starting to move on a bit

[meitori]

Who: Yuuta, OPEN
What: Yuuta decides to test this 'City of Dreams'
Where: In some empty lot in the city
When: After the VC event; daytime
Warnings: None at the moment

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[datums]

"That's impressive."

That compliment is delivered by the masked and suited man that stood behind and slightly to the right of Yuuta, at the edge of his peripheral vision. He had his hands hooked into his pockets, weight shifted to his left foot. It was easy to assume that he had been standing there the whole time that Yuuta had created the bookstore, and easier to assume that he would keep standing there until it was all right to enter the store and take a look around for himself. So far, Arthur found the level of detail was nearly perfect. He was posed that way to convey the interest that would have been otherwise absent because his mask covered the entirety of his face.

It allowed Arthur to keep his expressions (or lack of) to himself.

[meitori]

Yuuta turned around and observed the man for a moment. He hadn't noticed him approach, or even stand there, which was odd, borderline creepy. You would have thought that he would have heard footsteps, but maybe he was just concentrating too hard on the bookstore. Never the less, something told hm that he was one of those cold, calm, and collected sort, which was a relief amongst everyone else here who just threw caution to the wind and actually treated the City of Dreams like it was one.

"Thank you," Yuuta said. "It should be fine to go into, if you'd like a look around before I truly open it."

[datums]

"I wouldn't mind a glance around," he nodded, and started up to the door after it was clear that he had permission to, "although I wonder what you're going to do if all someone has to do is dream up their reading material."

[meitori]

"While that might be true, half the fun people experience is going out and finding a book," Yuuta said, following him in. "Just because they are available that way doesn't mean people will want them that way." That he added a used-book section would also help the store stay in business. A lot of people found a certain charm and attraction towards used books and their old covers, wrinkled pages.

[iwasason]

Pay no attention to the masked man browsing the shelves, bringing with him the feeling of cosmic wrongness to those capable of sensing such things. He stops in the religious aisles, casting a disdainful eye over the Bible shelf before turning his head - revealing no straps holding the mask in place - to peruse a rack of witchcraft books. He picks up a leather-bound Satanic Bible and chuckles.

[meitori]

Yuuta does notice him though, and wonders how he got in without the bell ringing at the front door. He figured that a detail like this would be useful to have, especially since he would be the only one working in here. He didn't want to seem like an unsuitable host.

"Is there anything I can help you with?" he asked, approaching him carefully. Though he had his powers as blocked as he could get them, that sense of wrong was too much for him not to sense.

[iwasason]

"Hm?" he looks up as if only distantly registering that the man exists. "Oh, no, that's fine."

Lucifer glances at the door - the windows and people going past, then promptly decides he doesn't care if this store counts as a "public" place or what those little apes think they can do to him. The mask vanishes from his face, and, satisfied, he returns to the laughable little book in his hand. "I was just amusing myself. Your selection is good, though I would suggest a different translation."

[meitori]

"Which translation would you recommend?" Yuuta asked, still feeling cautious. "I do not know much about Christian texts to know which translations or versions would be preferable."