Sunday morning: J GoB

[mylandmyrules]

After their handwavey training session, Nell and Marc decided that it would be much more comfortable to eat inside somewhere warm. Nell would have been fine meeting at her house, but they decided to try out Jeff, the God of Biscuits instead.

Nell ordered some coffee and a couple of the more decadent looking pastries and went to find a quiet table while Marc waited for their food.


[Open for anyone's delicious bakery needs as well!]

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[hasaknightjob]

Marc hung out for the few moments that it took to get their order together. Once it was ready he grabbed the tray and brought it over to their table.

"Here. Get it while it's hot I guess."

Marc had gone with the healthy option of coffee and donuts.

[mylandmyrules]

Nell smiled at him and took her coffee, liberally dosed with cream and sugar, and her two pastries. She had nothing against donuts, but these had just looked too good to pass up. Plus, if she tried them she might be able to recreate them at home.

"Not bad being a morning person,"she said, "You get some of the freshest things."

[hasaknightjob]

"Quieter too," Marc said. Though the odds of it staying that way decreased by the hour. Speaking of jinxing things, "So here's to a no bullshit weekend, huh?"

[mylandmyrules]

"Cheers," Nell said, touching her coffee cup to his. "Though I didn't mind being little. I've always enjoyed that weekend."

[hasaknightjob]

"Does it happen every year?" Marc asked. Because maybe he and Steven needed to plan more vacations to get ahead of it.

[mylandmyrules]

"It seems to," Nell said. "It's one of the less disturbing of the weekend events to my mind."

[hasaknightjob]

"Same time or random?" Marc asked.

[mylandmyrules]

"Usually in November, I think," Nell said. "Often around Homecoming like this year if I remember correctly."

[hasaknightjob]

"Got it," Marc said, absolutely making a mental note of that. "Not like Homecoming means anything to me anyway."

Maybe in future years if Marc knew more people who had left and came back for it. Of course that assumed Marc making enough friends for that to even be possible.

[mylandmyrules]

"Never really meant a lot to me either," Nell said. "I'm not much for carnivals and all that."

[hasaknightjob]

"Any event stuff you do like?" Marc said, meaning events like carnivals and not events like turning into kids.

Not that Marc would judge Nell for not enjoying things that required hanging out with large groups of people.

[mylandmyrules]

"Event stuff..." Nell mused about that. "I haven't had much call to go to any outside of Fandom. Farmer's markets. The Welcome picnics are nice enough, I suppose. And I hope to one day go to a play, one of Shakespeare's work if I can."

"And you? Are there any events you like?"

[hasaknightjob]

"Not my thing," Marc said, shrugging it off. "Steven's the one who likes being around groups of people."

And meeting them, and talking to them...

[outofthequiver]

Libby had spent almost the entirety of yesterday afternoon and evening so absorbed in a book that she'd managed to miss all the commotion and the pillow fort building, and she honestly felt quite bad about it. So, to make herself feel a little better, she bundled up to enjoy the cold, brisk weather, and went to treat herself with a small snack. And she figured getting out of her room and into town was a good penance for keeping the company of fictional characters instead of actual flesh and blood people.

So naturally, she gave the shop a curious look as she got an apple turnover to see who else might be out and about, and the woman at the table over there made her do a little bit of a double take, because, why, that looked like...

"Nell?" she asked tentatively, tilting her head as she stepped closer. It had been a while....it had been the trip to space with Ms. Beniko that they'd last seen her, but she looked....well, not to be unkind, but a fair bit...older than she recalled.

[mylandmyrules]

"Yes?" Nell said politely. The girl looked familiar, but Nell couldn't quite place her name. "I'm sorry, I can't quite remember your name. It's been some time for me, I'm afraid."

[outofthequiver]

"Oh." Libby flushed slightly, ducking her head a moment, and feeling a little silly, thinking Nell would remember her. After all, they may have had that class together, but they'd really only spoken the few times.

"It's Libby," she offered, looking up with an apologetic smile. "Er, well, Liberty, but I mostly go by Libby. We were in Ms. Beniko's class together, over the summer. And she took us to space on a trip that one time..."

[mylandmyrules]

"Oh yes!" Nell said. "Libby, I remember! I'm sorry, it's been nine years for me, but I do remember you on our trip to space. Wasn't that a wonderful thing!"

She felt badly for not remembering her name right away.

[outofthequiver]

"Nine years?" Libby's eyebrows lifted in surprise. She supposed, with all the strange things that happened here (she herself gone back around nine years, although that was clearly just for the weekend), it wasn't all that unlikely, but still! "Really? Oh, you weren't kidding when you said it's been some time! How have you been? Overall, I guess, nine years is a lot of ground to cover!"

[mylandmyrules]

"It has been a time," Nell said. "I'm well and happy to be back here. I've got a nice place to live on Unicorn Street above my new plant store."

[outofthequiver]

"Well, then," said Libby, finding her smile much more easily now, "welcome back! It's very good to see you again! And I think I've heard a little about a new store a while back on the radio; I guess that must be yours? How has it been going so far? It must be an interesting experience, owning a shop in a place like this."

[mylandmyrules]

"It's been wonderful," Nell said with a smile. "I have plants and various homemade teas and lotions and such. It's doing very well, which is all I could hope for. Please do stop by some time. I'd be happy to give you a tour and perhaps a cup of tea if you'd like."

[outofthequiver]

"Oh!" Libby's eyes went wide when teas and lotions were mention. "That's right! My friend Kurt actually got me some things from your store just the other week! I only made the connection just now! Oh, Nell. They're so lovely! I'm not really used to such nice things, and I'm terrible with tea, actually. I make myself a cup thinking it'll be just the thing to curl up with when I've got a new book to read, but then I get so wrapped up in the story that I plum forget about it until it's gone cold!"

She grinned a little. "But then I toss a couple of ice cubes in it, and, tah-dah! Iced tea."

[mylandmyrules]

Nell laughed. "That's perfect then. Hopefully my tea tastes good iced or hot."

She smiled at Libby. "I'm glad you liked the basket. He spent a good amount of time carefuly choosing what he thought you would like."

[outofthequiver]

"I haven't had the chance to get to any of them hot yet," Libby admitted sheepishly. "Bit maybe I'll have better luck this week. They're very nice cold, though, so far."

And if that admission was a little sheepish, it was nothing compared to her next response, a blush springing up to her cheeks that couldn't so easily be hidden by the duck of her head.

"And he didn't need to go through all that trouble," she said. "I'd have liked just about anything he'd pick out."

[mylandmyrules]

"I hope you'll enjoy them equally well when they're hot," Nell said. And then smiled gently. "Seems to me that he wanted to take care and find things you'd 'specially like."

She noticed the blush, but didn't comment.