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Phryne Fisher ([personal profile] st_illunsmeared) wrote in [community profile] strangetrip2017-02-17 12:25 pm

[EP/GP] Today is Check-In Day

When the fifteenth of the month came and went without any new arrivals, most people logically supposed that there would be no new arrivals that week, or that the pattern they believed they'd found was false after all.

Kitty Pryde, Caroline Forbes, and Phryne Fisher were decidedly not most people.

Between them, they agreed it would be best to keep a watch for a few days following the fifteenth, on the grounds that, often enough, holidays interrupted regular schedules, which would reassert themselves again at the next instance. If "keeping a watch" had required them to do anything out of the ordinary, they might have been somewhat less sanguine about it. Might have, as they were not, after all, most people. Yet since their routines, almost invariably, had them in public places, working and people-watching, it required no special effort on their part to be alert for new arrivals.

So it was that Phryne had taken up a table in the lobby cafe to read and hold court, while Kitty took an extra shift tending bar, and Caroline tidied up and labeled the boxes of decorations from Valentine's day "for next year's residents" on the morning of the sixteenth and again on the seventeenth--and not one of them were surprised when, in early afternoon, newcomers began to arrive.
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[personal profile] st_artingpoint 2017-04-08 01:45 am (UTC)(link)
Jane thought about that, then commented, "you probably create a lot of art while you're teaching. Have you done any while you've been here? I'd love to see them if you have."
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[personal profile] st_rigaetsica 2017-04-14 06:53 pm (UTC)(link)
"I'm sure I'll ask for art supplies eventually." When she got bored enough, probably, since Joanna preferred dealing with the staff as little as possible, and she was wary of asking for things other than necessities when she didn't know their source. "But so far I haven't. I've been spending a lot of my time seeing to the grounds. Indulging my green thumb instead. Strangely, I feel like I've met more of our fellow residents that way than I would've painting."
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[personal profile] st_artingpoint 2017-04-21 02:10 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh, you garden?" Jane couldn't help the smile, "You'd probably like my room then. It's got flowered wallpaper and it's not as ---" She thought about the phrase to use, "over the top as most of what I've seen in the hotel."