1.1.01.01.032: to be countermanded by the primes.

[needshumility]

[Backdated to just before the end of the flood]

...I hate this flood. I really, really hate this flood.

[PRIVATE TO SVETA]

How. How do you put up with her? How?

She's more demanding than Violet. Than Violet's mother! Than... GAH. [just frustration and then....

Oh, it's over.]

Come get your inmate. Please. Please.

[Private to Jane]

I am entirely fed up and am going to get tauping Limed.

Are you joining me?

Petronilla is crazier than... she's just crazy!

Comments

Private

[greatlightother.livejournal.com]

She's not a possession. I can't just go pick her up. Tell her to leave. [Pause.] And I'll send yours.

Re: Private

[needshumility.livejournal.com]

Knowing her, knowing her, Svetlana, she'll... refuse to leave. Just to annoy me. She'll be living in my bathroom in ten minutes, I swear.

I'll see what she says.

Re: Private

[greatlightother.livejournal.com]

Be firm with her.

Re: Private

[needshumility.livejournal.com]

...Shall do.

private-

[thebestnose.livejournal.com]

Eddie. Did you see who my inmate is? This is obviously a joke.

I would have said no before, but...yes. I'll join you.

Re: private-

[needshumility.livejournal.com]

No, I was half busy trying to get rid of...

No.

What in the name of Munsell?

I'm now half tempted to upgrade to Lincoln, but I'll come to your room once I've got rid of my former-inmate-for-the-weekend.

Re: private-

[thebestnose.livejournal.com]

I'll be here. I'm enjoying my privacy for the moment.

...which I never thought I'd say about this place.

Re: private-

[needshumility.livejournal.com]

It's nice not to have someone tailing after you, isn't it?

Re: private-

[thebestnose.livejournal.com]

I don't know which one of us was doing the tailing.

Just come over here.

Re: private-

[needshumility.livejournal.com]

Now you might find out.

[Knocking on her door five minutes later]

spam

[thebestnose.livejournal.com]

[She opened it and stepped back, looking tired and stressed. Sexby's file was sitting on her desk, completely untouched.]

Re: spam

[needshumility.livejournal.com]

[He walked in, having shoved a swatch of Lime in his pocket, and looks incredibly tired and frustrated himself.]

I can't believe you got him. That's... that's hardly fair.

Re: spam

[thebestnose.livejournal.com]

Fair? Look at you...talking about fairness, Mister Red Prefect. [She shut the door behind him and flopped down into a chair.]

Re: spam

[needshumility.livejournal.com]

Excuse me, Miss Brunswick, but I have to be a hypocrite. It's one of the first Rules of being a Prefect.

[He broke into a smile and sat down on the couch, reaching into his jacket pocket for the swatches.]

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

I didn't think it was so awful.

private

[needshumility.livejournal.com]

I think it depended on who you got stuck to.

private

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

Mr. Slater. As I said the other day.

Re: private

[needshumility.livejournal.com]

Petronilla was...

Frustrating.

Re: private

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

She doesn't seem very sociable. Mr. Slater isn't either, but it seems more forgivable in a man.

Re: private

[needshumility.livejournal.com]

...why is it more forgivable in a man?

Petronilla's just like... being chained to the scariest mother-in-law you know.

Re: private

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure. It just strikes me as natural for a man to be retiring and...byronic.

What did she do?

Re: private

[needshumility.livejournal.com]

Byronic?

Nothing really, she was just... persistently demanding. Nothing was ever good enough. Just like Mrs De Mauve.

Re: private

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

Um. "Handsomely grouchy."

What sorts of things did she demand?

[what_ho_jeeves]

What ho, Eddie!

The flood wasn't so bad. Although it did produce some certain amount of awkwardness all around. And it was difficult to behave in a purely gentlemanly manner, simply because there are some things a gentleman must do regularly that simply cannot be done with a filly in close proximity. [He means dressing and sleeping and bathing.]

Still, Miss Lua is a charming girl. She's probably glad to be well rid of me but is polite enough not to say so.

[needshumility.livejournal.com]

What ho!

That was quite awkward, I have to agree, and I ended up sleeping against my bathroom door.

I think me and the inmate I got left with couldn't wait to get apart.