[IC] Being Human

[KatherinWinter]

"I agree. Why don't we do something pleasant for awhile. Take our minds off the past?" Liz offered. "There is a lake near by we could go for a walk."

[Vortex]

(My head is singing "Love is in the Air")

Willis had not been to a lake in years, he had a nice view of one but never actually bothered to go there "Yes, a lake that sounds good"

[KatherinWinter]

(LOL I like it)

Liz offers Willis her hand. She had not been in this area for awhile. The clinic kept her pretty busy. She wondered how they were doing without her. She hoped they would be alright for an hour or two more.

[Vortex]

Willis saw her hand out stretched and took it, he admired her for her strength and resilience in hard times, it was a quality he did not often come across. They began to walk.

[KatherinWinter]

"I had forgotten how quiet and peaceful walking can be." Liz said as they walked. She tilted her face up to the sun. It had been ages since she had walked in the sunshine just for the pleasure of doing so.

[Vortex]

Willis thought about his relaxation and soon realised it was not relaxation but high matinence socailizing that demanded the finest pinpoint precision in elegance or you would be shunned. "Peace is a rarity these days" he said sadly.

[KatherinWinter]

"It can be. Nut it is not impossible to find. You just have to look for it. You need to rediscover things that give you true pleasure," LIz commented. She spotted some wild flowers and stopped to pick them.

[Vortex]

Willis watched Liz as she picks the flowers "You like flowers?" Asked Willis innocently.

[KatherinWinter]

Liz shrugs. She loved flowers. She had once dreamed of growing a garden full of flowers. But that dream had been lost in the need to survive. "Flowers demand very little. But they they give endlessly."

[Vortex]

Willis did not know anything about gardening for he had a gardener to do that, but he did know the basics of nature, he then spoke cynically "Untill they wilter and die"

[KatherinWinter]

"Most things do. It seems the more pleasure a thing brings you the short period you have to enjoy it. These flowers will last me a couple of days. But during those days I get to enjoy their beautiful sent and their lovely color. They will brighten the next couple of days."

[Vortex]

"Then what?" He said curiously "Do you go out to find more? Then repeat again?"

[KatherinWinter]

"I doubt I'll have time." Liz says honestly. " I can't afford to take the time off. I will probably press these so that I can have them to remember this day."

[Vortex]

Julius smiled at this "I See" after a long pause he said "Have you had a pleasant day? Despite my incompetence?"

[KatherinWinter]

"The walk is nice. I have enjoyed getting to know you. I've never really gotten to know someone." Liz replies. " I think all in all it has been a good day. What about you?"

[Vortex]

Willis sighed this was not what he expected when he rose from bed this morning, he expected another day of deals and trades not one of flashbacks and embarrassment, but despite this he enjoyed her company... For the most part anyway, he said "Yes, in all I have had a fulfilling day, I am glad I went after you"

[KatherinWinter]

"Good. Maybe we should head back to town. I need to check on the clinic. I would like to get together again sometime." Liz requested as she kissed Willis cheek. "I think we both deserve more pleasant experiences."

[Rusalka]

The red-haired woman sighed deeply peeling back the curtains draped over her living room window and glancing outward onto the city streets. It would be nightfall soon, judging from the last rays of a bright orange, but dying light edging over the thick black silhouettes of tightly packed apartment buildings. Rebecca knew she could tarry forth in the day and not feel the sting or the wrath of the sun, but....due to some...unwanted circumstances, she considered herself unable to converse and mingle with mortal-kind alike. The only human she ever made or makes any contact with was Eli, her publisher, but other than that, none such. Releasing the satin drapery from her frail hand, the dhamphir moved to her study, where upon an oak-wood desk sat her laptop, the screen hazing white within the dimness of the small room, bookshelves wall to wall.

[Vortex]

Willis looked at Liz and smiled and put his hand on her shoulder and said "We do"

[KatherinWinter]

Liz headed back gong he road. Part of her felt guilty for taking a few hours to herself, but she wasn't going to regret today."