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 Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2016 7:22 pm
So without a home, Vega did a lot of window shopping in districts she looked out of place in. Like today. She stopped in front of this one store and looked this outfit over, a cute skirt outfit with a matching top and a belt to go with it. Blue-green eyes glanced down to her baggy, dirty pants that clung to her waist with a worn belt and then shrugged. "Oh well." Even if she had a job currently, and money she couldn't afford something like that. So, the girl took herself down the street, hands on her pocket. The bag that hit her rear with every step jingled with cans inside of it as well as the key chains she collected or stole from stores she visited to clean herself up in their bathrooms. They wouldn't miss a dollar key chain, okay. She didn't feel bad at all about it. Just as she was about to head out of this part of the shopping district, from the corner of her eyes Vega saw a beautiful jacket that she knew would look good on her. It was yellow with paler yellow floral designs on it and over-sized white buttons. "See, now that I wouldn't mind," she muttered to herself. Ugh window shopping made her miserable. Maybe it was time to spray paint over one of the windows tonight.. Vandalizing wasn't on her record yet. Well, not true, but she'd never vandalized a store. Just walls where other graffiti was. When she looked around one more time, she spotted a very well dressed woman and thought a moment. Well, maybe her growling stomach could be quenched tonight without having to swipe something from a corner store. It was a rather abrupt change of thoughts, but she was so hungry. "Excuse me, can you spare a buck or two? I wanted to get something to eat.." Vega grinned at the lady, trying to seem genuine.
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Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2016 7:47 pm
Huh. Well, aparently Ashdown had its beggars too. Not so bold as the ones in Chicago, but here they were nonetheless. Glancing up from her cellphone, Autumn considered the stranger for a moment. It was... different here. She knew Jeremiah, for ******** sake. And considering she'd dealt with fae...
"Tell you what," Autumn said, sliding her phone into her pocket. "Go grab a burger with me instead? I got good tips from the salon. I can spare a bite to eat." Autumn turned, and quirked her eyebrow tat the stranger.
"I do expect a name, though."
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Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2016 7:51 pm
Wait. This woman wanted to buy her dinner? Vega squinted at her and then looked a bit apprehensive before shrugging. Food was food. If this woman turned out to be a murdering psycho at least her last meal would be a delicious burger. "Uhm... Yeah, sure. Why not." She grinned and offered here hand. "Vega Hardy." It wasn't filthy. It just looked like she never took care of her nails. They looked bitten and chewed, cuticles looked picked at, and there were hangnails on almost every finger. "Uh. Thanks I guess? I mean. Who just takes out a beggar?" It wasn't enough to raise her hackles. This lady didn't give off a police woman vibe, or an authority figure vibe actually. Just a regular person who knew how to match colors really well.
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Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2016 11:22 am
"I do," Autumn replied easily, shaking Vega's hand with no apprehension. "Autumn Smith, by the way. I mean, considering I'm spotting horns and deer spots, I haven't got room to say s**t to anybody."
As they walked on, Autumn glanced over her shoulder to explain.
"It's a trick I picked up. Back in Chicago. You ask someone to get dinner when they want food, and if they go, you know your money isn't going to drug. Kind of insurance, while still being a decent human being. If they're just after drugs..." Autumn shrugged.
"They won't go. Simple as that. There'll be a convenient excuse, and they're gone."
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Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2016 5:13 am
"Oh. ..Huh." Vega squinted at her harder before shoving her hand in her pants pocket. She didn't know that was actually a thing. The trick, that is. The cause for the trick she knew about. Then she looked at the spots and horns and nodded. "That look is pretty far out there, but I dunno. I think it's cute." Why hadn't Vega noticed that before? She looked the other over to see what else she'd missed about her and then mentally huffed. "So. Where are we headed? Looks like I'm following you."
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Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2016 12:17 pm
Autumn grinned, just a bit. At the very least, the stranger- Vega, she reminded herself- was an interesting character. It was kind of surprising, the population of homeless in Ashdown. But she had the means to help them out, now. No judgment from her parents or her siblings or anything. She headed onwards, off to the burger joint she'd become a fan of, recently.
"Don't know how long you've lived here, but this town kind of ******** people up in different ways. Gave me horns and freckles, among other things." She glanced back to Vega. "You heard about Blackfriars? All that s**t was true. So... yeah." Autumn frowned to herself.
"And there's a great burger place around here. Milkshakes so thick, you have to eat 'em with a spoon."
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Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2016 8:57 am
So they were real? She squinted at the horns again before the question was posed and Vega just shook her head. "I haven't been here too long, and... Blackfriars? No. I... Basically if it's not art, I don't pay much attention to anything." She pushed her hands in her pockets more and continued to walk, the spray cans in her bags clinking together and rubbing against the laptop she had there, too. "So what's the Blackfriars. Some kind of band? It'd be a wicked band name if not." Something she could probably make a logo out of if they wanted one. "So the horns are..." She reached out slowly to try to poke one of them. Personal space? She probably needed to learn it, but Vega was super curious. Might as well take risks. She could end up with horns herself, it seemed like. "Like.. how.. What? Implants?"
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Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2016 2:15 pm
"It's a college near here. s**t got really bad, really fast. A couple dead, a couple injured." She didn't know Vega pretty well, but honestly, Autumn was glad she hadn't been there. She was glad for ANYONE who hadn't been there and suffered through that s**t, honestly. The whole town was still kind of reeling from how badly that debacle had gone.
"Well, hopefully you stay out of all the weird s**t," Autumn supplied, moving her thoughts away from the violence. From her own pain, too, if she'd been honest. At the very least, Vega seemed willing to move on, reaching up for her horns. Thank ******** it wasn't her hair. Autumn allowed the stranger to fondle the little nubs, and smiled.
"Believe it or not, I just woke up with them one day. They're bigger from when I first got them," she laughed sheepishly, having very ACTIVELY monitored the progress of her horns.
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Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2016 8:16 am
A couple dead? Vega's eyes softened a little and her brows knit. s**t, that was serious, wasn't it? She tugged at her shirt a little and then used it to fan herself. That sucked. That really sucked. How had she missed that? Then she was poking the horns with no actual repercussions about it. Satisfied that they were actually real and not implates, she dropped her hands and snorted. "Wow, so you randomly get them and they don't stop growing? Does it hurt? Like.. Do they get thicker and split skin or? Oh s**t, probably a super morbid question, isn't it?" Vega let out a bit of a nervous laugh and then cleared her throat a little. "So. Uh. This burger...? I'm pretty starving, and I don't mean to rush, but.." She gave a sheepish noise as her stomach growled hard on cue. Her life was one great comedy for the cosmos.
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