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WELCOME POTLUCK

Greetings, residents! Those more observant sorts among you may have noticed a large influx of very crowded ferries. In order to welcome our new residents en masse, Town Hall is holding a potluck in Town Square. Please bring a dish if you are able and make a new friend!

All of our newest arrivals need only bring themselves. We look forward to welcoming you all into our community, and may your lanterns always be lit.

This event is open to all! In light of our new influx of prospective players following the Great Sail Migration, we've decided to offer a small public event to tide everyone over until the TDM this weekend.

Comments

[crushed_pearls]

Erin is entirely too focused on how to say this carefully to realize she set this man up for the challenge of his lifetime.

"...They're a youngblood, been hard done by. One I've offered my friendship and trust to. I'm in a bit of a spot here, 'cause the thing is...I'm breaking that trust to tell you how to recognize them, and I'm doing you wrong if I don't. So I'm gonna ask, son of December, that you give them your grace and patience, maybe see what you can do to look out too. Play along if they're trying to prank you. I don't like it, but..."

What is there to do?

[comedyequalstragedy]

.........

"I'm sorry- are you actually asking me to go along with being pranked?"

[crushed_pearls]

"Yeah, I am!" Erin snaps; her wings flare, and she Gestures, a bit incoherently. "I'm asking you to indulge someone who's never had a place to belong and trusted me to be her friend when she's not had any in a life that's sucked more than a vacuum cleaner convention!"

[comedyequalstragedy]

"Oh! Well that changes things! I'll just gad about paranoid from every angle because I don't know where a potential humiliation is coming from, knowing that if I'm so lucky as to see it coming, I have to accept it, because it might be the anonymous person you're gesturing at the idea of!"

Beams wide.

"It's a good thing we've all had such well-adjusted lives with copious friends and places where we fit, isn't it? So we can indulge this single poor sod, extending forth the hand of generosity! Wonderful! Good show!"

[crushed_pearls]

"She's got an obvious tell," Erin snaps back. "Which is why I'm asking you to indulge her, alright?" She turns away again, hugging herself and shaking in the cold air. "...Pink. Any form she takes is pink. Fur, skin, scales, whatever, bright pink features."

"...Be kind to her, please."

[comedyequalstragedy]

"Is this how you make demands of everyone? Raising your voice at the slightest bit of friction? Or am I just special because we're both you-know-what?"

Which is not an answer. Not yet, anyway.

[crushed_pearls]

That reprimand gets Erin to stop. She 'stares', for a moment, breathing hard.

Pinches the bridge of her nose, and sighs.

"...Sorry. I'm. Freaking out. A bit. A lot. Not your fault, shouldn't be your problem, but here we are. I'm trying. Trying what I don't quite know."

She looks back up, steadier. Not even keeled, but steadier. "...My manners are gonna take a bit to come back. Not your fault there either. Not really anyone's."

[comedyequalstragedy]

A small, acknowledging nod.

"I don't tolerate being yelled at. Ever."

Not anymore.

"You aren't going to demand anything else out of me. If I give you a no, then it is a no. If you ask me to do something, and I agree to it, it's on my terms. Are we clear?"

This much has been the gift of Winter to him, so far.

[crushed_pearls]

"Yeah, I follow. December takes what's owed and pays what's owing. Never been done wrong by its sons, just...never had much to do with them either." She runs a hand through her hair, briefly making the cloudy mass visible as Actual Hair. Christ this has been a rough landing...

(Let him talk.)

Yeah. Yeah...

[comedyequalstragedy]

"Then I hope you understand it's a thing of pride and not spite that I have to say no to your request."

He's not letting anyone make demands of him like that. Regardless of the intention. Regardless of anything.

"I will owe her the same courtesy I owe anyone and no more."