Devil's Nest | Sunday Evening

[long_memory]

Silver's leg was bothering him today and the walk to work certainly hadn't helped anything. He pulled up a stool to sit on during his shift today and was drinking rum for medicinal purposes rather than the usual getting a buzz on purposes.

It was the same amount of rum as usual but the intent was different.

[Open, with possible 'I fell asleep on the couch' SP]

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[thatwaslucky]

Sundays especially felt too quiet for Rey, but hey, she knew a friend who was out working at this time to visit.

"Hey there," she said, taking a seat.

[long_memory]

"Evening," he said, giving her a smile. "How are you?"

[thatwaslucky]

"Good. Got bored," she said, smiling back. "How are you doing?"

[long_memory]

"As well as can be expected. Avoided getting buried in whatever was falling from the sky yesterday." he said.

[thatwaslucky]

"You're smart. I did laundry twice to try and get glitter out of my clothes," Rey admitted. "It only helps so much."

[long_memory]

"I'm not a fan of regular snow. Snow that sticks to your clothes seems infinitely worse." Glitter didn't really mix with pirates anyhow. "Can I get you a soda?"

He knew better than to offer alcohol by now.

[thatwaslucky]

"Sure, thank you." She appreciated that! "So you're probably not going to like winter here, I'm guessing."

[long_memory]

"Oh I'll be miserable," he said, grabbing her drink. "I lived in Caribbean for a reason."

[thatwaslucky]

"We could be lucky. Last year we only moved yoga inside once," she said. "I still froze, but that's normal."

Half the reason she had as many clothes as she did was that so she could keep layering once it dipped below 65.

[long_memory]

"Of course, desert planet," he remembered with a nod. "I'm not even going to pretend I know what yoga is."

[thatwaslucky]

"Stretching, mostly," Rey explained. "It's about balance, and getting in tune with yourself and your body. Sometimes while turning yourself into a pretzel."

[long_memory]

"And you do this for fun?" he asked.

[thatwaslucky]

And it helps with my training," she said. "But yeah. Turns out I really like it."

[long_memory]

"I won't pretend to understand the appeal but if it works for you that's good." Personally Silver wanted to avoid getting in tune with himself. He definitely did not want to open that door.

"One of these days I should probably get a hobby. Maybe knitting," he joked.

[thatwaslucky]

"It would help prepare you for the cold," she said lightly. "Did you just not have time for hobbies before?"

[long_memory]

"Pretty much," he said with a nod. "Even without the war my job as quartermaster took up a lot of time. It was like being a father to two hundred thieving, murderous men."

[thatwaslucky]

"That sounds exhausting," Rey admitted.

[long_memory]

"It was at times," he said. "But there was a nice sense of camaraderie there. You take care of them and they take care of you."

[thatwaslucky]

"That part I like," she decided. "You must've been good at it."

[long_memory]

"What makes you say that?" he asked.

[thatwaslucky]

"If you could count on two hundred thieving, murderous men to take care of you right back, you had to be doing something right," she said.

[long_memory]

"I suppose you're right," he said. "I guess to me it's all felt like a series of accidents to end up where I am now."

[thatwaslucky]

"I prefer to think of it as circumstances lining up to put you where you need to be at that time," she said.

[long_memory]

"That does make it sound more grandiose," he said, chuckling. "Fate had a hand in it instead of us stumbling around in the dark."

[thatwaslucky]

"I know that's what happened for me. I don't see why it can't be that way for everybody else, too," Rey said.

[long_memory]

"And that doesn't make you feel restricted at all?" he asked. "Like you don't have a say in your own story?"

[thatwaslucky]

She shook her head. "Not at all. My choices are all my own, but they're also part of a much bigger picture, one that changes with them. My story is what I decide it is, given the circumstances I'm in at any moment."

[long_memory]

"That is an extraordinarily healthy way of looking at things," Silver said with a smile. "I'm a little jealous."

[thatwaslucky]

"That's the first time I've ever heard that," she admitted. "I do reserve the right to change my mind on this with time, and once I find out what people actually say about me."

Whether she got any restaurants named after her...