voice, 10/17

[vagabone]

Hey, those necklaces the dragon was hoarding, the ones with the creepy heart and bloody veins? I think they give you good dreams. Or cure nightmares, same difference. Not sure what the catch is yet, if there is one, but I'm betting I'm not the only one who could use it.

[Short, sweet and to the point!]

Comments

[demonpuppy]

Forgot...wait. You didn't know about vampires before, right?

[vagabone]

I know what they are, I just didn't believe in them. Can't say I want to either.

[Even being dead and all. Who can blame him? Everything he's heard in his own world suggests they mostly go after children.]

[demonpuppy]

They're not that bad. I wonder why yours're still keeping things secret, though.

[vagabone]

Probably so we don't panic and go on a vampire killing spree. It's safer.

[demonpuppy]

But that's why they...ugh.

[vagabone]

And it worked?

[It's not what he'd do, were he a kid-eating vampire!!]

[demonpuppy]

It's not like they kill people. Blood banks exist, you know!

[Not that the donations to blood banks could ever feasibly sustain the vampire populace and service the medical community, but that's the beauty of good PR.]

[vagabone]

What the heck is a bl--dios mío, that's disgusting. Nevermind, I don't want to know.

[He thinks he can guess and he wishes he couldn't.]

[demonpuppy]

[Really?]

When're you even from?

[vagabone]

[Siiigh. Someone help him stop thinking about blood. Ew.]

Eh, I died in 1921. And you know, skeletons don't need any of... that.

[demonpuppy]

...

Wow. No wonder you're only bones.

[Chip.]

[vagabone]

[Well, now he's laughing a bit, so all is fine.]

Hah, I actually like being bones though. What year are you from?

[demonpuppy]

2017. Did you have cars yet?

[vagabone]

Barely. They started taking off a few years after I died. We have them in the land of the dead, though. I can even drive a little myself.

[...Theoretically. He might actually manage not to crash next time.]

[demonpuppy]

Is there future stuff there, too? When do flying cars happen?

[vagabone]

Flying... cars? You mean airplanes?

[Who has two thumbs and totally missed out on the flying car hype.] Yeah, we have airplanes in the living world. Probably not in the spirit world, not that I've ever heard. Be cool to fly in one, though.

[demonpuppy]

No, I mean cars that fly! Like you get in and just nyoooooooooom!

[The little hand motion can't be seen but you just KNOW it's there.]

[vagabone]

Iii... don't think so.

[But he sure hates to disappoint!] We've got these trolleys on cables in the land of the dead, that's sort of like flying?

[demonpuppy]

...sort of...I've never been on one, though.

...never been on a plane, either, I guess.

[vagabone]

Me neither. I've never even seen an airplane with my own eyes, I don't think there are any in the land of the dead...

Probably a good thing, I'd be trying to sneak on board them twenty four seven. I'd love to ride on one just to see what it's like.

[demonpuppy]

I've seen them in the sky, but not up close. They're really loud! You can hear the engine even when they're up high!

[vagabone]

You serious?

[Not to say he doesn't believe them!] How does anyone ride the things, then? You'd go deaf after one flight!

[demonpuppy]

I dunno...I think it's sound-proofed or something? Movies never have it loud in the cabins.