vanillajello | An Ice Creamery, Baltimore, Early Sunday Afternoon

Friday had been pretty spectacularly bad, and the less said about it the better. Saturday, Kate had just laid low and recuperated. And today, today was just one of those days she had to get off the island. It was just a necessity, being outside in the normal world. Not getting yelled at by vampires, not singing things that were better kept silent.

So she'd come here, to this ice cream place. She'd been happy here once, months and months ago, flirting and drawing out some of the very first of those blushes she'd later come to love so much. This was a good, non-crazy place to be spending a Sunday afternoon in.

She had a big bowl of ice cream and her laptop in front of her, and was currently busying herself with following some of Knatasha Knightblade's advice from a few weeks ago by setting up an Amoozoo wishlist for Princess Valhalla Hawkwind.

Picking out things she wanted was like therapy. She'd be here a while.

[ooc: NFB due to being off-island, but open for calls/texts/randomly finding her here.]

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"Would you call Buck a side effect?" she wondered dryly. "Or Alice?"

"I thought you said they looked like they were working," Leto replied. "I'm sorry."

"Oh, it looked like they were working," she said. "Right up to the point where we went ice skating like some happy family and some crazy lady showed up to announce she's in love with Buck."

There was a pause. "What did your father do?"

"Had a minor shitfit and left." There was a slight pause, and then: "To go beat up some contractor, as we found out later once he was arrested for assault."

"He didn't seem like a man who use violence lightly," Leto replied. "What did you and your brother do?"

"Went home," Kate shrugged. "Got high."

Were in shock and disappointed, but that was a given.

He wasn't going to argue against the good judgement of that. "And have things improved since then?" He couldn't help wondering where that relationship came into all this.

"Well, I was in Fandom for a while, but I had stuff to do in Kansas last week, so I took Bod with me." That would be where the relationship started getting directly affected, yes. "And it kinda went badly. There was a tornado, and a social worker, and I... may have gotten a little too wrapped up in my own stuff."

"Your own stuff?"

"Yeah, I... kinda have this little business venture going on?" And she couldn't help but wonder whether Leto would find this any easier to understand than Bod had. "I'm basically embodying this one artist lady's princess character online and in comic shops."

Maybe. "Like acting?" Leto asked.

"Pretty much, yeah," Kate confirmed. "Dressing up in a fabulous costume and everything. It's pretty awesome."

And that made her smile a little.

"So, one thing you enjoy. You should send me a photo of the costume," he replied cheerfully.

"I totally should." Because even people on diferent planets way into the future should not be deprived of the glory. "Your phone can receive photos, right?"

"It can," he replied. "Even moving images." Leto, be careful what you ask for.

Yes, Leto. Being careful might be advisable.

"Well, I also have a music video online..."

"I'm not sure if I could watch it," he replied. "But you could try to send it to me."

"Hold on a sec." She pulled the phone off her ear to fiddle with it for a moment. "Oh, score, I still have the mobile-friendly offline version on here."

She had the song as her ringtone and everything; it was hardly surprising she had the video saved on practically every piece of technology she owned.

She sent the video to him, then clamped the phone to her ear again. "Pretty sure you should be able to view it. And it'll totally blow your mind."

"Just wait there," Leto replied, then opened the video he'd received.

And watched. In silence. Eyes widening a little.

When it had finished, he cleared his throat. "I'm sure you can find someone in Fandom to improve your sword skills."

Kate paused. Then quirked a brow. "That's your initial reaction?"

She wasn't sure whether to be disappointed or amused.

He'd been trying to be nice!

"The costume is quite... impressive."

Good thing Kate was so easily distracted when it came to this subject. "I know!" she enthused. "I mean, I know the vid is kinda cheesy or whatever, but don't I look awesomely hot in it?"

"You always look hot, Kate."

That was diplomatic, wasn't it? Worthy of a future emperor?

Very much so. Of course, Kate didn't see the diplomacy, just the pure and simple truth.

"I know," she said smugly. "But thank you. So, that's what I've been doing lately."

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