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The Gig, Friday [6/5]

Once the horses were fed, groomed, and sent into the paddock, Dani retreated to the office and spent a while on the phone talking to Kris Furillo. She went on for a long time about how awkward she felt waking up yesterday morning with the guy she met at the bar the night before and how awful she felt for not really honoring her dead boyfriend's memory. Kris tried to reassure Dani that R.J. would have wanted Dani to move on with her life and find someone else. It was nice to have someone to share some girl talk with, since Dani wasn't about to call her brother for something like this.

Although "share" might have been the operative word since Dani didn't bother asking Kris how she was doing until the other girl's phone card was about to run out. Kris told her that she was somewhere in Colorado riding horses for an illegal horse racing ring, which worried Dani. She warned Kris to be really careful before the other girl had to hang up.

With that done, Dani headed back to the paddock to watch the horses, though her mind was miles away.

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Minsc had some impressively rended platemail that needed fixing, so after his class, he made sure to mosey on down to the Gig to ask about using the forge to fix it. It really was a shame Rosie wasn't around anymore. She could not only have fixed it much better than he could, but he always did enjoy watching her work at the forge, the heat of the coals and her sweat making her face glow red and little curls of her hair drifting around her head like a halo...

...Still, Minsc found himself also thinking that seeing Lady Dani, although she certainly did not possess any of those traits that had made the previous owner so attractive to him, would be rather nice right now, too.

"Lady Dani!" he called out, bold and loud so that she could hear him even if she was out with the horses. "Are you about?"

"I'm over here!" Dani called out from the paddock area. "The alligators aren't back, are they? I don't think I could spend another night sleeping in the barn."

"No alligators!" Minsc shouted back. He liked yelling. "Just a man in need of mending some armour! I was wondering," yes, still yelling from the street, "if I may use your forge, Lady Dani?"

There was a pause. Minsc knew he had the words right there, but, for some reason, he really felt the need to clarify.

"And by that I mean the big, hot, gaping hole for putting weapons in and stuff!"

No, that...still didn't sound quite right, but it'll do.

Dani left the paddock behind and came out in front of the building so she wouldn't have to yell. "Oh, sure! You're welcome to use the forge any time. I certainly appreciated the help last week, by the way. It's nice to know I can count on my neighbors," she said.

"Absolutely!" Minsc shouted back, not seeming to realize at first that the shouting was a little unnecessary now that Lady Dani had come out and joined him. He liked shouting. "Think nothing of it!"

"And thank you," he said, becoming more conversational. "I am no smith, by any means, but Rosie taught me enough that I might fix this." He lifted up the rended armour, knocking on a piece of its chestplate still relatively intact. "Good armour, would be a shame to just let it go to waste!"

"I'd offer to help, but I'm afraid all I know is the basics of making horseshoes," said Dani. "Guess having your own armour can come in handy around here when stuff attacks, right?"

"Oh, yes," Minsc said. "Good armour is a good defense. I myself find armoured to be my most natural state. I feel naked without it."

Minsc hadn't intended to waggle his eyebrows a little with the word naked; it just sort of happened.

Dani couldn't help giggling. "Then we should probably get your armour fixed so you're not feeling so naked, right?" she said.

She tried to squash some very inappropriate mental images by thinking of her dearly departed boyfriend, but instead, she found herself picturing R.J. naked except for his cowboy hat. Her cheeks were turning pink as she tried to get that picture out of her mind as well.

"Exactly!" Minsc agreed, chuckling at the giggle, as he hefted up his armour and moved in toward the forge. "After all, I am told that is not exactly proper in public."

Although, really, recent events showed that his source on that tidbit of manners was a little...unreliable.

Not that he was complaining.

"Pfft, I've never been one for propriety," said Dani, following Minsc to the forge. "Proper behavior is boring, and I need a bit more excitement in my life."

Minsc paused for a moment, almost to the forge, but not quite, because that, to him, was sounding an awful lot like an invitation. He could be wrong, though. So many things were confusing to him about propriety and what women meant when they said things. After all, just when he thought he had it figured out, Lady Wilhelmina showed up naked at his door and expected otherwise improper things.

So it was all very confusing, and he had a few...ahem, ideas...but he thought maybe he'd better ere on the side of caution and see if another one came around.

He started taking up some of the hammers, carefully weighing and considering them, which just so happened to involve a lot of muscle flexing and arguably some posing.

"You don't say," he said, trying to sound conversational and probably overdoing it spectacularly. "Like what kind of excitement, if I may ask?"

Had Dani meant it as an invitation? Maybe she had. She wasn't so sure of a lot of things lately.

"I miss the adrenaline rush I used to get from racing horses or watching the rodeo," said Dani. "Everything is just so much quieter here. Well, except for last week with the alligators. I didn't notice at the time, but I got a kick out of stabbing that one gator with a pitchfork."

Minsc chuckled, clearly amused. "Ah, yes!" he said. "Very few things quite meet the rush of excitement that goes all through you when your adrenaline is high! And very few things raise it like a gooooood battle!"

He had a large hammer selected and lifted it up before bringing it down on the anvil with power and a ringing that resounded in the air. "This will do," he said, turning a satisfied grin toward Lady Dani. "Nice and big."

Dani flushed. "Yeah, bigger is better," she said. "So, what do you do to get that adrenaline rush between battles?"

