WHO: Terra & OPEN
WHERE: The City
WHEN: Tuesday, May 24th, between the hours of 7am and 7pm.
WARNINGS: I DON'T KNOW. SAP?
WHAT: Esperchan. Doing... things... literally just roaming around town all day so just about anywhere you want it to be, it can be. Except central park because haha walking around Illidan's back yard, no.
WORDS: yes...
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Getting up late and finding himself alone wasn't the greatest starting point, but then, when had his life ever given him anything but lemons? To the lemonade stand with you, boy. By which this tag means go out and do something.
So he does. He's not completely at a loss, at least; he had that (sadly tilted to the lecherous) awareness picked up from life with Rodimus and Zolf, which, of course, held very little water when he wound up traveling with actual women. But those women were crazy, and hardly helped in situations like this. Couples were pretty impossible to ignore in such a populated city, though, so he could glean some ideas. It was all a lot of touching, though...And he wasn't exactly the most touchable, much to his dismay. He needed something else ( ... )
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It made it easy to spot him long before he noticed her, and for the moment Terra was a little hesitant to make her presence known. It wasn't often that she saw him out and about, and Terra was curious about his habits. She was curious about a lot of things, really, but it only got worse where he was concerned.
It wasn't really stalking.
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The green hair was hard to pick up on first glance, reflected on the glass, so there was a slow double-take. He could've just imagined it - he seemed to do a lot of that in her regard, after all - but something told him to pay more attention. He turned around and blinked.
"Terra-?"
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"Hey." The smile was etched more deeply into one cheek than the other, and her gaze drifted from his face to the window. "What're you looking at?"
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Butterflies as usual, but not from a source of dread for a change. It was a relief to see her, considering she wasn't there when he got up earlier in the day. Half a smile was there in response to hers, straightening up and turning partway to her.
Oh. Right. Looking at...Zelgadis glanced back down to the window. "Just something that looked a little familiar. I don't think it works the same from what I know, though."
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"What are they?" she asked, finally turning to glance over her shoulder.
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He leaned down a little, peering. "And the paper is gridded...that's probably it."
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"Sextant?"
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Zelgadis glanced over, looking for a note of regard before going on. Seeing none, then, "I have one from back home. Used it to mark my location in measurements off of maps. It's a little worn out, but...it hasn't gotten much use in this place. I don't know the star positions here well enough to use it perfectly."
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Her hands moved from the window to hang at her sides, then rest on her hips, then slip back down, nervous in gesture. Was she supposed to link arms with him? Hold his hand? It was hard to tell how to act, when what she wanted and what he wanted seemed to be at odds.
Her voice, at least, was more steady. "You did a lot of traveling in your own world... right?"
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"I never liked staying in one place too long," he said, his shoulders shrugging a little. "And towns and cities back there didn't have all the same things like this place seems to."
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"Is it," he started, swallowing and glancing quickly between her and the glass, "something you'd want to know how to do? Mapping locations out. It's...not really useful in this place, s...so, maybe not, but--"
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"I..." was uncertain, eyetooth hooking on her lip for a moment of pause, voice quieter. "I've never really..." 'had scholarly pursuits' was a kind way of putting it, but Terra was much more of a doer than a thinker. If she couldn't learn it by doing, it wasn't something she'd been taught. (Weapons hardly needed critical thinking skills.)
It was an embarrassing failing in a world where everyone seemed to be a scholar. Color intensified in her cheeks, eyes flicking between the display and Zelgadis. Not that he would understand how her thought process was traveling; with how she continued, it could have easily just been flushed at the offer.
"Would you... want to?"
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"I don't mind," he said quickly, hands up in a show of...well, he wasn't really thinking when his hands went up as they did. "But if you'd rather not, that's fine, too."
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"If you want to, I'd.. like that."
Hormones, ladies and gentlemen.
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