"Aww, come on now, you're just trying to scare a fella." He hoped. He really, really hoped. "Anyway you're mighty upbeat for a dead person so you'll excuse me if I don't dread even the worst outcome as much as all that."
Satisfying himself about 20% with that logic, he took a deeper breath and then evaluated them more closely at the blink, trying to read their face properly. It was both easier than a regular skull and weirder/more distracting than a fleshy overcoat.
"Don't fret." He said with a quiet, but growing amusement of his own, "I only do that kinda service for a fee, I ain't never gonna do it for free."
He raised an eyebrow at their answer about graveyards, folding his arms with the cane tucked under one elbow. "I ain't been here myself but a few hours, so maybe you do things different, but where I come from most of the time the dead only pop up uninvited during the Fête Gede, and that's not gonna be til November." As an afterthought, he informed them, "You ain't welcome under my bed when I get around to getting one. I'm gonna have trouble enough sleeping after you doing your portentous demise routine on me."
Though he did seem more relaxed the longer he talked to them, and the more he got the sense that he could handle at least the immediate challenges. "Never did get a name from you."
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Date: 2016-10-12 05:26 pm (UTC)Satisfying himself about 20% with that logic, he took a deeper breath and then evaluated them more closely at the blink, trying to read their face properly. It was both easier than a regular skull and weirder/more distracting than a fleshy overcoat.
"Don't fret." He said with a quiet, but growing amusement of his own, "I only do that kinda service for a fee, I ain't never gonna do it for free."
He raised an eyebrow at their answer about graveyards, folding his arms with the cane tucked under one elbow. "I ain't been here myself but a few hours, so maybe you do things different, but where I come from most of the time the dead only pop up uninvited during the Fête Gede, and that's not gonna be til November." As an afterthought, he informed them, "You ain't welcome under my bed when I get around to getting one. I'm gonna have trouble enough sleeping after you doing your portentous demise routine on me."
Though he did seem more relaxed the longer he talked to them, and the more he got the sense that he could handle at least the immediate challenges. "Never did get a name from you."