Zorya has gotten reasonably acquainted with Taxon, in her estimation, and it's time to get to know the locals. She's had a perfectly adequate excuse for laying low for a while, but socializing comes too naturally for her to stay in the background long. She switches her tablet on while sitting in the middle of the indoor stairs inside her beloved
(
Read more... )
Comments 11
Well, far be it from me to turn down a beautiful woman's gratitude or her fine choice in alcohol.
Reply
Reply
Much, much too sober. And how about yourself? Settling in?
Reply
When would you like to come by?
Reply
But with recent mishaps, he's found himself treading more cautiously again. So his tone is soft, his appearance more loose than formal. A regular man who has been in this city for far too long. He's sitting before the tablet, a window at his back revealing the city.
"I'd have to agree with you... it is nice, isn't it? Every one of us are more or less on equal ground. You don't get that in a lot of places."
Reply
Arguably Zorya's perception of fame is somewhat skewed; she thinks in terms of celebrity, not infamy, although she'd also probably call, say, Valerie Solanas a celebrity. She smiles, tossing her hair, regarding the stranger on the tablet with what for her passes for 'polite curiosity' (and thus is somewhat more intent than is generally considered polite in normal society).
"To begin with, anyway," she agrees, thoughtfully, "like a fresh start, if you're lucky. No paparazzi, no interviews--and we are all being watched. Which I don't mind, since our audience seems largely impartial...as far as I know."
She's willing to concede that she presently knows nothing about the mysterious, unseen group in charge of this city.
Reply
"Can't say much about those watching us though... I'm in the dark, same as the next person."
Reply
She makes a sympathetic little noise- she's all high drama, this one, but dialing it down a note at the moment, so while it's paired with a playfully commiserating expression, it's not as obnoxious as she...totally could be.
"Maybe we'll all get very, very lucky, and that will change- though I do, personally, prefer to make my own luck. So! If we were back in your neck of the woods, why would you be escaping the eye of the press?"
Reply
Leave a comment