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 Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2010 11:09 am
Luis had an advantage over most people and that was that she had a tavern in which people come in and out all the time. She couldn't seem to bring herself to offer the child to any of the regulars for whatever reason. She was being highly picky about whom she was going to give the box to and she couldn't really say why. Still it stayed nearby and under her watchful gaze as she leaned on the bar where the drinks were often served from. Tonight was actually a pretty slow night. Only half of her regulars put in an attendance (if that) and other guests came by in a trickle, which was good, it gave her staff a bit of a much needed rest.
Even amongst the strangers she had yet to figure out a good 'target'. Pretty soon she would have to stop being so damn picky and just shove the damn 'gift' at the next person she saw. She missed Faris and wanted her back home.
The satyress sighed softly and began to wipe at the surface of the bar, just a bit of busy work to try and take her mind off of things. Now and again her eyes still flicked up toward the door to see if anyone came in. The next person? Totally going to get what is coming to them: whatever the hell was in that box. Since Luis didn't bother to open the box so she can take a peek it seemed...rude.
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Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2010 12:00 pm
What had began as a simple walk to the corner to get some milk and things that went with milk had turned into an adventurous trek across town, a trek that was quickly coming to an end. Katurian didn't do well alone, outdoors, or at night, and this combination of the three had left him even more scatterbrained than usual. Worse still, his better half had stayed behind at the apartment, and Kat was lost without the tiny hyena, to put it mildly.
Let's see... what sorts of places made phones or directions readily available to the public? Katurian squinted eyes that were half-lidded most of the time anyway and scanned the opposite side of the street. A bar! Yeah! Drunks needed pay phones, right? The man grinned and hopped off toward the building, unkempt blond hair flopping forward to cover his face momentarily. Thankfully, the street was slower than Luis' bar or he might have ended up prematurely lifeless.
Tucking some of his flyaway hair behind an ear, Katurian pulled open the front door of the bar and strolled in, slowly making his way over to the bar.
"Hi! You have any phones?"
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Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2010 12:17 pm
She had watched the man wander in and almost felt badly that she was about to shove who knows what at him but a promise was a promise even if it was to herself. Luis smiled her best friendliest smile and nodded her head, "'Course we do darlin' y'be needin' it?" She said in a chipper tone trying to pretend that she wasn't feeling an odd sense of loneliness since her adopted daughter wasn't currently lurking about anywhere nearby.
Luis leaned behind the bar and brought up an old rotary style telephone and lightly dusted it off. The people rarely needed the contraption but she still kept it on hand. She just needed to think of a good way to unload the gift on the man and then be done with it.
"Here ye are, one phone," after she set the phone down Luis waited patiently, formulating a plan, an excuse, anything as her green eyes flicked around to see if she could come up with something, anything.
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Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2010 12:31 pm
"Thanks!" Katurian said. He picked up the receiver and dialed home, the sheer amount of 9s and 0s in his number making the whole operation quite the waiting game. Maybe now was the time to invest in a cell phone, since he had a place to live and adult responsibilities and all.
Once he had finished dialing, he rested an elbow on the bar and took a seat, listening to the continuous ringing. More than twenty rings later, Kat had to consider the fact that no one was going to answer. Michal didn't have thumbs, nor could she actually speak, and everyone else must have gone out. "Hmm," he hummed, carefully placing the phone on its base. "Do you have any bus maps?"
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Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2010 12:42 pm
"Aye, love, aye. Jus' in case one o' th' patrons get too sauced to drive themselves home," Luis said simply with a smile as she got something else from under a shelf of her little bar and produced a wrapped gift box with a bus map slipped under the ribbon. "A special gift for ye for being the one hundredth visitor into m'establishment this fine evenin'. An' for bein' so handsome," she said in a chipper and slightly flirty tone. She was sincere about the last words at least the rest of it was lies, all lies, and it made her skin crawl.
