The Deck | Afternoon | Saturday | July 10

[therewaslife]

The clouds were easing the heat a bit and, without the sun hanging high in the sky, Bod figured that spending some time outside wouldn't give way to an inevitable sunburn. He thought about walking into town but eventually decided that that could wait till later.

Instead, he veered off and clambered onto the deck, sliding into one of the empty loungers and actually choosing to be lazy for once. Usually, laziness was a side effect of having nothing to do or trying to avoid something else but today, he just wanted to relax. He found himself caught up in the movements of the clouds, dark and opaque as they were. He wondered what the sky looked like behind them, if the peeks of blue would stay long and where those clouds would go after moving off.

It wasn't heavy contemplation but he was enthralled by it anyway.

[Deck is open. I like clouds.]

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[kissytheface.livejournal.com]

"Well, I have a pretty vivid imagination," Dandelion said happily as she shoved more doritos in her face.

It also helped she was on the verge of being clinically delusional.

[therewaslife]

"Does your imagination stretch to more than just clouds?" he wondered.

[kissytheface.livejournal.com]

"I've had it do yoga before," Dandelion replied. "It's better than doing it yourself so I bet it's pretty flexible."

[therewaslife]

"...your imagination is tangible?" Bod asked, eyebrows inching closer to his hairline.

[kissytheface.livejournal.com]

"Sure. But only in my imagination," Dandelion said with a nod.

To her this made sense.

"It kind of looks like a lemur."

[therewaslife]

"Well, that sounds quite..." Odd. "...interesting. No wonder it's so vivid. Does that mean you're artistic in other ways than just music?"

[kissytheface.livejournal.com]

There are some who would say that she's not even artistic in music.

"Nope! Just music," Dandelion replied. "So what's it like being raised by halloweenie type people?"

[therewaslife]

"It's not too different than being raised by humans, I think," Bod told her. "They cared for me, taught me, fed me, and played with me. My childhood, in all actuality, wasn't that abnormal."

It had been but he was trying to be vague and lighthearted about it.

[kissytheface.livejournal.com]

Dandelion pursed her lips in thought. "So... Undead parents are pretty much the same as living parents," she mused.

And then she pointed at another cloud. "Penguin!"

[therewaslife]

"They are," he said and looked up at the penguin shaped clouds. "They were just less visible to most people. And they were...dead. Not too many differences."

[kissytheface.livejournal.com]

"So how did you end up being raised by dead people?" Dandelion asked. "Were you part of a M. Night Shama-rama-ding-dong movie?"

[therewaslife]

"I don't know what that is so I'm going to say the answer is no to that one," he said, unable not to laugh at her odd guesses. "I was adopted, I guess you could say. They adopted me when I was a baby."

[kissytheface.livejournal.com]

"Wow! Filling out all that papework must have been a real bitch when you're dead!"

[therewaslife]

"There was no paperwork," Bod said, shaking his head. "I gather the adoption process was very...quick."

[kissytheface.livejournal.com]

"Wow! England must have been very efficent about the adoption process," Dandelion replied.

[therewaslife]

"I'm afraid I don't know how the adoption process really works but I can safely say this was an out of the ordinary adoption," he mused. "It wasn't exactly formal."

[kissytheface.livejournal.com]

"T-shirts and shorts kind of deal," Dandelion said with a slurp of her Grape Judas. "I can dig it."