Shopping, with Tiwa

[element_wizard]

The door leads out into a shaded courtyard paved with pale red stones. Two sides of the courtyard is created by the house, the third a stable and the fourth the gate into the outside city. A tall tree with wide, flat, pale yellow leaves is in the center, its roots woven into nooks to sit in. Laruna sits on one of the roots, her fingers criss-crossing a cats-cradle game while next to her stood a man about hers and Alec's age. He has short curly auburn hair on a round face with hazel eyes. He could be nice looking except for the rather unpleasant smirk on his face. He's nuts eating from a small bag, from which Laruna occasionally snags some from.

The air is crisp with the tang of just started spring. Tall mountains cusp the surrounding view with white finger tips. Two moons hang like wisps of clouds in the sky, barely visible. The house is a two story cream colored building with a rooftop that came to a sharp point to prevent snow for clinging on to it. Glass panes protected the windows and are nudged open just a bit to let the fresh air in.

It is a rather pleasant day, all in all.

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[elementwizard.livejournal.com]

"We should get Alec," Jono said looking around for the missing member of their party. "Then maybe food? I'm starved."

"Not enough nuts for you?"

[piwakawaka]

"He wants his sausage and oh yeah food would be good."

[elementwizard.livejournal.com]

Fortunately when Alec joins them, he's not munching on anything phallic. "We're eating?"

"Yes," Jono said. "Jackies?"

"Why did you suggest that! It's so... mundane."

[piwakawaka]

"Where do you want to go, Alec?"

[elementwizard.livejournal.com]

He stares up at the sky. "Let's go to the Shades."

Laruna frowns. "We're not dressed for that."

"Who cares!" Jono said. "I have a table."

[piwakawaka]

"What's the Shades?"

[elementwizard.livejournal.com]

Laruna put an arm around Tiwa's shoulders. "One of the nicest places you can go for food. They import sea food! And seeing as how we're in the middle of the mountains, you can guess what I mean."

[piwakawaka]

"Oh yeah, the sea's always close by at home, I forget other people have to work to get it."

[elementwizard.livejournal.com]

"Lucky," she sighs. "I love seafood. Well, come on, let's get food." She starts walking back into the city proper. Behind her, Jono stuffs the necklace he bought into a pouch before taking Alec's hand.

[piwakawaka]

"Then I'll just have to show you Wellington sometime and we can have lunch on the waterfront."

[elementwizard.livejournal.com]

Laruna makes an 'oo' noise. "Wellington. That sounds exotic. Alec and I didn't see the ocean for the first time until we were... fifteen, I think it was. Jono's never seen it."

"Jono," Jono adds. "Has never left the city."

[piwakawaka]

"That's not right, wind's best near the water. Then Jono has to come along too, I'll show you all the best places."

[elementwizard.livejournal.com]

"Jono," he continues speaking in third person, "Is not allowed to leave the city. An Oracle's duty is to his people."

[piwakawaka]

"If you go through Milliways, you're not technically leaving."

[elementwizard.livejournal.com]

"This is true," Alec says. Jono looks thoughtful about this. Despite his constant complaining and antagonizing he does take his duties seriously. Sort of.

"Maybe," he allows.

[piwakawaka]

"It'd be fun and good for you and I'm sure Alec would smile a lot."

[elementwizard.livejournal.com]

"As oppose to turning red?" Jono asked. If Tiwa were to turn around she would see red.

[piwakawaka]

"Can't you make him do both?"

[elementwizard.livejournal.com]

"I think he is, yes."

[piwakawaka]

"Sweet, I guess you're just that good."

[elementwizard.livejournal.com]

"Of course I am." His voice is smug.

"Oh there goes his ego," Alec muttered.

[piwakawaka]

"Then its your job to bring it down to size, Alec, its part of your boyfriend duty."

[elementwizard.livejournal.com]

"I've been doing it for years. This is his de-ego'd state," Alec says cheerfully. "OW!"

Laughing, Laruna brings them to a door in a rather plain looking building covered in leaves. At least they look like leaves, they're really finely wrought green stone inlaid with gold.

[piwakawaka]

Tiwa gets slightly distracted by the shiny and runs her hand over the leaves,

"Oh its lovely."

[elementwizard.livejournal.com]

"Come on, you're going to love the inside!" Laruna gives her a sharp tug. A doorman opens the door for them and they step inside a dimly lit room.

It looks like a forest. Wood and stone carved into trees with tables in alcoves. Birds chirp from somewhere in the room and there's a large pond in the middle covered with quartz so that you can walk on it and look down and see the large, arm sized fish, with silver scales that flash in the light. The light is provided by globes that are hung through out the trees just over the tables. They don't appear to have any light source, they just glow.

Jono walks through the restaurant as if he knows exactly where he's going. Which he does, his own table.