She waited for the man to catch onto her first lie or accept it and go on with his evening. Luis wondered briefly if this is what it was like for Switch since she had passed a child to her in much the same manner. Ironic.
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Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2010 1:01 pm
"Oh, well, I... Thanks again!" he said. As was probably obvious, Katurian didn't get out much, and so receiving gifts for walking in to places and being pretty didn't seem all that far-fetched. Suddenly far more interested in presenttime than actually getting home, he asked, "Can I open it now?"
Meanwhile, not very far away, Michal and Lex cruised the streets, searching for their overly trusting roommate.
"This... doesn't seem like the sort of neighborhood that he would wander into," Lex said, leaning over the steering wheel and looking around. Not that it was a bad neighborhood, but the fact remained that there was a fast food playplace an equal distance from their apartment in the other direction that certainly seemed more Katurian's speed.
They stopped at an intersection and Michal held out a paw to the right.
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Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2010 1:08 pm
Luis nodded her head a bit, "Welcome," she replied happily. This was going by rather smoothly for the most part though the fact that she had fudged the truth a bit to get this done still made her feel guilty but at least she didn't make it too horrible. She did give him the bus map so he wouldn't wander about lost for all time and she also meant it when she complimented his looks so that should make up for her guilt at least for now. This was all so she could get back to Faris.
She wondered briefly how Faris was holding up.
"Of course ye can, darlin'." The satyress replied with a smile. She couldn't see any reason why he could not. Luis was just a little curious.
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Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2010 1:31 pm
Carefully resting the map to one side, Katurian picked at the paper covering the box. It was quite nice, he decided, but that wasn't going to stop him from finding out what was inside. A present just for walking into a bar! He might be lost, but at least he was having a good time.
He cracked open the lid and peered inside. A little stylized seahorse sat on a cushion, its beady eyes looking up at him. Katurian pinched his fingers around it and lifted it out of the box. He was about to ask what the thing was when he noticed the holes on the back of its neck and tail. A whistle? He held the tail end up to his lips and blew into it. Nothing happened, at least nothing he could hear. Weird. "Pretty cool," he said. It would be even cooler once he could figure out what it was for.
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Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2010 2:26 pm
She carefully kept her expression neutral and unsurprised as he opened the gift. It would have been odd if she was as surprised as he was because handing the gift out meant that she had wrapped it herself and knew what was inside. So when he opened it and uncovered the whistle she just smiled and nodded in approval, "Glad ye seem t'like it," she replied in her friendly tone as she watched him. If that item does what her gargoyle statue did...Hopefully he won't abandon it or mistreat it. If he did she'd be a bit dismayed.
...No he didn't seem the type at all, "Would ye like a soda or somethin'? On th' house and all." It was her establishment she could do as she damn well pleased right along with giving out free drinks as long as she was just giving things away anyhow what did it matter? It seemed like a shame to just shove him out the door straight away.
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Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2010 5:34 pm
He nodded, gently dropping the whistle in his shirt pocket and folding his hands in front of him. "Soda sounds good." Katurian's attention was suddenly gripped by the bar's front door as it was opened again. "Michal?"
There you are, she said for Kat's ears only.
"I don't think they let pets in here," he said, to what seemed like no one.
Good thing I'm not a pet then.
"Ready to go?" Lex asked, coming up to stand behind Katurian's seat. He offered a curt nod to Luis, but clearly wasn't here to drink.
"I guess... Some other time for that drink, maybe?"
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Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2010 5:45 pm
Luis was about to ask the man what he wanted when attention was pretty much brought to the door. She raised an eyebrow but made no judgments on the whole ordeal. She had seen stranger than this and thus was not all that alarmed. She gave the other man a nod and leaned on the bar once more. Her duty was complete when she was done here she would go back to the Curio shop and inform Switch that she had completed her end of the bargain.
"Aye of course, love, ye and yer friends are always welcome to th' Blue Moose," she said simply as she raised a hand for a lazy wave, "Take care boy'o."
...And enjoy your gift.
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