Spring Festival [OPEN TO ALL!]

[deadly_legacy]

When; Friday, April 6 2012, afternoon into night
Rating; Various! Warn if you need to on individual threads.
Characters; EVERYONE EVER!
Summary; Spring festival
Log;

Xanadu is buzzing this afternoon with with food stands and booths with games to play and trinkets to sell or win. There are a couple of stages where people play instruments, sing, juggle, and otherwise entertain.

People donated money, time and materials to bring everything together. Some areas are very polished and professional while others have more of a homemade touch, but it blends together nicely and there is a little something for everyone. A little further from the main attractions there is space for relaxing or playing a game of frisbee or catch.

As the evening settles upon the City, paper lanterns light up an outdoor dance floor and a band plays a range of music from romantic to spirited. There are also tables set up for those who would prefer to star or people gaze.

(OOC: As mentioned here please feel free to have your character/business set up a booth or stand or to be performing under the appropriate headings! They can be doing if for money, free, or charity. General Mingle | Booths: Games/Merchandise | Food Stands | Entertainment/Street Performers | Dance)

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[auguria]

[His little companion eventually grows tired, and Jast scoops the infant up to be returned where he belongs. As for Jast, he is never really alone and perhaps will likewise take to watching the crowd. Surreptitiously, a number of birds come to join him. One or two at a time, until he really has a whole little flock sitting with him peacefully in the sunshine.]

[livingmyths]

[Rain sat down and watched, eyes wide, hands over her mouth so she didn't make any noise and scare him or the birds away.]

[auguria]

[They're hard to spook with the augur nearby, and in fact, a pair of bluebirds come to investigate her eagerly.]

[livingmyths]

[She squeaked a little when the bluebirds came over, quickly covering her mouth again. Then daringly she reached in her backpack for the last peanut butter crackers she had left from lunch and offered the pieces in her hands to the birds, sitting so still she barely dared to breathe.]

[auguria]

[Oh those crackers... the birds an terribly excited about that, but Jast doesn't let them harass her. He gets up to come sit beside her, and keep the little beasts in line, a little bit literally, a small trail of them forming in front of her, awaiting their turn at the crumbs.]

[livingmyths]

[Her eyes are so huge that it's hard to notice anything else about her face - other than her huge awed smile - as the birds line up to eat from her hand. She dared one quick glance over at Jast.]

Look! [It was barely a whisper.]

They're eating from my hands!

[auguria]

[He gives a little giggle, leaning close to watch over her shoulder. He whispers in kind,]

T-they can be... polite, yes?

[livingmyths]

[Rain nodded, too engrossed and excited about the birds to think to focus on not hearing other people's thoughts.]

Uh huh. Aren't they wonderful!

[auguria]

[Jast smiles, turning to relay this information directly to the birds,]

She says that you are wonderful.

[The imagery contained within the brief message is one of tree leaves fluttering in adulation.]

[livingmyths]

[Rain nodded, not even understanding that she was hearing his thoughts, though she did look around curiously.]

Where's the leaves?

[auguria]

[His eyebrows go up, curious in kind. He has never... consciously thought about the imagery in his speech. The gift was given to him by his gods, it came as naturally as breathing, but he knows where she took the picture from. He tilts his head, he knows that she is special and so... he tries,]

The leaves are a symbol.

['Symbols' portray themselves as songs and stories, the history behind the imagery.]

[livingmyths]

Oh.

[She considers this for a moment, part of her mind still engrossed in the birds eating from her hands, still not aware that she's hearing/seeing his thoughts.]

That's pretty, leaves to be like that, like symbols of everything.

[auguria]

They can become many things... Home, shelter, shade. The voices of the trees.

[He smiles quietly.]

[livingmyths]

[Rain closes her eyes for a minute, just 'listening'.]

You talk so pretty.

[auguria]

I speak with the gifts I have been given, I am happy to do them justice.

[livingmyths]

[All she wanted to do was find a way to crawl inside his 'voice' and snuggle in there. It made her feel warm and happy and safe and... free somehow. Without even being aware of it she was broadcasting those feelings as she fed the birds and listened to him.]

Oh, you do! It makes me feel so... really really good. And happy.

[auguria]

You are more sensitive to it than many humans. I wish I could always share the beauties of the earth with them.

[livingmyths]

I wish I could talk like that and make people see pictures and feel good.

[auguria]

[He tilts his head. That seems a silly wish to him, but it would be a cold day in hell before he ever made fun of her. He reaches out to pet her hair gently.]

When your heart and your mind are one, and you speak with great earnest, there is much that can be seen and felt.

[livingmyths]

[She leaned into his touch unconsciously, sighing contentedly.]

I'd like that.