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[wesleynotponcy.livejournal.com]

"Yes, good morning, Mr. Giles," Wesley said, using his shoulder to hold the phone to his ear. "I was hoping you might look over a spell for me."

A beat.

"Sleeping?" he repeated. "At --" he checked his watch, "--eleven in the morning?" Good god, that place was going downhill. "Well. Regardless. It's Norse in origin -- not dark so far as I can tell, though I suppose there's always -- Mr. Giles?" Wesley pulled the phone from his ear to squint at the 'call ended' message blinking on the screen. "Well, that was just unnecessary."

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Re: Talk to Wesley

[inaskinnyway.livejournal.com]

"What makes you qualified to do this?" she wondered.

He didn't strike her as supernatural, something she only recently realized she could figure out, but she was lost to as why someone would do that on purpose.

Re: Talk to Wesley

[wesleynotponcy.livejournal.com]

"Training, mostly?" Wesley answered, fumbling a bit at the frankness of the question. "I, ah, I spent most of my youth studying demonology at the Watchers' Academy in England, preparing to act as a mentor of sorts to a supernatural warrior called a Slayer. When that, ah... fell through, pursuing this professionally seemed only appropriate."

Re: Talk to Wesley

[inaskinnyway.livejournal.com]

"So you freelance to aid the supernatural against other supernatural beings?" she asked.

Re: Talk to Wesley

[wesleynotponcy.livejournal.com]

"Essentially, yes," Wesley said, with a bit of a laugh. "That's, ah. A much more concise way to put it."

Re: Talk to Wesley

[inaskinnyway.livejournal.com]

"Interesting," said Susan thoughtfully.