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The Park; Early Friday Evening [ 07/10 ].

Class had gone well and so Minsc was in a good mood and contemplating good things like buttkicking and gnoll cleaving and mugs of moderately strong ale as he and Boo strolled around the park and tried to decide what to do with the evening ahead of them. There were so many options! One might involve some exciting fighting, which class had certainly gotten him in the mood for, or it might involve drinking, which was always entertaining, or, why, he might even be feeling adventurous enough to brave trying to see Lady Wilhelmina today or this weekend. Which would be, really, the epitome of bravery.

Boundless choices!

Unfortunately, they would have to wait at this precise moment...

"Boo! No! You must leave the ducks alone! What have they done to you? This is not honourable conduct, Boo!"

Sigh.

"Hamsters..."

[[ I am going to be trapped at work shortly, but I'm having a crap ass day and needed some Minsc crack STAT. OPEN! ]]

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Mina had just left the clinic when she spotted Minsc.

And Boo.

"...what is Boo up to?" she asked, approaching the berserker.

There was a bit of a pause after Minsc realized who it was that addressed him, and thought to himself that that made at least one choice a little easier. And here's to hoping it wasn't the wrong choice to just sort of...happen.

"Lady Wilhelmina!" he said. "Hullo! I think one of the ducks insulted his mother, you see..."

This apparently meant that a very exciting chase was in occurrence at the moment. Meaning Boo crept a little forward in the grass a little, the duck squacked and shifted forward, they sat there for a bit, and then repeated the actions.

"It is never good to insult another's mother," Mina said. "It is crass and irresponsible, really."

"Not to mention mean," Minsc said, nodding in agreement, and frowned down at the riveting hamster-duck chase at their feet. He rubbed the back of his head a little.

"Finished at the clinic, are you, my lady?" he asked in an attempt to make conversation, ignoring common sense once again, because common sense told him he was probably better off avoiding it.

"I would not have leaved, if I were not," Mina said. "I had catalogued the contents of the janitorial closet twice already. Little more seemed to be needed."

Well, that sounded like fun.

"Boo and I were actually thinking of going to see you there," Minsc admitted, "but we found ourselves curiously without any injury today. So we got to thinking instead about fixing that."

"...one does not need to be injured to come to the clinic," Mina said. "There is such a thing as preventative care."

Minsc looked at Lady Wilhelmina, not entirely surprised that she'd say something like that, but still not understanding it one lick. "Preventative of what, though?"

"Disease," Mina said. "And other afflictions."

To that, Minsc could only grin a little. "Believe me, Lady Wilhelmina," he said. "I doubt that if disease and other afflictions haven't killed me yet, that they'll ever get the chance!"

"You say that now," Mina said. "But even a constitution as hearty as your own shall need help, eventually."

"But don't they say, Lady Wilhelmina," Minsc offered, "that what doesn't kill you only makes you stronger? And a looot of things have tried to kill me!"

"You are quite strong," Mina said. "But it is the little things that could bring a strong man as yourself down.."

"Yeah," Minsc agreed with a chuckle, "but I'd definitely give them a run for their money!"

And then he fell into a little bit of an awkwardness, feeling like he should say something more, but not knowing what it should be.

"Errr. How've you been?"

"I have been... well," Mina said, after a moment of pause. "I have abandoned the name of my former husband."

There wasn't a real good way to bring that up.

No, there really wasn't.

Although that did do a good job of reminding Minsc that, while he thought he was feeling a little awkward a second ago, it could still get....awkwarder.

And there probably wasn't a really good way to ask what Minsc was about to ask, but he asked it anyway.

"Well, why'd you do that?"

"He holds no claim over me," Mina said. "Not any more."

"Oh," said Minsc, and he frowned a little as the duck waddled a little further from Boo's menacing chase.

Boo inched a little forward after the duck.

"....that's a good reason." Though he sounded a little unconvinced. Not because of Lady Wilhelmina's answer. Just....in general. Or simply over something definitely unspoken.

"It is Murray, now," Mina said. "Wilhelmina Murray."

She was keeping her phrases short, to avoid anything being read into them.

"...Can't go wrong with an M name, really," Minsc offered, as he was keeping his irrelevant because he really didn't know what else to do.

"Indeed," Mina said.

"...what did you intend to see me about?" She asked with a mix of curiosity and hope.

Minsc was rubbing his head an awful lot right there, looking down at Boo and the duck and hoping that they did something very dramatic and sudden and demanding all of his attention so he had a good excuse to not answer that, because he didn't know how to answer that, but they were just scooting on the grass and come on! You're a miniature giant space hamster, Boo! Do something giant or miniature or space hamster-y!

But, alas, he just continued to scoot boringly after the duck.

"...I...err...uh."

Eloquent, Minsc.

He shrugged. "Been a while, that's all! Had to make sure you were still aliv--, errr....undead in this case, I guess."

Smooooooooooth.

Mina chuckled. "And you have your reassurance now, sir."

A chuckle was good....right?

"That's right!" Minsc agreed, tentatively bright. "You are still very, very undead!"

"Still breathing and all," Mina said. "It is good to hear you have such concern."

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