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[slingshots]

a couple things:
what kinda gig did you run back home? the 9-5, you know. humor me, i got a theory.
also, what's the worst ever happened taking the kitchen up on all that chow? anything?

fine, make that a FEW things, here's the one more:
if anyone got spare chicken, or animal training tips, pipe up. i'll take them all.

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[slingshots]

loyalty to the job, even in another universe. i'm sure they're touched. what kinda articles in a mag like that?
it's training for the thing the chicken's for, actually.

[headlining]

Reports on strange occurrences, phenomenon, folklore and tall tales that have somehow survived to modern times. Everything from chakras to the existence of otherworldly beings from another universe.

And what is the thing the chicken's for? You're not going to feed it to something, are you?

[slingshots]

lake monster. doesn't have to be a LIVE chicken, i kind of prefer it's not.
guess you got a lot to write about around here.

[headlining]

Lake monster? That's my bread and butter you're talking about, here. What kind of monster? Surely not Nessie?

I have my hands full, honestly. I have enough material to keep my magazine going single-handedly for the next couple hundred years.

[slingshots]

not sure. there's tentacles, if it helps.
are you gonna?

[headlining]

Kraken, then?

And perhaps! Maybe I'll take a well-deserved vacation.

[slingshots]

tell you what, i'll ask it next time it next time it pulls down some chicken.
are you saying your time in ALASTAIR isn't a vacation?

[headlining]

Can it talk? Or is it going to give you an excited amount of burbling instead?

And not really. After all, a vacation is where you choose to go, yes? This is rather like a second job, honestly.

[slingshots]

probably it's going to pull the chicken parts underwater and about nothing else,
same as it always does.
a second job where you save worlds, right? maybe call that your first job, and writing your second job.

[headlining]

How disappointing. [An amused huff.] And here I'd thought I'd get an interview.

And I suppose so, but admittedly I seem to prefer when things are less hectic. I like a bit of action here and there, but I do miss just not being sidelined with, say, an alien invasion or being launched onto another planet to fix timelines out of the blue.