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001 ☂ The space between . . .
WHO: Allison Hargreeves + YOU
WHERE: Maurtia Falls & Nonah
WHEN: Across May
WHAT: Various prompts
WARNINGS: Hargreeves sibling appearances.
1. Maurtia Falls, Housing #2
(Beginning/Middle of the Month)
Allison's always quiet now -- having sliced vocal cords does that -- but after the dreams finally stop being shared and stop tearing the world around them into pieces, creating places, people, things, and everything one didn't want to see (or share, like her nightmares about Claire and how deeply rooted her therapists voice has stapled itself inside her head), she's even quieter at the place that is supposed to be sort of hers.
A feeling of exposure that only highlights one of too much greater distance.
At the very least she can be grateful there is always scotch in among all the things in this house.
2. Nonah, The Coffee Shop & Others Nearby
(Anywhere in the Month)
Coffee stills happens with Vanya on a regular basis, and it's become a little smoother there, too, since Jacob showed her how to use the Mental Network. That she relies on it to give her some facsimile of a voice with her family, but most of all with Luther and Vanya. She's grown fond of the little coffee shop, though there's a freeze in her ordering the day she recognizes the girl behind the counter at the coffee shop suddenly from her, their, shared dream.
Another time, inspired by the coffee morning trip of the week and no want to actually get to her job, she ends up wandering down the streets from Vanya's place, reading the names of the stores on the doors and signs. There's a glove she'd like to have made into bracelet but she isn't entirely sure if one, it's even possible, and two, what store title would even imply someone could or would.
3. Nonah, The Hargreeves House
* Closed until after the network post goes up
(Move In-through-end-of-Month)
Requesting a house, especially one as large as they'd applied for and been granted, feels almost too permanent.
Allison can hide it in her silence, physically imposed by her injury and self-imposed by almost two months now with few words even the way she can now, watching those of her brothers that were all in immediately bring things in, starting to make the empty space more full, and in setting up rooms that won't be touched for their siblings who every reason not to want to be there. But Allison is making them room anyway.
Rooms that won't be touched or used for anything but them. If, and when, that day ever comes.
It feels right to be closer. But something under still feels wrong. Even more than before.
[ If you'd like to request a prompt, come find me at
wanderlustlover or #6353. ]
WHERE: Maurtia Falls & Nonah
WHEN: Across May
WHAT: Various prompts
WARNINGS: Hargreeves sibling appearances.
1. Maurtia Falls, Housing #2
(Beginning/Middle of the Month)
Allison's always quiet now -- having sliced vocal cords does that -- but after the dreams finally stop being shared and stop tearing the world around them into pieces, creating places, people, things, and everything one didn't want to see (or share, like her nightmares about Claire and how deeply rooted her therapists voice has stapled itself inside her head), she's even quieter at the place that is supposed to be sort of hers.
A feeling of exposure that only highlights one of too much greater distance.
At the very least she can be grateful there is always scotch in among all the things in this house.
2. Nonah, The Coffee Shop & Others Nearby
(Anywhere in the Month)
Coffee stills happens with Vanya on a regular basis, and it's become a little smoother there, too, since Jacob showed her how to use the Mental Network. That she relies on it to give her some facsimile of a voice with her family, but most of all with Luther and Vanya. She's grown fond of the little coffee shop, though there's a freeze in her ordering the day she recognizes the girl behind the counter at the coffee shop suddenly from her, their, shared dream.
Another time, inspired by the coffee morning trip of the week and no want to actually get to her job, she ends up wandering down the streets from Vanya's place, reading the names of the stores on the doors and signs. There's a glove she'd like to have made into bracelet but she isn't entirely sure if one, it's even possible, and two, what store title would even imply someone could or would.
3. Nonah, The Hargreeves House
* Closed until after the network post goes up
(Move In-through-end-of-Month)
Requesting a house, especially one as large as they'd applied for and been granted, feels almost too permanent.
