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[impudency]

Characters: impudency and haruno
Where & When: The Park, Alpha District
Rating & Why: Completely unsuitable for anyone PG-13 at most for Altair's colorful use of language.
Summary: BROS BEING BROS really they're just discussing Splendor things and... the state of the city?

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[haruno]

Sakura drew her cloak tightly around herself. Habits from years she remembered made changes difficult; it didn't occur to her to wear the jackets that lined several of the stores in the Metropolis District, thought doubtlessly it would have been effective.

A cloak, now... that she remembered. Even if this wasn't quite like the ones from home, even if she wasn't from home, it was reassuring.

She caught sight of Altair on a park bench, altering her meandering course of travel as she did. She saved her hello for now, instead opting to smile and start off with one of the questions that was almost meaningless, in the face of everything else.

"Do you think we'll have to endure Earth holidays the whole year round?"

[impudency]

"You make it sound like holidays are such a bad thing in a place where nobody needs to work anyway. Raia forbid you celebrate something, Sakura." It's a light teasing tone that makes it clear he's not serious, though it's sometimes fun to prod her about it. After all, between the two of them Altair is far more likely to be the one celebrating said Earth holidays.

Or his own world's holidays.

Or anyone else's holidays, for that matter. Altair just really likes celebrating.

"I take it, then, that this is something normal to a certain world... or set of worlds." It's idle musing, speaking just for the sake of keeping conversation going. Altair couldn't be that fussed as to the nature of holidays in the world; he's more concerned about why the world exists and what Splendor is, not 'why is Christmas here'.

[haruno]

Her smile widened, though she didn't speak. Without prompting, she chose to seat herself on the bench, looking out over the cultivated expanse of the park visible from here. It was beautiful, she realized. There was so much beauty in the world that she didn't always realize was around her.

"Mmhmm. Christmas is the big one, this month. It was about celebrating different things over the years, though it's mostly about gifts and spending time with family and friends anymore." Religious at heart, though the books she'd read on the subject ranged in describing how important it was, and to which people.

Link, if he were still here, would probably have something to say about it.

"I do celebrate things, you know." Without expanding on her own point, she sighed. "The exchange rate for people being brought in or sent elsewhere's pretty bad. The whole whims thing, recently, too..."

She looked up, as if searching for something to be found in the sky. "I wonder what it is Splendor really wants from us."

[impudency]

"It sounds like the sort of holiday Raia'd enjoy. I hope she does enjoy it, assuming she knows what I know." Altair briefly looks up at the sky, towards the heavens - he's wondered that for some time. Did she have enough of a connection with him, to know what was happening here? He knew she heard his prayers, but didn't know to what extent.

"There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to people disappearing, though lately people all seem to have appeared at the same time... like in waves. I wonder if there even is anything the city wants from us." Altair sighs, too, huddling a bit closer to himself, pulling the coat closer. He's not used to this weather at all.

He's noticed the whims and wishes things too -- but for now, he's not going to discuss what he's tried. (This might be because he tried to summon her, once. It didn't work.)