Chateau Grief 14

Thought(Grant): God help the poor thing. ...God help me.

Narration(Grant): Xander has kidnapped two innocents. Satanists have taken over the government of Eynhallow. Every supply shipment more crazy folk show up, and Xander takes them all in without question. That's not required by the settlement. No one asks him to shelter them. No one forces him. He's looking for something that he'll never find. Because he wouldn't know a friend if one ran over him with a tank. Delusional freak.

Xander: You don't know me, Rhelan.

Grant: Yes Eugene, actually I do know you. I've known you for forty years. You can't just expect her to wake up and run to your arms!

Xander: This is not the place to argue.

Xander: She'll be my Cinderella. Library?

Xander: I mean it. She'll work in the fields with everyone else.

Xander: One day she'll stare up at the castle just like the rest of them and wonder what's inside.

Xander: I'll win her.

Grant: Pish.

Xander: And you're going to keep an eye on her.

Grant: I've already got the boy to look after! What are you going to do in all my spare time?

Xander: I have my annual phone call with the secretary coming up. The sheep are starting to get inbred. There just aren't enough.

Xander: I'll need a thousand more at least. And she'll complain that we're exceeding our budget. Then I'm going to say something nasty and get very upset.

Xander: I can't take care of impressionable young minds in a state like that. I need you.

Xander: So, here's to the status quo.

Author Notes:

have some orange juice.

Episode Recap:

Grant sees Kore lying asleep and helpless in bed and is transported by a wave of terror and pity. Things have been getting too extreme for Grant, what with the kidnapping and stuff, and the responsibility for managing the island weighs on him. The many referenced settlement judgement document is shown. Xander sued some people whose names you may or may not recognize and got a default judgment when they failed to appear. I clerked. It was hilarious. OK back to Grant, Grant is seeing visions of several events that have occurred recently, boat shipments of supplies, families, who’ve moved to the island, and Grant is reminiscing, somewhat maudlinly. Xander who is psychic and sees all of this and is driven up the wall by it, tells Grant that he’s all wrong. They argue briefly about Kore, who Xander is starting to have fairytale princess designs on. He’s going to set up a situation where here curiosity makes the first move, then he’ll sweep in all prince charming. Grant considers this so likely to not work out the way Xander thinks it will that all he says is ‘pish’. Xander then hands Grant a babysitting job, keep an eye on Kore! Grant is fine with this. Xander explains that he’s busy because he’s got some herd management arguments to make with the Secretary of State over Eynhallow’s primary meat crop, sheep. He’s somewhat more knowledgeable about farming than you might expect for an evil overlord, and also knows exactly how his conversation for more budget will go: not well. Grant watches in quiet pity until his hand accidentally brushes Xander’s. Then he’s all awake.