Shelob addendum

[oyceter]

And clearly I should never post pre-caffeine, as Rachel reminded me that I forgot about the reappearance of the evil spider!

We were sitting on the bed, happily reading doujinshi (or, I was reading and translating and Rachel was commenting). I had gotten to a key portion, in which Duo was dreaming that Quatre was telling him that he was actually a woman. Apparently his father had been trying for a boy, but had ended up with female!Quatre anyway, whom he raised as a boy. As one does.

In the midst of this startling realization, Rachel leaned over and said, "Oyce? You may want to move..."

I shrieked and leapt about three feet across the bed, flinging doujinshi everywhere. The spider had indeed crawled from the office into the bedroom and was evilly lurking behind the headboard while we were engrossed in the gender-bending dreams of Duo.

Rachel then had to rummage around looking for something skinny enough to reach behind the headboard slats as I kept an eye on the evil thing. She first got her vacuum cleaner, which both of us had difficulty assembling, then a squeegee mop thing, and finally, a broom. She whapped the spider, which fell to the ground. Both of us gave girly shrieks and scrambled onto the bed, toes curling in disgust. Since I am completely useless when faced with arachnid creatures, Rachel was forced to take the squeegee mop thing to beat at the corner the spider had gotten itself into.

It cleverly ran for the crack under the door and raced toward the office. But! Rachel killed it! She thinks it is a separate spider from the one lurking over the manga in the office, though I prefer to think that it was the same one.

"Good night!" she said. "I'm pulling the covers over my head to keep... things... from falling onto me."

"I can't sleep like that! I feel like I'm suffocating!"

And with that comforting thought in mind, I went to bed.

Comments

[telophase.livejournal.com]

WIIIIIIMPS!

[oyceter]

I know! And clearly the spiders know this too, since they only show up when it is both of us alone, without any brave, spider-fighting people around!

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

You can kill the spiders when I'm at your place.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Hint: a shoe is the best implement of destruction when it comes to bugs. :)

[telophase.livejournal.com]

When I was living with my mom, the vermin jobs were divided up: she got rid of the invertebrates, and I got rid of the mammals (mostly mice and rabbits the cat brought in). Snakes - which we got occasionally until she got the chimney capped as they'd crawl in after the chimney swifts and fall into the fireplace - we double-teamed.

After living in Tanzania and having our house invaded by army ants, North American vermin seems like an anticlimax. XD

[oyceter]

Alas, it was lurking behind the headboard in between the slats, which made it very hard to reach with a shoe.

[keilexandra]

Eeeek spider! *shudder* I am highly endomophobic. Vacuum cleaner sounds like an intriguing idea, as I've been looking for ways to kill bugs that don't involve getting too near them.

[oyceter]

Me too! I got the vacuum cleaner idea from the ex, who used it to deal with a wasp infestation we once had.