The Sidewalk Outside Chaucer's, Wednesday Night

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A rather shabby and homemade-looking journal lies on the sidewalk in front of Chaucer's, seemingly abandoned.

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[chasingangela]

Taking a walk to be alone with her thoughts, Angela comes across the journal. She bends down and gently fingers the worn spine, wondering if she can pick it up or if it would make Bad Things happen.

[geoff-chaucer.livejournal.com]

The book feels perfectly normal -- no electric shock, no strange shiver, no I Have A Bad Feeling About This feeling.

[chasingangela]

Angela notices this, but is still a little worried; after all, her mother had raised her to have a horror of picking things up off public streets.

But the book looks like it might be important to someone, and (carefully, cocvering her hand in her t-shirt) she scoops it up and carries it over to a nearby bench to flip through and see if she can find the owner's name. She opens the book, and squints to try to read the faded ink inside. It looks like poetry...

[geoff-chaucer.livejournal.com]

The book is filled with poetry, some complete and some covered in scratch marks and revisions. One of the partial poems in entitled "Troilus and Criseyde". There are also a few sketches -- some of them, near the back, look rather familiar.

[chasingangela]

The artist has some skill; he has captured Paige's lush lips, the tilt of her eyes. And a few pages in, there are other, rougher sketches suggesting he knows her in a more intimate way.

Blushing, and realzing whose it must be, Angela snaps the book shut. She walks up to the counter in Geoff's store and peers around, not sure if anyone is still working. "Hello?" she calls into the gloom.

[geoff-chaucer.livejournal.com]

The lights in the shop are out, but in the lamplight coming in from outside, Angela can see several extinguished candles set about the room, along with two half-filled wine glasses sitting on a table next to an armchair. A pair of women's shoes are on the floor next to the chair.

A large book is sitting open on the counter, and a handwritten sign next to it reads: Chaucer is sorry he missed you, but he hopes that you'll be so kind as to enter your commission request in the book.

[OOC: Thank god Angela found the journal, and not the crazed lunatic bookseller (http://www.livejournal.com/community/fandomtownies/70177.html) down the street. :D]

[chasingangela]

Angela gently places the book on the table withe the wine glasses, and writes a note in the book.

Found your journal in the street & wanted to return it. It's on the side table.

She debates adding mroe -- she did want to meet Geoff after hearing Paige talk about him -- but ultimately simply signs her first name before going back into the night.



[OOC: Sure. But I didn't step on a plot you had going with him, did I? ::worries::]

[geoff-chaucer.livejournal.com]

[OOC: Nah, I just realized that it had been left behind from an earlier thread, and figured I'd call attention and see what happened. No plans for it at all, and probably if Manny had found it he would have burned it, which would have upset Geoff greatly and possibly forced him to do something drastic and bad. So no worries!

I like your Angela, by the way!]

[chasingangela]

[OOC: Thanks! I haven't gotten to interact with Geoff much, but I like what I have seen.]

[geoff-chaucer.livejournal.com]

[OOC: Well, now that he's been made aware of Angela's existance -- and I promise you he will be very happy to have his journal back -- he'll definitely be tracking her down to say Thank you.]