paris ♔ so you'll keep the world at bay | keep your secrets and your scars.

[silvermaid]

♬ The Storm - Boy & Bear

WHO || Anastacia, Christos, Faye, Aedan, Felicity, Taenya Farstorm
WHAT || The Knights travel to Paris, get some sight seeing in, and meet with the councilwoman.
WHERE || Paris, France
WHEN || August 26th IGNORE WHAT WYNN SAID ABOUT A COUPLE OF WEEKS, I DO WHAT I WANT
HOW || Actionspam

[ this post covers all events from the flight to paris through the initial meeting to get things rolling on the mission. there will be three relevant threads below, please wait for them to be posted to comment ♥ ]

Comments

[uncurse]

[ emma is catching up late and snatching the cigarette out of lila's hand, dropping it to the ground to stomp on it. oh no mom's home. but she must have just been hanging back at the crepe stand, because she's got one in her hand as well. ]

I don't think there's anything stressful enough about shoe-shopping to require chain-smoking your way there.

[reallywicked]

[Wow it wasn't even lit yet. Faye just arches a judging eyebrow at Emma's mom display.]

Last I checked, no one asked you.

[bittersweeter]

[Why do you suck, Emma. Ugh. Let her have this bad life choice! She glowers and it takes a whole mess of effort not to be a complete bitch. She can make up for her nicotine withdrawal while everyone else is sleeping and she is playing words with friends with friends across the pond.]

Whatever. Hopefully I don't slam a stiletto into a sales girl's carotid artery for stress relief in absentia.

[uncurse]

[ oh my god she did not ask for two teenage daughters. this sass is unbearable. she lets it roll off her back, though, and just tucks her hands back into her jacket. ]

You better be hoping hard. [ because gurl she will put you over her knee if you try and murder the shopkeeper. ]

[reallywicked]

[Maybe this is why you had a son, Emma. Not that you remember it.

Faye just rolls her eyes at all this mothering happening right now.]

Can we just get back to spending Wynn's money? [Priorities, but at least she's honest about her splurging?] I'm trying to make up for my last shitty mission and I really don't need to spend it listening to someone trying to tell us what to do.

[She got enough of that from Christos in Nevada. Don't be like Christos, Emma. No one like him.]

[bittersweeter]

At least you weren't stuck with Rose on your last mission. [Because Lila was and it sucked. She cuts a glance at Emma and her fingers twitch over the cigarettes in her pocket. Clearly Emma's mission sucked the most, but Lila sure isn't going to bring it up.]

Rose and Eric and Aurelius. I should have been Knighted for not killing my own team.

[uncurse]

[ emma catches the glance (sense motive 24), and it draws something of a grim look from her, but she doesn't pursue the mission talk or the dick measuring of who had it worse. instead, she decides to entertain what's obviously fledgling teenage girl gossip. she's a cool mom. ]

Who's Rose?

[reallywicked]

Only Wynn's biggest mistake to date. [Faye sneers as they round a corner towards the shoe shop she had in mind.] The bitch belongs in a cage. Or better yet, needs to be put down.

[bittersweeter]

They don't exactly get along. [Understatement of the century.]

[uncurse]

Okay, setting aside the animosity here for a minute and the question of what exactly she did to warrant it; let's try to find a better insult. There are enough guys out there calling women dogs and bitches, you don't need to contribute. You want to hate her, then hate her, but ... you're smarter than relying on misogyny to say so. [ DISAPPROVING LOOK, and after school special aside ... ] What did she do?

[reallywicked]

She broke my nose.

[Fuck your feminism, Emma. Faye does not give a damn what you think she should call other ladies. Maybe if Rose wasn't such a bitch, she wouldn't call her one :|

Also it's Faye and Lila's term of endearment for each other, so you are preaching to the wrong choir today.]

[bittersweeter]

Do you want us to call her a pretentious cocksucking douchebag instead? I feel like that would be rude.

[You guys know you love her casual asides.]

[uncurse]

How about an asshole, or any other word that doesn't give the impression her biggest crime was being a woman? [ she's just saying. and it's aside, so she returns her full attention to faye because lila only got part of it. ] Were you training?

[reallywicked]

[Faye is ignoring your lesson in proper insults.]

No, we weren't training. It was at one of those squiring after parties.

[She will leave out the fact that the punch was thrown after she tried to set Rose on fire. Oh look- the store is here. Faye grabs the door and holds it open. It's possibly the rudest way a person can hold a door out for you, because she looks like you are already wasting her time by not being inside already.]

[bittersweeter]

That just wasn't a good party for you, was it? [She and Faye made their bet that night too. She takes her time meandering into the store because antagonism is how they show affection, okay.]

[uncurse]

[ emma takes the door from faye and nods for her to head inside, with emma following. ]

Out of nowhere?

[reallywicked]

[Faye gives Lila an exaggerated fake smile, knowing exactly what the girl is referring to and not wanting to think about THAT either right now. She turns to Emma in a huff, already tired of this conversation because now it feels like a line of questioning.]

Yes, out of nowhere! She just came after me for no reason. [bluff 30] She's a psycho. And dangerous. [Those she just really believes.]

[bittersweeter]

[Lila smirks at Faye, rolling her eyes, but she's bored with the Rose bashing and, popping the last of her crepe in her mouth, she heads over to salivate over a display of gorgeous and very high heels. Come to mommy.]

[uncurse]

[ sense motive 18 means it sounds pretty legit, honestly. she knows wynn probably has his reasons for who he brings on, but she also knows that she doesn't thoroughly trust those reasons implicitly the way some of the older knights appear to. she heads inside, holding up one hand to indicate her willingness to drop it. ]

[reallywicked]

[Satisfied that she is no longer getting the third degree, Faye focuses on finding something strappy and sexy. And also ridiculously expensive.]

Now this is what I call a mission.

[bittersweeter]

[Emma and Faye need to get on Lila's level, okay, because she's already got a pair of heels in one hand and she's shifting a box of boots out of their pile.

She holds up the shoes.] Too much like the ones I'm wearing?

[uncurse]

The color's nice, but the middle strap isn't really doing it for me.

[ everyone be amazed as emma swan ... actually cares about fashion like 10%. ]

[reallywicked]

[Faye is more than amazed, she's downright speechless. Arching an eyebrow, she just stares at Emma while letting her first selection dangle from one finger.]

[bittersweeter]

You speak beginner shoe, imagine my shock and awe. [She smiles, but puts the shoes back.]

[uncurse]

[ OH MY GOD BOTH OF YOU GO HOME. emma is rolling her eyes so hard right now. ]

Believe it or not, I've been dressing myself for twenty-some years. [ THESE ARE THINGS WOMEN LEARN. and she knows them. and sometimes, she works them. but most of the time it's just not a priority. that doesn't stop her from grabbing a pair from one of the racks and looking it over, because ok a part of her enjoys the girly parts of life, but they're ... rare, in her life. because it's impractical almost always. ]