Docks - Wednesday - August 27 - [Open!]

[arjiki-diamonds.livejournal.com]

It was cloudy today, but certainly warm enough for Fiyero. Living in a cool, damp castle for the majority of his life made him think that anything even five degrees colder than this was still perfectly reasonable beach weather.

That would be the reason why Fiyero is sitting shirtless on the end of the dock, dipping his tattooed feet into the cool water and tapping a pencil against the middle of his chin. Sitting in his lap is a list:

To do.
-Try out for play. (Owe this much to Geoffrey for current lodgings.)
-Acquire a job ---> Book Haven? (Working with Liir might be very odd.)
-Finish reading up on the 'Town' ---> Questions to Liir Geoffrey.

He'd meant to write a few more things down, but when he puts the pencil to the paper once more it's to start a rather shaky sketch of the water.

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[mistressofblack.livejournal.com]

Lulu had felt the need for a bit of wander that day, and so had been walking through the town, eventually making her way down to the docks.

The shirtless man at the docks was enough to make her take a few steps out of her way and sit down gracefully beside him. "Hello," she said. "Not a bad day today, is it?"

[arjiki-diamonds.livejournal.com]

Fiyero was understandably startled by the woman sitting down next to him without invitation.

It wasn't like it had never happened, but it didn't happen on a very regular basis. He flashed her an awkward smile.

"Despite the lack of sun and the multitude of clouds, not at all. It reminds me of home, actually." But with more ... water.

[mistressofblack.livejournal.com]

"Oh?" Lulu asked, more than intrigued by his tattoos. They did seem to go... interesting places down his torso. "And where's home for you?"

She reached into her satchel and pulled out a small bag of cookies. "Oral Sex?" she offered, holding the bag out to him.

[arjiki-diamonds.livejournal.com]

They went interesting places nearly everywhere on his body, if Lulu was all that interested in it.

The moment that she offered him -- well, Oral Sex -- he blushed hard, however.

"Erm, that is...we've only just--" And then he realized she was holding out a bag.

"How do you fit it in there?" Fiyero squinted at the bag.

[mistressofblack.livejournal.com]

Lulu laughed. "It's the name of the cookie," she explained. "I simply have far too much fun with it." She held the bag a little closer. "They're a hazelnut cookie, with chocolate on the top."

[arjiki-diamonds.livejournal.com]

"Ah." The blush didn't fade much, and Fiyero rubbed the back of his neck with one hand before he reached in for a cookie.

"That's ... very interesting." That was one way of putting it. He blinked, though, realizing he hadn't given her his place of origin.

What man didn't get distracted by Oral Sex? Really, now.

"And -- I'm from Oz, Miss."

[mistressofblack.livejournal.com]

"Oz?" Lulu smiled. "One of my favorite students is from Oz," she continued. "He even worked as my TA for one of my classes. Perhaps you know him -- Liir Thropp?"

[blinkandsneeze.livejournal.com]

Viki had not meant to wind up at the docks, but then, she supposed that it wasn't such a bad place to accidentally blink to when she'd been aiming for the park.

"And," she said, mostly to herself but loud enough to be overheard. "at the very least, it was not in the water. That would have been worse, as such things go."

[arjiki-diamonds.livejournal.com]

Fiyero glanced immediately over his shoulder at the sound of another voice. The woman was talking about -- "Pardon me, miss, but what was not in the water?"

It was a most curious statement. More curious was the fact she'd appeared rather suddenly...but then again, he wasn't so observant when he wasn't hunting.

[blinkandsneeze.livejournal.com]

She twirled around to grin, a bit sheepishly.

"Well, myself, I suppose," she said easily. "Because, really, landing in the water would have been much worse than on wood though neither were quite anticipated."

[arjiki-diamonds.livejournal.com]

"Yes, I would say so," he remarked with a slight smile, "as I'm sure the water would be a bit chilly."

More than a bit, and probably not altogether clean.

[blinkandsneeze.livejournal.com]

Details. Viki cared not for the details. In fact she went out of her way to pretend they did not exist for the most part.

"I suppose," she mused, leaning over to peer at the water. "Though I was more concerned with keeping my hair dry. It does take forever, you know. And if I'd wound up in the water while trying to get to the park then I'm not sure at all of where I'd land in trying to get back to the room."

[arjiki-diamonds.livejournal.com]

"Oh." Most of the women that he had encountered had little to no interest in the state of their hair at any given time.

