video.

[ex_question191]

Oh, my god.

[ stiles' voice has the kind of self-contained excitement in it that someone might get upon being given a quad bike for their fourteenth birthday. or, you know, a pony. there's that same kind of delighted anticipation of fun times ahead. ]

You guys will not believe what I found.

[ his voice is pitchy and he's in close up in the dim light, eyes wide and too-dark in his pale face, before he turns to film... well. ]

An actual freaking body!

[ which is all the warning given for the squeamish before it's on camera. the body is very clearly human, even if all its distinguishing features have been removed. its pieces join unnaturally together, arm sewn to shoulder to torso to leg, and the whole thing hangs suspended from several strings, like a puppet. ]

[ stiles fumbles the camera back to himself. he swallows. it's cool, but also, you know, he's kind of creeped himself out already just wondering if the killer might still be around. but that's not exactly a thought he's about to put voice to. ]

I'm about fifteen minutes heading left from the Shuttle Bay, I think, if someone wants to come cut it down.


(( as per dex and bri's excellent adventure. eta action for investigators. ))

Comments

[thebreakingwave]

Something like that, I think? I'm not too sure what Amish is, but if they don't have computers, that'd be us.

We do have magic, though. If the Remus you know is the one I know, he's one of us.

[ex_question191]

The Remus I know is—

[ he almost finishes with "a werewolf", but he's not dumb enough to go telling people that secret, tries to keep it on the downlow. ]

A cool guy.

[ not an awkward cover at all. ]

I hang out with a lot of, uh, cool guys, so we bonded.

Also, I am a weenus. When I don't delete tags after answering them, you get weird double-responses.

[thebreakingwave]

I can't imagine there's too many of them here.

People named Remus, I mean. Not 'cool guys'.

[It's official, he sounds utterly ridiculous saying 'cool guys'.]

especially delightful because they were so thoroughly different. i just picked one.

[ex_question191]

Oh. Yeah, you're probably right. I'm Stiles, by the way, did I mention?

[ he didn't, but it explains why he takes weird names for granted. ]

btw, the answer is so they can hide in boxes of Smarties.

[thebreakingwave]

You didn't and it's good to meet you, Stiles. I'm Harry.

cracks up

[ex_question191]

Yeah, you too. Thanks for — this.

[ having someone to just chat to, laugh with, that makes him feel way better than people insisting he can't possibly be okay. ]

tip your waiter and try the fish.

[thebreakingwave]

It's no problem. I know how it goes.

[...with the dead people?]

[ex_question191]

You do?

[thebreakingwave]

I do. We had a war back home.

[ex_question191]

A war in your country?

[ because technically america has a war, but it doesn't exactly brush stiles' life all that much, not unless he decides to enlist. but if harry's talking about bodies... ]

That sucks. Sorry, bro.

[ not exactly much of a consolation, but he doesn't know what else to say. even stiles isn't ignorant enough of social etiquette to press for the details, and given there's a body nearby, he kind of doesn't want them right now. ]

Guess that explains why you're telling jokes and not, you know, shouting at me in a panic.

[thebreakingwave]

It happens.

[He shrugs his shoulders and while he's not happy about a war having happened, he's not particularly broken up about it. Wars and Dark Lords are just a part of life, he supposes.]