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[xceptional.insanejournal.com]

Who: Noric and Xavier
Where: ramshackle rustic house near the Lacerta border of Lepus
When: Year 185, late spring (and onwards)
What: married life

[In the kitchen, Noric shouts through the door into the next room.]

Xavier, either you move this pile of books from where they are, or they will tragically find themselves knocked into the fire.

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Re: [Year 186, fall, Lepus]

[xistential.insanejournal.com]

Are you going to do this the whole day?

Re: [Year 186, fall, Lepus]

[xceptional.insanejournal.com]

For as long as it takes me.

[takes a bundle of odd things and carefully reaching up to put it on the highest shelf, a quiet ache in his side from the old injury.]

Re: [Year 186, fall, Lepus]

[xistential.insanejournal.com]

... As long as it takes?

Re: [Year 186, fall, Lepus]

[xceptional.insanejournal.com]

This is just one room.

Re: [Year 186, fall, Lepus]

[xistential.insanejournal.com]

I see.

Re: [Year 186, fall, Lepus]

[xceptional.insanejournal.com]

[...puts down a pan on the counter]

Am I overstepping?

Re: [Year 186, fall, Lepus]

[xistential.insanejournal.com]

No. Not at all.

Re: [Year 186, fall, Lepus]

[xceptional.insanejournal.com]

All right...

[gets back into it, but a shade more hesitant than before.]

Re: [Year 186, fall, Lepus]

[xistential.insanejournal.com]

It's fine, Noric. Helpful, actually.

Re: [Year 186, fall, Lepus]

[xceptional.insanejournal.com]

[smiles slightly]

Well, of course it is.

Re: [Year 186, fall, Lepus]

[xistential.insanejournal.com]

Indeed.

Re: [Year 186, fall, Lepus]

[xceptional.insanejournal.com]

[turns to keep putting pans away]

...we never had much in the way of metal cooking tools. At home.

Re: [Year 186, fall, Lepus]

[xistential.insanejournal.com]

Oh?

Re: [Year 186, fall, Lepus]

[xceptional.insanejournal.com]

Metal is rare in Orion.

Re: [Year 186, fall, Lepus]

[xistential.insanejournal.com]

Ah. That's right. It isn't here, and we trade fair amounts with Lacerta.

Re: [Year 186, fall, Lepus]

[xceptional.insanejournal.com]

We tended to save it for things like blades and hammers.

[putting plates into a cupboard]

Cookware was mostly stone.

Re: [Year 186, fall, Lepus]

[xistential.insanejournal.com]

I don't think we've used stone in ages.

Re: [Year 186, fall, Lepus]

[xceptional.insanejournal.com]

[shrugs]

Just a difference in resources.

Re: [Year 186, fall, Lepus]

[xistential.insanejournal.com]

I have a book on it. [tentatively] If you like.

Re: [Year 186, fall, Lepus]

[xceptional.insanejournal.com]

Ah... I suppose I should know more about this country.

Re: [Year 186, fall, Lepus]

[xistential.insanejournal.com]

[shrugs]

You might not like what you learn. We're not ... typical.

Re: [Year 186, fall, Lepus]

[xceptional.insanejournal.com]

I've heard rumours enough about Lepus.

[packing away the last of the plates.]

Re: [Year 186, fall, Lepus]

[xistential.insanejournal.com]

Such as?

Re: [Year 186, fall, Lepus]

[xceptional.insanejournal.com]

Sacrificial ones.

Re: [Year 186, fall, Lepus]

[xistential.insanejournal.com]

Oh, that's true.