Date Posted:11:28:36 12/03/08 Wed Author: Kande's Sis (smirking) Subject: Kande's Over At the Job Center In reply to:
kenamom - missing her fellow Shippervillians
's message, "kenamom wanders thru the deserted town....." on 08:07:31 12/03/08 Wed
"Oh, right," The Mayor replies absently, whipping out her frayed fine book and scribbling herself a note. "She'll need to work off all those fines she accumulated."
"Sorry about the fake gun," Stardoe tells her sheepishly, sticking it back into a homemade holster. "When everyone deserted Shipperville, I made my own bullets for awhile but then figured, what the heck? There wasn't anyone to shoot."
The Mayor suddenly slams both palms on the bar. "Stardoe," she exclaims, "we're not going to take this sitting down." She hikes up her dress and plops onto a barstool.
Stardoe raises one eyebrow and looks pointedly at the Mayor, who is sitting. "We're not?"
"Well, you're not. I can do whatever I want," the Mayor tosses her golden locks behind one bare shoulder. "It's almost Christmas. If those deadbeats want a Christmas gift, they're going to have to come home."
Stardoe's eyes brighten in their sunken sockets. Or maybe it's a trick of the fading light. "Presents?" she asks in a quavery voice.
"That's right. PRESENTS." The Mayor sounds it out loudly and slowly, in case the Kande sisters' deafness had been contagious and Stardoe had fallen victim to it.
The dust motes floating in the air around the two suddenly start to twirl, glittering in the fading light. The two watch with mouths agape and drool sliding unnoticed down their chins as they watch the frenzied motes slide in a whirlwind up the chimney of the Klub. The Mayor daintily dabs at her chin with the hem of Stardoe's shirt and then smacks her hands together.
"Message sent," she says triumphantly. "Now we just have to get Kande back here and busy on some hors d'oeuvres. Does she have a specialty?"
"Kande? Specialty?" Stardoe stares at the Mayor as if she's lost her mind. "Were you thinking peanutbutter and crackers?"
The Mayor sighs. "Never mind." She grabs Bubba's apron from it's hook in the corner and ties it behind her back. "Remind me to fine Kande extra for this."
