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Maid Café and Book Signing -
Sirena]
Sirena had somehow stuck around this whole time, even watching the performance and finishing all her tea.
She didn't really come here to get a book signed, though. Still, she picks it up, and then pulls up her sleeve to check her watch, so she can finally see what the alarm's beep was saying. Matching the aesthetics of the rest of her, her watch also has pink - but instead of just being pink, it's got pink energy glowing at the seams. She types out a couple things in the air above the watch, and then gets up.
Getting up, the pink catgirl (with mostly-white hair) puts the book under her arm and heads out of the room.
Once out there, though, she doesn't continue to leave the base just yet; she instead waits in the hallway and checks a few more things with her watch.
Zefir wrote: ↑Sep 12, 2023 7:30 am
[Maid Café and Book Signing - Catgirls and Eye Candy]
And the half dragon comes back. In one hand he got the tea for Rachel and in the other a small paper. He places the tea in front of her as he whispers
"Your tea, miss.". Next he gives June the paper with the data fora temporary wlan account only active for a few hours. He then turns to the scene at the stage.
"A I see. They chose this scene. I would have thought they got for the scene from page 90 where she mets the dragon." he says in a whispering voice.
[Maid Café and Book Signing - Catgirls and Eye Candy]
June watches the performance. She pulls her things tight as the gust of wind tears through the space, she gasps as the wind turns into a spear.
When the half-dragon returned, she grabs the paper.
"Oh, thanks," she says. She grabs on to it, so that she can sign on and connect after the performance is over. She whispers back to him:
"Oh, wow, really? Dragons are really cool, I've always wanted to meet and maybe ride one. I definitely need to read that part from the book," she says, promising to read it.
"Glad you convinced me to read it."
...
Somehow, she had completely forgotten that she was talking with a half-dragon guy when she mentions how cool they are.
And then, when the performance finishes, June claps and cheers again.
"Wow, that was pretty exciting," she says.
She then remembers the important thing she still needs to do: go to twitagram and follow that account. She can't remember the entire title of Rachel's username, but she does remember
"Let's see...Feline....Angel..." and searches that up; a bunch of cosplay pictures pop up, so she clicks the
follow button on her screen, and says,
"Okay, found it!"
She starts scrolling through a couple of the cosplay pictures that show up on it.
Reinholdt wrote: ↑Sep 12, 2023 7:09 am
[A Singular Hallway]
Maria and Harley may not get along very well.
"You can be friends with your sister." Maria winces a little as she considers the statement a little longer.
"I'm not friends with mine, but I heard it's possible." Maybe they should start a club for people who aren't friends with their sisters.
When given the choice between meeting someone new or reading a book, it doesn't seem like much of a choice at all really. Sure, meeting people hasn't always been terrible. Seraphina and Tsumi come to mind. Frequently. In between books and sometimes during her rare fits of sleep. But that doesn't make Maria any more inclined to go out of her way specifically to meet someone new!
Besides, this book looks super interesting for some reason. Maybe because there's so many of them? Maria will start to reach for it, but pauses, an important question coming to mind.
"This isn't going to change or disappear on me once I'm upstairs will it? I don't want to get halfway through and find myself reading something else." That would be a horrible tease. She'd rather put the mask on to meet a person than read an interesting book that becomes a romance novel halfway through.
[
A Singular Hallway]
"Alas!" the jackal-faced guy says, as he sets the mask back down. "She's my older sister, so I haven't seen her around much. And our mother moves around too much, so I can't even fall back on Sunday dinners with her, either."
It's sad.
Aurelius sighs.
He looks back up.
"No, it won't change or disappear," he says. "Books are meant to be read, stories are meant to be heard. If a book just disappeared then it would be just the worst."
While Aurelius does promise that the book won't disappear on Maria, he pointedly does not say anything about the book changing. Since, in fact, the things written in the book slightly change every single time it's read, in the infuriating way that makes you think you're misremembering what you read, and makes it difficult to discuss the details with others.
He smiles.
His fangs glint in the light.
"That book you're about to choose is a nice book, however. I wrote it myself, so I guarantee its quality. I wouldn't mind if you let other people read it, too. As an author, it makes me happy whenever someone draws out something from my stories."