trade my soul for a wish

[from_scratch]

This is a successor to "call me maybe", which is getting crowded.

Cam is dipping a grilled cheese sandwich into a bowl of tomato soup when he feels the summons. He goes ahead and grabs it. Doesn't even drop the sandwich.


with Mark (kappa)

with Adanya (Aestrix)

with Sable (kappa)

with Ari (andaisq)

with Metella (kappa)

with Miles (kappa)

with Isabella (Eva)

with Steel (Rockeye)

with Daphne (Maggie)

with Edie (Maggie)

Comments

[from_scratch]

"Ha. Well, let's hope they don't notice while you're talking to them."

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"Even if they do, 'random acts of topiary' isn't the kind of trouble I'm infamous for."

[from_scratch]

"Maybe I'll turn it into a hippopotamus before we clear out altogether."

[maggie_of_the_owls]

Giggle.
"Alright, I'll come pick you up again when I'm done talking to the police, okay?"

[from_scratch]

"Sure. I'll read up on malaria et al." He hides in his bush and reads.

[maggie_of_the_owls]

Daphne goes in and reports her latest misadventure. The miscreant, when he wakes up, has no apparent memory of how he fell unconscious, or for that matter much of anything after he finished tying Daphne to the table.
After all this has been dealt with and Daphne has been warned to be available to testify in court, she drives back to the shrubbery.
"He doesn't remember you, conveniently enough," she reports.

[from_scratch]

"Good, good. This will be a little awkward when I do want to go home, but we can cross that bridge when we come to it." He emerges from the bush. He refrains from topiarying the bush and gets back in the car.

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"Hey, you accidentally summoned a demon several years ago, this is him, please concentrate very hard on wanting him gone."

[from_scratch]

"I mean, yes, but this will probably involve visiting him in prison and my being unable to be accounted for afterwards and maybe prisons take a dim view of people entering and vanishing?"

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"This is him, please wait half an hour after we leave and then concentrate very hard on wanting him gone. Or I show him a picture of you instead of having you come in in person or something."

[from_scratch]

"First one doesn't work if he's uncooperative. Actually none of it does unless we want to kill him, but the picture would do."

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"That's true, but 'you have accidentally summoned a demon, you have no control over it, it wants to go home and will be pissed at you if you don't cooperate' would probably be enough to make him want you gone."

[from_scratch]

"This is true. Plus 'the demon can also get home by killing you'."

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"That too. ...Hm, I was about to ask if you wanted me to put some music on, but you'd probably make a disparaging remark about my cassette tapes, wouldn't you."

[from_scratch]

"I mean, they work, play whatever you want to play, I don't plan to make a futuristic speaker system in your car unless you really really want one."

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"Nah."
She picks out a tape, and soon the strains of Queen's "I Want To Break Free" are floating through the car.

[from_scratch]

Cam whistles along softly and reads notes on his computer.

[maggie_of_the_owls]

And after "I Want To Break Free" and "Mr. Fahrenheit" have concluded, and they're about halfway through "Under Pressure," they arrive on campus.

[from_scratch]

Ooh, campus.

Say, what time is it? Does her car clock work?

[maggie_of_the_owls]

Her car clock works, and it's a little after eleven at night.

[from_scratch]

"So, I don't have to sleep and can render the question academic by just wandering around outdoors all night long, but are we stashing me somewhere in particular?"

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"You can stay in my room, at least until Jaromira gets back. Probably after, too, she probably don't mind, but I don't have the right to make promises for her."

[from_scratch]

"All right."

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"Wandering around outdoors sounds kind of boring anyways. And I think it's late enough that Jawbreaker--Cecil--will be asleep, but we could check anyway if you want."

[from_scratch]

"I might just hop in a little shuttle and fly to Africa and release sterile male mosquitoes in enormous clouds and be back in time for breakfast with malaria on its way to dying," Cam points out. "I do need to get briefly online to assess the local state of the parasite so I know where to go, but that's all it'd take."