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Jan 16th, 2014 11:46 AM

There were simply somethings that Victoria Harper, better known as Bard would never get used to. The sun was one of them. Shading her eyes with one hand she looked at the flyer covered pole in front of her absentmindedly running her thumb over her own staplegun. Every advertisement helps... She mentally reassured herself as she lowered her hand to fish out a flyer from the messenger bag she had slung over her shoulder. At least she didn't see any music flyers other then advertisements of when bands were playing. Shifting her shoulders to settle her violin case where she had it strapped to her back she stood on tip toes carefully placing her flyer front and center and with a 'Ca-CHUNK' stapled it to the pole with the others.

'Instrument Repairs and Lessons available. Classical performances open for reservation upon request.'

The flyer read featuring her work number, email and address as well as small tear off slips on the bottom that held miniature copies of the information for those prone to forgetfulness. Satisfied with this flyer she stared down at the row of poles with a small frown and resigned herself to moving on to the next one.

**Daniel Leto** · Jan 25th, 2014 02:36 PM

Daniel walked down the street trying to make the best of a bad situation. He was lost. The little cheap compass he kept in his backpack told him north was still the same direction as last time he checked. His last hitch had pointed him in a direction and said a bus stop was that way to get downtown. A station had yet to materialize, the sun beat down relentlessly, and his rucksack was starting to get heavy. All he could do was keep going the way he’d been told and hope.

Another pole came up and Daniel stopped to examine the ads. He knew clues to the Hidden People could be anywhere, even on posters stapled to telephone poles.

One of them was bright green and talked about a yard sale. It had been defaced with a black marker abstract symbol that… Daniel cocked his head to the left… kind of looked like an antlered stag with a crown. Maybe this was a message from the Lost? Maybe it was something from the Spring court saying there was going to be a market of some kind. Daniel cocked his head to the right... or it was a drawing of a squid doing something very inappropriate.

He sighed, knowing which was more likely.

The scent of flowers and sound of chiming musical notes made Daniel turn. For a second black eyes were lost in violet, then he smiled. It seemed he’d found a sign of Spring after all. The willowy woman had an instrument case on her back, a bag on one shoulder, a staple gun in hand, and still managed to look like royalty. It took another couple of seconds before he gathered his thoughts enough to realize why she would have a stapler.

“Excuse me,” he said “Do you need some help putting up stuff? You look a little overloaded.” The hiking pack full of all his material possessions probably felt a little ignored at this point.

**Dominyk Prise** · Jan 25th, 2014 09:18 PM

Dominyk was walking down the street, his Mask Strengthened with one fairly beautiful woman near one arm, not necessarily clinging to him but their fingers were interlaced. His 6’2” form not truly towering over either the girl on his arm nor over the thinner man that he was showing around Sacramento.

“And Lord Nightingale, this is Lady Mary Lee. Lady Lee this is Lord Victor Nightingale, he’s new, obviously.”

Jan 26th, 2014 01:10 AM

Victor had calmed down significantly as Dominyk had showed him around the city, though he did shift somewhat uncomfortably at being called 'Lord'. "It is a pleasure to make your acquaintance, Lady Lee," he said with a slight bow, some fragments of a formal social training from a lost life showing through. He had let the author do most of the talking, half to better take in what he shared about Sacramento and half because his voice had a strange music all it's own. While Victor was far from unattractive both his looks and his height paled in comparison to his two companions which made him feel like the new kid who lucked out with at least a minor acceptance from the popular crowd. His large, violet eyes moved around, taking in the sights (the pain from the sun reduced as he began to re-acclimate to it). Then he saw them, a couple of people, familiar in their unusual countenances, up ahead. "Ah, that would be more of-" his heart skipped a beat, his walk hesitated for a moment as his eyes, filling with an edge of forlorn longing, fell upon the violin case held by the woman in the pair. After the briefest moment he finished the statement, his voice quieter and breathy, "- us."

