dualislogs | kitty at my foot and i wanna touch it.

WHO: Open to all residents
WHAT: Your regularly scheduled NAPs event for the month
WHERE: The RoCocoa Cat Cafe
WHEN: Aug. 10-14
WARNINGS: Please use these if applicable!

Look at all of these bright, shining new faces! There’s even a few less bright, less shining faces, but hey, this city welcomes all types. Chances are, if you’ve just arrived, you're seeing some pretty crazy things, unless you're used to an eye-blinding amount of neon, robots, weird-ass technology, magic, and an omnipresent police force...and hey, if you are, congrats, you're gonna settle in juuuuust fine. But for the rest of you, the Head knows this has gotta be pretty overwhelming, right?

Well, since your quaint individual processing units are probably having a hard time, why not link up with another one? By which the Head means...

Hello, new citizens of Dualis,
and welcome to your monthly Network Adjacency Protocol~!

NAPs are a monthly community networking event similar to the Earth concept of speed dating! Two citizens (new arrivals and old hands alike) are placed at a table together with a handy cue card of queries to help break the proverbial ice. Ask queries and receive results, or ignore the card and yeet yourself straight into a brand new friendship! But don't be too shy, you've only got ten minutes together, and if you just sit in silence for the whole ten, the Network Admins are likely to come supervise and try to repair the uplink through a mild shock to the ol' central nervous system. You might find yourself saying all sorts of unintended facts about yourself if that happens...probably better to just make friends, right? Who doesn’t like friends?!

This month’s event is held at the brand new RoCocoa Cat Cafe, a sparkly new establishment that caters to children and the young at heart with iced and hot cocoa drinks of all kinds, delicious pastries, age-appropriate live music, and of course many friendly kitties who love to lounge in laps. The cats are of all shapes, sizes, and colors, including some who may look a little different from what you expect, or may look like an ordinary cat but are actually anything but ordinary underneath that adorable fur coat. All cats in the cafe are adoptable, too, if you meet a new furry friend and just can’t bear to go home without them!

So pull up a chair, get to know your new neighbors, and enjoy a sugary treat or two with the resident furbabies. You might just meet your new two- or four-legged best friend!

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So she knows Billy and Tommy, that's interesting. Perhaps from that 'village' place that Tommy had mentioned. Which was a concept David had a hard time processing even when he was in a place not unlike it now. He does pull over a chair, not wanting to shift the feline he'd teased off of her with the newspaper toy. What? He likes cats pretty well, and it's cute there. Once he's got a chair turned generally in her direction he sits down and nods.

"I do. Tommy and I worked at the same place for a little bit. And after I met him I came to work with their team, the Young Avengers for a while. How well I 'know' them is rather up to interpretation of course. As for the Wanda from my world, I've never met her, so I don't really have a point to compare you to her."

Because there was no way he was going to hold what he knew of that woman against this one.

"I can definitely summarize by saying the twins are good people in my experience."

As if realizing the shift in conversation, the teleporting white tabby walked along the armrest of Wanda's chair and sat. It was an intelligent creature, knowing the way to get attention wasn't to sit on Wanda but to meow until her hand came to rest on its back. She was distracted but petting the cat absently at the same time.

She smiled, beaming as if she was a mother. She'd only lived in the village with Tommy and Billy for a little less than a year but it was difficult not to think of them as an extension of her family when they reminded her so much of herself and her late brother. "They are. I feel lucky to have them them." More so now that she's lived through her time with Vision and experienced his death.

"I was told that Billy works for a coffee shop?"

"Yeah," David agrees. Both on the front of being lucky to have them and on Billy working at a coffee shop. "He does, a different one from this one. He makes a mean latte."

Which probably isn't a great compliment, but he's sticking by it anyway. Especially since David sort of, well, lives off of coffee. It's a useful thing to have as a skill. But this place practically runs on coffee, given how many coffee shops David's seen here.

"I could give you the name of it if you want. Not that things are always easy to find here."

Wanda's expression softened. "I'd like that." She could easily get the name but there was something comforting in learning it from someone who knew her son.

"Are you close with Billy or Tommy?"

How does one define close? He does tear another piece of paper off of the newspaper behind him and quickly scribbles down the information for Wanda and passes it over. But it's there, in part, to help him to figure out how to answer.

"Before coming here I only knew Tommy for two days. I spent a few months with Billy and his team doing some heroics stuff."

Is that evasive enough? Maybe. There can be complicated things when it comes to the twins and him.

"I see. So you're friends." It was a loose word but one that might cover whatever it was that David is to her son's without pressing the details of their relationship. She adored her son's but it wasn't her place to question their friends... technically.

"It's nice to meet you though."

Her lips pressed briefly together. "I get the sense that you aren't happy to meet me." She was different but Wanda could feel the tension electricity in the air. Perhaps something had happened, she really didn't know enough.

Friends is definitely the safest general description given the complication that was his connection to the twins. And he doesn't mind that either. They've been good friends and a positive impact on his life.

"We're friends. Known Billy longer, but somehow Tommy better for how little time I had to know him back in our world."

But then there's the other thing.

"More like I'm taking a moment or two to readjust personal biases. You're not the Wanda Maximoff of my world, and I want my opinions of you to be based on who you are and not my opinions on her and her history."

"I see."

She paused thoughtfully and then suggested something that might help. "I need to find my son's. I haven't been able to speak to them yet. Maybe next time we meet, we can talk more." When he wasn't comparing her to someone she knew nothing about.

“Of course, Miss Maximoff. And sorry to be awkward. Really, I just wanted to help you escape the cat pile.”

He does offer a smile before offering hand out for a parting shake. Because he has to respect a woman who, even though they aren’t her sons from her world, would still care deeply for the twins.

“Until next time, good luck adjusting.”

She took his hand and smiled. "You did help. Thank you."

Wanda nodded her head before heading off to find her son's.

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