knightsoflegend | open ♔ september castle socialization

WHO || Everyone! [ota]
WHAT || Shenanigans.
WHERE || Anywhere in the castle, surrounding environs, London, etc!
WHEN || First half of September, any time between the September squiring ceremony and the War announcement on September 18th
HOW || Actionspam

[ The castle can be a happening place, even on more mundane days. This log is for random interactions over the course of the first half of the month. Because not everyone is into parties, ok.

You are encouraged to start your own threads and tag around, and feel free to threadjack into any on-going threads that aren't specified as 'closed' in the subject lines since people can enter into rooms even in the middle of what's going on. WE ARE BIG ON THREAD-JACKING HERE. You can also specify 'single thread', meaning you want only one response for all participants, rather than multi-thread, where a number of different scenes/threads can be done as replies to the top prompt.]

On this log:
Drax @ the desk
Kate Bishop @ the desk
Sam @ the desk
Henry @ the desk
Kate Bishop @ roof/dining hall/library/grounds/bathrooms/desk/Dragon's Hoard/etc
Abigail @ Movie theater / library /firing range / training room
Francesca & Val'drin | closed
Penelope & Sam @ the woods
Emma Frost @ the library
Spike @ rec room
Lydia, Stiles, Astrid, Adam | closed

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[Oh shit she knows. Willow's eyes widen and snap to Lila's face all at once.]

Wha- no! I was just... I like your skirt. [I'm just auto crit failing that bluff.]

Edited 2014-10-18 03:28 (UTC)

Yeah? [ her hand curls around the book, but instead of putting it away she eases down a couple rungs on the ladder so they're closer to eye level, smiling wicked at the redhead. ] You should see some of Belle's. [ a+ taste tbh. ]

If you ever want to take a peek in my closet...

[ actually, she probably won't let that happen, she's very protective of her room. very few people get to see inside of it. ]

No, I'm... I'm good, thanks. [Just going to stammer and blush and not back up because she's sort of frozen in place.]

...What are you reading?

[Books! Let's talk about books and not the fact that she was looking up your skirt on accident.]

Beaudelaire. [ she twists the small volume so willow can read the cover, les fleurs du mal. there is a lavender flower painted on the cover. it's in french, it's poetry. which one would think would be romantic. except charles beaudelaire was not... romantic. ]

Edited (wow I am just a tag catastrophe today jfc) 2014-10-18 17:24 (UTC)

[Well she got a nat 20 on my knowledge check to see if she knew about him, so apparently she wrote an English paper on his poetry this year or something.]

"The will to work must dominate, for art is long and time is brief."

[She quotes with a thoughtful look on her face (thx wikipedia says the player).]

Edited 2014-10-21 02:00 (UTC)

[ her eyes roll. ] He is so melodramatic, Like, god, like a bitch who likes you back, it's not hard.

[Willow relaxes into another goofy sort of smile. It's like she found the password to this conversation.]

I think it was just sort of... the style back then. Over the top tortured artist stuff.

Or it's just because he has a penis. [ men are worthless, ok. the only acceptable men are lila's and even their worth is dubious. except for sylar but that's because they're all crazy in love, mr and mrs carter.

cassel would have loved beaudelaire. self-obsessed, melodramatic piece of shit. ]

Or that. [She says with a shrug, looking only a little embarrassed at the brash way Lila talks.] So why read it? If you don't like him much. I mean there are all kinds of books here.

I'm a masochist.

[Willow just nods, not really sure what to say to that. She's also... not sure if Lila's serious or not? With so many great books to read, the idea of picking one of a person you didn't like is confusing to Willow.]

So... you're here a lot. [It's not a question. It's an observation. Willow has started making the library one of her daily stops in the castle. And after a few days, it's hard not to notice that Lila is here... often.]

I don't sleep and I haven't figured out anything better to do around the castle.

[ and she likes belle. gr8 company. much non-invasive questions. ]

I've become a bit nocturnal lately myself. [Not exactly the same. Shhh she's a bb and doesn't know better.]

Might be...seeing more of each other, then. [Is this flirting? Help.]

Might be, little night owl.

[ oh precious lamb. ]

Might be looking forward to it.

[o-oh... now she's blushing, so Willow looks down at her feet. Those are some interesting feet she has.]

Yeah? Uhm... me too. For studying- er, researching.

Hmm, what are you researching? [ she asks it like she's going to follow it up with "maybe i can help" but she's not going to help so it's an unspoken empty promise. ]

Nothing, really. Not today at least. But I've been picking a new aisle to go down every day. Sort of trying to... catch myself up. It was sort of only 1999 on my side of the Veil.