**Mary Lee** · Jan 26th, 2014 06:06 PM

Mary would've offered a hand to be polite, but it seemed Victor wasn't interested so she kept her fingers interlaced with Dominyk's. "Hello, it's nice to meet you," she says, but doesn't seem to have anything else to add. So, smiling brightly she looks back at Dominyk, waiting for his guidance and apparently content to just look at him and wait. Things were easier that way, after all - all the movies said so.

**Daniel Leto** · Jan 28th, 2014 04:19 PM

Daniel noticed the others approaching; a man who could have seduced Narcissus, a woman who could have just stepped lazily off a Paris runway, and pale man whose eyes drew you in.
“Friends of yours?” he asked. He was starting to feel little uncomfortable. He was used to speaking one on one and had gotten better at speaking to multiple people at once. Four was pushing it though and often made him feel like he was trying to look everywhere at once. Add to that that they all had “it” and knew how to flaunt it wasn’t going to make things easier.

**Dominyk Prise** · Jan 29th, 2014 11:36 PM

Dominyk resisted his mind for a moment, instead he looked ahead and raised a hand in greeting. His eyes ran over the two in front of him, and a slow smirk ran across his face.

Two violet eyed violinists. They're like a matched pair.

There would have been laughter, but he didn't want to give the joke away. Mary would likely hear it later that evening though, when he couldn't hold it in anymore. He slipped his hand from her fingers and began to absently run his hand through her hair.

His eyes moved from the other Darkling and the other Fairest. It was like a clustered meeting.

He gave the both of them a dazzling smile

Bard and Daniel

Jan 30th, 2014 09:21 AM

Victor's eyes had not left the violin case as his group approached the other two changelings. Once he was close enough to speak without rudely raising his voice too much he started to say, "Excuse me miss, but stopped as he finally raised his gaze to look at the minstrel's face. The piercingly vibrant, violet eyes seemed familiar, like something he had seen before though he could not place from where. "Have we met?" he inquired after a moment of staring into her eyes.

Victor's curiosity was not helped by the experience of feeling like her shadow. She was between him and the sun, they were roughly the same height, and many of his features seemed like stretched, faded versions of hers; from the more pale purple of his eyes to his slightly more elongated fingers.

**Mary Lee** · Feb 3rd, 2014 02:51 AM

Mary's head lolls slightly towards Dominyk, a pleased sighing breath and her physicality offering a nonverbal request for his hands through her hair to at the very least turn into a light scalp massage - too much more with so many witnesses would contradict his clear desire for discretion.

"Are you new in town?" she asks of the most terse Changeling present, peering into his dark eyes and wondering what sorrow made him blanche so pale.

**Daniel Leto** · Feb 3rd, 2014 10:36 PM

Dominyk smiled at him. It was inviting but Daniel found himself hesitant. It could have been the slight conflict of signals as a hand ran casually through flowing hair that threw Daniel off. It could have been the scents of flowers and snow and chocolate and cinnamon swirling around him and making him slightly dizzy. It even could be he was looking a little too closely at the physical to see the bigger emotional picture. Too many sensations for sound thinking. Get to know someone first; don’t assume too much. Another reason, far in the back of his mind, was that no matter how beautiful, even those before him were on a journey that would end in earth and engraved stone.
So Daniel smiled back politely before turning his attention to the exotic beauty when she asked him a question.
”I am. Just arrived in Sacramento not long ago. I’m Daniel. Daniel Leto. Nice to meet you.“

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2014-01-29 23:34:57		Dominyk rolls 10 to vs Daniel Leto (9 Again)		1, 2, 1, 1, 5, 3, 10, 8, 1, 2, 1		2 successes

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2014-01-29 23:35:11		Dominyk rolls 10 to vs Bard (9 Again)		1, 4, 9, 4, 5, 7, 6, 6, 8, 9, 10, 7, 7		4 successes

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2014-02-03 21:35:12		Daniel Leto rolls 6 to Wits+Comp (10 Again)		9, 6, 4, 1, 10, 7, 2		2 successes

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