11-28-2017, 08:22 PM
The plop of the book grabbed her attention and was the first thing to pull Margot's attention to the fact that Ned had come to join her in the kitchen. She blinked a few times, receding from the mental journey and clearing the haze from her eyes to bring her attention over the countertop to the cabalmate standing across from her.
It took a half-second for her to process what he was getting at. When it registered she chuckled a little and shook her head, but didn't deny it one ounce. Instead she looked down at the book, then further down and off to the right, at a particular kitchen drawer near by and close to the ground. Margot stooped down to pull it open and dig around, and came back up not with a screwdriver or battery or other miscellaneous something that is typically found in the 'junk drawer', but instead a small wooden box that opened to show a neat and concisely-packed little kit-- pipe, orange prescription bottle holding ground weed, and a lighter. Packing a bowl kept her hands and eyes preoccupied while she spoke.
"It's not my fault that the world has so much to worry over. Here, smoke with me." She'd paused, briefly, leaving a heavy dollop of she's about to say something in the quiet in the air between them before, indeed, carrying on to speak. "A man contacted me, and he claims to be my father." Another pause, to let that rock drop in the water bucket, but not long enough for Ned to chime in before continuing. "He says he's a preacher-Mage in the Celestial Chorus, and he found out I can do--" actual finger quotes are used here "--'miracles', and wants to... help with that path? Reconnect?"
She sighed in and out a deep breath before lifting the pipe and taking a similarly deep hit before setting it in front of him, lighter along with, and blowing the smoke off to the side and upward to the ceiling. "I'm gonna find out the truth of it in a couple hours-- that's where I'm headed, to meet him."
It took a half-second for her to process what he was getting at. When it registered she chuckled a little and shook her head, but didn't deny it one ounce. Instead she looked down at the book, then further down and off to the right, at a particular kitchen drawer near by and close to the ground. Margot stooped down to pull it open and dig around, and came back up not with a screwdriver or battery or other miscellaneous something that is typically found in the 'junk drawer', but instead a small wooden box that opened to show a neat and concisely-packed little kit-- pipe, orange prescription bottle holding ground weed, and a lighter. Packing a bowl kept her hands and eyes preoccupied while she spoke.
"It's not my fault that the world has so much to worry over. Here, smoke with me." She'd paused, briefly, leaving a heavy dollop of she's about to say something in the quiet in the air between them before, indeed, carrying on to speak. "A man contacted me, and he claims to be my father." Another pause, to let that rock drop in the water bucket, but not long enough for Ned to chime in before continuing. "He says he's a preacher-Mage in the Celestial Chorus, and he found out I can do--" actual finger quotes are used here "--'miracles', and wants to... help with that path? Reconnect?"
She sighed in and out a deep breath before lifting the pipe and taking a similarly deep hit before setting it in front of him, lighter along with, and blowing the smoke off to the side and upward to the ceiling. "I'm gonna find out the truth of it in a couple hours-- that's where I'm headed, to meet him."