rp - very much open

[startling_blue]

Blue is seated at the bar, her eyes scanning the room desperately for Jade and Lu, both of whom seem to have disappeared.  Again.  She can barely make out faces in the crowd, there's so much smoke clouding the room; one of the legs of her barstool is a little shorter than the others, so every time she shifts the stool wobbles underneath her.  She's

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[kandescence]

As it turns out, the person who steps up to the bar next to her could not appear any less like a Neanderthal or any more out of place if he tried: he's a Japanese youth (barely old enough to be in a bar at all, by the looks of him) with long black hair drawn up into a pony tail and severe, unsmiling eyes. In fact the only thing that gives him even the vaguest sense of relationship to anywhere that plays country music at all is the fact that his black leather duster coat is adorned with conchae and fringe on shoulders and arms in a way that gives it an antique old west or almost native look

[startling_blue]

She shrugs a little, running her finger along the rim of her glass. "Last time I checked, a trucker bar just outside of Stockton."

[kandescence]

"Stockton?" He looks genuinely confused by this for a moment. Then he breathes an irritated sounding little huff. "Perfect," he says, obviously more than a little sarcastic.

[startling_blue]

"North Carolina," she adds, clarifying. She doesn't really know what to do to make him feel any better or any less confused, so she takes a tiny sip of her drink.