[OPEN LOG]

[nukeoleptic]

Who: Jade + literally anyone
What: Jade bribing people into her restaurant with free things.
When: Day 355.
Where: The Highwind, in Heimdall's district.
Rating: PG-13 for language at most!

EDITED TO ADD: Also, totally feel free to threadjack and use this as a mingle log IF YOU WOULD LIKE ♥

[ It had worked once before, back in the heat of late summer in Asgard, so Jade was trying it again. She had dragged the sign out to the front of the store, right in the middle of the sidewalk, and written in huge letters:

free hot chocolate! :D
just come inside ♥

The temperature hadn't broken the sixty degree mark today - it was getting chilly fast. Both Orihime and Annabeth were gone, and the store was oddly quiet. Jade will be found keeping herself busy throughout the day with odd little chores when it's completely empty of customers - sweeping, dusting, and occasionally dozing in a booth near the door when the boredom becomes too much to bear. ]

Comments

[lethechained]

There probably is, then. It certainly wouldn't be the strangest thing out there, not by a long shot.

[-- Oh, right. Sip.]

[cyan_maid]

Nope, not at all.

[Yep, another sip.]

[lethechained]

[Sip.]

... What's the strangest thing you have heard of?

[cyan_maid]

You mean like I've ever heard?

[lethechained]

Well, yes. Or seen, I suppose. Either one.

[cyan_maid]

[She leans back to think about it. Takes a long drink of hot chocolate, too, perhaps that will help her think.]

...I'm not really sure. Everything I hear and see seems to be odder and stranger than the last. Sometimes it almost feels - normal, to be honest.

[lethechained]

[She takes a sip of her own, then another, and glances at it to see it's less than half full by now.]

I know what you mean. It's been a long time since I've heard anything that didn't make sense to me one way or another. After all the things I've seen it's hard to imagine something that doesn't exist somewhere, in one of the worlds out there. I guess maybe for us, that really is normal.

[cyan_maid]

[A shrug.] But I guess - some of it still takes me by surprise. I can say it all feels normal, and then something will come along that turns me upside-down!

[It's like a theme in her life.]

[lethechained]

[The theme of Naminé's life seems to be 'throw all the totally off the wall existential crises that can possibly be thought up by a middle-aged Japanese man and company at her'. Among other things. It's given her a certain resistance to being turned upside-down.]

You know... I think that's kind of nice, actually. There are still things that can surprise you. Hopefully in a good way, of course.

[cyan_maid]

[A snort, and then a sip.] Very hopefully.

[But you can never be sure about an American man in his twenties and his fickle whims.]

[lethechained]

[Ah, the joys of being totally at the mercy of the whims of a higher power.]

Not always the best bet to make, but it's nice when things do turn out that way.

[cyan_maid]

[One whose ends are nowhere near in sight in both cases.]

Definitely nice. We'll just have to keep our fingers crossed, then.

[lethechained]

[Rassafrassin' gigantic canons.]

Mmhm. [Sip.] That sounds like an awful lot of trouble, though. Keeping your fingers crossed all the time, I mean.

[cyan_maid]

[Sip.] It's not too much trouble. Maybe...if you kept the fingers of the hand you don't use the best, it would work out. You can still write with one and keep things crossed with the other.

[lethechained]

You're right, that would be better. [Sip.] What if you needed to do something with both hands, though? And would it still count if you switched which fingers you were crossing?

[cyan_maid]

There's still three uncrossed fingers on one hand that could do something! And I don't see why switching fingers wouldn't count. The important thing is to keep them crossed, hoo hoo!

[lethechained]

Mm, I should hope so! Otherwise it would be even harder to manage. I do wonder, though - because it says keep them crossed, but it doesn't specify whether 'them' is two specific fingers or if you only have to be keeping one set of them crossed. I imagine your fingers would get very sore, too.

[cyan_maid]

I think it's just the two fingers. And they would...oh, geez. Maybe it's trickier than we thought?

[lethechained]

Really tricky, I think. I'm relieved it's just a saying, otherwise we'd be in real trouble.

[cyan_maid]

I wonder if anyone's tried it, though. Keeping their fingers crossed all the time, I mean. [A contemplative sip.]

[lethechained]

With all of the people out there? There must have been someone. [An also contemplative sip.] Whether they succeeded or not, though - that might be different, unless there's also some world out there where it's normal for people's fingers to be crossed.

[cyan_maid]

They would be the masters of working with crossed fingers in daily life for sure. I bet they could drive and type and flip pancakes in the pan with crossed fingers!

[Now you're just being silly, Jane, and you know it.]

[lethechained]

Oh, surely! [They're both being silly, and Naminé is equally aware of it.] Maybe they even have extra fingers just for crossing, or special pans.

[cyan_maid]

Or both! Why not both?

[lethechained]

Or both, yes! I suppose both does make more sense. Maybe that's even what the pans would be for - the crossed fingers specifically.

[How that would work is another question.]