Body, Heart, Mind... and Coffee [event]

[defendingspirit]

Who: Maya [defendingspirit] and anyone else.
Where: A city centre street
When: Saturday 26th January, midday
Notes: I need to stop neglecting poor Maya. :(

Maya was swiftly approaching the age where responsibility was something she could no longer avoid. Sure, she'd been busy helping Phoenix and his court cases, but it was an excuse to neglect something else:

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[snowstainedred]

In fact, Yuuki had spent quite a long time watching Maya. She wasn't intending to be rude - she was just killing time whilst waiting for the headmaster her father to come out of the shop that, really, just bored her. After being allowed out after much bantering, this was not her idea of a, in his words 'father and daughter bonding!' day. She kicked up the remenants of the snow on the road as she'd walked in the direction of the café, shuddering several times from the cold that seemed to have set in. After grabbing two hot chocolates to go, she'd walked out again, only to have her attention drawn to Maya.

If she was thought she was cold (in something reminiscent of a trench coat and a scarf), then she had no idea how that girl must be feeling. She looked positively freezing, and Yuuki felt truly sympathetic for her, as her mittened hands readjusted her hold of the hot chocolate

[defendingspirit]

"Being cold is the entire point!" Maya said brightly, as if being freezing was the most fantastic thing in the world. She was quite used to this intense training and she took precautions beforehand and after to stop herself catching cold - or something worse - so she looked quite unfazed. "I'm fine, really."

[snowstainedred]

Yuuki didn't look entirely convinced, but she went with it, offering a small smile to Maya's reply. "Really?" she said, surprised. "I admire you for sitting out here like this-" she shivered again. Maybe it was the snow or something. "-for so long. It's good that you're okay."

[defendingspirit]

Maya looked a little flustered at the compliment. People generally thought she was crazy for doing things like this, Phoenix included. Still smiling, she said, "You get used to the cold. Besides, this is nothing compared to sitting on a block of ice or something." Sitting on a block of ice being one of the more extreme methods of training. She watched Yuuki, noticing her shiver. "You look like the cold one out of the two of us, actually!"

[snowstainedred]

At the mention of ice, Yuuki found herself surpressing a shiver. "That would be bad." As Maya commented on it, she smiled broadly, and laughed slightly, causing a slight puff of smoke to escape her mouth, warm air mixing with the cold air. "Maybe I am. I'm not usually this bad outside." That was true - spending most of your life pulling all-nighters for the sake of the school often meant she had to stay out in the cold. The snow, though, often made her shiver for more than just being cold. "It may be the last of the snow."

[defendingspirit]

Maya took another sip of her coffee, kicking at the snow that was beginning to melt and become slush on the pavement with the bottom of her sandals. "Yeah, it looks like it. It's too bad; I love snow," she paused, noticing Yuuki had drinks in her hands, and then nodded to the chair opposite her. "Hey, you can sit down, you know. I don't bite... usually," she grinned. 

[snowstainedred]

She smiled and laughed a little again at that. "I'm supposed to be going back to the head- my father," Yuuki stated aloud, more so as a thought than anything else. The way she figured, he'd be in there for a long, long time to come. And Maya seemed like much nicer company then he would. "But there's always a time to be rebellious, right?" she said, winking once and sitting down in the chair opposite Maya.

"I'm Yuuki, by the way," she offered. "Yuuki Cross."

[defendingspirit]

"Right!" Maya said, rubbing her hands together mischeviously. "Just tell him there was a roadblock or something and you had to go home the long way around. I'm sure he'd buy it." She was happy for the company herself. When you were freezing cold, having someone to talk to certainly distracted you from things. "Nice to meet you. I'm Maya."

[snowstainedred]

"Knowing him, he probably would believe that," Yuuki covered her mouth slightly as she said it, leaning slightly across the table so Maya would be able to hear. "Maya? Nice to meet you too, Maya. Even under such... freezing circumstances," she decided, half holding back the smile for the ridiculous pun.

[defendingspirit]

Maya laughed a little at that. "I'm part of the Fey clan. The women of our family are all spirit mediums, so stuff like this - sitting out in the cold and the snow - it's all a part of training," she explained. She didn't expect Yuuki to believe her; people rarely did, even when they saw a channeling with their own two eyes. But she felt she should at least provide an explanation for her strange behaviour in the first place.

[snowstainedred]

Yuuki blinked in surprise. She'd never, ever, in a million years, have expected to just walk into someone who knew about the supernatural and all those things. And was part of it, to be more precise. "Really?" she said, her voice and face regaining the previous edge of awe. "That sounds really intense! Father always said spirit mediums were around the city."

[defendingspirit]

"Well, the village I'm from is actually some ways out of the city," she said, wondering whether or not Yuuki was just humouring her and didn't actually believe her. "That's where most of the Feys live. I'm just an exception, because I work here in the city."

[snowstainedred]

"Must be nice out of the city," Yuuki mused. True, she probably did come from surrounding and outer layers of the dome, but she wouldn't know - she didn't remember any of that. It was all locked away from her, and she couldn't get to it, no matter if she wanted to. "You must.." she paused, wondering what the headmaster had once told her in his comments of spirit mediums. "... channel spirits, right? And things like that?"

[defendingspirit]

"Well, yeah, that's pretty much what spirit mediums do," Maya replied, bemused. "Our souls leave our bodies and are replaced with the soul of whoever we're channeling. Like possession, really, so that's why we have to train so much: to control it."

[snowstainedred]

After Maya's sentance, Yuuki shivered again, and she wasn't entirely sure it was from the cold. Probably from the word posession - her mind always seemed to relate all the bad things back to vampires. Vampires, posessed to kill...

"I understand," she said, forcing her voice out of her mouth and forcing a smile. "I can't do anything like that at all. It sounds pretty cool."

[defendingspirit]

Maya suddenly looked rather solemn when she noticed her shiver. Things like the dead and spirits were always touchy subjects to tread upon, so she couldn't step too heavily. "It's a pretty big responsibility, even if it might seem cool," she said, shrugging. Maya didn't think it was all that cool, at any rate. It had been the reason for her mother's disappearance all those years ago.

"Anyway," said Maya, likewise forcing a smile, "I also help out at a law office for a defense attorney."