XIV.

[hellshaped.livejournal.com]

[Outside, Hellboy is wading through leaves, which is actually a little more annoying than you'd think, even for someone who's like seven feet tall.

Eventually he gets frustrated with this stupid bullshit and stops moving, taking out his journal to dictate into it.]

Is it usually like this in the fall? This many leaves, I mean. You'd think the trees would run out of them by now.

At least it's kind of pretty. Reminds me of home, almost. Is there anyone else here from New England?

[He turns around at that point to walk back the way he came, back to the castle --

but the path he forged has already been filled in with leaves.]

Son of a --

[Have some incoherent growling over the journal, Paradisa, accompanied by more crunching as Hellboy trudges back to the castle.]

Comments

Dictated.

[hellshaped.livejournal.com]

Hellboy.

Dictated.

[equestrian-envy.livejournal.com]

Interesting name. But it seems much of the population here are 'blessed' with such names.

Dictated.

[hellshaped.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's a regular convention.

Dictated.

[equestrian-envy.livejournal.com]

It's a regular convention to have completely ridiculous names?

Dictated.

[hellshaped.livejournal.com]

[MAYBE TROLLS REALLY DON'T UNDERSTAND SARCASM.]

It was a joke.

Dictated.

[equestrian-envy.livejournal.com]

How quaint.

Dictated.

[hellshaped.livejournal.com]

Tough crowd.

Dictated.

[equestrian-envy.livejournal.com]

I can assure you, I'm extremely tough in many ways. As the humorous personification of an imaginary crowd for your new and latest joke, I am only being used for such an insignificant amount of said 'toughness'.

Dictated.

[hellshaped.livejournal.com]

Wow, you must be a real hit at parties.

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[equestrian-envy.livejournal.com]

Hardly. Parties are barely worth my time and anything of high esteem I would think myself unworthy of attending unless I... haa, was invited by ...royal blood. [Hissing intake of breath. Too bad there are no highbloods here... Besides himself, of course.]

Dictated.

[hellshaped.livejournal.com]

[This conversation just got a little creepy! Why are you breathing like that, guy. Stop it.]

Royalty, huh. I didn't know you guys had that on your planet.

Dictated.

[equestrian-envy.livejournal.com]

[This is barely scraping the surface of creepy.]

Oh yes. This is most definitely something we had on my planet. [Bites lip.] It's such a pity the structure that is so very gratifying is left for me to follow along with a band of revolting hooligans... [Pause.] Most of them anyway.

Dictated.

[hellshaped.livejournal.com]

[w o w.]

I guess you guys didn't discover democracy yet.

Dictated.

[equestrian-envy.livejournal.com]

Discover?

Oh no no, there is no need for such a thing.

Dictated.

[hellshaped.livejournal.com]

If you're okay with people ruling over you for no other reason than their birthright, sure.

Dictated.

[equestrian-envy.livejournal.com]

Oh. [Heavy breath.] Oh, well of course I am okay with that.

Dictated.

[hellshaped.livejournal.com]

[OH MAN, SO (UNSURE) ...]

Really.

Dictated.

[equestrian-envy.livejournal.com]

Yes.

Dictated.

[hellshaped.livejournal.com]

I think I just decided trolls are weird.

Dictated.

[equestrian-envy.livejournal.com]

We are not weird. How extremely rude of you.

Dictated.

[hellshaped.livejournal.com]

Don't worry. I'm used to weird. It's not a bad thing.