Blade@Marin: Fly on the wall
Send ‘fly on the wall’ for a Drabble of my muse talking to someone else about your muse
“If you know what’s good for you, shut your trap, Ira,” snarled Marin, shooting the annoying shadow that loomed over her shoulder a particular scathing glare.
Silence carried for a good while. Long enough that Marin relaxed herself, her muscles easing from their strained position (ready to fight Rosie’s “hound”; though she knew that it would only ever be her doing the fighting) and her focus centering on her current commission. The silence was maintained long enough that as Marin carefully sculpted the soft graceful features of the statuette, she flinched when Ira’s rumbling tone sourced from her front.
“She seems nice,” was all the gago had to say. He stood in front of her work table, hands clasped behind his back, head tilted in an angle that many would find familiar in their mutts. He was the poster boy of the word “innocent”, but she knew him long enough to tell by the crinkle in his eyes that the ass was smiling.
Marin huffed. “She is.” Hopefully, he would drop it now that she gave him an actual answer.
“You talked with her for quite a while.”
“Bwiset ka - ha! I know you’re practically starved for interaction but that doesn’t mean you can just listen in on people’s conversations!”
Ira continued on, not at all commenting, nor even flinching, at her outburst. “You allowed her to approach even though you were working on that figurine of yours.” He nodded his head towards the partially featured little figure set on her desk, as if she needed a reminder of her workload. “You never allow people to interrupt you.”
And yet here you are, interrupting me. That was what she wanted to say - what she would have said if this were just any other land-dweller Ira was nosying about. What she ended up saying (embarrassing enough) was: “I like talking to her. Is that so much of a shock?”
Marin rolled her eyes in silent defeat. Yeah - even she knew how off the norm that was. Since the very day that Rosie and Parisa had dragged her half-burnt and half-dead ass in to the shop, interacting with her was a guarantee to be sent to a hospital totting a whole chunk of flesh missing from your person. It was why she chose this position: an artist; a crafter for all of Rosie’s magical little knick-knacks. It kept her in her comfort zone and out of customers’ flesh - most of the time.
Had she been how she usually was, Blade would have just been another bloody tally in her track record of maimings. But she didn’t act how she usually was with Blade. (And that scared her.)
“Look, like you said, she’s nice. She’s not annoying, okay? And because of that I don’t mind having her drop by once in a while to interrupt my day,” she said, annoyed. “Now, you nosy mutt, leave me be.”
There was that damned crinkle again. Bastard was all smiles - looking far too much like his twin in doing so. “I see that you like her enough that she is now a muse for you.”
She focused back on the statuette and, sure enough, the features she had carved out on the would-be tranquility charm held a glaring resemblance to a certain werewolf in her life.
Her sculpting tool went sailing across the room with a shriek as Ira, laughing loudly, dissipated before it could lodge itself into his eye.