IC; repairs

[write_it_in]

[There's a novelist sitting outside, leaning on a cabin wall out of the sun and smoking. The roof of the cabin is caved in, as if something landed on it... or it landed on itself, upside down. There are some building materials in a pile off to the side.

He appears to be waiting for something.]

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[And that 'something' shows up pretty quick.]

Hey!

[write-it-in.livejournal.com]

Hey.

I think I got enough. By measurements, anyway. I don't know how to do this shit.

[speeeeeeeeeed.livejournal.com]

Hey what's going on?

[in his supergear]

[write-it-in.livejournal.com]

You want to live with me, you help fix the damn place.

This is Satoshi.

[speeeeeeeeeed.livejournal.com]

I got it turned rightside up, didn't I? Point me at stuff, I don't know anything about fixits.

[write-it-in.livejournal.com]

You got somebody else to do it, and it wasn't actual effort for her. I'm not letting him work all day alone. You live here, you help.

[speeeeeeeeeed.livejournal.com]

Yeah yeah yeah. No need for the lecture, I got it.

[write-it-in.livejournal.com]

[i stick up for my friends. you get that too, hotshot, so don't knock it.]

[speeeeeeeeeed.livejournal.com]

[but i haven't even shirked any duties yet :/]

[speeeeeeeeeed.livejournal.com]

So you're Mister Fixit?

[write-it-in.livejournal.com]

[and he's up! heading over to the building materials.]

[speeeeeeeeeed.livejournal.com]

[folllllowing]

[trump-apple.livejournal.com]

If there's not enough, then we can get more. But it'll be a little more difficult that normal this time.

[write-it-in.livejournal.com]

Yeah, not many trees.

[trump-apple.livejournal.com]

For today, it seems. Who're you?

[trump-apple.livejournal.com]

That's why you take it from other cabins nobody is using.

[speeeeeeeeeed.livejournal.com]

I'm Speed.

[write-it-in.livejournal.com]

There are barns all over, too. But I wanted better wood, I bet I could kick those walls in. What do we do?

[trump-apple.livejournal.com]

Another superhero?

[trump-apple.livejournal.com]

Well first we have to make sure the framing is stable. If it was damaged, then the roof will fall in as soon as you put it on.

[write-it-in.livejournal.com]

Okay.

...what does that mean. I'm a writer.

[write-it-in.livejournal.com]

He says it's enough.

[trump-apple.livejournal.com]

If a book has a few pages ripped out, you can put them back in easily. But if a book has a damaged spine, you have to replace the spine before you can put the pages back in.

[METAPHORS, I HAS THEM.]

[write-it-in.livejournal.com]

I meant explain it because I'm a writer and not a construction worker, moron. Not "turn it into a dumb metaphor about books."

[trump-apple.livejournal.com]

Oh.

[He crouches down, and draws the outline of a house and the framing. Then he points at the framing.]

We just have to check and make sure these parts here are straight up and down and aren't cracked or anything. Luckily it should be easy to see, since the roof isn't on there right now.