[EVENT] The Simulation Ends

[sixthiteration]

WHERE: 6I Fountain Park & Elsewhere
WHEN: April 1
OPEN TO: ALL - Mingle
WARNINGS: N/A

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In the snug circle of an old park, a fountain sits burbling beneath a broad, midday sky.

Once-neat paving stones have buckled and cracked from the slow nudge of wayward roots. Benches stand covered in lichen and rust. Three paths push into the underbrush like the spokes on a wheel, the encroaching forest creating lush tunnels through the dark.

But the fountain stands singular and pristine, brightly splashing in open rebellion of the deep, muffled sounds of a place long ago gone to seed. A vibration hums through the ground, there and quickly gone, and the water in the fountain trembles, lapping against the high walls of its cool, pale reservoir.

Far, far away, in a place that isn't really there, people begin to blink out of existance.

It is the first of April.

It is precisely ten o'clock in the morning.



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Comments

[beallmysins]

Jax smiles a little at that. He's mostly a pain in the ass, if someone was asking for a self-assessment, but if Claire thinks he seems a little like home he's happy to be that for her. She's a little like home for him too even if her home's across the country from his.

"Who'd ever think a boy from Cali and a girl from New York would think of one another as home, right? Isn't there supposed to be some kind of east coast, west coast hate?"

[theluckygirl]

Claire laughed softly. "Hey, they're both in the same country so I'll take what I can get. Anyway, it's only a hate thing when discussing sports. So, if you're a fan, then maybe we can't be friends after all."

She was teasing and that was pretty obvious.

[beallmysins]

"Don't care about sports so I guess we're good," Jax says. He has no fucks for the Dodgers or the Yankees or whoever else might be in some kind of rivalry and if he's too busy for that shit, he can imagine a nurse is a hell of a lot busier than someone like him. All he does is run illegal guns and porn studios. She actually saves lives.

Now he doesn't do anything at all.

"Gotta say, you're gonna be stuck with me, Claire."

[theluckygirl]

Claire gives him a smile and a laugh. For some reason, there's some relief in knowing that. Even despite the fact that this place, if it's anything like the last place (which it is but in a weirdly different kind of way) then nothing is certain.

Her smile fades a little and she looks away briefly before bringing her eyes back.

"Careful, I'm going to hold you to that."