i'm leaving you my last curse

[bravebartender]

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[predilections]

Taylor. Linguist, polyglot, all around busybody. My boyfriend and I sort of fell into the Underground. He already had supernatural ties, little did I know, and I stumbled onto a conspiracy and found a persecuted race of fish people. They're safe now.

( And she can't tell her where they are, but they are somewhere safe. )

I do a lot of the translating, the research. And I've been in the field when the romance languages are needed. Italy was gorgeous. I've been to France, but not for the Underground. I avoid it now because I have a famous ex-boyfriend. Les Saison De Pêches?

( Totally slutty little romance novel. Steamy beach read a years back. She's the girl in that. )

[stupetballs]

Oh! I love translating. Are you mostly doing modern languages or are you delving into the dead language stuff?

[Languages seem like a much safer topic thank their respective personal lives.]

[predilections]

Dead all the way. I'm partial to ancient Sumerian, but I think there's just something about Enochian, you know what I mean?

( But how can there not be? It's ancient. )

[stupetballs]

Oh, man, I haven't gotten around to Enochian yet.

[You would think she would, given that she is a half-angel after all, but there's a scarce number of texts to practice on.]

I'm still working on tracking down primary sources.

[predilections]

Well, I had a hot affair with an angel.

( Like you do. So she got it straight from the source! )

[stupetballs]

[Her eyebrows go up at that, and somehow, despite the circumstances of her birth:]

I didn't know angels did that.

[predilections]

Have sex? Fall in love? Oh yeah. Angels are people, too. Just, really, really old soldiers. Angels come in all shapes and sizes. And vessels.

( Why yes, she is well-versed. )

[stupetballs]

Oh. Huh.

[So her dad wasn't a one off. That's ... good to know at least.]

I've only really met one. It was a really small sample size.

[predilections]

He was apparently celibate?

( Back into the personal, but Taylor loves to dish. She does, again, try and see where her boyfriend is, still listening. )

[stupetballs]

Oh, he was definitely not celibate.

[Let's not talk about her father's brief affair with her sister.]

But he also had amnesia and thought he was human for a while, so it's hard to tell what's his actual personality or a side effect?

[predilections]

Sounds like a soap opera.

( How fascinating. )

[stupetballs]

It kinda was. We got him his memory back, but unfortunately he was killed shortly after, so we didn't really get a whole lot of time to talk to him.

[Which is unfortunate, given that he was Waverly's father and she very much wanted more time.]

[predilections]

I'm sorry. Angel blade?

( Taylor, you can't just ask how an angel is killed. )

[stupetballs]

Uh ...

[Waverly blinks, unsure how to answer that, but fortunately she's saved by the Dolls.

"Hey. We have a problem."]

A non-Thanksgiving problem?

["Afraid so."]

[predilections]

Sounds like it's going to be all of our problems. But, let me just...

( And she collects her plate and drink and heads her boyfriend off at the pass. They can move over here now. )