Grand Opening Mingle Log

[faredthere]

You've just moved to Farethere City!

Why? Well, you don't seem to want to dwell on it too hard. You certainly remember who you are and where you're from - it's not as though you have amnesia or anything like that, of course not. You just don't really want to think about the events immediately leading up to your moving here for some reason.

That's not important anyway. What matters is that you've just moved in to a new town! It seems like there are a lot of other people besides you moving in today, too. There's a giant 'Welcome to Farethere City' banner hung up between two trees, and there's all kinds of food and drink on tables underneath, including plenty you've probably never seen before.

Now's a good chance to meet your neighbors and get yourself situated. Wander around town a little - check out the library, or figure out what on earth those mushroom-shaped doors at the far end of town are for. Or just pig out on the food - you did just unpack all your stuff today, no one will blame you for taking the chance to relax.

(Don't think too hard about the unboxing process. Or why there might be some things in your house that you don't remember buying.)

Your mayor is floating about greeting people. You'll properly get to meet him at some point, so be sure to ask him all the questions you have about your new home.

Comments

[sacrifeyes]

Things for the home... You might find yourself in high demand already, then, with so many people moving in all at once.

[Who wouldn't want a cozy sweater to hide in or a cake to eat for breakfast, in a new place?]

Objects of comfort are always important to have when beginning a new life.

[impossibilities]

Oh, I don't plan on starting anything like that here... [Though she might, it depends on her mood.]

I came away because the business and stress of the big city made me feel... I do not know. Restless... perhaps. I may consider opening a booth if there is a little fair, however.

[sacrifeyes]

I suspect there must be. Towns like this usually do, right?

[It seems like a friendly, small-town thing to do. Probably there are summer festivals, too, and community meetings.]

I haven't decided what I'll do to occupy my time here, myself...

[impossibilities]

I would be surprised if it did not. [Even two thousand years ago they had their own little meetings. Grainne was more used to gatherings than not.]

You do not intend on photography? There would be much here to focus on.

[sacrifeyes]

Ah. Well...

[He's reluctant to answer, but eventually chuckles a little and lowers his head.]

I suppose it was a little misleading to say I 'am' a photographer. I... had a small accident this past year. Photography is a bit beyond my abilities, now.

[impossibilities]

Oh...

[It doesn't take much for her to realize what he means.]

I am sorry. I did not mean to... to be insensitive.

[sacrifeyes]

You had no way of knowing.

[It's not like he introduces himself like, "Hello, friend, I'm blind."]

I moved here for a change of pace. And a chance to learn what else I can be, perhaps.

[Old dogs, new tricks, et cetera.]

[impossibilities]

I... think I understand. You do not know quite what you are capable of until something happens, is that it?

[sacrifeyes]

Yes. And... I gave so much of myself over to photography. It's hard to imagine what else I could possibly do with my life, now that it's gone.

[impossibilities]

[Oh how she knows that ache.]

Forgive me if it is a bit impertinent... but it seems that it is something that is a part of you; why must you stop what you love? ...Was not Beethoven deaf? It... it just seems like there must be something more to it, if what we were discussing earlier is anything to go by.

[sacrifeyes]

[Oh.]

Comparing me to Beethoven is a little...

[He ends up laughing gently and brushing that floppy hair back from his face, surprised and touched in spite of himself.]

I'm not sure how I'd take pictures with what little sight I have left, but... Thank you, Grainne, for the encouragement.

[impossibilities]

Oh... I'm hardly someone who should be encouraging anyone. It is really more... more like... [She shrugs brushes her hair back, nervously.]

People are not remembered for their talents so much as for the hardships and challenges they had to face to become the person they did. Maybe it only takes listening with your heart, or to it.

[Despite her words, it doesn't really sound like confidence as she says them, rather hard lessons and experience.]

All I am saying is that you should not give up what you love too easily.

[sacrifeyes]

[A strange, withdrawn look passes briefly over Eun's face. He pauses, closes those blind eyes, then shakes his head and returns to smiling gently.]

Whether or not you meant to, it... still means something to me, that you would say that. You're right, of course.

[He turns his face slightly.]

Love sometimes has a way of not letting go, even when you do. Maybe a solution will come to me the longer I'm here.

[impossibilities]

[Eun devestated Grainne just with that one sentence.]

Ah... y-... yes. I sincerely hope you find that solution.