The Arms Hotel Lobby, Friday

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River sat behind the desk in silence, her eyes following anyone who walked past. In front of her on the desk sat a collection of apple sculptures depicting various tormented and possibly dying heads. The next piece of apple art was still in her hands. The fruit bowl was now empty of apples.

Welcome to the Arms Hotel
Today's Special
Apple Soup with Tabasco.

The Arms Hotel is open.

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Re: Talk to River

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Adah continued to quietly watch River, even as River turned away, even as she lightly went to take the apple carefully, slowly sliding it away from the blade it encased. Only when she was certain that River would feel the distinct lack of weight at the end of the blade from the moment of release did she look away, curving the apple in, twisting her wrist around as she surveyed it from different angles. Her fingers moved, quickly, dancing, the position of the apple changing in sudden jumps from the skilled work of her often used left hand until she could run her thumb along the clean line of where the knife had stabbed into the apple. She considered what little features of the head was remaining, making a quick diagnosis of which part of his brain River had permanently damaged, before taking her own bite.

She shouldn't stay much longer, she mused as she chewed, glancing toward River and offering the apple. She had her club to get to soon...

Re: Talk to River

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"Occipital lobe," River replied, turning back to look at Adah, now smiling a little. She leaned forward to take a bite out of the apple but leaving the fruit in Adah's hands.

Adah joining a club surprised her a little, but in a good way. She hesitated, then said: "Thank you for coming."

Re: Talk to River

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Adah grinned a little lopsidedly as the poor little victim in her hand had many more things to worry about than his occipital lobe. She then gave River a light nod. "Thank you for listening," she responded back quietly, "and accepting the peace offering."

Re: Talk to River

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River reached up to gently touch the flower behinf her ear, slowly tracing a petal. There was another small smile. "Will eat them for dinner."

Re: Talk to River

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Adah gave a small smile back as she followed the moments of River's fingers. It looked nice on her; if she hadn't been so set on black for obvious reasons, she would have liked to have gotten something lighter, brighter, that would set itself off in River's dark deoxyribonucleic acid hair and compliment her eyes better, but the consistent color pallet didn't necessarily distract from the beauty. Adah let that thought sit for a bit, stew, marinade, before commenting, "That's a terribly unhealthy dinner."

Re: Talk to River

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As Adah watched her and reflected on what she saw, the thoughts made River blush, unable to resist opening up her mind completely for a moment. She shouldn't, she knew that, but Adah looking at her like that made something in her chest flutter. She reached out a foot, her toes curling, stopping before she touched Adah's leg.

"Won't kill me though."