Catch All for November

[lightbranded]

Characters: Will Stanton and Anyone
Date: Throughout November
Location: Various
Situation: Various

A. Around Town

Will spends much of the first part of the month slowly exploring the parts of Aifaran around the Dreaming Bridge. At the beginning he has to rest often, and is grateful to find quite a few benches and small cafes to rest at. But as the month goes on, he slowly starts to get some of his endurance back, and does not tire quite so easily any more. He finds one of the neighborhood libraries, and spends a lot of time there in the folklore and mythology sections.


B. Seitura Park Arboretum

Towards the end of the month, Will finally finds his way to Seitura Park, where he regards the autumn colors with more than a little delight. He wanders through the arboretum, reading the descriptions of each tree and trying to remember the names to look up later.


C. Astronomy Hour

Will had always liked watching the stars at home. Having grown up in a small town in the country, the stars at night had often been easy to see without the glare from city lights. Upon receiving the invitation to visit an observatory, Will had accepted with great anticipation.

It was disappointing that the night was too cloudy to truly see anything, but Will still wanders around the observatory with great interest. He has many questions about how everything in the observatory works, and asks them of anyone who seems likely to know.


D. For Yuuko

Yuuko's first meeting with Will had left him with much to think about. And with no school or family here, he'd found himself with a great deal of time to think.  He often thinks about that certainty he felt that he had forgotten something terribly important. And those few words. On the Day of the Dead, when the year too dies. By Cadfan's Way where the kestrels call. What did it all mean?

And Yuuko...  She'd said she'd sensed a power around him. But what power could that be? He didn't think that there was any kind of power or anything remarkable about himself, apart from being the youngest child of a very large family. But she had sounded so convinced. And she didn't seem the type of person to joke about something like that.

He resists for a few weeks, but in the end his questions drive him out in search of Yuuko again.
 

Comments

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[shaini]

For once, Yuuko isn't inside the cafe, but is in fact seated on one of the tables outside, and she looks up with a small, enigmatic smile when she sees him approach.

"Greetings, Will Stanton. We meet again."
She lets the portentous greeting hang for a moment, then adds "Soda?"

She stretches slowly, then tucks her feet away from the chair across from her, freeing it for him to take a seat if he chooses.

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[annihilist]

While Devin works for the Academy library, he's also volunteered himself to be on loan when they need someone to fill in for unexpected staff absences. It means he gets some exposure to more than academia and has a growing familiarity with the catalogs at libraries around the city. Sometimes, it's nice to just have something to read for pleasure, not study.

On one of his floating assignments, he sees the same boy two days in a row, seemingly without a parent. Dreamfolk, maybe. "Let me know if you need help finding anything," the vampire offers, rearranging books on a shelf that were replaced out of order. "If I can't point you in the right direction, I know who will. Unless you're trying to read your way through the whole section, in which case carry on."

Devin will pretty much always encourage fellow bookworms, despite his otherwise prickly demeanor.