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[balaton]

June 8 195x

.:456 Stone st :.

[After such a drastic event, the house at this address is immaculately clean, for a change. There is none of the usual rubble that normally befalls it, and even the stairs are intact for once. In fact, flowers line the living room on every stable surface. The largest vase is in the kitchen, though, where Hungary is doing the last touches to the icing on her cake. Ella Fitzgerald play on the phonograph.

It's someone's wedding anniversary. If you're nearby and can smell the flowers or the food, come pay a visit for free cake.]


.: Make-out Point:.

[Hungary is wasting what precious ammunition she has shooting targets, over and over again until nothing remains of them but tufts. The trees are next.]

Comments

[muskatli.livejournal.com]

I've never heard of that land.

[She sets her rifle down and wipes at her brow.] Tell me more.

[hideandhero.livejournal.com]

Land? Try the majority of the galaxy. The capital is on Terra and guided by the God-Emperor, we fight off xenos and the forces of the Dark Gods.

[muskatli.livejournal.com]

So you're not a human, and yet you say Terra.

Interesting.

[hideandhero.livejournal.com]

I'm perfectly human. Commissar Ciaphas Cain of the 597th Valhallan Imperial Guard regiment.

[muskatli.livejournal.com]

I'm not. The People's Republic of Hungary [Extends a hand to shake his]

[hideandhero.livejournal.com]

You look human enough to me.

[Shaking her hand.]

[muskatli.livejournal.com]

I'm an idea, but this is how we're seen.

[hideandhero.livejournal.com]

I'll just pretend I understood that.

[muskatli.livejournal.com]

It's easier for humans to cope with our existence that way.

[hideandhero.livejournal.com]

We should get back to talking about guns.

[muskatli.livejournal.com]

Do you have any on you right now?

[hideandhero.livejournal.com]

All I've got is a pistol and a chainsword on me.

[muskatli.livejournal.com]

Bet you can't snap the branch over there with a shot.

[hideandhero.livejournal.com]

[He pulls his pistol out of the holster and spins it around his finger before clumsily dropping it on the ground. Oops.]

Forget you saw that. Now...that branch over there? How much do you want to bet?

[muskatli.livejournal.com]

I have cake at home. [She says with ample seriousness]

[hideandhero.livejournal.com]

And what happens when I lose?

[muskatli.livejournal.com]

Buy me a drink.

[hideandhero.livejournal.com]

That can be arranged too. Now, let's see here.

[popping a magazine into his pistol]

[muskatli.livejournal.com]

[Watching intently, mostly to memorize the mechanism]

[hideandhero.livejournal.com]

[He pulls back on the action and then he holds his left arm out in front of him like a bar. Then he sets the wrist of his pistol holding hand on that arm to steady himself and takes aim. For a guy who can peg a running orc's head who's almost out of sight, that branch goes down easy in one trigger pull.]

[muskatli.livejournal.com]

That... Was a lucky shot.

[hideandhero.livejournal.com]

Really?

[He shoots a smiley face into the tree with the rest of his bullets.]

I think I just pulled the wool over your eyes.

[muskatli.livejournal.com]

And I think you just got lucky. You need a real target.

[hideandhero.livejournal.com]

Either way, I think I'll take the cake and the drink date.