The coffee shop seems so empty these days.

[There's a shuffling sound and a sigh on her end of the line.] Does anyone want to come by? This isn't much of a hobby unless I actually get to make coffee. [She says it playfully, though there's a moment's pause before she hangs up.]

( tl;dr for Hollom once again delivering a sermon )

Hmmm... Seems quieter. Maybe lots of people have gone home somehow. Too bad...

Well, can't let this place go to waste..~

[And he hangs up. Time to play tourist around Bell Pointe~ ]

... Does anyone know what happened to that new street, I think it was called Elm? It looks like a tornado hit it, but I thought tornadoes mostly struck in the flatlands. And either way I'm fairly sure someone would have noticed a tornado last night, even with the rest of the storm. It's completely flattened... Even the road is cracked.

[He shakes ( Read more... )

[There's a pause after she calls, because she's not sure what to say at first. When she speaks, she's doing the cheerful thing, just a lot less so.]

So. Figures everything is on the track to sucking again, when I finally come back.

Everyone been holding up okay? Everyone who's left, I mean.

((ooc: A million years later than intended oops. Sorry

There is, perhaps, a grace in finality I am not privy to. Nevertheless, I do not lament my return, however peculiar its circumstances remain.

[A momentary, dry chuckle follows. But his tone is the usual smooth glass, allowing nothing more that subtle bemusement he intends to convey.]Take heart in this, then, at the very lest. While death remains a ( Read more... )

 [It had been with some great thought to the chaplain's return that Colonel Lord Edrington decided that despite his conversation with Kennedy, he still was responsible for the man.  At least, he felt as though there was something he could offer.

"You couldn't hear it? He always seemed to be apologizing for speaking, without actually doing so. ( Read more... )

[The hollow is looking at a bowl of apples on the kitchen counter he never uses--despite the maid keeps restocking it--before he ignores it as it continues to storm outside. He wasn't that desperate to eat human food ( Read more... )

[Monkey's at the beach when he makes this call, and you can hear it in the background.]

I may not generally like people, but it bothers even me when a settled area like this just seems to empty out in no time flat.

Bothers me. Empty settlements are never a good thing.

Is it just me or does it seem really empty all of the sudden.

Either that or my phone is broken or not getting a signal or something...