Alain's birthday

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It's almost sunset, and the preparations are almost finished.

Cuthbert, Lilly, and the waitrats they've roped into helping out have set up tables with food out by the lake. On one of them, there's a small CD player currently playing The Beatles.

A few games are set up in the surrounding area--the kind you'd find at any country fair or picnic--but on the whole, there's nothing elaborate.

All that's needed now is for people to show up.


[Summary: Alain has a birthday party. Roland, Cuthbert, Susan, Lilly, Faith, Ace, Meg, and Gavroche attend. There are snow cones and lovely presents and a general mood of "there's doom all around, so let's make this one thing tonight happy and fun".]

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[awesome_lilly]

Lilly comes up to her, grinning.

"What up, sai? Can I offer you a refreshment?"

[nitro-is-ace.livejournal.com]

"Hey Lilly. Whatcha got?" It's always good to ask before saying yes. Especially around Lilly. She was so hammered after the pirate party...

[awesome_lilly]

"Snoopy sno cones!" Lilly says proudly. "And like, seven different flavors of syrup for them."

[nitro-is-ace.livejournal.com]

"Brilliant!" It's been ages since she had a sno cone. It's a tragedy, really.
"Don't suppose you have cherry?" She asks, hopefully. Mmmm, cherry sno cones.

[awesome_lilly]

"Of course I do!" Lilly says happily. "Red snowman hat is cherry. Do you want to make one yourself or do you want me to do it?"

[nitro-is-ace.livejournal.com]

She eyes the machine, then snags a cup and holds it out to Lilly.
"You do it. I've never seen one of these before." She'll get snow everywhere, she knows it.

[awesome_lilly]

Lilly grins.

"No worries," she says, scooping up some ice, feeding it into the top of the house and then turning the crank as she pushes down on the Snoopy head. Crushed ice snow spirals into the little cup, which she anoints with cherry syrup, accessorizes with a shovel/spoon and hands to Ace.

"There you go!"

[nitro-is-ace.livejournal.com]

She takes a bite. Mmmm, freezing cherry bliss.
"Wonderful. So how are you doin', Lilly? Haven't seen you for a bit."

[awesome_lilly]

"Not too bad, considering," Lilly says carefully, figuring Ace probably knows of the general doom around lately. "How about you?"

[nitro-is-ace.livejournal.com]

"Eh. Long week." She shrugs. She's not planning on talking about it in detail at a party. "Met Cort the other day." That brings a grin.

[awesome_lilly]

It brings a grin from Lilly too.

"Oh, I met him. Cool guy. Turns maggots into gunslingers, apparently."

[nitro-is-ace.livejournal.com]

"Really? Did you get him to speak in complete sentences? All I got was 'Cort', 'Gilead', 'Teacher', and 'Stick'. And he doesn't like Cuthbert's hat." Ace is determined to win the next round. Research is needed.

[awesome_lilly]

"I did," Lilly says proudly. "Sooner or later, people do generally talk to me. I like to think it's part of my charm."

[nitro-is-ace.livejournal.com]

"That's it. The man has been proven to talk like a normal human being, and he will. God help me." Ace is Determined. Cort should be very afraid, wherever he is.

[awesome_lilly]

He should. Especially because Lilly is planning to talk to him again too. God and the Man Jesus help him if Lilly and Ace spot him at the same time.

"Not exactly normal, but close enough," Lilly says encouragingly. "I think you can chat him up, yeah."

[nitro-is-ace.livejournal.com]

"I tried, but I kept getting one-word answers, so I switched to giving him one-word answers, and that worked a little better." Ace explains. "But eventually he just stopped answering."

[awesome_lilly]

Lilly tilts her head.

"Weird. He talked to me, eventually. I got stories from him and everything. Maybe I'm just a scarier conversationalist or something."