Operation Reignition

[rekindlemods]

Who: Anyone who wants to participate in the event!
Where: Assorted places in and around District 3!
When: Sunday afternoon (the 30th)
Summary: POWER IT UP AND GO SHOPPING.
Warnings: None.

By late morning, it's obvious that there's something going on down by the bridges to District 3. Even if you missed the announcement on the network, it's pretty obvious that something is going to happen; townspeople mill about with interest as people set up tables. Irene and Mai are roaming the area, Mai mostly sticking to the medical teams standing by while Irene organizes the rest of the group. Keener eyes might spy one of the brothers responsible for the network, slipping off into the Third District through gates that stand open, but still guarded against any visitors who might attempt to approach before things are ready to go.

Off to one side, there's a shaded area, tents and a few chairs where visitors can wait to be allowed entry. There's a table full of water bottles and light snacks tucked up against the wall, to fortify you against the heat of the afternoon - and it is warm, and only going to get warmer. The natives seem to have accepted the baking sun as the normal way of things, but be careful that you don't get heatstroke.

At about half an hour past noon, someone brings out a little podium and sets it in front of the gate. Irene climbs up on it, holding a microphone in front of her mouth - her voice echoes from a number of speakers set up through the area.

"Alright, could I have my first group of volunteers over here, please? We've got your instructions ready for you to enter the district."

Looks like it's showtime. Are you ready?

((ooh; Event start! OOC information can be found here and here.))

Comments

[drank_the_milk]

Yup, contact is just fine. Yuna likes casual stuff like this, so she's totally okay with walking shoulder-to-shoulder. Smiling over at Sissel, she reaches up to point at his ears.

"Hey, uh... so this is probably gonna sound weird, but those ears of yours are really cute. Can I touch them?"

[interconnect]

Sissel turned to regard her, blinking a few times as the question sunk in. He then laughed, ears flickering once as if in invitation. "Sure, go ahead. It's actually kind of weird to have anyone ask that."

You don't ask a regular cat for permission to pet him, after all.

[drank_the_milk]

"I just thought you might get tired of it."

But as long as it's all right by him, Yuna will fully avail herself of the opportunity, petting his ears and even scratching behind one of them if he'll let her.

[interconnect]

He simply gave her an almost-confused look. "Who would get tired of attention?"

Sissel leaned into the petting, going as far as to press his head into her hand at the scratches. He may look like a kid and be as smart as an adult (without some key pieces of education, anyway), but he was definitely still feline and that definitely still felt great. His tail swished languidly behind him, tapping Yuna once or twice since they stood so close.

[drank_the_milk]

"Some people don't like so much of it. But not you, huh?"

She laughs, playfully ruffling his hair before going back to petting his ears.

[interconnect]

Sissel grinned in response, trying to lean into her side to tuck himself in while she continued to pet. Despite being in the wrong body, he seemed just as coordinated as a cat usually would be.

"I like it. Used to be a stray, so I can't say I've ever considered turning down affection like this. Maybe if you woke me up for it, though..."

[drank_the_milk]

Yeah, Yuna doesn't mind that at all. He's cute, soft, and this is innocent enough that she's not worried about anything weird.

"Wait... did you say stray? Were you an actual cat before you came here?"

[interconnect]

Sissel nodded against her side. "Yeah, I was. Weird how that's not obvious, isn't it? But after seeing all the different types of people here... I guess I shouldn't be surprised."

LET'S TRY THE CORRECT ACCOUNT

[drank_the_milk]

"Yeah, I thought you were just half-demon or something like that."

Yuna laughs, blushing a little as she rubs at the back of her head.

It might help, yes!

[interconnect]

"Half-demon?" At least Sissel didn't have enough context to take that as an insult. He was mostly just confused by the comparison. "Do demons often look like cats?"

[drank_the_milk]

It's not a bad thing at all. She's friends with a demon kid back home - he's actually dating one of her friends!

"I know a dog demon back home. He's got animal ears too, except his are more like a wolf's."

[interconnect]

"Dog demon?" Yeah, that didn't make so much sense to Sissel. He knew a dog back home, but that dog was a pomeranian... How could dogs be demons, too?

[drank_the_milk]

"Yeah... don't worry about it too much, though."

Yuna smiles reassuringly, ruffling Sissel's hair a little.

"I knew all kinds of weird people at home."

[interconnect]

Sissel shook his head at the hair ruffling, getting it back into some semblance of order. It was basically a catlike motion, except without the whole-body shiver to go with it.

"There's a lot I don't know, I'll admit... Still, I doubt they were all that weird. Not the bad kind of weird, anyway."

Like that other country and their off use of technology. That was just odd.

[drank_the_milk]

"Oh no, a lot of them were really good friends of mine!"

Yuna laughs, waving off the thought that any of the people she's thinking of could be the bad kind of weird.

[interconnect]

"How many friends do you have?" asked Sissel. She sure was making it sound like a lot, but for someone whose entire circle of people numbered at about seven or eight... It was just hard to imagine having many more than that all in your life at once.

[drank_the_milk]

"Well, there were 31 girls in my class, including me... I was only really close with maybe three or four of them, but we all kinda hung out together."

Ah, memories. That was almost three years ago at this point for her, though.

[interconnect]

Sissel had a hard time getting that many people in the same room in his mind, let alone trying to imagine knowing all of them at once. Everyone's arrival to Saeng Seong was literally the most people Sissel had ever seen in his entire life, and all in one place. It hadn't really phased him at the time since he had his own body-troubles to worry about... but thinking back on it, there sure were a lot of people in the world, all with their own stories to follow.

"That's a lot," he commented candidly. "In your class... so at school?"

[drank_the_milk]

"Yeah, back at Mahora Academy. And that was just my class! The campus is huge, with grades all the way from elementary up through an associated college campus."

A college she'll never get to attend, but let's not think about that part right now.

[interconnect]

"What does that mean?" asked Sissel. He had no reason to hide or obfuscate that he had no idea about some human things — it was harder when he couldn't remember anything. It just made it seem like he had forgotten even some of the most basic stuff.

[drank_the_milk]

Yuna laughs, scratching at her neck.

"It just means it's a really big school with lots of students of all ages."