[Fic] "Weregild," part 9 -- Inception/Anita Blake

The start of chapter two, in which Eames appears. Yay Eames! Sally Cunningham, the other notable character in this part, is halfway between an OC and a vanishingly minor canon character -- she is physically based on the blonde woman Eames forges on the second level, but her personality is entirely my creation.

Also, I should probably mention at some point that Peter Lebrun is, of course, Peter Browning. In the same vein, Fisher is Maurice Fischer, and yes, there is a reason I keep misspelling his name. :-) But anyway, on with the story. (1,775 words)

( Weregild, part 9 )

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So that's Eames in this world. If anyone is willing to Brit-pick for me, I will be eternally grateful! I am not going to change my spelling, because it makes no sense to have two thirds of a story in American spelling and one third in British, but I would like to at least try for non-jarring word choices and phrasing.

Now I am off to bed because I have to be at work at 9am Wednesday morning, for semiannual inventory day. I have to help count every item in the store by hand. And then, when my brain is thoroughly turned to porridge, I have to snap back into the rhythm of a regular working day until 6pm -- I don't even get to go home early like my coworkers! I am so not looking forward to that.

smoke shop news: I survived inventory day!

I am at the library, recovering from inventory and the general aggravations of Wednesdays. (Wednesday is the day we get a weekly delivery from one of our biggest distributors -- they sell us everything from cigarettes to loose tobacco to butane to rolling machines to papers/filters/tubes to snacks to candy to paper bags.)

The one upside of inventory day is that everyone is allowed one free drink, and PM buys us all pizza for lunch. So that was nice.

I counted ALL THE BOOKS this year, plus three sections of magazines and some assorted maps. It is my opinion that magazines are worse to count than books -- there is more price point variation -- but not as bad as greeting cards, which are small and fiddly and badly organized and will drive a person almost literally mad. At the moment, the overwhelming mode for mass market paperbacks is $7.99, with $9.99 a strong second. A handful are still priced at $6.99, and $5.99 is either for "special bargain" offers or Westerns. And that's it, at least as far as our selection goes.

Hardcovers and trades are much more variable, though $15.00 was by far the most common price point in our particular selection of trade paperbacks. Children's books, again, are highly variable, not least because children's books come in such a variety of formats.

And now the rain seems to have let up, so I am heading home.