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Mar. 25th, 2017

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WHO: Tina Goldstein
WHERE: The Fountain & Around
WHEN: 3/25 Onwards
OPEN TO: Closed arrival to Queenie, OTA threads to anyone else
WARNINGS: Nothing applicable at the moment
STATUS: OTA sans Queenie thread


FOUNTAIN// ARRIVAL
(This is locked to Queenie, but should you want to do something with it let me know! It's merely because I prefer not to have a lot of initial reaction threads. )

Tina is usually not so quick to wake up in the mornings. The nature of her job forced her to be an earlier riser, but even then she had to wake up a little earlier than most. It took at least one cup of coffee to make her ready for the day (some days more if a case kept her later than usual). The sudden jerking motion, as if from a fitful of sleep, to wakefulness is more than enough to set her sense alive. Her brain whirled half groggily become aware very quickly that this was certainly not where she was supposed to be.

It's December in New York. Most of the water inland was frozen over, so she has to be somewhere else. It's distinctly somehow warmer than it had been and that's more than enough to set off further bells. Bells that she can't really take heed to at the moment as she forces herself upwards. Grateful, not for the first time, of the training that Aurors were pressured to go through of all kinds. Panicking right then would surely be her downfall. A few moments later her hand grasps the sides of a slick wall, uses it to guide, and lets out a strangled breath as her hand grips the edge and her head emerges from the water.

She gives herself a moment to catch her breath before giving a frustrated noise and hoisting herself out of the water. The immediate danger seemingly gone for now, the woman can't help but still remain on high alert. What kind of Auror doesn't have a wand? She mentally scolds herself, but it's easily returned with a simple: The kind who was sleeping peacefully in their home until five minutes ago. The realization sobers her from the adrenaline high of a few minutes prior and she takes in her immediate surroundings: Buildings she would certainly not find in their part of New York.

A tensity sets her shoulders and for the first time she glances down at herself: Definitely not the comfortable pajamas she had worn to bed. Her mouth formed a thin line and she rises to her feet, hefts the weight off her back-- a bag-- and glares at it as if it's the problem here (there was a lot of problems here).

"What in the name of Deliverence Dane is going on?" She growled to herself neverminding at the moment how absurd she most look as she unzips the thing hoping against hope somehow a wand would be in there. Hope, of course, doesn't work and she hardly looks as absurd as the last person to arrive. Or the person before them.

LATER// AROUND THE VILLAGE
Once she's settled and dry, Tina finds she can't sit any longer. As much as she wants to sit and talk to her sister-- to make up for an apparent lack of being there-- she's restless. The house Queenie had settled in was nice, far larger than their one bedroom they shared in New York, but it reeked of unfamiliarity. The idea of simply having her own room after all this time was simply disconcerting and saying as much wasn't going to help anyone (of course, however, her sister knew her better than anyone could read her in ways she didn't like to be). Tina just had to get out and do something: Anything.

Even taking in the village left her uneasy. The functionalities of things didn't seem so strange, but she's used to taller buildings, crowded streets, millions of people. There was overcrowding New York and here it seemed overly spacious. The fog certainly doesn't help. When the weather was right the fog rolled over Manhattan and on a good day it was difficult to see where you were going and as homey as that feeling was it's inherently wrong. Tina feels more disconcerted by the moment as she takes in the various houses and buildings, frowning at how it can seem so empty and stepping away quickly if she comes too close to someone.

She doesn't seem to offer any words of apologies in that moment: Or at least the excuse me doesn't sound entirely apologetic. It's not as if people running into each other in overpopulated New York wasn't normal nor was it really easy to see anything. The disgruntlement is obvious in her tone if and when she does even if she manages a somewhat apologetic look.

THE WOODS// A FEW DAYS LATER
Being busy is just part of who Tina is and investigating is another. Once she's set on where things are in the village she can't help but test the limits: Just because someone says they're trapped doesn't make it any easier for the woman to believe. Her time in any expanse of forest is few and far between. Most of her job involved city arrests and her Ilvermorny days were kept to the school (not into the surrounding woods on Mount Greylock). In spite of that she's determinedly made her way into the woods.

The woman certainly doesn't move with any sense of ease in the woods, but she's careful enough. Taking in the growth and wondering just how large the woods are. If there's really no way out. Right now, however, she's merely curious-- taking in the area as opposed to even trying to find a way to escape. It's hardly as if she's prepared for that at all.

Unfortunately for her, inexperience in a forest shows and now and then the noises of animals moving or the rustling of trees makes her stiffen up. At one point she catches sight of a deer out of the corner of her eye and stops-- Turning to it in surprise and gives out a puff of a breath.

"Now this is ridiculous," She mumbles to herself unhelpfully deciding then that she's certainly had enough for the day and turns to find her way back to the village. Which is another thing altogether: Mapping a city she can do. A forest? Not so much.
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WHO: Jacob Kowalski, Peeta Mellark, and YOU
WHERE: Inn!
WHEN: March 24, lunch
OPEN TO: Anyone who wants to get lunch at the inn on Friday :D
WARNINGS: Nothing
STATUS: Open



When Kate had learned that he was from a family of bakers, she'd immediately dropped a figurative ton of flour on him and put Peeta to work. Not that he minded - those first days somewhat alone in the village, worrying about Katniss, it had been a relief to have something to keep him occupied, and Kate was a nice lady. Given the lack of yeast in the village, he'd had to improvise, and he hadn't minded at all teaching her to make a natural starter capturing wild yeast from the air. The only problem was that starter took awhile to sit and grow. He (or occasionally Kate) had kept feeding it diligently twice a day while he helped with village meal prep and cleaned both the house he'd chosen and the bakery itself. And then another man had come into the bakery, looking just as at home in the place as Peeta himself did, and suddenly there was a little partnership happening that seemed beneficial to everyone.

The first day's attempts at bread were failures - too many various factors, like an entirely new setting, ingredients they weren't completely used to, Jacob still being a little in shock from crossing over, and Peeta himself being very tired after nightmares the night before. (The scraps had gone to feed the chickens and geese around the village, so at least they didn't go to waste.) The failures were instructive, though, and the second day was much more successful. Anyone coming in to grab part of the communal lunch on that day would be able to smell the rich, tangy scent of freshly baked bread drifting from the kitchen, herbs flavoring it further. Between them, Peeta and Jacob have produced three full pie pans of rolls, all with the same base of a sourdough bread but two with different herbs mixed in for added flavor. It's a bit more extravagant than they plan on doing for every day, given limited supplies, but the first day as functioning bakers for this place feels like it deserves a little something more. Peeta had also taken the time the day before to mix up and portion out some simple noodles, letting them dry overnight, and they're now in shallow bowls on offer for people to take home and use themselves for dinner, if they wanted.

Both Peeta and Jacob are around to grab their own lunches - and start taking "orders." Both of them do genuinely love to bake, but supplies in the village are restricted, with no market nearby to purchase anything at or supply trains coming in from the Capitol. But Peeta at least is used to doing a lot of business through trade, and if people are willing to contribute a couple eggs or some milk or fruit or salt in return for baking, well. It's a little like home, isn't it?