XANADU OPERA TIME | ALL INVITED

[shall_yield_us]

WHEN: Jan. 15 | the Xanadu gardens.
CHARACTERS: Everyone.
SUMMARY: we interrupt your regular Xanadu viewing for the following special reminder: ...the visit ain't over til the bloody plant sings.

That's right: our green belle been giving rather obnoxious titillating performances in Xanadu, to what can only be the... enjoyment... of certain Citizens. Adding injury to insult, it's quite possible that a couple of residents have also captured the plant's tune on film, and now the video's been turned into a network viral phenomenon!

But as Citizens surely know, every grand artist needs a doting live audience: come get dibs on more plant footage? Save someone from its evil clutches? Help a poor soul that's got lost in the gardens' great expanse? Get the plant to sign with your talent agency? Embark on a mystical quest to get it to shut up?

Just put your chlorophyll-tinted glasses on, and anything is possible.


[ ooc: Find whatever excuse to throw your character in Xanadu, tag someone new, and all around: GET IN HERE. Just as a note: hearing the plant is definitely optional, so please don't think it's an overwhelming sound that'd keep your character up at night or some such. It's just a log prompt. XD ]

Comments

[mintjulep]

[ To his credit, McCoy doesn't jump, though his eyes do widen. That's... damn, that's impressive, and it takes a lot not to pull out his tricorder. Good lord. ]

That really is somethin'.

[ But he's not afraid, not recoiling. Just surprised. ]

An' you have no idea how it works?

[likeboudica]

[ She visibly relaxes, tension draining out of her. ]

I assume it is magic of some sort.

[mintjulep]

Suppose that would make sense, where you come from.

[ There has to be some sort of science behind it, if she physically changes -- which is what it sounds like, if it used to hurt. ]

[likeboudica]

Do you [ she takes a deep breath ] If you want to-- do something, to learn how it works, if you can. [ She would let him. ]

[mintjulep]

[ He pauses, considers. It's tempting. But... ]

Not right now, and not here.

[likeboudica]

No, of course not. [ There's a little relief in those words. ]

[mintjulep]

I don't need to know how it works, Tess.

[ It's different if she wants to know how it works, but that doesn't matter to him as much as if she's healthy, happy. ]

[likeboudica]

No? [ She doesn't-- quite get that. ]

[mintjulep]

No. I'd be interested in knowing, sure, but I don't need to know. I can live without knowing. [ He pauses. ] I don't want to make you feel uncomfortable, or obligated to show me or let yourself be poked and prodded at.

[likeboudica]

I know that I am not obliged to.

[ Thinking for a moment. ] Why are you so kind to me?

[mintjulep]

[ He considers for a brief moment, but it doesn't take long before he replies. ]

Because you've got to ask that question.

[likeboudica]

I don't understand.

[mintjulep]

You've been through more at sixteen than anyone should ever have to go through, Tess. If I can help make things a little easier for you, keep an eye out for you -- hell, even just teach you about horses -- then I will.

1:2

[likeboudica]

[ That he would-- Tessa swallows down the emotions those words bring up. ]

It was not all bad. Most of my life was not bad at all.

[likeboudica]

[ very quietly: ] I do want to know about horses.

[mintjulep]

[ But some of it was. ]

I'll teach you.

[likeboudica]

[ yes. ]

Thank you.

[mintjulep]

You're welcome.