Light the Dark

A Game of Love

_{collab between @Caits and @Light the Dark}

Caity and Gordo

Gordo sighed, left alone he shoved his hands in his pockets, watching those around him. There weren't many things that interested him, so Gordo watched people around him. He watched a couple of people, and after a time, he hesitated before approaching a purple haired individual. There was something about her that intrigued him and he wanted to figure out what.

Still, he stuttered as he said "H-hello."

Caity stopped in her tracks, turning to this new person. Something still tugged at her to keep walking, but for now she paused. "Hi?" She asked, confused. Why was this guy talking to her. She wasn't anything special. Glancing around, Caity noticed everyone seemed to be talking to someone. Maybe he was talking to her out of pity?

Still, his stuttering was kind of cute. As was he.

"Looks like a bomb went off inside a unicorn, right?" She waived her hand in the air - sparkles of glitter still floated around.

Gordo smiled slightly, the girl seemed to think he was just there because there was no one else to approach. Strange, really. Really, she just intrigued him and Gordo gave a shrug. "well, that's certainly one way to describe it. I was thinking tinker bell was just so excited, she had to share the dust. The fairies so far do seem excited about us.." he said, managing to not stutter thankfully.

"I'm g-Gordo" Drat. Spoke took soon about the stuttering. Reaching up he ran a hand through his hair, pushing his glasses more securely to his nose as he did so, slightly flustered.

Caity laughed. "Humph, Tinker Bell." It was an apt description. It did look much like the fairy went everywhere and scattered pixidust. "Too bad we aren't flying, too."

She watched him with raised brows. "You okay? You seem a bit nervous. You shouldn't be because of me. Maybe because of all the Tinker Bells flying around and fucking with our heads, though. Next thing you know is Peter Pan will show up." Caity grinned at him, glad to share a joke.

Gordo smiled brightly, then shrugged "Then I'd be worried about falling, I have trouble keeping my feet on the ground as it is" he said, a little bashfully, watching the dust for a moment, and then back to Caity.

"Why shouldn't I be a little nervous?" he asked softly, a little...stumped about why he was. "You're a girl, and you seem quite nice. And, from what I heard, likes books." Why was he saying this?

Caity stared at him. "Yeah, but I'm just a girl. There are girls here who I'm pretty sure are supermodels." She paused a moment, his last words registering in her head. Had he eavesdropped on her conversation with Keiran? That really was not something she wanted to be eavesdropped on.

"Uh... were you eavesdropping?" Her tone was clear - she did not approve.

"sorry for having ears" Gordo said,surprised he had snapped back like that, wondering what he had done to have the girl be so...hostile. He thought they had been having a good conversation, but maybe he was just delusional. What girl would like him, anyway? "and sound travels" he slid his hands into his pockets once more, weary at having to defend himself from something he couldn't really stop.

She raised her brows. Caity hadn't expected him to snap at her. She hadn't been rude, but eavesdropping wasn't a nice thing to do. She certainly wasn't paying attention to other people's conversations. Maybe he had really good hearing? "Were you bitten by a radioactive bat?" She asked, laughing a little, trying to diffuse the situation. "Because your hearing has to be really good to be able to overhear stuff through all this noise."

"Nope it was a spider," Gordo shot back. So he could listen? It was a skill many people seemed to have lost over the years. It wasn't like he planned on it. "I'm good at listening, okay? Not many people notice me, and so I pay attention to what is around me." a little disappointed when it seemed to have been going so well, Gordo got a tad defensive.

"So why aren't you swinging through the trees like Spiderman?" Caity asked with a laugh. "Or, rather, Tarzan? Though Tarzan wasn't bit by a radioactive spider..."

Was she messing with him? Gordo couldn't tell. Suddenly self conscious and worried, he ran a hand through his hair again, causing it to stick up even more. Although he was pleased she could laugh, it hurt knowing it was at his expense. "No, he wasn't. He was raised by gorillas." he said a little neutrally, trying to figure out what he had done wrong. Caity seemed to have expected hostility from the first, and he didn't know why.

"Right? See, you know your classic literature." She paused. "Or you know your Disney movies." Caity laughed again. Not that the Disney versions of classics were bad, of course. She held a certain fondness for them - she had loved them as a child. But they weren't the actual stories.

