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 Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2021 6:55 pm
"Yeah, that should be." Elpis tried offering a reassuring smile. She didn't dislike him, she just wasn't entirely in her best mindset of late... Or for the past year. "I mean, unless you want the name of a good greasy spoon sort of burger place that's tasty or some other thing. Sorry if I come off rough. It's just A Day, and I worry about folks. Maybe I'll caytch you around again?"
A new friend might help the sense of desolation, really.
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Posted: Fri Jan 29, 2021 2:38 pm
Good. That was all the lectures he needed to hear for the day. He would have stood there and patiently and politely listened to anything else she felt she needed to say to him despite how much he didn't enjoy it. Reminded him way too much of his folks, giving him advice and lectures 24/7 about the things he wasn't even thinking of doing. Granted, they always had more of a reason to judge him negatively. He never gave them a reason not to. But than they never gave him a reason to see them in any positive light, either.
"It happens," Isiah reassured her, brightening his smile to show it really was okay. She have to try much harder than that if she wanted to get under his skin. Even if she'd suddenly decided he needed a physical beating, if her reasons were justifiable afterwards, he wouldn't be all that mad about it. It was like he'd already gotten out all of his life's anger already when he was younger. As happy all the time now as he was, he was equally as angry all the time before he had moved to the US. He just could no longer find as many things to be even irritated about.
"I'm down for anything! I work most days at the bakery down the street," pointing in the direction with a thumb without turning his head. "I'm not too hard to find. And I don't think you'd be, either." He jabbed his thumb in her direction, his brown eyes darting down to the wings framing her hips before going back up to meet her gaze. He wouldn't judge. Though if it'd been him wearing the wings, he'd have tossed them in the trash long ago and quit if anyone got mad at him for it. No way in hell was he going to be caught in frilly wings. At least against his will. If it was his idea in the first place, he'd wear them. But no one told Isiah Paskal what to do anymore.
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Posted: Fri Jan 29, 2021 3:22 pm
Elpis lisatened, before considering several long moments before she lit up, a weak idea forming in her mind before she beamed.
"I tell you what. I know someone who's off work tomorrow - between jobs really, she does custom computer builds - I can let her know you work around here. I can have her meet you tomorrow to give you a DC walking tour." Elpis really meant herself unpowered, but it was true enough. Then she mentioned.
"I should probasbly get going, but does that work?"
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Posted: Sat Jan 30, 2021 8:09 pm
That wasn't what he was expecting, but he wouldn't be too offended by the fact she was suggesting someone else to meet with him. Protecting the city must be a full time job. Or else she was just trying to pass him off to one of her friends instead, just to be polite to his face. Either way, it didn't really matter to Isiah what the reason was. Even with his own friends, he never seemed to mind being passed around if someone else wasn't interested or not seeing some of them for a while. He was too much of an extrovert to mind. New friendships had never been a difficult thing for him to achieve. There was always someone who was willing to do something with him.
"I no longer need much of a tour, but I can pretend like I do if it would make your friend happy?" It certainly wouldn't be the first time he made a fool of or dumbed himself down for someone else just to make them happy or feel comfortable. And it certainly wouldn't be the last. It didn't matter to him how others perceived him.
"Tomorrow," the man repeated, bringing up his phone to check his calender. "Saturday. I'll be there until 4pm if she wents to meet me right after."
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Posted: Sat Jan 30, 2021 8:21 pm
"I'll let them know to maske sure it's the good places, not the city landmarks or anything." Elpis chuckled. "Don't worry. I'll catch iup sometime too."
Elpis nodded, before giving a wave. "See ya around."
And she turned to move off, plotting already. Oh, it'd be good. Very good.
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Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2021 2:17 pm
Isiah offered a silent wave in return, watching her go, never a break in the smile that was plastered on his face this whole time they were interacting. Maybe she wasn't just passing him off to her friend for lack of interest in being around him herself. Sometimes it was hard to tell with strangers. Some people were damn good actors. Not him. He was far too honest to hide his true feelings from anyone, no matter how often people accused of him of the opposite. Few people were as genuinely as happy and carefree as he was, it seemed. Sometimes he didn't understand it himself, the amount of things he could just brush off without a second thought. Nothing got him even annoyed.
As the woman moved further away, the man turned his attention back to the flowers for a moment, inching closer and bending down to inspect a single white one.
"So you moved, huh?" he whispered to the flower, so low and barely moving his lips so that no one would worry over him talking directly to a plant. He gingerly poked at a petal, finding it a lot softer than the leaf that had cut his finger only moments ago. He wasn't sure he believed it. But he quickly remembered how weird December had been and all the other unbelievable things that had happened to him. The deer. The rabbits. The marshmallow bath bomb. The cafe he had been to a few times since the first incident.
His pocket shook, a jingle emitting from inside his coat. Pulling it out, his eyes widened at the screen and he quickly straightened up and started jogging down the street, uttering a few "s**t." every so often.
FIN
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