[For Carlos] Happy Anniversary

[st_accato]

Time always seemed to get away from Buffy, especially when days flowed into months and months flowed into a year. It didn’t seem possible that she had been in the Inn for a little over a year. A year without her friends. A year without her mom. A year without Giles. She wondered what they were all doing. She still missed them, a lot, but it was also a year of new friends. A year of Carlos.

The year had been eventful to put it mildly, but she wanted to do something special with Carlos. Buffy hadn’t wanted to do it Valentine’s Day, there was too much complex feels about that and the Cupid magical whammy of last year. The day after was perfect. It was like an anniversary of actual feels rather than of manufactured ones.

Because she liked Carlos, Buffy didn’t offer to cook and because he cooked, she didn’t want to go to the restaurant. It would be too much like a busman’s holiday for him. Instead, they’d agreed on a picnic under the stars. Nice, romantic and neither one had to cook. When she’d gone to get a bottle of wine for them, she’d heard the news that Wyatt had left, which only confirmed that life was short. Something Buffy and Carlos were well aware of in their lives back home. Carpe diem.

She shifted the basket to her other hand as she knocked on Carlos’ door. Buffy planned to seize the day or at least as many opportunities as possible before Fate stepped in and kicked her in the teeth like with Kitty and Wyatt.

[EP] When it starts to be real - OTA

[st_affofthemoon]

Zahra always enjoyed a good book and if she could learn something from it while she was at it, she enjoyed it even more. Being in the inn around technology made it clear to her that there was a lot she did not understand and it bothered her some. And so, she went to the library to look for something on electricity to begin to understand how the lights and machines in the building worked without magic. She was sure Percy would be proud.

As the Tiefling perused what books there were in the makeshift library, her tails swished back and forth a bit, idly. She hummed a soft tune she had once heard Scanlan sing a long time ago that she still got in her head from time to time. As she came to what might be considered the 'science' section, it hit Zahra like a fast rolling storm. It seemed to leap from her stomach like a calm but quick moving volcano, up her throat and into her head. She reached out, placing a hand on the wall in front of her to steady herself as she readied herself to puke. It never came, but the nausea seemed content to stay.