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As promised:

[It's the report. The weed report. It includes diagrams of the structure he calls 'the box', which appears to actually be built into the wall of his room, as well as the methods he used to ensure minimum smoke seepage. It notes how he took out the painting he keeps in there, not wanting the smoke to damage it (it was a gift of sorts and has great sentimental value). It includes footnotes. If it was possible to include a clear plastic cover on a digital file he probably would have done it.]

[This.

This is amazing.

But not because it's good work, which it is, but like, Lup honestly can't believe the guy actually pulled it all off.]

you know

for almost a hundred years ive thought my hubby was the biggest nerd to ever live
but today you take that crown from him

Edited 2018-05-17 06:28 (UTC)

Do I get an actual crown and if so when should I expect it to come in the mail.

just for that?
yes. next week
and you better wear the shit out of it fam

Of course. Can't own a crown and not wear it.

Also you're going to make fun of me for asking but what is fam.

god you are SO old

family ya nerd
yknow
like #squadgoals
or fam squad

I'm only forty-one.

You consider us part of a squad?

but isnt that like super old for humans??? like one foot in the grave? im like 220ish but thats p young for elves

also duh
snakes gotta stick together

Oh no. My best friend's seventy and I'd consider him to be getting up there. Some humans can make it past a hundred even. If I take care of myself I'll make it another sixty years or so.

[He knows in his native timeline he gets another thirty at least, and that's in bad conditions. In Ryslig where he's not living in a dump eating roadkill he's probably got more than that in him.]

That's real flattering honestly. I mean if it's something like family.

no shit? hmmm. never really had to deal the whole human aging thing before
guess 100 isnt so bad

[look. her human husband is 140 now, time is WEIRD.]

are you gonna get all emotional on me? you and i are friends nerd.

[Fiddleford McGucket does not know the phrase 'ride or die' but if he did he would use it to describe how he is friends with people. It's not that he's choked up exactly so much as he considers being friends with someone to be a Thing, and once it's a Thing he takes it very seriously. He has a lot of friendly acquaintances whose company he genuinely enjoys. That's not the same.]

We are, aren't we.

Look you have to understand I'm polite and approachable and helpful and all but I can get sort of paranoid sometimes. I always figure the other shoe's got to drop eventually. And maybe it's that my head's in a better place now than it used to be or that snakes naturally get along or something but I've never had that worry with you.

[Lup would 100% rather die than ever admit that the man's words touched her in any way.

But holy fuck--]

nerd alert!

what a friggin sap
how do i keep surrounding myself with all of you touchy feely folks
is there a sign on my back or something??

[But she's flattered, something soft and warm blossoming in her chest. No one's ever said something like that about her. No one's ever put that kind of faith in her until they finally get to know her and see that there's more to her than just a pretty face and an abrasive attitude. Maybe that makes Fiddleford a fool to trust her so much so early into their friendship, but Lup's touched. Completely.

She won't let his faith in her be misplaced.]

but like whatever
you dont

you dont gotta worry about shit like that with me
you and i are always cool
snake squad for life amirite?

[He's always been that way. He's tried his entire life to be an optimist, to find the good in people and believe in it. It's not the same as trust, exactly, because he isn't blind to the fact that there's ugliness in people just as much as there is good. He just... if he saw the world that way first and foremost he'd probably have eaten himself alive with worry by now. He believes in the best until the worst rears its head, and even then he'd got an awful lot of chances saved up for people he wants to think are better.

Not that he doesn't have a line and not that people can't cross it, because they have, but so far she's done nothing to suggest herself capable of something he'd consider unforgivable. So, yeah. Snake squad, until further notice. He needs other people. He needs light and laughter and people to call him a nerd and keep him from getting up inside his own head. She's been good for that.]

Absolutely. And after that if I happen to die again but I don't plan on it. Not pleasant you know.

Think we ought to get matching jackets or something?

[Lup knows how to handle nerds, alright. She's spent the last hundred years dragging her husband out of his shell and out into the world with her, away from his anxieties and his isolation.

She can do it for Fiddleford too when he needs that push.]

oh def for sure
but im picking the color and style
i dont trust you with fashion for a second

So no fringe then?

Edited 2018-05-23 04:38 (UTC)

maybe a lil fringe

What about beading. Thoughts on beading?

beading is vetoed
fringe is as far as i go bucko

Well I suppose the most important thing in friendship is compromise and all. I can survive on fringe alone.

[This is... wow, this is nice. He hasn't had someone he can just kind of fuck around with since Eddie and Rohan both disappeared and he's missed it. He had that with Ford, before, but his relationship with Ford now is still fragile and strained and he can't let himself get that comfortable. He's trying, but it's slow. With her there's no backlog of bad feelings to air out.]

Not that I've actually worn fringe since college.

friends with fringe benefits

[It's all about that Taaco brand, fucking around and having fun and never taking anything too seriously. (Until you do and then it's too late anyway.)]

gross TMI babe

How is that TMI?

trust me
it is

What's TMI about it, that I went to college or that I wear jackets?

oh my god
ur disgusting
watch ur mouth before i tell barry you said that

I feel as though there is something fundamental here that I'm missing.

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