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[amos_moses]

[The video opens to view Amos perched on top of a mostly-crumbled building. He’s grinning widely, but it’s the kind of guilty grin that suggests while he finds this funny, he knows other people won’t be happy. There are several jabberjays around him, pecking at crumbs he’s scattered around on the rooftop.]

Ya’ll, I am so, so sorry. I really wasn’t thinking.

[See Amos has this bad habit of trying to teach all animals he comes across tricks, as one does with treats and too much time on one’s hands. Little things, like teaching a parrot to wolf-whistle, a dog to shake paws, a squirrel to bow...all in return for food. He’s slightly more successful at it than your average trainer, simply because he can explain the desired nonsense behavior.]

[As for the jabberjays, only two actually like him, so he’s been playing with them and teaching them small things, different phrases in different languages, a Latin prayer or two, and the occasional children’s song.]

[This was probably not the song to teach them, in retrospect.]

[Amos points at the nearest bird, and it happily starts singing in a lovely woman’s voice:

This is the song that never ends…!
Yes it goes on and on my friends!
Some people started singing it not knowing what it was!
And they’ll continue singing it forever just because…!

[The rest of the birds take up the chorus, in the different voices of the inhabitants of Hadriel, and Amos doubles over with laughter. People are going to kill him for this but Lord help him it’s hilarious. This is what he gets for having watched that singalong puppet show with the farm animals as a child….]

NOTE: Most of the birds will only repeat this once or twice, but the two that hang around Amos will repeat it back if you sing or hum it or offer them breadcrumbs.

Comments

Video

[notjustinthemirror]

Oh good, I was waiting for someone to make those things even more annoying.

Re: Video

[amos_moses]

Glad to fulfill your expectations, chief.

[Amos grins brightly at the Alcohol Demon.]

What you been up to lately?

[notjustinthemirror]

Not teaching birds to sing that's for sure.

[ He's very cranky. ]

Avoiding everyone. This place is a shithole.

[amos_moses]

Aw, c'mon, it's got its bright points.

[Meet the eternal optimist who is not at all perturbed by cranky. Smile still intact, Amos shrugs.]

We've got some interestin' new folks, too. You should come meet 'em.

[notjustinthemirror]

Name two.

[Bright points or interesting people, he hates all of them.]

[amos_moses]

I bet you ain't met Sam yet. Or Maketh. You should!

[Amos, no, do not introduce the Alcohol Demon to the Winchesters.]

[notjustinthemirror]

And why would I want to?

[Yes Amos. This is a good plan.]

[amos_moses]

'Cause they're interestin' people.

Maketh's good at organizing information, and Sam's got some great stories 'bout monster-hunting.

[notjustinthemirror]

Fascinating.

[He sounds anything but fascinated.]

Monster hunting hmm? He'll feel right at home here.

[amos_moses]

Nah, I think I'm the only one who still thought I was home, at first.

[notjustinthemirror]

You come from a death cave? I thought you were some kind of zombie hunting mailman?

[amos_moses]

[Amos laughs. That is a hilarious description, thank you, Alcohol Demon.]

No, no! I'm a secretary.

[Sort of. Technically. To a crime-lord.]

But where I'm from, all this crazy kind of stuff happens pretty regular?

I mean, gods an' demons an' monsters, an' wakin' up with no idea how you got where you are, that kind of thing.

[notjustinthemirror]

A secretary who wakes up in weird places surrounded by monsters doesn't sound like a very good secretary.

[amos_moses]

I'mma very good secretary. I carry messages personal-like, see, wherever my boss-lady sends me.

An' sometimes along the way I get into trouble.

[notjustinthemirror]

See, now that sounds more like a mailman again.

[amos_moses]

Nope, nix on the mailman.

Mailmen don't oversee business deals between corporations. I do.

[notjustinthemirror]

That sounds important. Well paid?

[amos_moses]

Very well paid, we're a pretty big organization an' have partners all over the world.

That's the main reason I travel all over like I do.

Otherwise I'd just be stuck behind a desk, sorting boss-lady's mail.

[notjustinthemirror]

And there's zombies around? Or monsters? What the fuck is up with your world?

[amos_moses]

Zombies, monsters, demons, angels, gods, elves, vampires, weres...

Near as anyone can tell, if there's a legend 'bout it, it probably exists.

But mostly there's regular people.

[notjustinthemirror]

And that's just normal there?

Sounds fun.

[amos_moses]

Well, there's more normal people than there are fey or weres or other.

Least that's what they say.

Me, well, there's an awful lotta places in the world humans haven't set foot. That's what I say.