[OPEN] We'll Take A Cup of Kindness Yet

[nascensibility]

Who: EVERYONE, but especially you!
Where: Wonderland Ballroom
When: New Year's Eve
Rating: PG - PG13 (will change if applicable)
Summary: New Year's Eve Party
The Story:

[The morning of December 31st, all residents will receive a handwritten invitation slipped under their door.]



You are cordially invited to attend a party
celebrating the New Year

Wonderland Ballroom
8 pm - 1 am

Semi-Formal Attire
Buffet & Bar
No RSVP Required

All Ages Welcome

For inquiries, contact E. O'Connell

[Punctuality in planning is important: the ballroom itself will only be ready for guests at exactly 8 o'clock, bedecked in glittering golds and the red-green of Christmas' vestiges, still clinging to the old year. Dining tables surround a central dance floor, bars and buffets dot the edges of the room and both holly and mistletoe are expressed liberally through the interior.

Mingle, dance, eat and be merry! The New Year will come in at midnight - the band will play and the drinks will flow for long after.]

Comments

[postictal]

"...huh."

He blinks a few times, and then...shrugs. Yeah. All right. Given the absurdity of everything he's seen and witnessed, a floating city is hardly the most bizarre.

"How's it stay up?"

[uncaging]

"It's due to a special atomic particle, which keeps it elevated." She looks rather excited at the opportunity to discuss quantum mechanics in depth. "I can explain, if you like--" She offers a sheepish smile, reminding herself that it's not a subject most people would find that fascinating. "--Or not, it's all right."

[postictal]

Yeah, he'd probably not get a word in ten, and a hand goes to the back of his neck, ruefully, an unconscious, nervous gesture.

"I mean, I...can't guarantee I'd understand it," he offers, vaguely. "Not really a math guy. But, uh...sounds pretty advanced and, and everything."

Yeah, he's not exactly a science guy either, it turns out. He didn't even make it through college.

[uncaging]

"It is," she says, and for once she actually looks nostalgic for Columbia instead of bitter and jaded toward it. "Seeing the city hovering above the clouds, it's really something."

[postictal]

"Maybe we'll get to see it someday." If Wonderland pulls something from her memories through, that is. And boy, he kinda regrets saying that at all, 'cause that's probably the last thing she wants to hear.

Yeah, maybe we'll get to see your old home at the expense of your memories.

Get it together, Tim.