WHO: Ned, Digby and YOU
WHERE: Roaming the streets.
WHEN: June the 22nd, early to midday.
WARNINGS: extreme cuteness
SUMMARY: Ned is looking for the perfect place to open his new pie shop. Also to live.
FORMAT: prose but if you commentspam I'll follow along.
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I feel like I'm drowning but nobody knows it. )
"No harm done. It's alright." She looks to Ned with a sheepish smile.
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"Did we interrupt anything interesting?" he asks pleasantly, noticing the pensive expression she had been wearing just a few seconds ago.
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"Getting a feel of the City," she replies.
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"Not sure yet," she tears her eyes off Digby and looks skyward, squinting against the sunlight. "It's only been a day for me."
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His inquiry makes her pause, considering how exactly to answer something so loaded. She loathes the feeling of being misplaced and it's beyond words to explain how discomforting it is, to realize you were caught off guard by something out there. Not knowing might be the worst part.
Her own eyebrows furrow. "It's unsettling, yeah."
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"Unsettling is, an understatement, I think."
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"Settling down here... getting a job... " she's lost in thought again. Damn it Nygma. She really is missing her financial support already.
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"It's not what any of us planned, but that doesn't make surviving any less necessary." Part of him isn't sure if sanity will come with a new pie shop, or if he'll well and truly lose it, but he can't give up now. "Though it does seem futile, to make connections here, not knowing when we could be shipped home. And even if we go back, we could come back here..."
He takes a breath, really really needing it. "It's all very nerve-wracking."
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However, Ned's comment evokes an odd look from her -- not that he can see it behind her dark shades. It seems troublesome when she thinks about it and there is no doubt in her mind that it must be emotionally exhausting for those who have been here for months. (Years, she corrects herself, reluctantly.)
"One hell of a predicament," her eyes trail to Digby and those red lips of hers quirk upwards. A sympathetic smile. "Man's best friend is here with you, at least?"
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"But it definitely is one hell of a predicament, as you say." Ned nods, sympathetic for her as well. So many people here in the City didn't seem bothered at all, or even admitted to being happier here than back home. He hopes he'll never come to feel that way.
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