"I know both" Gordo replied, still trying to figure out what he had done wrong. He sighed softly. Maybe coming approaching her hadn't been a good idea. He placed his hands in his pockets again, and stepped back. "well, it's been nice talking to you"

"You too." Caity did wonder, a bit, if she had said something wrong. She thought she had been nice - she had only been joking with the man, after all. That was what she did. But it didn't seem to matter, because she was being pulled away again by some invisible force. And she still needed to talk to Nico!

She glanced back at Gordo as she walked away. "Oh, by the way, I don't know if you heard, but don't eat or drink here!" Might as well give him the warning. It was the least she could do.

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_{collab between @dabombjk and @Light the Dark}

Caity and Kieran

Kieran looked at Tabitha and rolled his eyes, but in a teasing way. He could almost guess what she was thinking and encouraged her to do so. With a nudge and a nose tap Kieran signaled to Tabi to sit down and start sketching. He did not see any harm in her doing this, and drawing may help her deal with the ever changing reality of the situation that was currently unfolding before their eyes. Kieran smiled at her, let go of her hand, and took a few quick steps forward so he could gently tap Caity on the shoulder. When she turned around to look at him, he started to speak, wanting to apologize for how rude he was earlier, and apologize for how Tabi seemed to be a little sensitive. He wanted to explain both his and her actions, but stopped dead short when Caity turned around. It was if he saw her in a new light suddenly, with her face glistening with a golden glow and her eyes shining like brilliant twin suns.

Kieran almost stuttered when he spoke first but remained calm. "Hi...hi. Look I am sorry about earlier, not the best of introductions huh?" Kieran smiled and tried to do his magic calming look. Kieran vaguely noticed the black and red sand dust flowing freely around them, and the soft music in the back round. It was as if his mind, his ever so strongly trained and witty mind, could realize something was happening but he was not strong enough yet to resist.

"Lets reintroduce ourselves, my name is Kieran Hishamie. You said you read one of my books?"

Caity had turned to face him, slightly annoyed that he had stopped her from warning Nico. An apology was nice and all, and she appreciated it - but couldn't it wait? And what on earth was with that smug look upon his face? No wonder he had snapped at her earlier - and here she had let who he was change her mind about it!

She waved a hand in front of her face, knocking away sparkling glitter from the air in front of her. "Uhm, I know who you are. I'm Caity. And thanks, I appreciate the apology, but now really isn't the time... I mean, it's like a glitter factory exploded right now." She would have said something a bit more colorful, but saying a unicorn pissed over everything might be a bit crude.

She turned to walk away once more, but found she couldn't just yet. Caity turned back to the author. "Yes, I've read your books. All of them, actually. Part of the librarian gig, you know?" And Caity honestly couldn't believe that it was this man who had wrote 'Deep Down'.

Kieran forgot he was suppose to be distracting Caity so Tabi could do her thing, ignored the weird sand dust stuff that was all around them, and even forgot for the moment they were in fairy land. Kieran just found himself drawn in, her wit being so charming and her book no how was also interesting. That and fact that she actually read his books was very appealing. He did not normally run into fans of his, even though he had some best sellers, and he loathed it usually when he did. But.....for some reason it was like a veil had been lifted and he just was enamored with what he saw. He didn't......feel different but it was like he saw everything that make Caity amazing.

Kieran pocketed one hand and rubbed the back of his neck with the other. "That's so awesome, thanks for reading my books. My favorite so far is my New Voyage series, but I was thinking of making a spin off or a sequel to my romantic novel "Deep Down". If you want while we are here If I work on anything I can give you a sneak peak."

Kieran hoped he was being charming. He wasn't sure how to go about this, and there was a pounding in his brain that started to develop.

Even ten minutes ago, Caity would have replied 'thank you for writing them!' But now, as Kieran looked at her with that smug smile on his face, the words caught in her throat. "I'm honestly not so much of a fan of New Voyage. It's well written, of course, but you seem to have lost the creative spark that you had with 'Deep Down'."

She might as well be honest with him. "Daniel is a bit...entitled, don't you think? He is the one that struggles the least, his life is the best in both worlds, and he is as much the arrogant, spoiled man at the end of the novel as he was at the start. But you heap praises on him, as if he has the most difficult time." She was starting to see 'Daniel' and Kieran had a lot in common. Self centered and arrogant, with a confidence that was more ego than substance.

