Alain's birthday

[key-youth-bert.livejournal.com]

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".]

Comments

[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."