Allison can hide it in her silence, physically imposed by her injury and self-imposed by almost two months now with few words even the way she can now, watching those of her brothers that were all in immediately bring things in, starting to make the empty space more full, and in setting up rooms that won't be touched for their siblings who every reason not to want to be there. But Allison is making them room anyway.
Rooms that won't be touched or used for anything but them. If, and when, that day ever comes.
It feels right to be closer. But something under still feels wrong. Even more than before.
[ If you'd like to request a prompt, come find me at
2
So it is a Harry with muffins and a very, very large coffee who spots Allison at the shop and smiles. Distraction is very good, yes.
"Allison." He wades through the usual crowd, making his way through them with his height and casual willingness to gently move them.
As he arrives at her side, he fishes out a sight that should not surprise her, now, anyway; a pad of paper and a pen. His grin is lopsided as he sees her.
Re: 2
The sudden production of a second notepad and pen is only marginally less surprising because it's happened once more, though it does seem a strange tic for having when he never knew she'd be there. Her smile this time is more staid, graceful in acceptance but restrained, which can be blamed on morning or month two or the way the wind has been blowing since last week and all the dreams tearing apart this little-big world.
Even though she does take them, she makes a snap decision she hasn't yet really for anyone who isn't a Hargreeves.
Her eyes unfocus only for a second before a small text box appears in front of Harry's, and only Harry's, vision.
Is it magic, or do you just walk around with pads of paper and pens in your pockets all at time?
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"It's just me. When I know something can happen, I prepare for it. Now that I know you use pens and notepads, I carry one just for you when I go out. I always carry some kind of writing thing, for notes, but this is just me being prepared."
He jabs a finger at the text box.
"That is new. A power given by this place?" He is delighted. And already wondering how it works, and how to enhance it.
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It does take a few extra seconds. It might be done with her thoughts, but it's not the same as speaking, and it takes time to think and decide. She still has to construct her sentences, and write them like she was texting them, and send the message, and wait for it to arrive. Even if it all happens inside their heads, and across invisible space.
It's attached to the network. Everyone has it. Supposedly, it was designed for covert battle communication,
but it seems like almost no one around here knows they're walking around with it in their head.
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And there in front of her appears the screen, and he grins.
Now that could be convenient.
He nods, and switches back to speech. "Do you mind if I still talk like this?"
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It was what her family did, and, honestly, it was easier.
She could hear them. What they said. What they meant.
Even if they couldn't with her.
It wasn't perfect, but it worked.
That might as well have been the Hargreeves motto.
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He waves a hand at a table nearby. "Care to sit down and sip and talk?" He nods to her.
"At least the world is not exploding around us, this time." She makes him smile with her depth of expression. Many people do not communicate so well as she does with mostly expressions, and he likes it. And he needs a distraction.
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Still in the habit of wearing his human disguise when he goes out, he comes out of the establishment with a mocha in hand, nearly running into a familiar human.
"Oh hey, it's you, from the moon."
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Which makes her more annoyed at herself than the situation, but it wraps right in.
Even as she blinks in surprise a second later as he recognizes her, and she places him. From his face, and his words. The Swear-In. Her mouth trying to amend itself somewhere closer to a polite enough turn of a congenial smile, with a nod, though it's a little pressed by the flush of the last few seconds.
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He takes a sip of his mocha, licking a bit of whipped cream off his upper lip. Jonathan thinks he needs to socialize with humans more, so here he is, making an effort.
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She would like it to be that simple. Just pass on any invitation to the moon, on any need to ever have it mentioned again, but it's the moon. The moon. Which means Luther is nowhere near being able to just 'pass' on pretending it doesn't exist. Not when he was basically, pointlessly, imprisoned on it for near half a decade, back home, and nowhere, there was not only still a moon, but one with a working space base and organization.
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The surprise doesn't stop the observance, though, and she shifts the things in her hands, so she can pull out a notepad from her bag, juggling it, and her coffee, to write a single word, that she holds up with a canny expression and a tilt to her head, watching his face as he reads it,
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"Yeah, I'm actually Reptilian."
