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[micancion]

[The feed clicks on to reveal!

Mud.

A lot of mud.

There are some leaves too, and a few twigs. But mostly? Mud.

Hector's voice can be heard over the mud, vaguely, and it sounds like a normal conversation. Pretty one sides actually.

Really Hector isn't talking to himself.

I promise.]

Pues, I'm not really sure how it works here but you're the first one I've ever seen. And I traveled...a lot when I was alive.

[A pause.]

Eh? No se. I'm used to it. But hey, check this out!

[Whatever amazing thing- can't be seen by the audience, but whatever Hector's talking to makes a rather eerie laugh. And that's when Hector's heel hits the com and he gives a small ow. A bit of cleaning and hector's skeletal face is seen, grinning brightly.]

Oh, hey. Oops. I think the hole in my pocket got worse. Sorry amigos!

[He's about to turn off the feed when the spirit or what have you whispers something.]

Oh yeah. Hey, anyone have a pair of curtains they don't want? I...kind of need a door.

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[micancion]

And freezing isn't one of them, so, still not worried about the cold, chica.

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[bigbadrose]

Okay.

You don't want a rug for the floor too, do you? It's not charity, it's just... I need to get rid of it and I can't bear sending it to recycling or trash, yeah?

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[micancion]

A...rug?

[He looks down at his metacarpals. He'd never had a proper rug in his whole after life.]

To keep the dust off my phalanges? Sure! it's not much of a floor though.

[He was still trying to find enough scrap from the old houses in Everglade to make the floor.]

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[bigbadrose]

[She fucking guessed that from the mud. And can't stand it in her head.]

It doesn't have to be nice, so long as it still gets used as it is, yeah?

I don't suppose you have a job yet?

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[la_matrona]

Ha! [wait... had that gone over? She hadn't meant to say it out loud! Cursed thing! If she didn't need it--! But since she had been heard... ]

The only way he'd be able to hold down a job is if you pinned him to it.

[because he was a musico and-- it's a wild reckless sort of life that-- she used to love but...she's grown out of that stupid fantasy]

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[micancion]

Hey, I worked at Old Man Moreno's field that whole summer once!

[It was automatic. Not heat to the words, just the light pout he'd often wore when defending himself against Ernesto and Imelda's teasing.]

Besides there's nothing I can really do here.

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[la_matrona]

Mm. How much work actually got done, I wonder.

[probably not much. But she likes it that way. Or she used to. She remembers that freedom. That he wanted to keep. That he had left for. It would have never have worked out anyway. She didn't know what she had been thinking.]

There's nothing you can do anywhere, flojo.

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[micancion]

I pulled so many weeds, I thought my hands were going to stay green!

[And there'd been a lot of singing and distracting the workers with random songs. It had kept the job from being boring for everyone. Even the foreman.]

I know, unless someone needs weeds pulled or walls plastered. Which, uh, no creo.

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[bigbadrose]

I can do that.

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[la_matrona]

[a snort] Good luck.

[but what if she can? What if she can make him stay? What will that-- No. She doesn't care what it means. She does not. Hector is not her problem and will never be again]

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[bigbadrose]

Any jobs you'd recommend him against?

Don't say everything~!

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[la_matrona]

It's none of my concern.

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[bigbadrose]

You interjected first, Senora.

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[la_matrona]

And I'm ending it first.

[and so she does]

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[micancion]

There's not much around here I can do. In the Land of the Dead no one would hire a guy like me. And modern cities? Yeah, I don't have any talents that could be useful here.

[He doesn't seem bothered by it at all though! He's still smiling, and even tosses in a casual shrug.]

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[bigbadrose]

It's different here.

Why wouldn't the land of the dead hire you?

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[micancion]

Just didn't trust the place I'm from. It's nothing, chica. Really!

[It's very different here, and he's still getting to know the underground part of Everglade.

which is mighty scary let him tell you!]

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[bigbadrose]

Okay, what kind of job would you like? If you could choose.

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[micancion]

Uhm, I can't really do much. I can paint walls or plaster them. Weed gardens and uhm run errands but none of that really interests me, yeah?

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[bigbadrose]

I do need more techies for the haunted house!! We change the layout bi-weekly, and I'm hoping we can amp up even more business between the air conditioning and Halloween.

What does interest you?

How are you at making people, other than me, laugh? We do a good trade in bottled emotions, but I've got no stand-up comedians. Yet.

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[micancion]

Techies? I, don't know what that is.

[And he knows what air conditioning is but he's only heard of Halloween in passing. And, well after passing.]

I don't preform unless I really have to. Sorry, chica.

[Helping Profe was a one time deal.]

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[bigbadrose]

They're in charge o' what you listed. Moving fake walls, runnin' errands, changin' backdrops, all that.

[Waves hand.] Wanna juggle or take prat falls?

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[micancion]

[That sounds like theater work.]

Eh, I can run errands for you if you want. I'm not sure I want to be moving walls around all day.

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[bigbadrose]

[It is theater work you loser.]

Well, we don't do it every day.

Wanna take over deliveries of plasma to vampires? You're not exactly gonna get sucked dry, yeah?

But I'll make sure you have an escort too. For safety. Of the deliveries.

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[micancion]

[But he doesn't waaant.]

Vampires?....uh, sure?

[He huffed.]

Hey, I'm not that bad. It's not like I'll randomly disappear here.