And now... owls.
((Link goes to a post in Mayday's journal. Didn't want to spam the comm with a socking.))
After a shower, a good night's sleep and another awkward meeting, Jaime managed to get some breakfast and make his way to the Owlery without further incident ( Read more... )
After a shower, a good night's sleep and another awkward meeting, Jaime managed to get some breakfast and make his way to the Owlery without further incident ( Read more... )
Lola
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-Jaime
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I'll be there! Get ready to be dazzled by my tour guiding skills.
Lola
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Yeah, I guess it'd be hard to fly if an owl got too stuffed. But it's not the owls I'm worried about. Someone I met here uses a pet chicken to deliver mail. A chicken that eats like a Hoover and won't budge til you feed it. Or it'll try to eat your sleeve.
Bet I will. See you soon.
-Jaime
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The Source, of course, had everything Lola needed in ways of clothing. Stores in Heaven were practical like that. After having changed into the outfit carefully selected for this maybe-date, a red top and dark blue jeans, she spent a good fifteen minutes getting just the right amount of lipgloss, mascara and blush on (not too much, just so that she wouldn't look like the pushy queen of slut town), before washing it all off and starting over again. Gah. Balance between too much and too little, always a pain to get right... Finally, a pair of dangly gold earrings and several thin gold bracelets completed the look, along with red wedges ( ... )
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Fortunately, camping out in the Great Hall wasn't all that dull, really. Jaime had taken up a seat in the corner, watching people - and it wasn't just "people" in the technical sense - come in and out of the Hall all morning. The lunch rush had brought a lot of people to the Great Hall, and there were house elves running to and fro between the packed tables of students who were more than likely using the Hall as an excuse to avoid their new spouses (although Jaime didn't know much about that yet). It had been interesting but uneventful, except for that short Asian kid who'd run in shouting something earlier about war and exploding beets. Oookay.
He was a little bit nervous, actually despite the icon keywords, shut up. He'd been disoriented when meeting Lola, and the scarab had been almost mellow around her (as close as it got, anyway), so he'd nearly forgotten about it when they were talking. But now, with it analyzing everybody who walked by (which he ignored since there was no sign of the Reach or ( ... )
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"It's okay," she said with a little shrug and grin. "I just got here. So," she chirped brightly, "have you eaten?" Because eating was good. Lola was hearing good things about it. "If you haven't, we'll bring snacks."
She had definitely over-dressed. Darn, darn, darn, darn... Okay. Just go with it. No disaster. She could deal. But darn.
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They were probably on an even playing field, then, since Jaime was a pretty terrible liar unless lives were at stake. "I guess you'll be okay unless we're going to be hiking a swamp. Unless you want to change shoes?" He wasn't sure, but had heard enough rants about women's footwear from Brenda to at least have an idea.
The house-elf came back with a large picnic basket, which Jaime took automatically, figuring he could serve as the pack mule. "Hey, thanks." He surveyed the Hall again. "I think the coast is mostly clear. No one's going to mind if we take stuff from the trays?" It had pretty much been open season when the food appeared.
Oh, Jaime knew that grin, especially accompanied with the word "shopping." Of course, he was used to seeing it from Brenda right before she dragged him or Paco or both along ( ... )
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Hello, was she talking about the weather? Ah, no. No, that was not clever and witty conversation at all ( ... )
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"Yeah, that's Tomo," smiled Lola. "She's a friend." Possibly a wife. She wasn't sure if she was actually married to Tomo as well or if they were both just married to Dwight. Or if it mattered. She grinned as the girl darted out of the room, evidently completely fine. "Good. Sometimes I get a little worried that she'll end up breaking something the way she zooms around, but she just... never manages to get hurt. It's a neat trick."
Okay. Time for confessions. Lola had blushed a little bit when he'd asked about the energy. Oops. She hadn't meant for him to see that. But yeah, okay, he deserved to know what she was. It was an important part of her, and if this was a date like she was suspecting then... Yeah. Then he absolutely should know ( ... )
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