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CHAPTER 2

NOV 7TH | 54℉☀(windy)

▸ Parka up for a cold an--*CHSKSSS--*- windy day in Blackwell folks! I sure do hope--*CHSKSSS--*-search team down at the lake won't--*CHSKSSS--*---*CHSSK--*-trouble out on the waters. Professional divers have been going in since dawn, let's give it up for the professional --*CHSKSSS--*-!!

▸ Old Lady Petunia has paid me to say DO NOT SEEK OUT THE ANGELS--*CHSKSSKK--SK--SSSH--*- In fact, there are no such thing as angels. See how easy that was? No angels, no problem.

▸ And now back to our --*CHSKSSS--*-regularly scheduled programming.

THE RISING IS NOT IN EFFECT

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[espish]

Yeah, you're never to old to become a fictional character.

[for instance, he didn't start trying to become a pulp detective until he was

presses the button for ben's floor as soon as everybody's in the elevator. he found the dumbwaiter on his floor, but if there isn't a door in the same place a few floors up then what's the point of a dumbwaiter?]

They start firefighters early in Australia.

[eternalboy]

[ you're triggering me with all this aging talk. ]

They have a lot of fires.

[tralineate]

[ funny guy, this sam person. kind of. he's an awkward funny guy or something. she rolls her eyes at him shaking her head with a smile. ]

My mum had a big offer to come to work in an office in Virginia, so we moved. My siblings were just about to go to college, so it all worked out. [ and she nudges ben ] Too right! It's because of all the hot people.

[espish]

[all the friendliest people he meets in this town are from nowhere near it. you should probably leave, nicola, before you make an unwise rooming decision and get stuck here. maybe not necessarily in that order.]

I hear you've got spiders the size of house cats and snakes so poisonous they can kill you just by looking at you, too.

[awkward funny guy, that's him.

this elevator is tiny and terrifying and creaky. sam does not like this elevator.]

[eternalboy]

[ all the more reason to move out hey ]

I've heard the same thing. [ smiles at Nicola. she must be enjoying this cliche Australian things hour. ] So it must be true.

Were you ever bitten by one of those creatures?

[ exits the elevator first when there's the ding. ]

[tralineate]

[ shrugs with her hands in her pockets ] Yeah, but it's the tiny ones that getcha, cus you can't see them.

[ shakes head to ben ] No, but a shark nearly took my foot once. My brother got mauled by a koala once. Fuckin' nasty buggers.

[espish]

[slips out of the elevator after ben and nicola and starts down the hallway.]

That's nuts. I guess you shouldn't trust anything that looks that cuddly in the wild.

[he did not know that koalas are dangerous. every day you learn something new.]

[eternalboy]

I gotta look up angry koalas on Youtube. I'll do it at work.

[ smiles cheekily. ok let's get that dumbwaiter. ]

[tralineate]

[ she points at ben. cuddly things. don't trust. look at that baby face. ]

They bite each others bollocks, did you know?

[espish]

I did not, and I'm pretty sure I didn't need to, so thanks for that.

[looks at ben's baby face.]

[eternalboy]

Ok, no Youtube.

[ those videos would be the first to pop up wouldn't they. looks at them. ]

What?

[tralineate]

[ snorts. shakes her head in a Nothing kind of way ]

So where's that waiter?

[espish]

Maybe not at work, anyway.

[shakes his head too. you'll never get anything out of us.

points down a hallway to the left then turns down it when they get that far.]

End of this hallway, I think. Should be.

[eternalboy]

[ makes a face at Nicola and goes ahead. ]

[ reaches the end of the hallway and he's already forcing the hatch open when they get there. ]

It's the perfect size too.

[tralineate]

[ following along the most stupid detective issue ever. stops right next to ben and looks at the little elevator, turning her head to him with a frown ]

Perfect size to what?

[espish]

What she said.

[leans in and squints into the little platform, then cranes his neck up to see if there's a top or if he can see up the shaft. There's a top. Oh well.]

You know these things can't usually take much weight.

[eternalboy]

It's perfect for the boxes.

[peeks in after Sam. ]

But I was hoping there wouldnt be a top. We could have piled them on each other. Now it's one at a time, I'm afraid.

[tralineate]

[ she checks her watch while the two converse and when ben finishes his plan, she speaks up ]

Well, you two have fun. I need to check up on more areas for my homework, so-- good luck. [ she points at ben ] Don't forget about my invitation to the party.

[espish]

Boxes? You have more stuff? How much stuff did you bring?

[i thought you weren't going to stay for more than a week originally. straightens up to look back at nicola.]

What party?

[i have a bad feeling about this.]

[eternalboy]

[ WHAT PARTY DO YOU THINK. ]

Me and Moira originally planned to move to one of the houses in Blackwell. I brought all my stuff.

[ shrugs. that's how life goes. he still has some of Moira's boxes too. he isn't opening them or throwing them away. ]

I better get them, hold on.

[ disappears down the hallway for a moment. ]

[espish]

[you did not answer my question and i am not standing around here talking to the dumbwaiter, so hold up because i'm coming with you.]

Well the dumbwaiter's not going anywhere. I'll give you a hand. Who's Moira?

[i don't think you've mentioned her before, unless she's the local girl you're dating whose name i don't know yet.]

[eternalboy]

There's not that much left anymore, but thanks.

[ waves goodbye to Nicola as she takes the real elevator in the other end of the hallway. ]

My ex. Must be somewhere back in Chicago by now. Things didn't exactly work out.

[ (she wasn't a lesbian.) he doesn't appear to be bothered by the subject in the least considering he came to the hotel only few weeks ago. takes the room key out of his pocket. ]

[espish]

I see.

[at least she's alive, so there's that. and not here. here seems like a bad place to stay alive]

I guess the dumbwaiter's more for the dumbwaiter's sake than because you need it? You know, I'm not completely sure how it works.

[pockets his hands and looks down ben's hallway. it looks a lot like the second floor.]

[eternalboy]

[ stops by the right door and unlocks it. ]

Yeah, I changed my mind. We're not using the dumbwaiter anymore.

Let's do this the old-fashioned way.

[ Nicola left so he's not feeling it anymore. she was the one who made him come up with the idea. he opens the door to the boring hotel room with few boxes. ]

[espish]

I thought dumbwaiter was the old-fashioned way.

[being from the 30s and all. glances around ben's hotel room. looks like at least one of them isn't prone to taping weird stuff to the walls, which is probably a good thing for their security deposit. god. what the hell is he doing putting down a security deposit. this is such a bad idea.]

Not that I'm complaining. You probably have a much better chance of actually ending up with all your stuff intact if we just carry it.