MCA#0, Thursday Night

[needsaparrot]

After a night of patrolling with Mel turned into Slayerfest 2007, Xander had decided to pass on following that up with a trip to Caritas, and had instead headed home to relax. He could thus now be found curled up on the couch poking Amazon.com about a new copy of a certain book, now that his laptop was all shipshape and internets-getting again, post-blackout.
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[OOC: for certain expected guestages.]

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[not_in_the_book]

"Thank you." Ronan smiled. "I've got a good place to start, now, and that's more than I had before."

[needsaparrot]

Xander filed the conversation away to ask Bridge about later, but didn't push his way into it. "Thanks for getting him back here," he told Ronan instead.

[not_in_the_book]

"It really was no worry at all." Ronan nodded. "It was a pleasure to meet you both," he said.

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

//Same here,// Bridge says, and he would've smiled, but ferret-facial-expressions are sort of limited that way. //See you later, then?//

[not_in_the_book]

"Absolutely." Ronan waved to Xander and Bridge as he departed.

[needsaparrot]

Xander closes the door behind him, then looks down at the ferret on his arm. "...If it didn't involve a tree, do I want to know what it did involve?"

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

//Do you want me to start from the beginning?// Bridge asks.

[needsaparrot]

"...Sure." Xander is fully aware that with Bridge, that might mean ...and the morning and the evening were the first day... but he's willing to risk it. He likes the sound of Bridge's voice, after all. Even if it currently seems to be issuing from a ferret.

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

//I was just out in the Preserve, because sometimes the cabins are just... too many people, all at once, you know? And just thinking about stuff, and then Ronan was there, and he seemed pretty upset.// he pauses, trying to figure out how much detail to go in to without actually betraying Ronan's confidence. //He'd made a really hard decision pretty recently, and was dealing with the after-effects of it... kinda badly.// Not that Bridge knows at all what that's like. //So we talked for a while, and then I leaned back against a tree and was a ferret again. Only Ronan says the tree said it wasn't its fault. So apparently this was just completely random.//

[needsaparrot]

Xander takes that in as he carries Bridge over to the couch. ...where the computer is still open to the Amazon page about the book, yes.

"So we hope that you change back completely randomly too?"

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

//It usually does,// Bridge says, not sounding terribly concerned. And then does a wee ferret headtilt at the computer screen.

[needsaparrot]

"...What?"

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

//Ordering new reading material?// Way to state the obvious, there.

[needsaparrot]

"...Possibly. If we mean 'Did I lose my old copy somewhere in Tenerife.'"

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

//Oh,// Bridge says. //I don't have *any* books, well I mean I have books but they're not books about sex and wow is this a weird conversation to be having when I'm like this.//

[needsaparrot]

"Well, it's not that I need the reference manual..." Xander coughs. "But the pictures are nice."

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

//Oh,// Bridge is really not quite sure what to say to that. Especially given his current non-human-shaped form.

[needsaparrot]

"I ran across some guy studying it in the park this week." Xander frowns. "And then he pointed out that the new sheriff's name sounds like a porn star, so I may have to hate him forever."

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

//The guy in the park, or the sheriff?// Bridge asks.

[needsaparrot]

"The guy in the park. I may just have to avoid the sheriff forever, so I don't accidentally call him Sheriff Ron Jeremy."