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Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2017 4:42 pm
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Theo had always been nicer while working than he was anywhere else, especially at the garage where he had to get information out of people without immediately turning them against him. He was feeling kind of upbeat today on top of it all, which was why he met Nasir's confusion with a smile that lived mostly in his eyes, rather than his usual minor scowl. He held a thin, metal rod out in front of him that had a disgusting quantity of oil clinging to it, and when he stopped, a blob of it broke free and landed on the toe of his boot. It should have stayed put, melting into the suede and ruining it, but it slid off like it was unwelcome, gathering on the floor in a tiny puddle. Theo paid his miracle shoes no mind. They were probably just coated with something.
"Can I help you with anything?"
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Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2017 1:30 pm
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Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2017 9:26 pm
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Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2017 8:20 am
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Theo could just barely recall a time when people talking to themselves in public had been frowned upon, but these days everybody had phones and blueteeth and that kind of behavior was barely noticed, not even by him. It was only after he had been standing there for a minute or so that he caught sight of the furry thing on Nasir's shoulder, and once he did, Theo wondered how he had been blind to it before.
It seemed well behaved enough, his only real question was why?
"You've got a squirrel," he said a little stupidly, smiling in a small, wary way. "It's cute." Kids these days. Not that this one was very much younger than he was, but Theo had a tendency to react to everyone as if he was an irritable granddad and they were on his lawn.
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Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2017 6:12 pm
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"Oh." He felt vaguely chastened, as if he had threatened a man's kid somehow without knowing such a thing was even a possibility. Theo raised an apologetic hand and muttered, "Well, he's nice, like I said," and was ready to turn and get back to work when he had a notion. Maybe this was caution, not because he had done something personally, but because someone else might. Like, maybe it was a magic squirrel. A weird pet that pooped diamonds or something.
"Is he... um... Gloomy?" Theo added, feeling like an idiot as soon as the words were out of his mouth. He had tried this once before, hinting around the existence of the magical world by referencing the Lord of the Rings, and he had sounded just as stupid then.
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Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2017 7:54 pm
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Nasir almost felt guilty, as if he was not sharing because ... well, he wasn't but he was trying to not just out himself as magical anymore. Not without-
The young man visibly perked up at the mention of Gloomy. "Oh! Well, no? Not like Gloom, at least. That's, um, extra special. Trouble is ... a regular flying squirrel that became special." A breath let out. "I feel silly phrasing it this way." His fingers rested against Trouble, fingers brushing against his fur lightly. "Do you, um ... have magic? I mean, you mentioned Gloom ... Well, Gloomy."
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