to come deliver a reward for a job well done to Mr. Twain. And hobbling on crutches from the lighthouse to the Gig was just more trouble than he was prepared for.

He leaned against the stall door and propped his crutches against same. "Hey bad ass, how're you?"

[elephantgadget.livejournal.com]

Helen blinked at him. "What is wrong with my ass? And isn't it inappropriate for an adult to comment on such things?"

[cowboy-sailor.livejournal.com]

"What?" Tully realized quickly what had happened. "I was talking to my horse." He pointed to Mr. Twain, who snorted.

[elephantgadget.livejournal.com]

"Oh," Helen said, then looked at the horse. "His ass seems just fine to me."

[cowboy-sailor.livejournal.com]

"Yeah it's a compliment. It means...to be reckoned with. Don't ask me how it came to mean that because I have no idea."

[elephantgadget.livejournal.com]

Helen frowned thoughtfully. "Oh. Well... He is quite a wonderful horse, I suppose."

[cowboy-sailor.livejournal.com]

Mr. Twain held his head high with pride.

"Apparently he's got some warrior in him." Tully said. "He saved my butt last night."

[elephantgadget.livejournal.com]

"Really?" Helen said. "What happened last night?"

[cowboy-sailor.livejournal.com]

"Some kind of alien invasion. They snatched some of the kids, so a bunch of folks went to get them back."

[elephantgadget.livejournal.com]

Helen frowned. "That doesn't sound good."

[cowboy-sailor.livejournal.com]

"It wasn't. We won as I understand it, but as evening's go, it's not how I'd choose to spend one."

[elephantgadget.livejournal.com]

Helen nodded. "Fighting demons and aliens never is."

[cowboy-sailor.livejournal.com]

"Does this kind of thing happen often?" He'd hoped the zombies were an isolated event.

[elephantgadget.livejournal.com]

She considered that. "From time to time," she said. "And of course, I had to deal with it before I came on occasion."

[cowboy-sailor.livejournal.com]

"Seriously? I never really thought Aliens would be that interested in our planet."

[elephantgadget.livejournal.com]

"I am not from your world," Helen said simply.

[cowboy-sailor.livejournal.com]

"Oh. Well that might do it." he said after a moment. "Where are you from?"

[elephantgadget.livejournal.com]

"The world of Uquar," she asid as if it should have been obvious. "Though I have Walked the Bounds of many worlds before I was sent here."

[cowboy-sailor.livejournal.com]

"Fraid I've never heard of it. But then I'd never met anyone not from Earth till I came here."

[elephantgadget.livejournal.com]

Helen nodded. "That seems not uncommon here."

[cowboy-sailor.livejournal.com]

"Was this your first time on Earth? Coming here?"

[elephantgadget.livejournal.com]

She considered how to answer. "I was on a Earth once. Jamie's home. But whether it was this very one or another version, I am unsure."

[cowboy-sailor.livejournal.com]

That still threw him sometimes. "Without knowing this Jamie, I wouldn't be able to tell you."

[elephantgadget.livejournal.com]

Helen nodded. "Nor would I."

Then she sighed. "And he is fated to Walk the Bounds forever, never having a home."

[cowboy-sailor.livejournal.com]

Well that didn't sound good. "How come?"

[elephantgadget.livejournal.com]

She shrugged a little sadly. "It's complicated. But basically it is the only way to make sure the demon aliens can never return to take over the worlds again."

[cowboy-sailor.livejournal.com]

Oh man. "Demon Aliens? Not bad enough to deal with one or the other, you had to deal with a combination?"