[Location: Burnt Toast Diner] It's just a jump to the left

[forgot_myself]

It had been a weird couple days. People had been helpful, but even they couldn't explain why she was there. It was a little after noon and Anna was hungry, having slept through breakfast. Finding her way, with the help of the map, to the Burnt Toast Diner, Anna had gotten herself a chicken sandwich, a baked potato, and a giant root beer

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[caelitus]

Dean had taken care of the initial shock, and that was the main thing. Castiel was curious about what had happened to Anna, apparently having returned to the state she was in before she remembered, before she got her Grace back...

He wanted to talk to her. What he'd say was a separate matter, but... Castiel felt he had to.

Castiel walked into the diner Anna was in, at first just stopping inside the door, looking for that familiar head of red hair she'd become so accustomed to.

[forgot_myself]

Her back's to him, and she licks the sour cream off her finger before she uses it to turn the page, eyes still moving across the text. She'd end up reading it again later, highlighting the information she figured would be necessary. It's not like she had to pay for the book.

She took another bite of her chicken sandwich, chewing slowly. Whatever these hatches were, they made amazing food.

[caelitus]

He waited until he was behind her before saying anything, trying not to startle her. Too bad a random voice behind someone is enough to startle anybody.

"Anna. Hello."

[forgot_myself]

Anna jumped in her seat, dropping her fork back into her baked potato, turning to see the man dressed as Columbo. Handsome, though. She hadn't met a person here yet that wasn't attractive in their own way.

"Um. Hi?" She replied. This must be another one of the people she'd met here before. Dean had said something about her having been there for a while.

[oldoldghost]

Brigitta really has no clue at all about how to approach people after they've found out about her sword, she has even less idea how to approach amnesiac friends... But she's making a effort! She's even managed (through some miracle) to leave her sword behind!

...Of course, she does have about five other weapons tucked away currently but those are hidden, and Brigitta is good at hiding weapons.

She hesitates for a moment at the door and then clears her throat and strolls over, trying to look completely non threatening (well, as close as she can get to non threatening anyway, the whole height and hair thing don't really help with that) and like a fairly normal person "Hello again!"

[forgot_myself]

Anna had just put a load of potato in her mouth and she froze when Brigitta greeted her. She garbled a 'hi', and giggle, covering her mouth so Brigitta wouldn't see the food.

Chewing quickly, she swallowed then washed it down with a sip of her root beer. "Hi. Brigitta, right?"

[oldoldghost]

Brigitta can't help but smile slightly at that, she's not quite used to Anna being so... Human, it's kind of endearing, with most people she'd be kind of annoyed but she's actually started to like Anna, so she's decided that it's just nice instead of something to get annoyed over.

...Yes, Brigitta has different standards for friends and random people.

"Yes" she grins slightly, before noticing the textbook and tilting her head with a faint frown "...What's that for?"

[forgot_myself]

"Would you like a seat?" Anna offered, gesturing to the seat across from her.

Glancing down at her textbook, her cheeks flushed. "Well, I figured even if I'm in this place, I shouldn't get behind in school. It's silly, your average student would treat this like spring break, but I'm supposed to graduate in the spring."

Anna ate a bit of her baked potato and washed it down with a sip of her root beer. "Besides, there's really not much else I can do here. No school, no job at the bookstore. It feels weird sleeping in."

[biverbam]

River was wandering again, far from Wilde, though less searching and more... Aimless. Aimless and away from Serenity with all her worried pity voices inside. Wearing one of her brother's shirts over her dress, too. Having it was strangely comforting, and she rubbed the fabric between thumb and forefinger while she walked, eyes on her tablet.

Then she saw Anna's name. Anna the not-teapot, just around the corner, and blissfully unaware of the incident with the hatch besides. She was unnerving with her quiet, but it would be nice to say hello.

By the time River got to the door of the diner, she heard the whistles. There was steam on all the windows (not that anyone else could see it, but it was there) and she stood there for a confused second before smiling at her. Proud, like watching a baby speak for the first time, as if all she'd needed to do to be a teapot was concentrate.

"You're whistling."

[forgot_myself]

Anna lifted her head from her book, looking to the young woman who was smiling, ever-so-proudly at her. Setting down her fork, her brow furrowed as she looked to the table then up at the girl again.

"Um, was I? I'm sorry. I didn't realize."

She really must have been daydreaming if she hadn't even noticed her own whistling.

[biverbam]

"You can't hear it," because Anna can't. "Pitch, frequency, it's too different."

River tilted her head a little and listened to the whistling, turned her eyes to see how the steam was lighting on the window, condensing and dropping in all manner of lines with fat dollops of water leading their way down, down, down...

Then she frowned. "You don't remember."

[forgot_myself]

"Oh. Uh-huh," Anna nodded slowly.

Anna watched River look to the window, fascinated for a moment with something Anna couldn't see.

"Um, no. Apparently, I've got a big, heaping helping of amnesia or something. I'm sorry if we've met before and I don't remember you."