Gathering Post - London Calling

[londoncallingmods]

The world at large seemed heavier this week, bad news from across the pond drifting over like a bad storm and raining down on the city. Still, stiff upper lip and all that. If London had stopped every time things had seemed bleak, it would have fallen long ago.

And so life went on, as it must. 

The skies were a bit grey and the streets slightly damp, but the Christmas lights were coming on early this year, and Harrods already had the streets lit up with wonder and sparkle. Cafes and bars followed suit, and twinkling lights were everywhere you looked, casting a much needed bit of whimsy and wonder over the stark looking faces that passed by. It was hard to stay grim when children and adults alike seemed so entranced by it all.

There were plenty of events going on as well. From the Lord Mayor's Show or the Dulwich Christmas Bazaar, to the usual concerts, festivities, and even bowling. 

London may have looked a bit foggy and miserable, but there was pleanty of joy to be found for those who went looking.

(Gathering post! Just a nice mellow post to combat those post election blues, and balance out the drama from Halloween. As always, this post will be open for at least a week, so tag in and check back often to tag others. <3)

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[akatawitch]

Sunny shrugged. "The election in the states."

[callmevod]

"Oh, with the loud orange guy?" Vod asked, giving a shrug. He was used enough to politics to not underestimate anyone, especially a man who wielded, from what he could tell, hatred. However...

"Got family over there, I take it?" he asked, figuring that might be why she was upset.

[akatawitch]

Sunny nodded, almost nudged to a smile by that description but not quite. She focused her eyes on the scone in her hands. "I was born there. My brothers are going to school there. My aunt and her kids, one of my best friends..."

[callmevod]

"I get it," he said, thinking for a moment of his brother, also on the run across the stars. Or possibly in Imperial captivity. He wasn't sure which.

"I mean, still, though. I'm sure there's people around who can get them over here, one way or another." People were smuggled across boundary lines all the time; it was one of the oldest professions, as far as he knew. He'd done it himself, from time to time, when the money was right.

[akatawitch]

Sunny just... looked at him for a long moment. But finding she couldn't muster the energy to break down why that was an amazingly stupid thing to say, she focused on the mindless mechanics of eating the scone in her hands.

[callmevod]

"Mm. Lemme guess, too expensive," Vod suggested, grimacing. "That sucks. I mean, if things had been different, I could have, uh..." He just remembered, that, well, he shouldn't casually mention his spaceship to random people.

"Y'know. I could've chipped in. But I lost a lot of cash, recently." It was half-assed, at best, but it was something a bit more acceptable than 'I could have used my spaceship to help.'

[akatawitch]

Sunny's eyes were flat and empty, distant and cold anger stirring in her. God, he had no clue, did he? "I think I should go," she said, picking up her book and tucking it into her bag. She didn't actually say the words 'you're an idiot and I'm done with this conversation,' but she wasn't pretending to have an actual excuse either.

[callmevod]

"Hey, I'm clearly missing something," Vod said, somewhat defensively. He couldn't really spill everything, but... "Look. I'm new here. I still don't really know how things are done. So if I pissed you off, I'm sorry." He made to stand. "I'll just get out of your hair." Vod wasn't one to spend time where he wasn't wanted.

[akatawitch]

New where, on the planet? But she didn't say that. She wasn't going to be mean, not on purpose anyway. She had no intention of keeping him, but all the same she said quietly, "Thank you for sharing your scone." Sunny was not entirely without manners, but she had nothing in her to be gentle with anyone else.

[callmevod]

"Hey, it's no problem. Sorry I pissed you off," he said again. He got up and turned to leave. The waistband of his pants had gotten a bit tugged down from shifting around while sitting. When he turned, his tail had partially wormed its way out of his pants. It hung not-so-limply down near his ass, and Vod noticed, glanced awkwardly at the woman, and began to walk away a bit faster than he might normally, leaving his plate of scones behind.

[akatawitch]

Sunny's eyebrow arched slowly.

Okay.

Either that was fake and she Did Not Want to Know.

Or it was real--not impossible, she'd seen stranger things--and if that was his camouflage, he was not going to do well.

Her mind lazily started turning over ways to disguise that with magic, which was a welcome distraction. As were the scones.