milliways_bar | EP: Kate Barlow | Outside, Stables / Main Bar

It's been a long time since Beaut's had the pleasure of startling the bar with her presence. The front door admits the five-foot cowgirl and her mount, obviously on their way someplace else, depositing them smack dab in the middle of the bar.

Beaut snorts.

"Oh, come now. S'good t'be back, ain't it?"

Kate wins an ear twitch for her trouble. With a chuckle, she sets about navigating the tables and chairs — and waitrats, we mustn't forget them. She'll get Beaut resettled out in the stables and check on the stock, and once she's done there she'll find a calendar. Once she knows the date and has stopped to look for messages in the stables, at the board, or with the Bar, she'll settle in for a while.

Then again, it's such a beautiful evening out. Maybe she'll take advantage of the lingering light and give Beaut a proper ride up the mountain path.

[ooc: I'm so sorry for inundating the bar! I did try to space everything out. ~sheepish~ Post open indefinitely; catch Kate anywhere you like, she'll be making her rounds and she's in a great humor.]

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"I should hope so, if'n it's the whole Supercomputer," she smirks. "But good, I'm glad. Sounds like things in your world are movin' toward the positive."

"Oh, yeah. They have for days... years now.

"How about your world?"

"My world? Well — "

She tugs gently to get Beaut moving again.

"Things are good right now. Rachel an' I haven't had any more trouble. She spent a few days, off an' on, convincin' me t'buy new clothes."

He nods sagely. "Humans need a lot of those."

"Some more'n others."

It's spoken with humor and fondness.

"But there ain't much else t'be done in Galveston, so I'm happy t'indulge the free time."

"Get anything nice?"

"Some things, yes."

To be honest, she's spending hand over foot. Not throwing her money away, but certainly not being stingy when there's something worth spending it on.

"Miss Rachel's 'antiquated her wardrobe', an' I've added t'my collection of hats. So has a few of my other acquaintances. Y'might know Butch Cassidy from workin' the stables."

Shrug. "Not by name."

The mun has been somewhat deficient in making the acquaintance of other stablehands.

"You'd know 'im if you'd met 'im."

There's a fond chuckle mixed in with the words.

"He's real friendly. Loves t'talk a blue streak. But he ain't out there as often as I am. Anyhow, he's in Galveston with me, an' he does love a fine hat."

And Kate does love picking said hat off of him. It's a friendly sort of ~~theft~~ game.

"Hats can be awesome," Enzo agrees. "If they're good hats."

Some hats are... not.

"Oh?"

She arches an eyebrow.

"An' what constitutes a good hat an' a poor one?"

Perhaps he shouldn't have said anything...

Sigh.

"Anything besides the hat that's part of my dress uniform."

A second eyebrow joins the first.

"Really?"

Paint Kate intrigued.

Scowl, scowl, grimace. (He knows what's coming.)

Oh, she's only going to grin in the face of all that scowling.

"I'm sure your cap is quite charmin'. I don't s'pose I'll get t'see it?"

"Fiiiiiine." Resistance is futile.

He taps his icon. A shimmer runs down the length of his body, and his clothing changes as it passes.

Blink.

"My, that was somethin' else."

Impressed, it takes her a moment to really look at the cap.

She smirks.

"Now, what'd I say? Y'look smart."

Glower.

He is disinclined to agree.

Snicker snicker snicker.

We're sorry, Enzo. It's just that you're rather precious like this.

"Aw, c'mon now. Won't all the other young boys be wearin' the same thing?"

"And girls, yeah."

They are united in mortification.

"There, now. That's what we call equal opportunity humiliation."

Grin.

"Honestly, it ain't that bad!"

"I guess. And the rest is fine," he admits, possibly posing a little. "It's just the hat."

"Y'look rather dashing. They say a young woman quite likes a man in uniform."

"It hasn't hurt," he allows with a grin. "Pretty sure she likes my regular uniform better, though. She says the hat makes me look like a fry cook."

Kate laughs.

"Must be the fashion in some worlds or futures. I'll be sure t'keep a lookout for it."

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