Elphaba might've been concerned about the water, but that was more because of a severe allergy that probably would have ended in death than anything else.

He paused. "Er, how did you get here, exactly?"

[gkar-lastkhari.livejournal.com]

G'Kar was out walking around, knowing he needed to get out more and noticed the man with ... spots?

No, not spots, he realized as he got closer, diamonds. Interesting.

"Good day to you," he greeted.

[arjiki-diamonds.livejournal.com]

Fiyero tipped his head back to see the newcomer and managed a slight smile.

He'd seen stranger, certainly, and the fellow was being polite enough.

"Good day," he agreed, shifting to stand so that he didn't appear quite so lazy.

[gkar-lastkhari.livejournal.com]

"You don't have to get up on my account," he smiled. "I was merely curious as I don't believe I've seen you around before. I am G'Kar."

[arjiki-diamonds.livejournal.com]

He smiled lightly and offered his hand.

"No, I don't believe you have. I haven't been here for terribly long -- I am Fiyero." He leaves off the 'Prince of the Arjiki' bit for now.

[gkar-lastkhari.livejournal.com]

"Pleased to meet you. And how long have you been here, if I may ask?"

He was curious. Or...possibly nosy. Could be either or both.

[arjiki-diamonds.livejournal.com]

Both was all right.

"A bit less than a week, by my estimation." Which he hoped was reasonably good.

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

Liir hadn't meant to fly to his father. But after work, he'd needed a flight (goodness, he'd needed more than that but a flight would have to do) and there was no mistaking the man with his shirt off and it's not as if his father could unsee him on the broom... so by the time there was much of a choice about informing Fiyero of his magic or anything else, there wasn't really much of a choice.

And he wanted to see his father, really. And possibly hold onto his arm until he felt like the world was no longer spinning around his head just to be unpleasant.

As such, he floated across the water and up to the edge of the dock.

"Er, you, um, wouldn't... that is, I don't want to be a bother, but may I sit?"

[arjiki-diamonds.livejournal.com]

"Oh," And Fiyero was more than a little damp from his previous encounters, but there was ... nothing wrong with that, was there?

He smiled lightly and canted his head a bit to the side. "I don't mind." And then, because he obviously couldn't just not ask, "Do you blink too? And is that..." He waved his hand at the broom, meaning to ask if it was Elphaba's cleaning broom or ... something else.

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

Liir blinked. In the sense that his eyes opened and closed.

"Generally. In surprise, usually. And yes, it's a broom."

He didn't know how long Elphaba had had it. She'd mentioned something about the mauntery whenever Nor or Manek started going on about it, but that was about all he knew about it. It was hers. Or rather, as Glinda had insisted, his.

Either way, he moved his backside from cleaning utensil to dock with relative ease and stashed the broom in it's usual spot at his hip in the quiver that was starting to show a little wear and tear.

He swallowed.

Nameless Name, he was sitting next to his father. He hoped this would stop being so astounding soon. Or maybe he didn't.

"How has your day been?"

[arjiki-diamonds.livejournal.com]

"A young woman offered me Oral Sex," he replied blandly with his eyebrows just a little higher than normal, "Although they turned out to be cookies. It was very ... awkward."

Another pause. "And another teleports from place-to-place by blinking. Which is, ah, why I asked you about that." He didn't mention that he'd fallen in the water when she'd showed him that trick.

Fiyero glanced to Liir with a slight smile. "And your day? If I'm not prying too much."

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

His lips thinned to a line for a moment before he shrugged. This was his father. He should be able to tell the man about things, shouldn't he?

He didn't know.

"Someone I... cared about, er, care about, um, well, I still care but I think they'd rather I didn't.

"He came to the cafe today. I gave him lunch. It was... perhaps the only thing more awkward than how I am with you, if you don't mind me saying. Father."

Beat.

"So you met Miss Lulu then?"

He'd get to Viki soon enough. He didn't know her enough to immediately realize who that might be.

[arjiki-diamonds.livejournal.com]

"I'm sure that you can gauge by yourself how awkward I am on a regular basis, Liir," he remarked with a slightly self-deprecating smile, still looking to his son, "...but if you only think they'd rather you didn't, I'd suggest seeking clarification on that point."

Because, you know, sometimes that's just what people thought others thought.

Fiyero rubbed his chin lightly and nodded. "Yes, Lulu -- I believe that was her name." She was very ... busty, but that certainly wasn't something to share with your son about his teacher.