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betterthanaplanDuke had made it out to the diner this week, and then had been . . . let's call it "thoroughly exhausted" by Lucifer after. So he'd spent a couple days recovering, alternating between napping and puttering around his boat.
So he hadn't seen a certain piece of news until this morning.
There weren't many celebrity deaths that he felt much more than just sort of a vague sadness about, but this one hit a little close to home. So he was out on the deck this morning with a bottle of rum and his guitar, idly strumming along to a song on his phone.
[open for slow play. It may be tacky but bah. No small amount of my personal playlist for Duke is Buffett, m'kay?]
So he hadn't seen a certain piece of news until this morning.
There weren't many celebrity deaths that he felt much more than just sort of a vague sadness about, but this one hit a little close to home. So he was out on the deck this morning with a bottle of rum and his guitar, idly strumming along to a song on his phone.
[open for slow play. It may be tacky but bah. No small amount of my personal playlist for Duke is Buffett, m'kay?]
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Date: 2023-09-04 05:36 pm (UTC)Quiet, herself.
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Date: 2023-09-04 05:41 pm (UTC)The sea's in my veins,
My tradition remains,
I'm just glad I don't live in a trailer.
It started again, set to repeat, but he fell silent for a long moment.
"He died yesterday."
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Date: 2023-09-04 05:42 pm (UTC)A soft noise, barely a word. Octavia should probably do better than that.
"I'm sorry."
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Date: 2023-09-04 05:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-09-04 05:57 pm (UTC)But then something about that didn't sit right.
"... I don't know if I do."
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Date: 2023-09-04 06:06 pm (UTC)“You don’t, uh. Get attached to media people, huh. The media, sure, but not the people.”
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Date: 2023-09-04 06:41 pm (UTC)It wasn't that.
"It's just hard to -- imagine a, a long, good life."
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Date: 2023-09-04 06:43 pm (UTC)“Ah. Yeah.”
He always had. Even without expecting to get one.
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Date: 2023-09-04 06:46 pm (UTC)"I'm glad he got one," she said, voice just faintly tighter.
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Date: 2023-09-04 06:47 pm (UTC)“Yeah. Me too.”
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Date: 2023-09-04 06:50 pm (UTC)Just a little.
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Date: 2023-09-04 08:28 pm (UTC)“Luce cut some strawberries, did you see?”
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Date: 2023-09-04 08:57 pm (UTC)"No." A pause. "Were they nice?"
Inane, but okay.
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Date: 2023-09-04 09:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-09-05 03:51 pm (UTC)