riverviewlogs | 001 - August Happenings! [OPEN]

who: Kate Fuller & OPEN
what: August Post
when: 1st - 15th
where: Library/Coffee Shop/Bar/Around
warnings: N/A

Library/Coffee Shop[Open]

Kate had taken Cisco's advice and started taking part time classes while in quarantine. She doesn't have a specific plan for the future but she's having fun and doing something with her time besides working. She's decided to take calculus, a mechanics course with a Lab component and anthropology. Being overly studious meant that she wanted to get ahead before her classes even started. She could be found at the library or at a coffee house taking up a table with notes, textbooks and random post-its.

She's wearing plaid with a tank-top underneath and a plan pair of jeans. She's mindful of those around her while also remaining focused on her task. Besides textbooks she has what looks like a safe lock at her table that she's occasionally fiddling with. In a strange way picking and resetting the tumblers in the lock helped her relax and focus.

There are things that she didn't want to forget and bit by bit she felt them slipping away; maybe she just didn't want a normal life anymore.

The Quarantine[Open]

Kate didn't know what kind of bar the Quarantine was going to be but it didn't really matter. Her goal was to visit Drew while he was working. She had managed to get a job as a waitress with a boss who was willing to train her as a bartender but she still wanted to do some research on her own.

She wasn't dressed to be at a bar, wearing a cardigan and a pair of jeans, but she was open to talking to those around her. There was a light orange drink in front of her that sat mostly untouched. She wanted to try it and learn what was inside of it but she could only taste the sugar on her tongue.

Kate's thoughts twisted and wandered, wondering if bartenders had to know about wine or beer or if it was just mixed drinks. She played with a small plastic sword that had been in her drink with a cherry before she ate it. She wasn't looking to get drunk but Kate really wasn't an expert drinker.

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[ooc: Come at me. Kate can be found walking home late at night or around the shared housing or getting a feel for the city so feel free to run into her; literally or figuratively. You can also hit me up for plans.]

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Kate had a wide range of talents and a past that didn't completely go along with her sweet exterior. She knew that it was strange to be picking a lock at the library but it was calming and something that she had once thought would be involved in her future. Not many aspired to be a thief while believing so faithfully in god.

Her chin lifted when she heard the deep familiar voice speak. A light smile pulled at her lips as she regarded him, "It's good to see you again." Kate was happy to see him again. She had enjoyed their conversation under the fireworks, even if it had been brief. She felt comfortable around Vincent.

"Are you searching for something in particular?" He was at a library after all.

Kate placed the lock tumbler on the table before stacking and pushing some of her things to the side to give Vincent room if he wanted to sit.

Curiosity got the better of him as he watched her, wondering what she was doing with the lock tumbler, and what she was so interested in at the library was well. Kate was a curiosity, mostly because he never really took the time to get to know people, either back home or here. She was innocent, almost naive, and there was something refreshingly clean about her demeanor. She didn't seem to have any ulterior motives or desires. Kate simply was, and that among many things, made her a sort of magnet for his typically dour personality.

When she made her greeting, he found himself agreeing. "You too." And he meant it. He gave a gentle shake of his head at her question, though. While he had a vague sort of idea, he wasn't looking for anything specific.

"No. I've just...heard things about this place."

"Heard things?" Kate asked as she looked up at him.

She honestly didn't know what rumors there were about the library. She came here to grab things for her classes but they were usually references books and materials that she could use to look up something specific. She hadn't thought to look past that. "What sort of things?" She asked as she continued to shift around and clean up some of her papers.

Kate was in an odd place, she was trying to find something she was good at or something she could do but wasn't having any luck in it. Her life had changed and now she didn't know which way she wanted it to go.

"That there are books here from...other worlds. I...don't know if it's true or not." He was hearsay, but in all his training, one of the most tried and true truths of things is there was always some truth to be found in rumors.

Still, his eyes flitted to the lock she was fumbling with before looking back to her. "What are you doing here?"

