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WHO: Cyrene and whoever
WHERE: All around Kaisou
WHEN: First half of September
WHAT: Cyrene is exploring the city... and getting lost in the process
WARNINGS: nothing (yet?)
[ Kaisou city. It's... a lot bigger than Cyrene had pictured. Everything is bigger, really, from the buildings, to the food, to the streets, to the buildings, to the overall sprawl of the city itself, to the buildings... She's been here a few days, now, and is still finding new amusements around every corner. There's just so much more to see and do here than there was back home! She could probably spend the next few years wandering this city and barely scratch the surface of everything that it has to offer! She hums to herself as she strolls along, picking her way through crowds of passers-by denser than she's ever seen before. Ah... wait... hasn't she already seen that shop? Wasn't that the place she'd stopped to get this neat patch for her jacket? Just how many left turns has she taken...? She had been so distracted by the sight of a passing stranger's dog that she'd lost track... Oh, well. She'll find her way back to familiar streets sooner or later. There are more adventures to be had in the meantime! And so she finds her way to...
...Central Square?
While the crush of pedestrians is no thinner, moving into the downtown area of the city, Cyrene finds that she has little trouble weaving between the other bodies on the sidewalk as she takes in the sights around her. Namely, she tips her head far, far back to gaze in awe at the towering buildings that make up this part of the city. She's never seen any building this tall in person! How many people could possibly fit inside? It must look like a little ant farm, from a distance, with all of the office workers moving back and forth between their cubicles to the printer to the fax machine to the water fountain to the-- okay, admittedly, she really doesn't know what goes on in office buildings. Only what she's read about in books, or seen on TV. That doesn't change the fact that the offices themselves must be huge, and probably carrying out very important business!
Unfortunately for Cyrene, she spends so much time focused on this tiny fantasy of white-collar workers as busy little ants that she entirely forgets to watch where she's walking for a brief moment. It's not until her foot misses the edge of the curb and she only barely manages to stop herself from stumbling out into traffic that she comes back to reality--only for her panicked jerk back to the safety of the sidewalk to lead her to collide with another person. She can really only recoil again, flustered by the impropriety of bumping into a person on a busy sidewalk, and begins to ramble out an apology. ]
Oh-- ah-- sorry! I really should have been watching where I was walking. Probably should have stopped if I wanted to look all the way up like that... I didn't hurt you or anything, did I?
[ ...or Brick Alley?
There's something especially homey about the way nearly everything in this neighborhood is made out of brick. There's also something incredibly homey about the number of coffee shops scattered around. It feels like every time she turns around another one appears out of the ether! That would be silly, though. She's probably just not looking closely enough at signs. How could she, when there's so much else to take in? Like... counting the number of odd-colored bricks in the pavement. If every other one is a darker shade of red, maybe they came from someplace else? Or maybe they were fired for just a little bit longer than some of the others... okay, maybe that's a little bit boring. She could settle for just trying out some coffee, but... she'd have to choose one of these shops, then! However can she come to a decision when there are so many options?! ]
Mmm... I guess I need to start looking at menus... but... I don't even know what some of these flavors are like. How does anybody just guess on what to try if they've never heard of a "cardamom"? Who puts lemon in their coffee? Oh, how am I supposed to decide?
WHERE: All around Kaisou
WHEN: First half of September
WHAT: Cyrene is exploring the city... and getting lost in the process
WARNINGS: nothing (yet?)
[ Kaisou city. It's... a lot bigger than Cyrene had pictured. Everything is bigger, really, from the buildings, to the food, to the streets, to the buildings, to the overall sprawl of the city itself, to the buildings... She's been here a few days, now, and is still finding new amusements around every corner. There's just so much more to see and do here than there was back home! She could probably spend the next few years wandering this city and barely scratch the surface of everything that it has to offer! She hums to herself as she strolls along, picking her way through crowds of passers-by denser than she's ever seen before. Ah... wait... hasn't she already seen that shop? Wasn't that the place she'd stopped to get this neat patch for her jacket? Just how many left turns has she taken...? She had been so distracted by the sight of a passing stranger's dog that she'd lost track... Oh, well. She'll find her way back to familiar streets sooner or later. There are more adventures to be had in the meantime! And so she finds her way to...
...Central Square?
While the crush of pedestrians is no thinner, moving into the downtown area of the city, Cyrene finds that she has little trouble weaving between the other bodies on the sidewalk as she takes in the sights around her. Namely, she tips her head far, far back to gaze in awe at the towering buildings that make up this part of the city. She's never seen any building this tall in person! How many people could possibly fit inside? It must look like a little ant farm, from a distance, with all of the office workers moving back and forth between their cubicles to the printer to the fax machine to the water fountain to the-- okay, admittedly, she really doesn't know what goes on in office buildings. Only what she's read about in books, or seen on TV. That doesn't change the fact that the offices themselves must be huge, and probably carrying out very important business!
Unfortunately for Cyrene, she spends so much time focused on this tiny fantasy of white-collar workers as busy little ants that she entirely forgets to watch where she's walking for a brief moment. It's not until her foot misses the edge of the curb and she only barely manages to stop herself from stumbling out into traffic that she comes back to reality--only for her panicked jerk back to the safety of the sidewalk to lead her to collide with another person. She can really only recoil again, flustered by the impropriety of bumping into a person on a busy sidewalk, and begins to ramble out an apology. ]
Oh-- ah-- sorry! I really should have been watching where I was walking. Probably should have stopped if I wanted to look all the way up like that... I didn't hurt you or anything, did I?
[ ...or Brick Alley?
There's something especially homey about the way nearly everything in this neighborhood is made out of brick. There's also something incredibly homey about the number of coffee shops scattered around. It feels like every time she turns around another one appears out of the ether! That would be silly, though. She's probably just not looking closely enough at signs. How could she, when there's so much else to take in? Like... counting the number of odd-colored bricks in the pavement. If every other one is a darker shade of red, maybe they came from someplace else? Or maybe they were fired for just a little bit longer than some of the others... okay, maybe that's a little bit boring. She could settle for just trying out some coffee, but... she'd have to choose one of these shops, then! However can she come to a decision when there are so many options?! ]
Mmm... I guess I need to start looking at menus... but... I don't even know what some of these flavors are like. How does anybody just guess on what to try if they've never heard of a "cardamom"? Who puts lemon in their coffee? Oh, how am I supposed to decide?
