[video]

[shifting]

All right. We're havin' an event at Merlotte's. It's been too damn long and I've missed the big ones, so I'm decidin' right now that one's happening. ....Wednesday. There, it's decided. M'callin' it "Take Back The Night". There'll be live music and drink specials and all sorts of good times. Just for fun, it'll be a semi-formal theme.

We're also still hirin' for a number of positions, and I'm in need of an assistant manager in a pretty bad way. Come on in for an interview any day this week between 2 an' 4.

[reaching over to shut off the monitor. Stops. Squints.]

...And I'd just like to say to certain unnamed parties that I taste just fine, so fuck you.

[click]

Comments

[offline]

[shifting]

[he doesn't even jump this time! Just a twitch and a startled glance]

- Hey. It's nothin' too special. Mostly just people coolin' off and listenin' to the music with drinks.

And I know, I know. I'm just tryin' to make a point. [....wait, back up] Vouch? How the hell could someone vouch for me.

[thelightbringer]

I assume the vampires would want a judge who knows what blood tastes like. All you really need is that and a paper cut.

[This is a way of being helpful, ok, shut up.]

What kind of music are you going to play...?

voice;

[shifting]

Are you sayin' you drink blood? [sorry, distracted]

[Offline]

[thelightbringer]

Demon blood. Just back home. [Shrug.]

It's disgusting, but it was like being on dialysis. Either drink the blood, or lose the vessel. I don't need it here, before you let that scare you off.

[Offline]

[shifting]

Yeah, but that doesn't really make you a good judge on it, does it? I mean, it's not somethin' you could taste the peculiarities of like a vampire could.

[Offline]

[thelightbringer]

I might. I could tell your soul was different when I met you.

[Offline]

[shifting]

...Eric wouldn't buy it.

[Offline]

[thelightbringer]

Well, what matters is what you think. He's an undead monster whose brain is probably growing mushrooms.

[Offline]

[shifting]

[laughing]

Radioactive ones at that.

[Offline]

[thelightbringer]

That explains a lot.

[He nudges Sam lightly]

Let's go for a run.

[Offline]

[shifting]

[he swivels in his chair]

Where to? Or does it matter?

[Offline]

[thelightbringer]

Just around the city. I'll scare up a sausage for you.

[Offline]

[shifting]

Well shit, you found the way to my heart.

[Offline]

[thelightbringer]

[He grins and offers a hand to help him up.]

Remind me to show you a raptor someday.

[Offline]

[shifting]

[he takes it] Michael said the same thing.

[Offline]

[thelightbringer]

[The very slightest flinch. It probably wouldn't have been noticeable if he hadn't been touching Sam.]

My brother, Michael?

[Offline]

[shifting]

No, no. Still haven't met him. [cocking his head curiously, wondering at the flinch]

[Offline]

[thelightbringer]

Well, maybe someday.

[He opens a window without touching it, and gives Sam a sly look.]

Need help off with anything?

[Offline]

[shifting]

[Sam snorts and sheds his shirt before shifting - this time into a Darkness monster, a tentacle hound. It's a shift that hurts, a perversion of what shifting is supposed to be, but it's an impressive form and fleet of foot, and he feels like showing off.]

[Offline]

[thelightbringer]

[That is impressive. And surprising. Lucifer kneels on one knee in front of him and reaches out to touch him.]

[Offline]

[shifting]

[Sam rears his head back, the dangling tentacles curling away.

Careful. These things have barbs on the end. They're poisonous.]

[Offline]

[thelightbringer]

[Lucifer's eyebrows go up, but then he shifts as well, into the wolf again.]

If I can't scratch your ears, I think that's a good sign we should go exploring.

[Offline]

[shifting]

Let's go to the docks.

[wagging]