OPEN ♔ I WISH I COULD SAY IN JUST ONE SWEEP WHAT YOU ARE AND WHAT YOU MEAN TO ME

[socialgraces]

♬ Silent Shout - The Knife

WHO || Anyone and everyone! [OPEN]
WHAT || Francesca's birthday party
WHERE || One of the big parlor rooms on the castle's second floor.
WHEN || [Backdated] July 11, Evening
HOW || Actionspam

 

[Earlier in the week all DRAKENET devices received a message announcing Francesca's birthday party, courtesy of Sir Bancroft, to be held the evening of July 11. No RSVP needed. It's especially good timing now that many mission groups have returned to the castle, at least for the time being.

As the guests make their way in, it's clear the party's been well stocked with food and drink. There's plenty of room for mingling and some music in the background. Gifts are completely optional, but welcome. Come in and get comfortable.]

(OOC: Feel free to make your own threads/threadjack, etc.)

Comments

[witchwoman]

[Truer words were never spoken. After that mission, these two are stuck like glue. It's a bond she's happy to have forged, though, and having Buffy nearby makes everything slightly easier.]

It's a beautiful dress. [But she's looking around the room instead.] I forgot how grand the castle was.

[slay]

I know what you mean. [ she shifts in a way that looks vaguely uncomfortable, watching the crowd. ] It's been forever. [ what she really means is i feel like i barely know these people. none of them are kat or myri or hell even dumage. ] We'll adjust. ... Right?

[witchwoman]

[Much like Buffy did in Chicago, Myri reaches down and squeezes Buffy's hand.] Of course we will. We faced impossible monsters and terrible foes. We can do anything.

[And she almost believes how much faith she has in herself. But something about standing together with Buffy makes her know she can be stronger. Between the two of them, they can handle just about anything, as far as she's concerned.]

[slay]

[ a smile works its way onto her face, brighter than she's given all night, and she looks over at myri with a strengthened look. she squeezes her hand back. ]

Mm. Still, I don't think I'd say no to a few full-grown displacer beasts right now. At least those I know how to handle.

[witchwoman]

[She muffles a laugh.] Only you would hope for such a thing. [But it's said with fondness.] I at least want to try to find the others- make sure everything went alright while we were away.

And it couldn't hurt to have a bit of fun, I suppose.

[slay]

[ there's a bit of a sheepish look at that, but well ... it's true. buffy knows battle. battle's easy. not fun, always, but easy. it's this stuff that's hard. ]

Would I be totally lame if I said I kinda missed Team New Orleans? [ her nose crinkles in amusement, because, well, it's only been a few days, but so much happened in italy, it feels like longer. ]

[witchwoman]

If you are, then I suppose I am as well. [She admits.] We were together for quite some time. It's easy to get used to that closeness.

[slay]

It's a little like family. [ she hesitates to say it, but god she doesn't even remember her real family or what it was like. team failboat is the closest she's got. ]

[witchwoman]

[Myri just nods her agreement. She's never had family... or not much of it, and none at all for a very long time. She remembers enough to remember that. Having what she has with the failboaters is more of a foreign world than all the rest.]

Exactly. [A pause] But a family can grow. We'll all have other missions, and we likely won't always all be together.

[slay]

[ she deflates a little at that, finally loosing her hand from myri's. she fidgets. ]

... I guess I kinda forgot. That it wouldn't always be like that.

[witchwoman]

[Well, this is the opposite of the fun she was insisting they have. Unfortunately, Myri's just been thinking about it a lot.]

Those days are not today. There will be time to worry about that later.

[slay]

Right. Party now, worry later. Besides, if we're all gonna wind up reassigned by the time the week's out, might as well get all the hang-time with each other we can now. [ she looks around. ] I'm gonna see if I can't track down Kat and Mark.

[witchwoman]

Tell them I said hello. [She says with a small smile and a wave.]

I think I'll just see if I find anyone I still recognize.

[Finnick]

[slay]

Two guesses who anyone is. [ buffy arches her eyebrows in a teasing way, then turns to stride off to track down kat and co. ]

[vantol]

[SVEN'S DISPLACER BEAST IS WATCHING YOU FROM AFAR, BUFFY.

ftr.]

[slay]

[ she killed your sisters and cousins and brothers and uncles. ]