The C.I.C. - Saturday afternoon

[spectre_alenko]

Kaidan had left the shop closed for a few hours in the morning. He'd sent a text to his friends to let them know he wasn't missing, he was going off-island for a bike ride, and the first person to freak out about it would get a smack. There was a combat veteran motorcycle run for charity about an hour outside of Baltimore, so he'd rented a bike and went to hang out around people he could relax around. The weather'd been dicey at first but then it cleared up. The ride was beautiful and it put him in a better frame of mind for the day. For a value of 'better' that meant 'less anxious', not 'less numb'.

The raven was waiting for him. He'd thought to warn it that morning that the shop would be open late and received a churble instead of a quok, which he assumed was acknowledgment. The raven didn't seem peeved when he opened, so. It did take up its regular perch on the counter, strutting back and forth.

Business was steady, so Kaidan didn't get nearly as much time to play with cards. He was curious about the new faces, but simply assumed school had started for the year.

[Open! No OCD!]

Description of shop is here.

The Woods: Saturday morning

[mylandmyrules]

One minute Nell was in her woods looking at some strange shimmery thing and the next she was definitely not in Soulwood. She froze, more than a bit disoriented, and took in her surroundings. Woods still, but different ones.

She crouched down and tentatively put a hand on the earth. Not hers, for sure, and yet... She could still feel Soulwood through the earth, distant, but there and... happy? Pleased? Not at the separation, but at Nell being in these woods.

Her eyes closed as she tried to see what the land could tell her. All sorts of things had happened here, but overall the woods seemed healthy and with an edge of, well, the only thing she could think of was a sort of magic. They seemed happy she was here, too, and she could feel a deep connection to her woods and other unfamiliar woods. She'd never felt anything like that before and wondered uneasily if it was her gift still growing after that man had attacked her a while back and she'd given him to the woods.

She pulled back her connection a little, looking for more surface things and could feel a gathering of people some distance away. She couldn't sense any bad intentions from them and the land seemed happy to have them there, so she took a deep breath and started in that direction.

She'd be cautious, but maybe she could at least find and answers there.


[OOC: Establishy, but open if someone wants to run into her on the way to the welcome picnic.]