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st_igmatized ([personal profile] st_igmatized) wrote in [community profile] strangetrip2018-05-15 12:18 am

[GP/EP] Check-in Day

It was a musical day at the Madonna Inn, both inside and out. Curnen had taken her usual place up on the roof and was singing charms to the sky to keep any wanderers from getting lost (though that part of it was not immediately obvious). Unrelated to that, Sunny was on the dance floor in the bar, summoning songs of her own with her knife to keep her moving before she went to do her shift at the library later. It was one of those days where if she thought about it too hard she’d start thinking about that empty bed in her shitty room and the person she most wanted to be there.

This of course eventually seeped into her magic. She knew better. Maybe she’d even wanted that to happen.

Because just once, between different pop hits and dance beats came a rather unexpected French love song. She sighed and rolled her eyes, but the exasperation didn’t last. Before the lyrics started up she was waltzing. By herself and not caring how it might have looked. And for those three and a half minutes, she dared let herself hope for the slimmest chance that Orlu might come through that door.

She didn’t let herself hope too hard, though. There was admitting to feeling things and there was setting yourself up for certain disappointment. She’d lived too long with disappointment to do that to herself.
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Re: Jag - Closed to Sunny

[personal profile] st_artandstoke 2018-05-25 09:58 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh, I'm blaming my 'heart', not you," Jag said immediately. And he wasn't even blaming anything, really; this wasn't a bad thing. He was glad to have heard that song again. It hurt, but it also felt like it unlocked something inside him. "What do you need from me?" Because 'something specific' was very vague, when you had no clue how her magic worked.
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Re: Jag - Closed to Sunny

[personal profile] st_artandstoke 2018-05-28 03:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Jag nodded, and focused on a song by one of his favourite bands, DeVotchKa. It started slow and instrumental, but it built into more, and he liked the ebb and flow of it. He could very probably do a number to that tune.
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Re: Jag - Closed to Sunny

[personal profile] st_artandstoke 2018-05-29 08:56 am (UTC)(link)
"They have a few songs that might work," Jag said, scratching at the back of his head self-consciously. "Is it taxing at all for you, doing this?"
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Re: Jag - Closed to Sunny

[personal profile] st_artandstoke 2018-05-30 08:44 am (UTC)(link)
"The challenge?" Jag echoed curiously. The way she did it, it seemed easy rather than challenging.
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Re: Jag - Closed to Sunny

[personal profile] st_artandstoke 2018-05-30 04:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Jag smiled hopefully at her. "Then would you mind if we listened to a few more songs? I've got to find the right one, yeah?"
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Re: Jag - Closed to Sunny

[personal profile] st_artandstoke 2018-05-30 05:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Jag's smile stretched into a grin to meet hers, as he focused on the next song he could think of that might work. "Bring it."