Timestamp Meme

[awanderingbard]

Stolen from donutsweeper.

Give me one of my own stories, and a timestamp sometime in the future after the end of the story, or sometime in the past before the story started, and I'll write you at least a hundred words of what happened then, whether it's five minutes before the story started or ten years in the future.

Memes are lovage. Again, like the character one, feel free to ask for a couple. :-)

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[awanderingbard.livejournal.com]

Your first request:

"Long Distance"

Harry Dresden stumbled down the stairs to the phone, cursing it for ringing so early. Who calls at seven in the morning, really? Crazy people, that’s who.

“’Lo?” he mumbled into the receiver.

“’Arry?” A spritely voiced British girl asked. “You there?”

Harry waved to Murphy, who was leaning over the railing of the loft anxiously. She got the message that it wasn’t the station calling for her and went back to bed.

“Hey, Graylin,” he said, blinking the sleep away. “What’s up?”

“Oh, ‘arry, did I wake you?” she asked. “Time zones are impossible.”

Harry often wondered how someone could start off their lives pronouncing H’s and then suddenly decide to stop. “Don’t worry about it. You okay?”

“M’great! I got your birthday present today!” she exclaimed.

“I sent it two weeks ago,” he said.

“Mail system is bullocks,” she explained. “Anyway, I love it! I’ve been driving the cat crazy with it.”

“You’re supposed to wear it,” Harry pointed out. “To bring wisdom and spiritual awakening.”

“It’s shiny, the cat’s mad for it,” she insisted. “Anyway, I wanted to thank you and I need to tell you what happened the other day...”

Harry settled in to listen, writing off sleep as definitely less important than this. He did hope, however, that she was paying for the call.

[joonscribble.livejournal.com]

Aw! I'm so happy he kept in touch with Graylin. And I love the touch of her developing an English accent as well as English wording. Appropriate and realistic!

Thank you!