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Milliways is sometimes empty.
It never stays that way for long.
various vampires in Milliways
girls-just-wanna
"Lydia, you should really lighten up. Cats aren't even people! We're being perfectly humanitarian."
girls-just-wanna
"I know that! I'm just calling you Lydia because you look like the chick from Beetlejuice. You're easily the gothiest person at this vampire bar. Apart from the living corpse, maybe."
"The what?"
"She's not wearing black," Maggie points out. Leekath is in fact wearing slate blue and purple.
"She's not wearing black," Maggie points out. Leekath is in fact wearing slate blue and purple.
girls-just-wanna
"Yeah, but she's got the whole... fangs and pallor and inky-black hair, thing going. I knew girls back in junior high who would've killed for that kind of coloration."
think-me-not-cruel
"I don't know, I've known a lot of people with your coloration who got it by killing people. It's certainly an option."
girls-just-wanna
"So, Maggie, you mentioned sparkling. And it being pretty. Would it be patronizing and weird to ask you to demonstrate?"
"Aren't you lot allergic to sunshine?" asks Maggie. "How allergic? For that matter, where are we going to find sunshine?"
The backyard is currently experiencing its day cycle, says the bar. If that is deemed too risky I could provide a directional ultraviolet lamp for you to borrow.
"Huh," says Maggie. "Right, what do you all say to those options?"
The backyard is currently experiencing its day cycle, says the bar. If that is deemed too risky I could provide a directional ultraviolet lamp for you to borrow.
"Huh," says Maggie. "Right, what do you all say to those options?"
needle-in-echo-groove
"Can't speak for the bumpy contingent, but for red and black court it's direct sunlight only, and the whites don't have any reaction at all because they're fakey fake vampires."
"Hey!"
(The bumpy contingent nods in agreement.)
"Hey!"
(The bumpy contingent nods in agreement.)
"My spell is probably broken, but I can do this," says Leekath, and suddenly she's wearing a full-body hooded cloak with gloves and embroidery.
"Right, I'll go lean out the back door then," says Maggie, and she locates the back door, leans out of it, and sparkles.
"Right, I'll go lean out the back door then," says Maggie, and she locates the back door, leans out of it, and sparkles.
Maggie twirls. "Aren't I just? Part of the upgrade - the sparkles and general cosmetic enhancements, that is. Nobody looked this good during the potato famine."
girls-just-wanna
"Were they gay in the potato famine? I ask purely out of intellectual curiosity.*"
*This is sarcasm. Intellectual curiosity is not involved in any part of this question.
*This is sarcasm. Intellectual curiosity is not involved in any part of this question.
"I was. Don't get your hopes up, ducky, my kind of vampire does love at first sight and is much less about casual hookups, and I don't love you."
"There's nothing for you to pass on. If it were going to happen I'd have been gooey over you from the first moment," snorts Maggie. "I don't think it even does happen to people who think love's disgusting, same reason I can be sure if it happens to me it'll be a woman."
girls-just-wanna
"I think that the risk alone would bar me entirely from your world. That means I'm either sneaking into Lavinia's world when her door comes back, or I'm going with one or more of the weird triplicate vamps. Though there's no need to pack up just yet, I'm just looking at my options."
"Oh, I wouldn't bring you home, Siobhan's very strict about who she lets on her island and I don't know that you'd count as not a vampire to the point where she wouldn't kill you anyway."
girls-just-wanna
"Well, I don't know that that's fair! You could've told her you brought me in and I'd've fucked off to California and not bothered you again. Unless we became pen pals or something."
"Oi, I like my working relationship with my covenmates, why would I screw it up for you? She'd understand if it was a mate, those're different, but some presumptuous bint I met in a bar?"
girls-just-wanna
"I wasn't suggesting that you put me up for a week until I got my feet back! She wouldn't even accept me setting foot on her soil in order to immediately hop off it? It's not like I'd poach on her land, I happen to enjoy not being a pile of dust."
"She's very strict about it. There's one she can't catch, and it pisses her off, and that makes her so much the stricter." Maggie tires of leaning out the door. She shuts it and meanders back into the bar. "Barkeep, more of the same, or something else you'd recommend."
Just "Bar", please. €8.45 for my next suggestion.
Maggie produces euros and gets something fizzy and gold.
Just "Bar", please. €8.45 for my next suggestion.
Maggie produces euros and gets something fizzy and gold.