( open ) out of isolation

[motivation]

Who: dutch (motivation) & YOU, thomas nightingale (ettersberg) & YOU
What: a month in the life of a former assassin, a month in the life of the former last sanctioned wizard of the uk
When: may
Where: flona cove and khalo
Warning(s): alcohol and fyrra use, nudity, sex and probably swearing

Comments

[ettersberg]

( nightingale hadn't precisely expected anyone else to be in the pool, either. he glances at shell for a moment, then continues wading deeper into the pool. not toward shell, but not away from him, either. it is only when he's covered to his shoulders that he answers: )

It seems we had the same idea.

( and expectation.

the pale skin and the eyes seem preternatural, but nightingale is very much used to all sorts of fae — the collective term for all those the wizarding community knows little about, which nightingale will be the first to admit is most of those in the demi-monde. )

[steponme]

I guess that depends -- did you have trouble sleeping too?

[He actually figures that wasn't the case. It didn't seem like that much of a stretch that someone would come out here just to avoid a crowd or being seen at all, and Shell's particular issue with the climate here had more to do with what he was than what he was used to]

It's much colder where I'm from, so I'm not used to it still being this hot at night. But I guess that's normal for this side of Nysa...

[ettersberg]

I haven't tried.

( he often has trouble sleeping. back at the folly, back in england, he did most of his paperwork at night because it was a good distraction from the ghosts come to haunt him. here, he doesn't have nearly as much paperwork. )

It is something I didn't enjoy about Wyver while I was there. ( he admits. the heat, that is. )

[steponme]

[Ah yes, Wyver proper, the place where Shell spent all of one day before admitting defeat.]

I've only been there once myself. I could hardly stand it-- and it wasn't even summer yet.

--ah, not to bore you with all this talk about the weather... if you came out here this late for a little peace and quiet, I can leave you alone?

[ettersberg]

( nightingale spent several weeks in wyver, but he'd returned to olympia at the earliest opportunity. )

It's quite all right. Talk of the weather has a long-standing tradition, where I'm from.

[steponme]

I wonder if that's a universal thing. The weather hardly changes where I'm from, but it's still a pretty common conversation topic.

[Or maybe it was just more noteworthy when it actually did change, no matter how slight.]

My name is Shell, by the way. I'm one of the refugees who showed up in the most recent wave.

[ettersberg]

It hardly changes where I'm from in that it often rains, but there are different types of rain to comment on.

( the words are not without some sense of self-depreciation. )

Thomas Nightingale. A pleasure, Shell. It's been more than half a year since I woke up here.