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[lady_moon]

There's a tarot card in a chair. She's comfortable there, playing Cat's Cradle with sparkly purple string.

She's playing it by herself, and she's doing rather well.

Her bare feet bop to a song only she hears, and her bright eyes are very intent on the string, her fingers rearranging it until it form a pretty pattern.

Well, it's pretty to her.

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[puppyeyedulfric.livejournal.com]

She's being watched by an Ulfric, though his eyes do flicker occasionally to the sparkly string. He's sitting in a booth, most of his breakfast gone by now. He's also, at least for now, more at home with his wolf at the moment and it shows by the edge of wild that he holds, not so much in appearance but feel.

[lady_moon]

Moon slowly smiles, though her eyes don't flicker away from the string.

"Growly inside," she says, kicking her feet a little. "And you like the growly, for now. Good. Should be always, but it won't be, eventually will be, because you love her and them and want it all."

[puppyeyedulfric.livejournal.com]

His head tilts just slightly, "Takes time for it to be always." He's well aware of his pattern of turning and hiding, and while this lingering acceptance sits now he himself still isn't sure it will stick forever at the moment. He's got to return to St. Louis, to teaching at some point and that will dampen his acceptance because he has to hide it.

[lady_moon]

"Takes time for everything."

Now she looks up from the strong, still smiling at him.

"But there's time."

[puppyeyedulfric.livejournal.com]

Richard smiles back at her. There's something about her that leads to not being able to not smile in the face of her smiles.

"That's good then." He gets a thoughtful expression though, "I'm still going to piss them off during that time though, aren't I."

[lady_moon]

Moon giggles, standing up from the chair and heading to Richard's booth. She doesn't sit across from him but beside him.

"Of course. But it's all about learning. Learning who you are. Learning who she is. Learning who they are. Learning who you all are together."

[puppyeyedulfric.livejournal.com]

Richard tilts his posture a little, facing her slightly in the booth.

There's a small sigh, "I don't like pissing her off." Or Jean-Claude really, but Anita's his main concern most days.

[gorgonfondness]

A ball of green yarn gently bops into her feet.

The Guildmaster who lost it was on another armchair and looks to be annoyed about an itch on her back.

She gets herself up to retrieve her yarn, carefully bending over while she still can, and quietly cleans it off with a spell.

"Hello, Moon," she says. "Sorry this got away from me, but my skin's been itchy lately. When I reached to scratch, I knocked my yarn ball away."

[lady_moon]

Moon smiles at Mia.

"It's all right. Yarn has a life of its own sometimes."

[gorgonfondness]

"Maybe it knows what sort of a life it's in for," she says, holding up the crocheted blanket-to-be with one hand. "Destined to be carried around here and there, only resting when he wants to sleep."

Mia puts a hand on her belly.

"Draco and I have picked a name for him. We plan to call him Cepheus."

[lady_moon]

"A little king in the belly," she grins.

[gorgonfondness]

She giggles at that.

"That was one of the reasons Draco liked the name. The other was because the constellation has a minor star from Draconis in it. That's how the name first caught my eye."

[lady_moon]

Moon nods, idly playing with her string.

"Names are important. They shape people and things."

[ostro_goth]

"Moon!" Teja says, coming over to her as soon as he sees her. "Greetings! I have not seen you in a long while."

[lady_moon]

Moon looks up from her string and smiles.

"Hello, Teja," she says. "I've been busy."

[ostro_goth]

"I still missed you," Teja says. "Knowing that a dear one is busy and happy does not change the feeling of wishing to see them -- not much, not always."

[lady_moon]

Moon tilts her cheek towards with a smile, expecting a kiss. Because they are family.

"I missed you too. I went on a date. I'd never been on one before."

[ostro_goth]

Teja bends to kiss her cheek, because she is family, after all that happened.

"Jason said something," he says. "So I am planning to take my Charlie somewhere, also."

[lady_moon]

"It was fun," she says, her smile bright. "We had supper and he didn't make me keep my shoes on for long, and then we saw the dancing, and then he took me to the water where I could walk without shoes in the snow."

The whole experience was quite delightful for her.

[mr-smarty-vamp.livejournal.com]

Standing from the booth that had just been vacated after he sent Nathaniel off crying (http://community.livejournal.com/milliways_bar/22322797.html?thread=985434989#t985434989), Damian circles the bar at a swift pace.

He stops when he sees Moon, and even the sight of her tangling sparkly thread isn't enough to displace the frown that now curves his lips.

[lady_moon]

Moon doesn't look up.

"You make the kitten cry," she says, her tone quite conversational.

[mr-smarty-vamp.livejournal.com]

Damian nods, taking a step closer.

Nathaniel's reaction makes his chest feel heavy, even without the need to breathe.

"I didn't mean to hurt him. It happened very suddenly." He knows the 'it' will be understood by Moon, who knows precisely what happened.

[lady_moon]

"People who love one another rarely set out to hurt each other," she says, finally lifting her eyes from her string. "Still, they somehow manage to do it. You would not choose to change the events even if you could, so apologies would be lies, and you don't lie. Not to the kitten."

[mr-smarty-vamp.livejournal.com]

"Not when I have the choice of being honest," Damian agrees. He takes a chance and sits in a chair next to Moon, even though he hasn't exactly been invited. "He is my best friend. It has been so very long since I had one that I had forgotten how it pains me to hurt them."

[lady_moon]

"His pains will pass, as everything does," Moon says, shifting in her chair to look at Damian better. "It means a lot that his hurts hurt you."