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[salvagedslayer]

Guess whose home girl just hit 24? Gotta say, if you're gonna make it a point to celebrate in style, guess you might as well make sure you're all up in another world when you do it.

[laugh]

[Meanwhile, Faith has gotten her hands on a bag or two of decorations, and is determinedly fastening strings of lights around the outside of House 47 with a

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[taintedruby]

[Jaffar, as he walked by, could not help but, well, stare at this. What are those things this person is putting up around there and how is she planning to power the--- oh wait he's from the past and why is she doing it? Of course, he's not one to actually speak, but here, have tall dark and dead inside watching this semi-intently]

[salvagedslayer]

[She's never actually had anything extraneous to plug in before... it's always just been "well, the stove works, fridge works, guess I'm set." Clearly this girl just hasn't thought this plan through. But what else's new?

It's not exactly Slayer powers, just that twitchy ceiling cat's got his eye on you feeling that makes her look up from her work, and around at oh hey cute boy.]

Heya, stranger.

[taintedruby]

[This was the first and only time that Jaffar will ever be called cute. Still, he just... keeps looking with his dead eyes there. By way of a greeting he does get out a polite nod there]

[salvagedslayer]

[Dude, a couple months in Luceti don't exactly waste half a lifetime of bumpy-faced vamps and closetfuls demony goodness. Jaffar may have anti-Creepychan eyes of doom, but 'least he doesn't have antlers and/or constantly covered in slime.

She blinks at him, then scratches her head ruefully.]

What'm I doing wrong?

[taintedruby]

[Honestly he's just never seen this before. So after she asks that he pauses and then-] I... do not know.

[salvagedslayer]

Fair enough. I'm just getting my decorating on. Gets to be a tradition whenever I can get my hands on anything.

[she shrugs] And it's been a while since I've felt like I got anything that needs doing.

[taintedruby]

[Tradition? He pauses and then-] The solstice?

[salvagedslayer]

[think think think--oh hey, high school did teach something... or maybe that was all the Slayer books. Whatever.]

Something like that. Christmas. It's been tossed around all over the journals, you heard of it?

[taintedruby]

[Oh.

A nod. He heard the name, yes, but he didn't bother to look for and/or hear any explanations for it. Not that it's a huge concern for him unless Nino, Lyn, or Rebecca - mostly Nino - were to take an interest in it, but still]

[salvagedslayer]

[she leans against her work for a second--non-yelling company is always good in her book]

Got nothing like it where you're from?

[taintedruby]

... Some town celebrate. [...] The solstice. [To clarify, of course. He's never heard of this Christmas before now]