Case #45: Video

[19centconstable]

[There's a gangly teenage girl in a shabby dress, with a particularly twee bonnet pulled low over her face. Her face is rather too goofy to be pretty, so it's not any great loss. She clears her throat, then nervously squeaks:]

I'd like very much to speak with someone from the vessel known as 'The Slayer', if I may?

Comments

[19centconstable]

Very much so.

But I feel confident that could be useful to the ship too.

[scentbombed]

I see.

And what's your name, lass?

[19centconstable]

Georgette. ...I haven't any family name.

[scentbombed]

Georgette. I'm Angua. What is it you think you could bring to our ship, Georgette?

[19centconstable]

Well...I'd be willing to do all of the jobs nobody else likes. And I have a strong constitution.

[scentbombed]

Are you sure? There are quite a few jobs that nobody else likes. [Some of them occurring quite regularly, a few days a month or so...]

[19centconstable]

Very much. I'm not afraid of hard work. I just feel as though if don't get out of here now, I never will.

[scentbombed]

Well, you wouldn't be the first to feel that way.

Let's see what the Captain says, shall we?

[19centconstable]

Of course! I'd be so very grateful to you. To both of you. To all of you.

FINALLY. WOOO.

[slayage]

You seem a little green to be shippin' out with The Slayer.

Tell me, Georgette, have ya ever killed a man?

[19centconstable]

I'm afraid I don't have experience, your...Captain-ness. But I'm very keen!

And, I haven't done that, but I have cleaned outhouses. So very many outhouses...

[slayage]

[Buffy is forever amused. Forever amused. She kind of sees right through your disguise George. But she.. Kind of likes you.

Buffy doesn't let any hints of her amusement cross her face.]

Aye. So ya wish to learn the life of a pirate. I can't lie to ya, it's a dangerous life. But it's a free one.

[19centconstable]

I'm not afraid.

[Like every teenager made immortal by their youth.]

[slayage]

[...You are so cute George.]

Uh huh. Ya should be. Fear's good for the blood. Sometimes it's what keeps ya alive.

..Tell ya what. I'm going to have a little talk with my first mate, and I'll let ya know, Georgette.

[19centconstable]

But fight can be what keeps you alive as well, can it not?

[Private]

[slayage]

I don't know whether to adopt him or make'm try to clean the deck in that horrible dress.

[Private]

[scentbombed]

We can't do both?