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[princessvegas]

Who: Julie + opens
When: October
Where: Free Cities + Horizon
What: Julie does a pretty big thing, then spends a week on top of the world
Warnings: Doing real stupid things, otherwise noted in subjects. Halloween party will be a separate post later in the month!

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i am so sorry this took so long

[princessvegas]

[ Her head tilts and her nose wrinkles a little as she looks at him. He's a strange man, she thinks. Not necessarily in a bad or annoying way, just. Strange. Maybe quirky is a better word. Like a more likeable version of Zooey Deschanel, except taller.

It means something that his delight at her approval doesn't make her wary. Julie is from a world where trust no longer existed -- every single person was a very real threat. Every thought and action was a potential deathtrap. And that was before she got blown up and resurrected as a prisoner in an entirely different world that had magic. Suffice it to say that she is deeply suspicious of most people. But Doctor (she does not recognize the article as part of the name, and possibly never will) is either strikingly sincere, or the best actor she's ever met. Which is saying something, because she's met herself.

She holds up one hand and bends slightly at the waist. A tiny ball of light forms at the tip of her index finger and she gently pushes it through one of the upstairs windows, careful not to smudge the paint. It hovers inside the house, illuminating the top floor. ]

I will. [ A second light goes in the ground floor, then a third in the bell-tower, then Julie stands straight to look at him. ] But I won't eat up your day. And if there's anythin' you'd like to try, feel free to grab one.

no worries at all! ty for the thread, i enjoyed these two! 🎁

[thedreamer]

[ The Doctor should, in theory, be more outwardly wary of people given his own history. He's been at times, in his own past, far more closed off, distant, even crotchety and cynical. Something changed in his last life, though. He'd come very close to being the darkest version of himself near the end there. He thought the universe owed him and the laws of time should obey him and frankly, he'd needed to be stopped. And he had been. His life now, being the last chance he'll get at it, has been an abrupt departure from that, a return to the promise of his chosen name — an attempt to bring hope and kindness and joy where he goes.

But he's a wanderer among the stars so he'll never quite fit exactly anywhere, he assumes. Always a bit strange, always a bit out of place. And yet, always grateful when he meets people like Julie, whose magic in lighting up the haunted house is enough to delight him all over again. ]

Julie, you are brilliant. Thank you, that's beautiful. Ha, love it! I'll be thinking of this all day and will absolutely stop back.

[ Meeting her was gift enough for him today, though he appreciates the offer to grab something. He'll absolutely be back to look more and purchase something, ever so impressed by what they've done with the place. ]