Chateau Grief 23

Narration(Kore): Dead eyes.

Narration(Kore): That wakes up all kinds of memories. Like a fried egg. So I'm hallucinating again. Doesn't mean anything. The past is gone.

Narration(Kore): But dragons awakened...don't go away. And now my skin is crawling.

Narration(Kore): Baseball.

Kore: No thanks.

Thought(Gino): You're not getting away that easy.

Gino: There's more to life than being an office slave. Get outside and hit a few line drvies. Boring people like you aren't loyal to anything but a dollar bill.

Crowd: Hey check it out! Chick's gonna take Gino down. Fight's on! Yeah, go for it princess. She's toast. Remember the last time Xander stopped a fight?

Thought(Gino): Got her...ha! she heard that! Faster than I'd hoped.

Kore: If people don't want to come out to the ballpark...how are you going to stop them?

Whisper(Gino): Know your Berra quotes I see.

Whisper(Kore): Nice shirt very subtle.

Author Notes:

Yogi Berra died yesterday. As it so happens, this episode owes a debt to him.

Episode Recap:

In a disguise that Inspector Clousseau would be proud of, the local sabermetrician gives Kore a disturbing grin. She stumbles back as a memory hits her of some other time she’d seen someone with eyes that were as she puts it ‘fried like an egg’. so like, heads up, she’s fought through some issues. Kore is very disturbed by this memory, and she struggles to push it back down. Her voice mastered enough to speak, she manages a polite refusal to join Mr. Baseball’s guild. But Mr. Baseball leaps onto his sign-up table and calls her out for being a workaholic soulless greedy capitalist. He also impugns her loyalty. This is the button to push, because Kore stops in her tracks, heedless of the gathered crowd turns around and lobs a humorous Yogi Berra quote at him. Sports Fanatic hops off his perch and does the nose to nose thing that umpires do with recalcitrant first base coaches. Only instead of shouting they’re whispering to each other that both of them know…the jig is up, no one is fooling anyone here.