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Quest 211

Aug 14, 2010 19:36

[Accidental Video | Open Action]

[Rosella is sitting in one of the quieter, more secluded parts of the beach, perched comfortably atop a fairly large outcropping of rock and silhouetted against the rapidly setting sun. Her hair drifts lightly in the evening breeze as she settles back onto her hands and crosses her legs at the ankles, apparently ( Read more... )

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action ][ worksmart August 15 2010, 04:44:42 UTC

[Chase seems to haunt the beach almost as much as the hospital right now, although with his workload picking back up after last month's... incidents, time at work has begun overriding anything he thinks of as leisure once again. Still, in the early morning or when a shift finishes early, this is often the best place to find him, making the best of summer while it lasts.

He hasn't been in the water but his hair is wet with spray, salt and sand flecking his skin, with his bare knees and calves having accumulated the worst of it. It's a far cry from the buttoned down (if brightly coloured) appearances he keeps up at the office, right down to the bare feet kicking up the beach as he jogs along the tideline. He doesn't notice he's in company until he hears it, looking up and around to find the source.]

action ][ primrosella August 15 2010, 04:52:10 UTC

[Rosella, for her part, ends up noticing Chase about two-thirds of the way through her impromptu performance, but Greensleeves is her favorite song and it almost seems an injustice to break it off in the middle, so she continues playing--albeit at a slightly quicker pace--and brings it to a light close before lowering her flute and raising her free hand in a wave.]

Oh, hello! Is that you, Dr. Chase?

action ][ worksmart August 15 2010, 06:38:58 UTC

[He raises a hand to her, crossing the sand to look up at her rocky perch before responding.]

This is probably a bad place for the 'just some guy who looks like me' joke, right? [He gestures towards the flute, or the hand still holding it.] Don't tell me that one's popular in your world, too.

action ][ primrosella August 15 2010, 06:45:24 UTC

Well, perhaps just a bit, now that you've already admitted it!

[She slides over closer to the edge of the outcropping as he approaches, letting her legs dangle off the side and replacing her flute securely across her lap once again.]

Greensleeves is the anthem of my father's court, so it's one of my favorites. I'm told it's not nearly so popular in other places, though--something about being stuffy and old-fashioned, I think it was?

action ][ worksmart August 16 2010, 11:34:15 UTC

It's old fashioned, but it's popular. When I was a kid the ice cream trucks used to play it to call people out.

[Leaning both hands against the rock he stretches his arms out, rolling his shoulders lightly.]

I assume it's not based on the same subject matter.

action ][ primrosella August 16 2010, 17:49:26 UTC

The words, you mean? It's about a lady in a green dress that broke the singer's heart, or at least it is where I'm from. But we don't use the words as part of the anthem, just the tune.

action ][ worksmart August 17 2010, 16:55:24 UTC

It's about a lady in a green dress. [Although the narrowed, sidelong look he gives her says there's more to the outfit than that.] Maybe it is the same. Shouldn't your court have an anthem... about the court?

action ][ primrosella August 17 2010, 18:26:26 UTC

[She catches that look and answers it with a slight, knowing smile; this is the anthem of her father's court they're talking about, after all, and some things are just better left unsaid and...casually overlooked.]

I suppose so, but it's tradition to have it the way that it is. It's been that way since before my father was king, even, and I think even before King Edward, too. Besides, it's a pretty tune, don't you think?

action ][ worksmart August 17 2010, 18:48:38 UTC

[Some things the doctor would never spell out to the princess too explicitly, even if she asked.]

It is pretty. Are you thinking about home?

action ][ primrosella August 17 2010, 19:03:11 UTC

Only a bit. It's more that I'm... [She casts a brief glance toward her notebook, a short distance away.] I'm trying to solve a puzzle, I suppose, but I don't have all the pieces, and the only ones I do have are ones I'm not even entirely sure about, anyway.

action ][ worksmart August 18 2010, 03:55:56 UTC

[Chase nods, though her notebook and its mysterious writings are out of sigh above him.]

Having all the pieces only matters if you're trying to match your puzzle to the picture on the box. If you don't know what the picture is yet, getting two or three right might be enough to help you figure it out.

[And, pause. Metaphors are contagious things.]

Does that make sense?

action ][ primrosella August 18 2010, 04:10:31 UTC

I think so. But I think my predicament is more that I know what the picture is, but only one or two of the pieces fit together, and all the rest are perfectly round. And now it's my duty to cut them to fit, and make them work with the others that I already have, and half of them are missing anyway.

[And that makes for such a ridiculous extension of the metaphor that she can't help but laugh, tipping her head back to regard the sky for a moment before looking back to Chase.]

And I know that didn't make much sense at all, did it.

action ][ worksmart August 18 2010, 04:46:57 UTC

[Laughing, for any reason, seems like a good thing when it comes to Rosella in recent... well, it's been months, hasn't it. Chase can't quite remember the last time her smile wasn't weighed down by something. So he smiles too, pushing back a little way to look up at her.]

I think I can follow. You're trying to make what you've got make sense when you put it with the rest. Can I come up?

action ][ primrosella August 18 2010, 05:00:10 UTC

Oh, yes, please do! [And she moves back and over a little, clearing some room for him to hop up. She'd picked one of the larger outcroppings in the vicinity to do her thinking upon, and there's more than enough room for two.]

And even if I don't get anywhere with this puzzle of mine, it's still a nice night for getting out and thinking. Summer's gone by fast, hasn't it?

action ][ worksmart August 18 2010, 05:08:48 UTC

Summer always goes by too fast.

[Well he doesn't quite hop but gets a footing on a lower part of the rock and pulls himself up on the heels of his hands, twisting to get a seat next to her. Now he can see the debris of her thoughts, over to the other side.]

Especially when you're on schoolies. December was always over before it began. Now I take most of my time off in the winter.

action ][ primrosella August 18 2010, 05:36:24 UTC

You had summer in December?

[She looks intrigued, and perhaps a bit tentative; Chase does like to make jokes, and it's not unusual for them to go over her head, so she's not entirely sure if he's teasing her now, or if he really means it.]

Then it must not be unusual for you at all when the City reverses the seasons every year, mm?

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