Kurt lets his eyes revert to their natural look, the iris and white turning yellow and the pupils slitting.
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I'm so sorry. Life emergency happened and I'm still trying to take care of it.
oh hey, don't sweat it
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Why not? She never gets the chance to sit down and really feel city life, especially down in North Carolina. As she glances around a niche boutique - the kind that offers cute clothes at way too expensive prices - she can't help grinning at another girl.
"I love window browsing here," she admits, stuffing her hands in her pockets as she holds up a couple of necklaces. "But honestly, in these places, only the jewelry ends up being affordable."
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That'd never been a problem back home. Aside from the highest end companies, she could have walked in anywhere and bought a good amount of everything, and even those highest end companies wanted her to be wearing their pieces or to be seen with something of theirs. The cost of giving it to her was made up hundreds of times over in the free advertising that splashed a hundred magazine-newspapers pages and graced interviews on the tv.
But like everything reminded her lately. She wasn't home. None of this was anything like her life.
(And, even more, none of that life was left standing. Not after the planet was vaporized.)
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(No, even those types said as much to her face.)
"So um, if you had to get the one on the left or the one on the right, which would you spring for?" And here, she pauses, thinking quickly, "Also, if you can't speak English, it's okay. I can speak any other language. Seriously - any."
It's all about the other person's comfort at the end of the day, right?
I'm so sorry. Life emergency happened and I'm still trying to take care of it.
Especially in these seconds of random encounters she never even would have paid attention to months ago.
She digs into the bag at her side, and pulls out a yellow pad of paper and a marker, flipping it to somewhere in the middle through several sheets already written on in large letters, but short sets of words. Then wrote two words, and tilted it toward the woman at her side. Trying, she had not missed it, to be accommodating in her confusion.
So Allison wrote it to answer the question that pointing wouldn't have.
(Even if it would have answered the spoke question.)
no worries!! life happens, and i hope things settle down to manageable levels
Three words were enough to re-frame this entire conversation. Iris pauses, her expression falling as she realizes what kind of assumptions she had made. She sets down the necklaces, no longer caring about them, and holds out her hands.
"I'm sorry," she says, her hands also signing along in perfect American Sign Language, as if she's both fluent and an interpreter. "I shouldn't have made that assumption. Um... if you can sign, just nod."
If not, well - Iris knows people who could help. Never too late to learn, even if it may not help her with the vast majority of the world's population.
I'm hoping so, too. Maybe after this week.
Even though she'd said she'd consider looking into it, she never had, had she.
She's not even entirely sure what to write about it. It's new? Though that's not absolutely true anymore either. It's been a month. And definitely not entirely about what happened. It was an emergency. What happened was personal. Vanya was personal, and it wasn't Vanya's fault anyway.
fingers crossed
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"Ah - hi, welcome to :re Supply," she says, falling back into retail training as a safer topic. "What can I get you today?"
☂ Likely + Mental Network
She flips through the notepad, she tears out the paper and gives it to her to read the two drinks needed for herself and Vanya. After another few seconds passes, while the girl reads and ringers things up, Allison consulted the Mental Network for something, and jotted three more words. Turning it around.
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She's about to read the order off her POS system when she catches the second note.
Well, she does have her name on her nametag.
"Frazer with a zed," she says, though she's not really sure how that's relevant to the coffee order.
I'm so sorry. Life emergency happened and I'm still trying to take care of it.
Still even at that, she mouthed the word, 'Sorry,'before catching herself made her frown.
all good! June got busy for me
"Is there, ah, anything else I can help you with...?"
The only time she's been asked her surname at work before has been imPort fans trying to place her, and Price certainly hasn't been one of the options. She notices there isn't a kids' drink in the woman's order, but it's not like everyone in a person's life gets ported in, and this place certainly isn't a great place for children anyway.