[Accidental Video]

[whatwas]

[The PCD is set on a bedside table, so nothing is really the center of focus. The part of the window in view is carefully boarded up, and the bed is large and clean. And occupied.

Horst wakes the moment the sun is gone, just a twitch of the fingers at first and then a groggy mumble. He rolls onto his side, instinctively moving towards warmth. Yuca is next to him, though very much awake; the PCD can't see much of him at first, though.

Horst's arm snakes around Yuca's waist and pulls him closer.]

Hey. Fancy meeting you here.

...House is quiet. What'd you do with the kids?

[He sees the blinking light, makes a face, and turns the PCD off]

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[neverquitedies.livejournal.com]

[He looks at him, scrutinizing.]

...hm.

[After a long moment, Yuca turns back to his book. And then, idly-]

Wait until the event is over to make sure you feel the same way.

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[ahandsomedevil.livejournal.com]

I will.

[He frowns at the book then.]

Astrology?

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[neverquitedies.livejournal.com]

It's a nice change of pace.

[Humming.]

Was there a man named Galileo in your world?

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[ahandsomedevil.livejournal.com]

Of course. I didn't know he had anything to do with Astrology...?

[Mostly because Horst has never really subscribed to the notion of it. His family has always been too pragmatic for it.]

Tell me some trivia to wow people with.

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[neverquitedies.livejournal.com]

Not in my world. I've never heard of him before.

[He shrugs.]

What sorts of things do you want to know? This book is a little dated.

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[ahandsomedevil.livejournal.com]

Mm, he's one of those victims of his time.

[He strokes Yuca's hair absently, like one would a cat--except Horst doesn't like cats, so he has Yuca instead.]

Tell me something about Tauruses. If there's anything believable.

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[neverquitedies.livejournal.com]

It's astrology, not horoscopes.

[That still gets a little smile out of him anyway.]

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[ahandsomedevil.livejournal.com]

[Horst grins. He'll never let on he knows the difference; read, him? Nah.

Besides, the smile was all he was really after.]

And what does astrology tell us little humans?

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[neverquitedies.livejournal.com]

Nothing, really. Nothing useful, at any rate.

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[ahandsomedevil.livejournal.com]

That's not true. You can draw power from the stars for certain spells. A supernova will give you a different property than, say, an O-type blue star like Sirius or Vega. And if you want a spell to have lasting, increasingly mounting properties, you should always stick with red giants.

[A pause, and he scoffs faintly. He's not a magician, he's not much of anything now besides a spouse and parent, and being able to put use to what should be useless trivia seems to annoy him. Why know something you have no use for? He'd rather leave that sort of thing to Yuca, and then bug him for random details later.]

Anyway. I found a map, and I'm fairly sure I drew it, but I can't really decipher it. Have I mentioned the Inner City to you lately...? At all?