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[Cloud's outside, doing what he does best. Brooding.

He'll be out and around town after brooding in the hammock in front of House 50 for a while. Stop at your own risk.]

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[He promises he's not giving the silent treatment right now just to be cheeky.]

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[There might have been an eye roll, but Buffy still extends a hand out towards the hammock for a salutary shake.]

Let's try this again. I'm Buffy, and you are...?

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[...hm.

Well...Cloud's just brooding, so he's not looking to actually be a dick. Maybe if he indulges her she'll feel satisfied and wander off eventually. So he leans over and shakes her hand.]

Cloud.

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[Not that she's one to talk, but...]

That's a not-so-usual name..?

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[Let's see how many lies Cloud can come up with to answer that question. He's already told one; another route is necessary.]

My mom was into witchcraft. Picked that name because it's supposed to be lucky or something.

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[W-witchcraft? Her face bugs out, wide eyes and a slack jaw.]

You were raised by a wicca?

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...no. I was joking.

Cloud's not that weird a name where I'm from.

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Given the general trend of this place, I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess that place is somewhere decidedly not Earth?

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You'd be right.

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Was your place a good place?

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It was fine.

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Lucky you.

[She says with a smile.]

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Hm.

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[So this was clearly almost a productive as talking to a vending machine. At least the machine would be able to give her yummy yummy snacks.]

I know a guy you'd get on famously with. The two of you could just sit in a room and brood at each other. It'd be fab, I'm sure.

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I could just stay in my hammock and do that.

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Touche.

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[He glances over at her again, although the question is asked with a tone of the curious rather than the annoyed.] Are you bored?

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[Buffy considers the question,, and then nods with a small smile.]

Bored? You betcha. Bored, and loving it.

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[Well, Cloud can kind of understand that particular feeling, so he just hums his assent.]

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Home was very monster-of-the-weekish. Here, it's more experiment-of-the-monthish. Maybe it's the uberpathetic to admit it, but I really prefer the latter.

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You won't. Give it a few months.

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So I've been promised before.

Is it more than a little sad that I'm actually looking forward to my preference changing? I mean, it's not like I enjoy enjoying a crazy bizarro land.

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[Looking over at her again. She's like a female Zack.]

You can't possibly be enjoying this conversation.

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Maybe I'd never use the word enjoy, but I have a whole section on my resume devoted to my experience in talking to the laconic types.

[There's a slightly sardonic smile.] And believe me, I wish I was fibbing about that.

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So you're actually that bored.