If my world is moving

[shadowed_scales]

Who: Gul Dukat and Sookie Stackhouse, closed
What: Dukat wants to make up for a broken appointment and at the same time discover something for himself.
Where: Hallways, Hotel Rooms, and Rooftop
When: Directly after this and before this.  Late evening.

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[bontempsbarmaid]

Sookie took the bottle from him, feeling a bit like she was on some romantic date from the setup, even though it didn't at all match the actual situation. She did enjoy spending time with her newest neighbor, that wasn't up for any sort of debate, but she had a feeling the lack of, well, feelings was mutual.

Once he'd gotten the blanket situated, she sat where she was supposed to, tugging her own blanket off her shoulders to lay it across her lap. "We can share this, too," she offered with a smile. "We'll be all set to battle the evil cold."

(OOC: I could have sworn I wrote up this comment before! Perhaps LJ ate it, as it is wont to do. Regardless, sorry for taking so long!)

[shadowed_scales]

"I feel well prepared," he said, taking a seat beside her and relieving her of the kanar bottle. He certainly wasn't behaving romantically, just making certain that neither of them would get hypothermia up there on the roof. After getting the blankets spread and tucked, he leaned back against the short wall behind them and looked up.

"I've seen so many unfamiliar skies through the years," he said. "Never one that was static. So this will be a novel experience." It was false cheer; he was good at being convincing when he wished to be. "Perhaps we should look for constellations and name them. No scientists here to gainsay us. We can log them and tuck it in the library for some unsuspecting captive to discover years from now and puzzle over. What do you think?" He glanced at her and twisted off the stopper of the kanar bottle, not yet taking a swallow. The bittersweet fragrance almost immediately made itself known.

OOC: No worries. That has happened to me before, too. LJ has been squirrely lately.

[bontempsbarmaid]

The sky above them made absolutely no sense to Sookie, but then she'd only really ever been able to find the Big Dipper back at home, maybe occasionally Orion's Belt if she was having a good night. She didn't even know how to begin going about choosing certain stars to be part of certain patterns; in theory, it should be like naming shapes in clouds, but there were a lot more stars up there than there ever were lumpy clouds.

She giggled at his suggestion and nodded. "That sounds like a fun evening," she confirmed, then eyed the bottle he'd brought up with them. "That stuff smells potent," she commented, the smell unlike anything she was used to, but not unpleasant.

[shadowed_scales]

"I think it could be. We'll just have to decide on a theme for them, something we can both relate to." He was already beginning to see patterns, but he had to reject some of those thoughts as they dealt with concepts which would be completely alien to her.

"It is. We metabolize alcohol differently from you, and we drink a different form of it. You could have a few tastes without harming yourself or becoming too intoxicated. It would have a warming effect. I wouldn't recommend much, though. Would you like to try it?"

[bontempsbarmaid]

Sookie contemplated the bottle for a moment, considering all her past experiences with alcohol and working in bars, and ultimately decided she could handle those few sips if he said it wouldn't do any damage. "Sure, I'll give it a whirl," she said with a smile.

"And how about something like, I don't know, furniture," she suggested, "as a theme for the constellations? We're from such different places, I don't think the usual animals or mythology would really work."

[shadowed_scales]

He passed the bottle to her. "I'll warn you about the texture. It's very thick. The advantage to that is that it's nearly impossible to get more in your mouth than you intended, so no surprises from drinking in the dark."

He settled downward a little more and tipped his head back to look. "Well, if we're doing furniture, then I see 'The Couch' right away," he said humorously, pointing to one of the more obvious clusters of stars.

[bontempsbarmaid]

"Oh yeah, I see it," she commented with a bit of a laugh, then scanned the sky for another apparent shape among the pinpricks of lights. "There's a 'Round Table' right there," she pointed out her own made-up constellation with a smile.

The smile quickly disappeared as she took a sip of the substance in the bottle, though how one could sip something so thick was a mystery. Both the taste and texture were unlike anything she'd had before, and she couldn't say if she liked it or just didn't violently hate it. "It's... interesting," she said diplomatically, offering the bottle back to Dukat.

[shadowed_scales]

He leaned in to have a look closer to her perspective, then nodded. "Very round," he agreed with a grin. "Hmmm." He continued to scan while she tasted the kanar.

"I'd say it will grow on you, except that you probably shouldn't have enough of it for that." He took the bottle and took a deep, long swig. "How about that one," he pointed again. "The Three Legged Stool? Or maybe two and a half legs. I wouldn't recommend sitting on it, either way."