The Midtown Temple was hosting another Open-Mic Evening!
It seemed to attract an odd crowd and the management hoped that sales of pie, cake and assorted beverages might climb the charts tonight.
For the moment though, it was relatively quiet, for a night with an open mic set up. It was the third Open-Mic Night at this Dutch-styled coffee shop.
Open Mic night!
It was something guaranteed to grab Martha's attention. Armed with a few decks of cards in her satchel...just in case the Muse takes her to show a few card tricks...she once again makes her way to see what's on at the Temple!
Tiny Martha limps into the Temple and looks around...trying to see whom is around...trying to identify the background music...tonight's choice seemed elusive and she failed to place it...
She decided to ask someone soon and silently hoped Ariel Pink would be absent from the playlist...and looked to spot where the fire exits are.
Martha is neatly attired in her usual modest English school uniform: a neat straw boater, a black blazer...a pair of scholarly...yes, she'd admit it..."Hipster" style...spectacles are perched daintily on the end of her nose, she wears a long gymslip which shows her crossed legs to mid calf...her raven black hair is tied into two very long twin tails, each with the red ribbon bows.
A swift glance would reveal that most of her left leg is obviously a C-Leg prosthetic. She wears a white kneesock on her flesh leg and a pair of carefully polished black Oxford pattern shoes, a crisp white blouse is obvious where the Edwardian style gymslip reveals it, as is her red necktie tucked neatly into her gymslip. She wears a useful looking school satchel and carries a simple metal walking cane. Though smelling of minty toothpaste and lemonade, she's shunned more obvious cosmetics.
She emits no Beast but and has invoked her Blush of Life.
Her petite presence may seem almost palpably sweet and innocent.
Limping over to the counter she offers the counter-clerk a shy, even gentle, smile and inspects the menu and again scouts the place for exits, fire appliances and then to see whom else was around...
-1 Vitae for Blush of Life