my heart's a battleground ( OPEN )

[aguidingkey]

WHO: Aqua and OPEN
WHAT: Aqua's figuring out this barista thing and exploring on off days
WHERE: The Expresso and around
WHEN: Early July
WARNINGS: None for now, will update as needed


Coffeeshop; working days

When Aqua had given thought to helping out around the city and earning her keep, this was not at all what she'd had in mind.

Someone in charge must have thought she needed experience in something mundane and every-day, signing her up for a job at a local coffeeshop. She had considered not going, for half a second, but in the end she knew she needed some kind of income other than whatever stipend the city was giving her and really this is experience she lacks. Maybe it's time to try something completely new. Thankfully, it's only part time work.

So here she is after Dualis Days have wrapped up, learning how to pull a shot of espresso and make a basic coffee or latte. It's a lot to learn and she feels pretty out of her element, but she's doing her best. Anyone who comes into the shop will be greeted with a smile.

"Hi. I'm Aqua. Can I help you?"

Exploring; off days

On the days when she isn't working, Aqua has taken to walking around the city to try to get her bearings. Surprisingly, this was a whole lot easier in the Iteration world. That one at least didn't move around, in her experience. Sure, people got randomly teleported out to other locations at seemingly-random times, but at least the locations didn't change, well, location.

On her first day of exploring, she makes a mental map of everything she comes across. The second day... that mental map gets shattered. Every day after that, she rewrites her map, taking note of where she goes and how she gets there, but every day something seems to change.

Thank goodness the dorms never seem to move. But getting to the coffeeshop on her working days just got a lot harder.

At some point during her wandering, she can be found standing at a corner of a couple of buildings, with one hand at her chin as she frowns thoughtfully down the street. "I thought that curved the other way yesterday. It's like everything just keeps moving..."

Comments

[aguidingkey]

"Time Compression?"

That honestly sounds like something Xehanort would have done, something similar to what he actually did. Aqua shakes her head, to clear her mind.

"I guess that's even more reason to keep mapping out everything we can. Maybe one day something will turn up the same as it has before."

[skyward_eyes]

Well now that is a lovely idea. And an epic undertaking. One well beyond Nida’s time or ability.

“You’d probably need a dedicated team that did only that for mo this, if not longer. Could be something you could talk people into doing. For their own good. Makes you wonder, though. Is this tool on the devices from the Head or something people maintain?”

Leaves him curious, that is certain.

[aguidingkey]

"I'm not sure. It might be a little bit of both. We didn't exactly have a decent map of the other world until the very end." And even then, they were lucky to have found it at all. "But trying to map the city would at least give some of us something to do."

People like her, she means.

[skyward_eyes]

"There was that Reeve guy trying to make one, but yeah, the situation there was sort of frustrating."

At least someone had benefited from the second kidnapping that happened there. It had all been a mess.

Still, he wishes her luck, even if he doesn't know that it's a viable option.

[aguidingkey]

"He was doing a good job with the limited resources we had," she agrees with a nod. "It must have been frustrating to have spent all that time on it just to be handed a pre-made one later, though I guess it also saved him some time and energy trying to figure it all out."

They'd gotten picked up and deposited somewhere new without any idea of where they were and how to get back far too many times for Aqua's tastes.

[skyward_eyes]

Nida shrugs. He hadn't really known the guy in question other than the fact that he was mostly out poking at fields. Of course, the man had disappeared, so Reeve hadn't really figured into Nida's thought processes.

"At leas here they don't seem intent on teleporting us around town."