Minsc grinned at Lady Dani again, confident in the fact that he probably didn't need to remind her that he was very, very huge. He carefully took a piece of the mail between the big iron tongs to heat it in the fire of the forge after getting it to grow and heat with a few powerful pushes of the bellows.

"Training!" he said. "Always training. Got to keep sharp, and fit! Weapons practise, spars. Plenty of phsyical activity!"

"...I am also fond of board games."

But not that damned cursed Scrabble nonsense.

No, Dani certainly didn't need any reminders of Minsc's impressive stature.

"I'm not sure what sort of training I should do, but maybe I should do something. More riding is always good," she said. "I'm not so much into board games, but that sounds like something my roommate Mary would be into. All that girl does is watch romantic comedies. I cannot wait to move into my own place so I don't have to sit through another one."

"I'd offer," said Minsc, "to go riding with you, Lady Dani, but I fear for your horses!"

Minsc brain was also on the edge of something else to say there, something either witty or clever or just plain inappropriate, he wasn't quite sure, but he couldn't quite piece it together. He was pretty sure it had more to do with the riding part than the horse part, though, so maybe he'd figure it out.

Dani chuckled. "Maybe I should keep my eyes open for a Clydesdale or some other large breed at the horse auctions," she said. "I'm sure somewhere out there is a horse strong enough for you to ride. Or there might be other activities we could do together."

She wasn't sure why she added that last part. It just seemed to come out of her mouth without her thinking about it.

"There might," Minsc agreed with a snort of a laugh; the armour had taken on a nice glow from the fire, so he brought it to the anvil and began good, strong strokes of the hammer to beat it back into shape with little ringing sounds rising up from each hit, "but I must say, my size might be an unfortunate issue there, as well!"

And, yes, that was rather suggestive of Minsc, but it was true. Lady Dani was very tiny, and Minsc would have known if she had a nice undead quality that would help with that sort of thing.

Dani's eyes widened a little bit. "Yeah, well, I guess I should have thought before... Um, I'm sure there are plenty of nice activities where size doesn't matter. There's a really nice bar in town. Or there's the beach..."

...wait a second. That wasn't quite right, Minsc realized. He didn't think he'd actually meant to deter anything here, but it looked like he had anyway. Gnoll snot!

Although it was a good point, and probably better this way, but...

"I am rather fond," Minsc said, over the ringing sounds of him beating his metal, "of the tavern, but what would one do on a beach? Look for carrion crawlers, or sirens, maybe?"

Oh, sirens. Such a challenge! They were so beautiful, but they could do such horrible things to you that you really just had to cleave right through all their pretty, usually very naked flesh...

"Oh, there's lots of stuff to do at the beach. Walking in the sand, sunbathing, swimming in the ocean, stuff like that. I have the cutest little bikini that I picked up the last time I went shopping. Not that you'd be interested in my bikini, I bet," said Dani, flustered.

"I...might be," Minsc said, truthfully enough as he hammered some more. "If I knew what one was."

"It's a swimsuit!" Dani explained. "It's got two little triangle-shaped pieces that go here," she said, waving a hand over her chest, "and then these little panties, so that there's plenty of exposed skin if you're trying to get a tan... Does that help? Or I could just show you how it looks."

As Lady Dani went into her description, Minsc's hammering became progressively slowly and then all together ceased. He paused a moment, glancing over at her and noting that it seemed rather hot in here all of a sudden.

...oh, wait. He was standing at a forge. Of course it was.

"Er. I...think I might very much like to see that, Lady Dani..."

"We should go swimming sometime and then I could show it to you," said Dani, smiling. "It would be a nice way to cool off, especially when it gets so hot on a day like today."

"And it is especially hot," Minsc noted, thinking he would very much like to go swimming with the little tiny triangles of bathing suit, "working at the forge like this!"

"I bet," said Dani. "I almost feel overdressed, considering how hot it is. Too bad I never considered bringing my bikini to work."

"That is too bad," Minsc agreed, looking down at his armour a moment.

He was thinking. You could almost see it.

"You could...." Almost there. He almost had it. "...You could go get it!" That was it! "And, maybe, while you are gone, I will have enough time to finish this up and then we could try that beach thing!"

With the tiny triangles of cloth.

"That's a great idea!" said Dani. "It shouldn't take me that long to head back to the hotel and get it. Will that give you enough time to finish up?"

Minsc considered the armour, slightly more bent back into shape as the fire cooled down on it, the forge, and his hammer, thinking of how much work there still was to go on it. Lady Wilhelmina had done quite the number on it!

"...Close enough!" he concluded.

He could always just get some new plate sent in from home. The really nice kind. With ~~AC Bonuses~~ enhancements. And cool shoulder wingy things....

"Then I'll go run and change," said Dani, grinning.

Ditching the rest of the work day to go swimming sounded like a fantastic idea.

"And then I shall stay here," Minsc couldn't help grinning back broadly, "beating my metal until your return, Lady Dani."

Dani wasted no time getting into her bikini and returning with her beach bag. "All changed and ready to go whenever you are!" she announced upon her return.

....Minsc had decided very quickly that he liked this biniki thing. It was not unlike some of the finer things worn by Rashemi women.

And there was nothing quite like a Rashemi woman!

Minsc easily disposed of both hammer and armour, both of them dropping with a dull thunk.

"Ready! Shall we off (http://community.livejournal.com/fandomtownies/4016703.html)?" he asked, offering out his arm.

"Sounds like a good idea," said Dani, taking his arm.

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