Caritas, Monday

[1000yearstoolate]

The picnic had been busy, she had met her new roommate, and Seivarden had been distracted from thinking about Breq leaving until she got home. Since then she had been thinking about it. A lot. Most worrying was that Breq had said nothing about when she could return home, and what she had said had implied that it could be a while.

So Seivarden had spent time at the gym, played with Issa, watched Radchaai entertainments, and whatever else she could think of.

Now she was mixing martinis. That she luckily wasn't tempted to drink.

Special:
Any type of martini

She would google the ones she didn't know.

[Open]

Comments

The Stage

[1000yearstoolate]

If you insist on singing.

The Bar

[1000yearstoolate]

Mod Tino or talk to Seivarden.

Re: The Bar

[my_own_advocate]

"You know, I try not to frequent the competition too much," Lucifer announced as he sat down behind the bar, "But I can't resist Martini Night."

Re: The Bar

[1000yearstoolate]

"You do frequent the competition regularly," Seivarden pointed out, relieved to have some distraction. "But I'm glad you approve of the choice. Which kind do you want? I don't think I recommend the unusual ones, I haven't actually attempted those."

Re: The Bar

[my_own_advocate]

"Only on Summer's nights," Lucifer said, "That hardly counts, she's entertaining the whole town weekly as it is."

He grinned. "Either way, I think you can manage a dirty martini."

Re: The Bar

[1000yearstoolate]

Seivarden snorted at the choice, and reached for a shaker.

"She is, isn't she. And I believe I can, but you will have to be the judge of that. I'm actually just dabbling in being a bartender, you know."

Re: The Bar

[my_own_advocate]

"I believe you're a bartender as long as you're on the clock," Lucifer replied. "There's no such thing as 'dabbling' with drinks."

Re: The Bar

[1000yearstoolate]

"Not even if I use scotch instead of gin?" Seivarden said, trying to think of something that definitely wouldn't be a martini. "Don't worry, I won't."

She added: "Did you celebrate the New Year?"

Re: The Bar

[somethingwithturquoise]

"Hi, Seivarden!" Despite the Duct-tape Apocalypse and what she was pretty sure was a minute shift in dimensional configuration specific to the store and the potential possession of one of her most dedicated and important employees, Summer was in a great mood as she bounced over to the bar. "If he hasn't been scared off entirely yet, my school-assigned friend Nick should be coming in because he didn't believe me about the zombies, and so all his drinks are on my tab, okay?"

Yes, she was expecting to have a very large tab tonight, but, hey, that's what being a school-assigned friend was all about.

"Also, I'll take a strawberry martini, please! How's it going"

Re: The Bar

[1000yearstoolate]

"Of course," Seivarden said. "Who doesn't need to see the zombies."

There was a snort.

"He'll get drinks on your tab. And I'll do my best with a strawberry martini. I'm fine, although Breq went home on Saturday. Oh, and I met Ignis. He seems... well..." almost civilised, "nice."

Re: The Bar

[somethingwithturquoise]

Although the well made Summer wonder if Seivarden didn't exactly mean nice when she said nice, Summer was going to just take it at face value for now, because that meant she could preen. "I knew you two would get along!" she beamed. "Too bad about Breq, though. I mean, I'm sure you expected it, but still. You seem to enjoy having her around."

Re: The Bar

[1000yearstoolate]

"I think we will," Seivarden said, smiling. "And yes, I do. I'm glad she did visit of course, even if she was vague about when she needed me back on Mercy of Kalr again."

Re: The Bar

[somethingwithturquoise]

"She probably just doesn't really know herself," Summer offered, trying to stay optimistic, "so vague leaves it open without too much pressure or whatever, you know?"

Vague also worked to avoid bad news, but Breq definitely seemed more direct than that.

Re: The Bar

[1000yearstoolate]

"You're probably right."

Seivarden smiled a little nervously, and placed the drink in front of Summer.

"I've just traveled with her for about a year an a half."

Meaning she didn't like being apart from her.

[In my head I had replied to this :(]

Re: The Bar

[gotyoucookie]

Nick had told Summer he'd show up, and it was good to check out the bar. He'd probably see a lot of it.

Though he was pointedly ignoring the band for the moment. It was like he knew he was going to have a crisis and was protecting himself.

"Can I just get a beer?"

Re: The Bar

[1000yearstoolate]

"Of course."

The only thing Seivarden knew about beer was that she couldn't pour the draught ones, so she picked a bottle randomly and placed it in front of the stranger, along with a glass.

"You don't happen to be Summer's friend?"

Re: The Bar

[gotyoucookie]

"I know Summer," Nick said. "Seems like a cool girl. I'm Nick."

Re: The Bar

[1000yearstoolate]

Seivarden smiled. "She is. I'm Seivarden Vendaai. Nice to meet you."

She gestured towards the stage.

"She said you didn't believe in the zombie band."

Re: The Bar

[gotyoucookie]

"That's because it's not true," Nick told her.

Sweet summer child.

Re: The Bar

[somethingwithturquoise]

"Nick!" Summer beamed, waving from where she was at the bar before.picking up her very pink martini and bouncing over. "You made it! And, boy, have I got some news.for you!"

Re: The Bar

[gotyoucookie]

"What kind of news?" He maybe didn't trust news yet.

Re: The Bar

[somethingwithturquoise]

Nor should he! That kind of initial skepticism was, like, super healthy at the start!

"Check it out!" Summer set down her drink so she could pull out her phone, pulling up a picture of the massive deluge of duct tape that had been at the store earlier. "We got duct tape!

"Now," she continued, in a more serious tone as she slipped her phone away and picked up the drink again, "I'm pretty sure this is just a temporary, location-specific shift in dimensional coordinents, from a T&C that hasn't had duct tape in ages to one that has always had duct tape, but I figured you'd want to know so you could, like, stock up and stuff while it's still here.

"Ohmygod," she realized, after the BRIEFEST of pauses, "I realize that totally sounds like an ad or whatever, but, seriously. You never know how long these temporal shifts last, so you've really got to take advantage of them while you can.

"So, anyway!" Breathing seemed a thing again all of a sudden, with a bright smile, too. "How was your first claaaass?"

Re: The Bar

[gotyoucookie]

There was a long, long pause as Nick parsed the whole first part of what she'd said, finally ending up on, "Duct tape, cool."

He sipped his beer. "Class was good! Had to talk about Spider-Man," he shrugged. "Whatever that is."

Class was not, like, good.

The Lounge

[1000yearstoolate]

Find a comfortable chair.

OOC

[1000yearstoolate]

I wish I could have more than six hours overcast daylight that feels like dusk.