By the time they'd dragged themselves out of the lake, the kelpies were satisfactorily dead and Harry and Murphy were both soaking and chilled.
“Saved you again,” Murphy managed to wheeze, after glaring at her battered, water-soaked cellphone, yet another technological victim of Harry Dresden's Insane Adventures. “I've got to be at least a few up on you by now.”
Harry – who had been trying and failing to dry out his clothes – displayed his maturity by eye-rolling and pulling a face. “Put it on my tab.” Another poke at his jacket failed to render it anywhere near dry. “How'd you know to do that to kelpies, anyway? That's not in most legends.” Poke. Poke.
“Oh. That.” She sounded a little embarrassed, and Harry glanced over to see a faint flush rising. “Actually it was, uh, a bit of luck.”
He arched an eyebrow, because wizards can do that. “That's better luck than we normally have.”
“Fine. I read it in a book.” Murphy scowled, shoved the waterlogged phone into a pocket and stood up, water pouring off her in long streams. “A fantasy novel. Happy?”
Harry opened his mouth to ask what novel would have such a little-known method in it, remembered exactly what book it was (he could, in fact, remember writing it) and shut his mouth. Time to change the subject. “G-”
“I'm surprised it did work, though, if it's not that common,” Murphy added suddenly, wringing out her shirt. “Maybe the author's a wizard.”
“Uh. Maybe.”
“I can't believe a wizard would sit around writing books though.”
“Mhmm. You'd be surprised.”
“I thought they were pretty much like you. All action-oriented and...”
“Charming?”
“Illiterate.”
“... You're a cruel woman, Murph. Cruel and capricious.”
“Do you even know what 'capricious' means?”
“It's a type of fruit, right? … Murph? Hey. Hey! Wait! Don't take the- car. Shit.”
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(Anonymous) 2011-03-28 04:17 pm (UTC)(link)By the time they'd dragged themselves out of the lake, the kelpies were satisfactorily dead and Harry and Murphy were both soaking and chilled.
“Saved you again,” Murphy managed to wheeze, after glaring at her battered, water-soaked cellphone, yet another technological victim of Harry Dresden's Insane Adventures. “I've got to be at least a few up on you by now.”
Harry – who had been trying and failing to dry out his clothes – displayed his maturity by eye-rolling and pulling a face. “Put it on my tab.” Another poke at his jacket failed to render it anywhere near dry. “How'd you know to do that to kelpies, anyway? That's not in most legends.” Poke. Poke.
“Oh. That.” She sounded a little embarrassed, and Harry glanced over to see a faint flush rising. “Actually it was, uh, a bit of luck.”
He arched an eyebrow, because wizards can do that. “That's better luck than we normally have.”
“Fine. I read it in a book.” Murphy scowled, shoved the waterlogged phone into a pocket and stood up, water pouring off her in long streams. “A fantasy novel. Happy?”
Harry opened his mouth to ask what novel would have such a little-known method in it, remembered exactly what book it was (he could, in fact, remember writing it) and shut his mouth. Time to change the subject. “G-”
“I'm surprised it did work, though, if it's not that common,” Murphy added suddenly, wringing out her shirt. “Maybe the author's a wizard.”
“Uh. Maybe.”
“I can't believe a wizard would sit around writing books though.”
“Mhmm. You'd be surprised.”
“I thought they were pretty much like you. All action-oriented and...”
“Charming?”
“Illiterate.”
“... You're a cruel woman, Murph. Cruel and capricious.”
“Do you even know what 'capricious' means?”
“It's a type of fruit, right? … Murph? Hey. Hey! Wait! Don't take the- car. Shit.”
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(Anonymous) 2012-04-22 04:08 am (UTC)(link)Is this continuing/ed somewhere else?