The Old City
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singindemonhqFirewalled against those who mean harm.
See the words, obey the charm.
One of the things we'd come to London to do was to hunt. We could be going back to Sunnydale to fight a kind of war, and I needed my mojo as strong as I could make it.
Erynne hadn't seen London before - in theory, there wasn't any reason that we couldn't do the gig and sightsee at the same time. In practice, though, people looking over St Martin in the Fields or Big Ben don't tend to have strong, basic emotional reactions.
One thing that kept on surprising Erynne is that London is small. I mean the City of London. The part the Romans conquerors called Londinium, back around the time that Herod ruled in Jerusalem.
It's changed a lot since then, though. It changes all the time. A few centuries back they used to have these beamed houses where the top stories were built bulging out over the street. No plumbing. They used to just tip it out of the upper windows - often onto people passing underneath.
There was a lot of rage back then - a lot of plague, too. I remember a gig there right before the Great Fire of London cleaned the Black Death from the City.
See the words, obey the charm.
One of the things we'd come to London to do was to hunt. We could be going back to Sunnydale to fight a kind of war, and I needed my mojo as strong as I could make it.
Erynne hadn't seen London before - in theory, there wasn't any reason that we couldn't do the gig and sightsee at the same time. In practice, though, people looking over St Martin in the Fields or Big Ben don't tend to have strong, basic emotional reactions.
One thing that kept on surprising Erynne is that London is small. I mean the City of London. The part the Romans conquerors called Londinium, back around the time that Herod ruled in Jerusalem.
It's changed a lot since then, though. It changes all the time. A few centuries back they used to have these beamed houses where the top stories were built bulging out over the street. No plumbing. They used to just tip it out of the upper windows - often onto people passing underneath.
There was a lot of rage back then - a lot of plague, too. I remember a gig there right before the Great Fire of London cleaned the Black Death from the City.
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Date: 2003-10-15 04:18 pm (UTC)You were always in the stories and you're in them now -
but now they're about you....
*singing softly*
Would you want to be a "damsel"?
Damsels are a bore...
There to get the heroes fighting,
It's almost all they're for...
They get their happy ending
and they never think of more,
There's a multiverse out there
and worlds you've never seen,
when we reach my ...
*stops, looking sharply toward man in the near distance...*
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Date: 2003-10-15 04:35 pm (UTC)Ah. You want to...have a word with him?
*glances around to make sure rest of park is
deserted*
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Date: 2003-10-15 04:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-15 05:54 pm (UTC)when we ran into him before, I've met Chaos demons
who were less slimy!
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Date: 2003-10-15 06:06 pm (UTC)Shush, you're talking about a respected psychiatrist, I think! In a normal gig I'd be told the targets and then smoke around and find out more - but I've heard a few people sing about him.
People like him throw some work in the way of demons like me. He didn't make much of a song about it last time. Wanna hear more? From the way he was stroking that brief-case he's thinking about his work.
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Date: 2003-10-15 06:08 pm (UTC)Sounds good to me. Let's do it!
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Date: 2003-10-15 06:19 pm (UTC)*The smartly dressed man walking ahead of them suddenly begins to dance, quite gracefully, with his briefcase as a partner*
*singing*
When relationships turn violent,
And the victims won’t stay silent,
I always analyse as I’ve been taught,
If they even get a glower,
From a character with power,
I can always prove that
It’s the victims’ fault.
My testimony's valued
when they call me into court.
I answer all the queries
in the way that I've been taught,
I'm out giving paid testimony
almost all the time
(and I probably do more damage than
the one who did the crime.)
*Swings around a lamppost, swirling
his briefcase with him.*
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Date: 2003-10-15 06:42 pm (UTC)Mind if I wipe that smile off his face?
*hands clench into fists*
*takes a step toward the man*
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Date: 2003-10-23 02:59 pm (UTC)*Consultant continues to dance on the path, staying in the pool of light around the lamp and clinging to the pole almost like a lap-dancer.
……………………………………….
*Reaching up to catch your hand, fingers around your closed fist,
without looking away from the dancing man*.
*Speaking, softly*
and how would you stop him smiling, Little Wolf?
Life is but a song for this one.
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Date: 2003-10-23 03:04 pm (UTC)at least--What do you have in mind?
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Date: 2003-10-23 03:10 pm (UTC)Well, if you bite him won't you have him around for a real long time?
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Date: 2003-10-23 03:13 pm (UTC)I'm open to suggestions here; you need him angry, not
smug, I'd thought?
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Date: 2003-10-23 03:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-23 03:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-23 03:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-23 03:33 pm (UTC)compared to our 'tour' of that army base a few weeks ago.
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Date: 2003-10-23 03:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-23 03:43 pm (UTC)usually aren't "staged" once they get started. I was looking
for you, not someone else.
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Date: 2003-10-23 03:46 pm (UTC)that by the Lore for me,
you should see a burning,
in the wedding ceremony?
People fool themselves a lot
more than safely should
never want to kid yourself
my magic's safely good.
Energies build up too strong,
rage will fuel the fire
if this guy gets angry
it could light his funeral pyre...
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Date: 2003-10-23 03:49 pm (UTC)*meets your eyes seriously*
No turning back now,
Or looking away,
Power never comes free,
someone has to pay...
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Date: 2003-10-23 03:54 pm (UTC)Showtime