He didn't mean for his tone to sound accusatory or like an interrogation, but unfortunately, Vincent had a habit of sounding that way regardless.

"Ah, yes. I suppose that's true. I didn't think it was strange." She was at a point in her life where she just accepted strange things and kept going. "If the portal was able to bring us here, then I figured it could bring books and anything else too." It didn't feel like such a stretch though Kate did wonder if the portal brought anything else here from her home world. She would make a point to look a little later.

Vincent's directness didn't bother Kate. She was the sort of person who would only answer the questions she wanted to answer, regardless of how they were asked, and she had a feeling that Vincent was out of practice when it came to social norms.

"I was studying." She picked up the lock and began to rocking between her palms. "Playing with the tumblers in the lock help me focus and think." It was a fun exercise and she felt proud when she was able to pick the lock.

Vincent shook his head in agreement to her comment. No. It wasn't strange. After being stolen from Gaia, brought here by some sort of portal that collected him simply because he had the fleeting thought of not belonging...but that didn't mean it couldn't be other things.

"No, but it could be useful."

Studying. It hadn't occurred to Vincent until this moment that anything normal may be occurring here.

"...you're a student." It was a question, but it wasn't stated as such.

It could be useful. Kate found it easy to agree to that statement. Everything was useful because everything was born out of a want or desire. It was needed in some way, even if you weren't sure what way that was. She wondered the purpose of these books were. To spread information was the obvious though but besides that, books can also bring comfort or they could be an escape.

There are too many guesses.

"In a sense." She spoke softly, her fingers gently running along the metal lock. "I didn't get a chance to go to college before." There were many things that Kate didn't get the chance to do. "I didn't plan for the future. Now I'm trying to figure out what to do and what I like. I signed up for Archology and Engineering classes to start."

It wasn't anything fancy and Kate was ahead enough in her studies to already know about a fourth of the subject matter but it was interesting to learn about new things. "I've been told there are a lot of ruins here. I thought maybe there might be an answer out there." Though, she'd have few ways to protect herself if she ever left the city proper.

Archeology and engineering. It was a strange combination, and Vincent found himself curious as to what sparked it. He'd heard her, of course, that she was trying to figure out what she wanted to do with her life now that she had one, potentially.

Archeology made sense, given there being so many ruins, but he also found himself curious as to what she thought she'd find. So many in Kate's position would give up, seeing nothing in their future, assume there was nothing worth fighting for after death had taken them, lamented their lot in the afterlife. Vincent figured he'd probably be among them.

Kate was an admirable woman, whether she realized it or not. "So...you want to find answers? Answers to what?"

"I don't know for sure. I have questions but I have a feeling that those will change once I start looking." In Kate's experiance, things were rarely as simple as they seemed. She wanted to know what was out there, who lived here before and why they were so set on using the portal.

How could it suddenly stop working? Why? There were pieces of the puzzle that were shrouded in uncertainty.

"This is a moon with pieces of many other worlds. It's possible to have ruins from other worlds too." Kate was considering a lot of possibilities.

It occurred to him that Kate had nothing to return to. She would most likely be dead in her own world, and this place truly did offer her the second chance she wanted. More than that, that chance included an all new home, complete with histories, peoples how had come before, and she had a naturally inquisitive mind. It left her seeming innocent, though he'd seen the sadness in her eyes, knew that the weight of some event somewhere, or sequence thereof, had taken away true innocent from her long ago.

All scientists, at least those left uncorrupted by the pursuit of power, shared that innocence, that sparkle of desire to know, that spurred them on, even when answers seemed always just beyond their reach.

"You...have a scientific mind." Vincent never had. It was one of the many bolts driven between himself and his father, even before his death.

Kate wouldn't let anything get her down. She had her low moments, when she wasn't sure what to do, but she never let it stop her. She would face gods and demons for the people that she cared about and she knew that for them, and for herself, she had to keep going. She might have lost her innocents but she'll never lose her heart.

"Thank you." She smiled at him.

"What about you? What would you look for?"

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