(Untitled)

[theblindguy]

The switch in weather - and pretty much everything else - is going to take time to get used to. It was always bad enough when things were moved around in places he was used to by carelessness, but this - the entire landscape is different to him now, and it felt a little like he's back to square one because of it. It was a bit disorienting at first

Comments

[farmgrown]

Annie's fortunate to at least have the advantage of sight - Auggie's finally starting to remember where things are, but given that their surroundings had literally changed overnight, she doesn't blame him for being frustrated at first. She's more than willing to be patient when it comes to helping him, though, especially since it comes as such a force of habit for her anyway. She's so used to having his hand there at her elbow, lightly allowing her to guide them, that she doesn't even bat an eye when he chooses to do it on that first day of change and then every day after that. It gets to the point where she holds her arm out before she starts out on her walk, waiting for him to reach out for her. Even with all the chaos that the winter months have brought to the island, some things are still familiar

[theblindguy]

"Well, I do have my normal cane back at the hut, so the hat's pretty much all I need to complete the set," Auggie muses with a quiet chuckle. His hi-tech cane, which is beaming a light out in front of them despite the fact he's mostly using Annie's guidance right now, probably wouldn't fit the part.

And that's what it kind of feels like right now - that he's playing a part, that he's on some kind of gigantic, island-wide set that he's pretty sure would've been made for a Christmas TV movie. It's still a little startling to him how even the smells have changed - there's no more flowers and sea salt; it's instead replaced by a faint smell of chimney soot and the general scents of a city that isn't supposed to be there.

"Finally given up on wearing pants, huh?" he adds after a moment, trying not to grin. He'd been meaning to ask since he realized what she was wearing earlier, the swish of the bottom of her skirt a near constant feeling against his pant leg as they walk together now.

[farmgrown]

"True. Between the cane, the hat and the coat, you'd look right at home in the middle of any period movie. Maybe even Muppet Christmas Carol," Annie muses out loud, grinning slowly as she curls a gloved hand around his forearm. It's cold enough for her to need them, and she'd managed to find a pair of leather ones in the clothes box - the entirety of which, frustratingly enough, had been filled with nothing but Victorian-era clothing. Seeing as how jean shorts and bikini tops wouldn't exactly be weather-appropriate, though, she figures it's best just to grin and bear it for however long this lasts

[theblindguy]

"Really? The first movie you think of is Muppet Christmas Carol? Not the original one?" he asks with a snort of amusement, shaking his head. Not that he hadn't seen the movie himself, but there's classics he definitely would've brought up before that.

He slows when she does, though he doesn't think much of it as he does. He glances in her direction instead, commenting, "It's thick fabric, too."

So is his clothes, and it keeps the chill of the snow falling on them well enough. That's all he can really ask for. Truth be told, from the sounds of it, what he has as clothes now is vastly better in quality than the stuff he had before this place changed.