Oh fuck, we did, didn't we? Man... I wanted to get Hunter in a Nosferatu costume this year.
[At least it's brighter than it was, which might help him out. Taylor leads him into the house, where she's opened a big room towards the back - the room that was Kiryu's before. Now it's got her collection of mannequins, with shirts and a swimsuit in various stages of completeness. One that's barely begun makes it clear how they're made - faint traceries of web are still being laid down over one another, layer after layer after layer. No spiders are present right now, but their work is obvious if he can see enough.]
[Her grin widens, pleased that he isn't in the least bothered.]
Mostly Darwin's bark spiders - they're a kind of orb weaver, totally harmless if you're not a fly and they outproduce everything else by two to one. Some black widows - their silk is strongest, but I don't like to keep a large population here.
I kept a lot of my working population on the greenhouse roof, so I'm having to rebuild my numbers, but I've still got enough in here to do some work.
[Thankfully Hanna has seen his fair share of creepy crawlies. He's not afraid of most things, spiders don't make the list, though there definitely is something about the way some bigger insects move that make him slightly uncomfortable.
Pulling back so he isnt inches away from her work to see it, he nods, glancing around the room curiously. He'llhave to come back when hes got his new glasses.]
Aww, did some of them get roasted in the fire? I thought the green house got the least of it anyways...bummer.
It doesn't take much. A lot of them wiped each other out too, since I wasn't there to keep peace. Territorial.
[She reaches into a box tucked back on a shelf, and pulls out a large and spiny spider, with a body about the size of a quarter, letting it crawl across her palm before setting it on the mannequin to keep laying down silk.]
I visited him right after he left. Had to make sure he didn't get sent back to the Boiling Isles. He's good. He's- in the best possible place for him, with Dracula and his family.
Oh yeah, he said he was adopted by Vlad Tepes. Which, I'm sure he was kind of scary, but also rad as hell.
You think you might visit again sometime? I was thinking...I wanted to apologize. And I know he has no idea what I did, but when I used Atticus to summon that alternate dimension, I felt like it was a betrayal somehow, even if I didn't know what would happen.
What did go down...I don't really want to use it for that, and I'm sure he would have been thoroughly disappointed.
Hmm... [He'd written little things on pieces of paper and burned them before, just to get it out and away from him, but an actual letter?]
I'll think about it. If I actually write something worth sending, I'll make sure you know about it. [Which reminds him of that page in the Speakeasy where he'd written some things down on Hunter's long after he'd gone. Perhaps he could look at it again, see if anything there was worth sharing.]
I think you just want us to be twinning, but I have nothing against that, so I would totally wear one of those. Just, so long as the neck isn't like so tight, that is the worst. I had one turtle neck when I was a kid, and I was a small kid, so I dunno who this thing was for, but I felt like it was choking me. Never stretched out.
[She laughs, eyes squinting shut for a moment.] Honestly, like four fifths of my wardrobe is tank tops with bug puns. If you want to twin, I can share. But turtlenecks are life-saving.
[Literally. She doesn't say it aloud, but she touches her own throat, thumb absently following the ghost of a blade from years ago.]
Uh, I think I'd be kind of swimming, no offense. Thanks for the offer though. [That and tank tops really aren't his thing. Unless everyone wants to see his nasty little secret under his shirt, and he doesn't really want that either.]
Cool, I'm excited for it! Custom digs. Spider bespoke, like I'm weird, paranormal James Bond.
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[At least it's brighter than it was, which might help him out. Taylor leads him into the house, where she's opened a big room towards the back - the room that was Kiryu's before. Now it's got her collection of mannequins, with shirts and a swimsuit in various stages of completeness. One that's barely begun makes it clear how they're made - faint traceries of web are still being laid down over one another, layer after layer after layer. No spiders are present right now, but their work is obvious if he can see enough.]
I don't use a sewing machine.
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Walking in, the small details are practically impossible to discern, but he does get up real close, can see it then at least.]
woah...what kind of spiders are you using anyways?
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Mostly Darwin's bark spiders - they're a kind of orb weaver, totally harmless if you're not a fly and they outproduce everything else by two to one. Some black widows - their silk is strongest, but I don't like to keep a large population here.
I kept a lot of my working population on the greenhouse roof, so I'm having to rebuild my numbers, but I've still got enough in here to do some work.
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Pulling back so he isnt inches away from her work to see it, he nods, glancing around the room curiously. He'llhave to come back when hes got his new glasses.]
Aww, did some of them get roasted in the fire? I thought the green house got the least of it anyways...bummer.
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[She reaches into a box tucked back on a shelf, and pulls out a large and spiny spider, with a body about the size of a quarter, letting it crawl across her palm before setting it on the mannequin to keep laying down silk.]
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[He squints at the drawer, the spider a blurry shape in her hand before it gets started.]
Is it usually just one working or you can get them to play nice while they're doing their weaving?
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Does the alarm still work now that he's gone? I know Shaw hangs out down there sometimes.
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It doesn't. Folk started using the net as a toy, so he took out the alarm because it's just kind of awful.
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[He is curious though...]
Do you still keep in contact? I know Wardens can go off Barge. He doing alright?
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You think you might visit again sometime? I was thinking...I wanted to apologize. And I know he has no idea what I did, but when I used Atticus to summon that alternate dimension, I felt like it was a betrayal somehow, even if I didn't know what would happen.
What did go down...I don't really want to use it for that, and I'm sure he would have been thoroughly disappointed.
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I can't take you along unless you graduate first, but I can take a letter?
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I dunno. That feels a little weird. Send a letter to a guy I knew for like three weeks tops?
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I'll think about it. If I actually write something worth sending, I'll make sure you know about it. [Which reminds him of that page in the Speakeasy where he'd written some things down on Hunter's long after he'd gone. Perhaps he could look at it again, see if anything there was worth sharing.]
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[Just to let him know that option is always there.]
So, what do you think? A turtleneck?
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I think you just want us to be twinning, but I have nothing against that, so I would totally wear one of those. Just, so long as the neck isn't like so tight, that is the worst. I had one turtle neck when I was a kid, and I was a small kid, so I dunno who this thing was for, but I felt like it was choking me. Never stretched out.
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[Literally. She doesn't say it aloud, but she touches her own throat, thumb absently following the ghost of a blade from years ago.]
I'll make it a bit loose. Better that way anyway.
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Cool, I'm excited for it! Custom digs. Spider bespoke, like I'm weird, paranormal James Bond.
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