Case #22: Video

[19centconstable]

[Someone looks nauseous. (It's George.) He's walking somewhat unsteadily through a hallway.]

Mr. Spinola? If you could just...let me know that you remain unharmed... I'm not sure what it is I might have done to deserve my removal as your warden, but I am...I am sorry.

I...need to locate Mr. Slater.

...

I think I may be sick.

[And George is gentlemanly enough to turn the camera away.]

Comments

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

You think it might be a symptom of the flood?

[George paces slowly along his invisible border.]

A flood which, but giving everyone nausea, encourages them to stay in your rooms? Well you aren't going to have near enough chairs.

[thinkb4ublink.livejournal.com]

Seein' as there's nobody here bar you, that's dumb. You don't take in the scene as a whole, George, before you focus on the details, I mean, your logic, there are no tigers here must mean there's 'tiger repellin'' flood happenin'!

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

That would only make sense if there were tigers on board regularly.

[George's logic makes sense to George okay.]

[thinkb4ublink.livejournal.com]

It doesn't make sense at all!

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

That could be said for a lot of things around here. I try not to think about it or I'd never get anything done.

[George returns to Slater's side.]

You think it's only affecting you and I? Some sort of sticking us together flood?

[thinkb4ublink.livejournal.com]

You've only got my name on that book.

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

[George taps his fingers against his notebook.]

Thank goodness for small favors.

Well. If this lasts into the night I suppose I'll take the floor. Or we could move to my rooms and you could take my bed and I'll set something up with the bathtub.

[thinkb4ublink.livejournal.com]

I'm not goin' in your tub. If we're doing the involuntary togetherness, then the inmate showers are close enough an' private enough that it'd work better.

An' I gotta sofa bed. [He points.] That thing turns into a normal bed if you fold it out.

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

Oh, no. I was going to sleep in the tub. I hadn't thought about washing up, but I think that's a good point.

[George eyes the sofa like it might transform in front of him.]

Does it really?

[thinkb4ublink.livejournal.com]

You can't sleep in a tub, gives you backache.

Yeah.

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

Likely so. But I've slept in worse places. I lived in a very cheap boarding house a few years ago, and I had to shave off my hair from lice.

[thinkb4ublink.livejournal.com]

I don't care, George.

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

Right, sorry.

[George points at the couch.]

Does it require many tools?

[thinkb4ublink.livejournal.com]

It folds out. No tools.

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

That's brilliant.

[thinkb4ublink.livejournal.com]

Yeah. [He's not particularly enthusiastic.]