[test] THIS WEATHER IS RIDICULOUS

[espigeonage]

Random scenario test drive meme. Some prompts:
> Ah god it's so hot and muggy how awful!
> The worst thing about summer cold snaps: you don't usually have your windbreaker handy because it's been so damn hot.
> The wind is perverse and trying to steal your things and/or crash stuff into you.
> It's raining wet vermy-things, as if the hail and possible storm wasn't bad enough. Now you have rain-echoes to deal with, at best.
> A nice day? I guess those exist?

So where are you?
> Caught way out in the open! At the beach, in the steet, at a fair, anywhere.
> Taking shelter! Bus stop, club you wouldn't normally frequent, bridge underpass, any port in a storm, any shade from the deathsun.
> In the mall or somewhere comfortably out of the elements, you lucky sunuvanek.
> Somewhere... else? idk, do what you want!

Have at thee!

Comments

[emmuree]

[Guess who didn't bring an umbrella either?

Chantal's ducked under the bus stop to escape the rain as well, holding her messenger bag close to herself. She ignores the boy with her there at first, in no mood to be having a conversation when she'd much rather be going home, thank you very much.

When the boy speaks though... Well, that's just sad enough to get her to actually say something.]

...Are you okay?

[summit]

Yeah, I'm fine. Just, wet. [ Really, really wet. ] It's really coming down out there.

[emmuree]

It is. I don't know when it will stop at this rate.

[...Awkward. What to say, what to say, what to say...]

...What you're holding. Did it get ruined?

[summit]

[ Talking with strangers isn't his forte. He gives a little smile, showing off a mouth full of braces and multi-colored elastics. ] Just, some comics. I think they're fine.

[emmuree]

[Luckily, or unluckily, for him, her talking to stranger skills are just as lacking. Seeing him smile, she manages something that looks more like a grimace, before giving up and just nodding.]

That's... good. No use buying them if they get ruined.

[Nailed it.] Your parents aren't nearby?

[summit]

Oh, no... My dad's at work. I just came, on my own. [ Hm... ] Maybe, it would be a good idea to get some dollar store umbrellas?

[emmuree]

[At work... She can barely hold back a grimace at that. If her own dad weren't at work, she'd be calling him to pick her up, self-sufficient adulthood be damned.

There's a pause before she speaks again.] ...There's one nearby. I can go there. [A shake of her head.] You shouldn't get wet.

[summit]

[ He shakes his head. ] It's okay, I can go. I mean, uh, I just will wait to see if it calms down before I go.

[emmuree]

It's no trouble. [...] But if you're sure, we can both wait.

[summit]

[ Smiling a little awkwardly. ] You don't have to stay stranded here too. I mean, I'm not stranded or anything. I just would really rather not have these ruined.

[emmuree]

[She tries to smile back. She really does. But the result is as much of a failure as the other time she tried. In the end, she settles for a shrug.] No, it's fine. I'd rather not get rained on anymore either. I can still wait until it lets up.