Get up real early in the morning, don't get up 'til the afternoon; son, I see the day is dawning?

[der_weevilkonig]

Sometime around eight in the morning, Owen Harper is in the Kashtta Tower infirmary with his back to the door, cleaning and re-dressing a set of fairly deep healing clawmarks on his forearms. He's managed to keep them out of sight so far by washing them at odd hours and wearing long-sleeve shirts, because he doesn't particularly want to have a

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[aint_nosurprise]

Casey wanders into the kitchen. S- He's had a good couple of weeks, because he had something to do. It made thinking about how the whether he feels more woman or man at any given moment easy to ignore. The Albanian demons have been taken care of though so the thoughts and feelings keep creeping back up.

He wanders into the kitchen to find chocolate or something more sugary than he needs, but stops in the doorway watching Andy work.

"What are we cooking today?" Casey smirks and steps further inside.

[riversodeep]

Andy looks up, waving with her wooden spoon. "Hey there! I am making-" she gestures over the bowls. "Pancakes, any way you want 'em. Ever had a peanut-butter-and-chocolate-chip pancake before? Highlight of my Saturdays when I was a kid." She reaches for a dishtowel, wiping off her hands. "How've you been? I haven't seen you around recently."

[aint_nosurprise]

Casey smiles at the wooden spoon wave. Yes, he smiles. He stares at the different bowls.

"No. I've had your regular pancake, butter, and syrup with a side of sausage, bacon, and eggs. All American combo. That's about it." It's been a while since he even had that, because pancakes aren't manly! He picks up one of the bowls and eyes her with amusement. "Sunflower seeds?"

He sets the bowl back down and reaches for another, apparently, determined to question all of her choices in pancake additions or at least to identify them.

"I was working. Finally. This CLF shit has me on edge. Other than that-" I'm feeling more woman than man lately, and it's freaking me out. Casey grimaces, and then shrugs his shoulders and focuses his gaze on her. "How about yourself?"

[riversodeep]

"Surprisingly good in breads, muffins, and pancakes," Andy says, taking a small handful and dashing it into a prep bowl with some blueberries and a good spoonful of batter. She takes a rubber spatula and empties the bowl into the skillet, inhaling theatrically. "Look, see? You can smell it already."

She trades the rubber spatula for one that's actually meant to flip things, and shrugs.

"All quiet on the Torchwood front. Well, mostly. A lot quieter than I was led to believe this job would be." She pauses. "Well, except for the fact that my sister's in town and her apartment got firebombed, so she's staying here for a while. That's always guaranteed to shake things up a little."

[pplrunincircles]

Elizabeth is at the library, looking for interesting, off the wall book. Her granny thinks that she's doing research for school. It's true that she has a research report due in a couple weeks, but school doesn't concern her so much, anymore.

She has an armful of books when she notices someone reading through the newspaper. Well. Skimming the surface. Not even skimming. It's more like treading the printed waters.

Elizabeth stops next to him and says, "You know, sir, if you're looking for something interesting to read you're not so likely to find it in there. I mean, it's the newspaper for criminey! Hardly worth more than a skim of the headlines. Gotta reach out into the archives of this place to get some real material."

[the_vesmier]

Ves looks up, giving a thin, polite smile at the advice. "Thank you," he says. "I have read quite a number of the books here. I was especially intrigued by Hegel and Kierkegaard."

Xenopsychology is always so interesting.

He folds the newspaper back over its holder and glancing at her books long enough to ascertain that they are books. No longer. One doesn't read another's materials without permission. "What are you finding fascinating today?"

[pplrunincircles]

"Is that the German Star Trek? Captain Kierkegaard. Or how ever you say captain in German. Heil? No, that's for saluting. Gosh, that was kind of insensitive of me to bring that up first thing when I talk about Germans. You're not German are you?"

Elizabeth practically grins at him when he asks about her books. It makes her that he should want to continue their conversation. He seems all smart. She kind of lacks in the smarts. Elizabeth pulls out the books from her stack, placing them one by one on the table in front of him.

"Let's see. There's Knitting with Dog Hair. I don't have a dog, but hey you never know when you're going to need a rope and a dog's the only thing on hand. And this one is How to Defend Yourself Against Alien Abduction by Ann Druffel. I'm thinking that's a smart skill to have. And this last one here is Nuclear War: What's in it for you? Cause ya know, I always wondered. I'll probably just skim them or read a page of each at a time. I have trouble focusing."

((OOC: They are all real!))

[the_vesmier]

The Vesmier is not sure what to think of this. His first thought is that there's clearly something he's not understanding correctly, but... no, that was English. All the right phonemes in the mostly correct sequences.

"Hegel and Kierkegaard were philosophers," he says. "Kapitän is German for 'captain,' and I am not German. I am Gallifreyan." He frowns. "And are... xenoabductions a common hazard in this sector?"

That's the most he can even begin to respond to that.

[nogettingback]

There is a rather obtrusive car parked in front of the coffee shop. It's obtrusive because it's bright pink and an El Camino, which the narration is convinced no sane person actually drives anymore. At the moment, it is abandoned, however, the owner is now stepping out of The Coffee Shop with some sort of coffee drink that has way too much foam to be considered a manly beverage. There's a carnival flier under his windshield and he tugs it off and examines it.

"Huh. And I thought the traveling carnival thing went out with bellbottoms," he muses, more to himself than anyone, but loud enough that Ivan can probably hear.

[soldatceryi]

Ivan looks over at that, registers the angel, registers that the angel owns (or is planning to steal) that car, and...

"For that it may be much like your automobile," he says, gesturing to the car with his cane. "Maybe it is like this is; a - akh, shto slovo? - 'enthusiast'."

[nogettingback]

Aaron looks at his car like he's never seen it before. "Okay, point."

He does, however, give Janine an affectionate pat. Out of style or not, he loves his... Horrible, horrible car.

"Retro or not, it looks like it could be a laugh," he shrugs nonchalantly. "I got a cousin who could use a few."

Why yes, Aaron does just chat animatedly with perfect strangers about things he'd probably be better off not talking about. Why would you ever think otherwise?

[soldatceryi]

"You should take her," Ivan says. "Him? I loved the carnival when I was a boy. Good foods, and the dancers, and the bears..."

And then there times when he went out with his father to hunt bears, and then there was the festival where they fed vodka to the bear. Russia is big on bears.

[chimaerasaurus]

Be jumpy, Owen. Be very jumpy. Abby is on her way to the infirmary to redress some claw marks of her own. She was at the zoo. One of the lions was ill.

She has ways of making you... let her near the animals.

Anyway. She helped. So she's in a good mood.

[der_weevilkonig]

Jump Owen is jumpy!

He looks around at the noise, then hurriedly finishes off one bandage and tugs his sleeve down over it. The other... well. He'll just... get that done as soon as he can, why doesn't he? Very quickly.

"Abby." Don't mind the brusqueness. It's an Owen thing. "You need something?"

[chimaerasaurus]

She rolls up her sleeves, displaying several ugly cuts criss-crossed over existing scars. "Nope! Just disinfectant and... bandages. Like those. What happened to you?"

[der_weevilkonig]

"Wild animal. You?"

Yeah, and that's brusque even for Owen. Usually he'd take the time to grumble a bit more, or at least be an ass about something.

He finishes wiping down the cuts on his right arm and takes out a few more bandages, tossing a couple of extras on the counter and making room at the sink. He doesn't need to explain these to anyone. Really. Everything is fine.