How she had let herself be washed away by his writing before was beyond her. How could anything so beautiful come from a mind of someone so full of himself?

Kieran was caught off guard by her comments. He thought he wrote New Voyage pretty well, and Daniel was a very popular creation of his, but she didn't like either? At the same time Kieran only admired her more, he admired how honest she was and straight about her thoughts and feelings, and how she was so open with him even though they just met. "Well....thank you for telling me that. Not many people would so willingly tell me the faults in my creations."

Kieran gave a hearty laugh. "It gladdens me to know I have a reader so confident and honest, it makes me feel like I am writing for good people. New Voyage is my best seller, but if Daniel is such a turn off maybe I should focus on another project you think? What do you think, as a reader, my readers would enjoy the most?"

"I think you denied Sally everything. She worked so hard, and in the end ended up with nothing. As a reader, it was unsatisfying. You have characters come from different walks of life, only to have the rich or well off succeed. It's like that enough in real life - give people someone to root for that isn't an ass." Caity shrugged, and looked around. She still had to talk to Nico. And she wanted to get away from the disappointment of a man that Kieran turned out to be.

And besides, there was something pulling her away from the author. A tugging inside of her - an insistence she had somewhere else to be. "I have to go. It was...informative... talking to you."

Kieran nodded politely, hiding his disappointment. He had though he well written characters and plots, with an ending that irritated fans, made them laugh, cry, basically just leaving them off wanting them more and drawing conclusions of their own. This was all so.......Kieran put a hand to his temple, slightly irritated that the pounding in his head was there at all. "Yes thank you again. If you ever want to talk shop, or want more info on my writing, or just want to give me advice please find me. You are a well spring of good intentions yet untapped."

Kieran gave Caity a two finger salute, smiled, then turned around and started walking back to Tabi who he hoped he had bought enough time.....fifteen minutes should have been enough right?

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@Mae Awesome. Either PM me here or message me on discord. We'll plot. :D

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So exciting!

Now I need to figure out who Caity likes the most and the least... xD

@Mae Are you around? Tarly might fit the bill for who she likes the least. ^^;

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Yay!

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<Snipped quote by Light the Dark>

Oooh, sounds like such an evil idea. I like it!

@Kyrisse

Heheheh

I'm full of evil ideas. xD

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I think so too. Shall we start flooding OOC again? XD

@Kyrisse

Yes! Up my post count!

Plot so everyone can see!

Then change the plans so it's a surprise anyway!

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I feel like everyone moved over to the discord chat and no one bothers to talk in here anymore. xD

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Caity

Caity walked into her cottage, and stopped in the entry with her jaw hanging open in awe. However this place came to be, it was perfect. Caity almost didn't care that she was clearly going insane or suffering some mass hallucination. Whatever or whoever set up this place, they had matched her tastes almost exactly.

She couldn't help the excited squeal that escaped her. "Books!"

Books lined almost every available wall. The small kitchenette had a cute little dining area with books piled into a china cabinet instead fine china. The living room had a plush sofa and cozy blankets, books all along three walls. And her bedroom was a bright little room with books and trinkets along the walls that didn't have a window. In fact, the only room without books was the bathroom.

It was nearly heaven. If only...

Caity sniffed. She hadn't noticed anything earlier in her excited dash about the house, but she swore she could smell something now. She made her way back to the kitchen. There, sitting on the table, was a lovely - lovely - mug of coffee. Beside it was a french press filled with more. Caity sank down at the table, her hands reaching out to take the mug.

But then she remembered something that paused her hands. What if - just what if? - this wasn't a hallucination or a prank. What if, against all logic and reason, this was real? All the tales of the fare folk said you were not, under any circumstances, to eat or drink the food. Or else you would stay in the fairy world forever.

"Fuck."

How crazy would she sound if she warned everyone? Caity was up and moving outside again before the thought finished. Better to sound crazy and be wrong, than to not say anything and be right. "Nico!" She paused. No she couldn't talk to everyone at once. Who else might listen to her? She looked around for a kind face.

@Kyrisse @other peeps

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Shhhhhh, let us pretend we have something special. :P