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[huge_egomd]

WHO Hostel residents and visitors
WHAT Trapped together OMG!
WHERE Le Gode Hostel
WHEN After the snowstorm starts
NOTES Log will be good for as long as the snow/plague event is in effect. There will be separate threads for each area of the hostel. Please note day/time if you start a thread in one of the locations.
WARNINGS Unknown, will edit if

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Afternoon and evening of the 23rd.

[polarisation]

Sefton had little to do. After making all of the arrangements for any of the residents who wanted to move to the Victoria before the snow had set in, making sure the doctors had gotten as much as they needed and generally finishing all the rest of his work, he... really didn't have much to do.

People weren't his forte. Sick people were definitely not his forte. Being stuck here with everyone else, nowhere to run, simply waiting for something to happen was not how he envisioned things would go when he gave the okay for the hostel to house the sick.

All he had left to do was to curl up in one of the more comfortable chairs in the parlor (closer to the corner of the room, not in the open) and read a book. The owner of the hostel had exactly two things to be thankful for amidst all this mess: that the full moon had already risen four days ago, and that his wings were once again hidden with the magic in his bracelet.

If anyone needed him for whatever reason, he wouldn't be hard to find. He made sure of that, at least.

[polarisation]

Sefton nodded in agreement. He was obviously not very enthusiastic about the situation as a whole, either. "Yeah, s' not normal. But... s' how it is." He bit his lip for a moment before adding, "Lotta people have tried before. Pretty much everybody who gets stuck here."

[lostandfinder]

Chivy was doing his best not to focus on the worrying parts of what was going on, other than wondering just how long they'd be stuck inside because of the snow. He'd wasted a little time in his room, going through some of the random odds and ends he'd accumulated, but there was only so much time he could spend on that before he needed to find something else to occupy his attention.

His initial intention hadn't been to seek out Sefton - when was it ever, really? - but by the time he got downstairs, he realized he hadn't seen the other lately. And it might make sense to find prickly on the first floor, anyway, although he could always head back up if not.

Spotting his friend, Chivy headed over to snag a chair nearby (not too nearby, but close enough), trying for a moment to spot a title, but knowing it was pretty impossible, the way Sefton was sitting. "Good book?"

[polarisation]

Sefton glanced up when he heard the chair being moved, bit his lip when he saw who it was, then shifted a little further into the corner of his chair automatically. He shrugged. "S' not bad." It wasn't magical, at least.

[lostandfinder]

It wasn't a go-away, at least, not that he'd really been expecting one. "What's it about?"

[polarisation]

"Just fiction," Sefton answered. Though, considering the way his life had gone over the last nine months... was it really fair to assume that? "S' about this guy looking for his long-lost kid while getting chased down by the evil emperor."

[lostandfinder]

"That sounds kind of neat." Chivy wouldn't pick it up on his own, but he wasn't a big fan of reading - unless it was aloud. Words worked better when spoken than written, and he'd never really had the patience for books. "Do you read a lot?"

[polarisation]

"Kinda." Shrugging, he marked the page and glanced up to Chivy proper. "Read a lot back home," he admitted slowly. "Didn't get much chance 'gain 'til I got here. But, then..." With a grimace he tried to hide, he said, "Some of the books're magic."

[lostandfinder]

"Magic how?" At some point, Chivy was going to have to stop asking about these things, but at least from Sefton he had no reason to doubt what he was saying.

[polarisation]

"Like, they do stuff when you read 'em," he said vaguely. "When you got here-Lance'd just woken up from a magic... fairy-tale sleep or whatever."

[lostandfinder]

"So how do you make sure they're not magic?" Chivy didn't plan on picking any up himself, but it was definitely a worry point if Sefton would still be finding new books.

[polarisation]

"Get lucky?" Shaking his head, Sefton added, "There's more... not-magic books than magic ones."

[lostandfinder]

"But wouldn't it make more sense to just.. not? If some of them are magic and do weird things." Like cause fairy-tale sleep, apparently.

[polarisation]

"What else'm I supposed to do?" That was something Sefton was learning here in Bete Noire: you either take the chance and have some control over it, or wait for the chance to come to you and get blindsided.

[lostandfinder]

"Talk to people. Walk around. I don't know." Chivy shook his head. "There's a lot of stuff more interesting than reading anyway."

[polarisation]

With a roll of his eyes, Sefton replied, "Don't exactly get the chance."