{log ota} a ghostea party

[eucre.livejournal.com]

Pinkies out, teacups up, long sip. Long sip at air, but that's not the point. The point is the lovely sitting across from her -- has he left? No, she can still hear whispers, many whispers. There are a lot now, because it's fall-almost-cold and that's when they come. Just whispers. Once more, but not now.

Piper's found a dress for the occasion - possibly stolen it, but she'll return it, of course. How she procured a table for the occasion? Impossible to tell. And even more inexplicable are the three chairs that are unoccupied, the lacy tablecloth that sits under a china tea set that looks like it's out of a girl's dollhouse. 

Come join her for tea. After all, she's not accompanied by anyone else. Or so it seems.

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Big Brother will be along at some point!

[takentrick.livejournal.com]

Unoccupied? Unaccompanied? That's ridiculous. Who wouldn't join Her for a tea party?

The little boy is rather far from Home, really, all the way out here in the Green, but he's completely unafraid. What's there to be afraid of, after all, with Her looking after him? No need to stay in the walls of Spades with Her protecting him.

It's also a Touch Difficult to be Genuinely Afraid of things when you're dead.

"'s very pretty, Miss Piper."

She can still hear him, can't she, even if the rest of the world tends to look right through him?

Re: Big Brother will be along at some point!

[eucre.livejournal.com]

She gives Him a smile. No, she doesn't know his name, and she can't see him at all, but that whisper is a familiar one - one that perpetually clings to the back of her mind. "Pretty and lovely and sweet~ Speaking of sweet, one lump or three?" Perhaps he can actually see the sugar, just like she can hear him.

[takentrick.livejournal.com]

Of course he can see the sugar. He can see everything he's left behind. It would hurt, if not for the fact that She, at least, can hear him.

Means he's not so very far away, even if Declán never...

"Two, please." Because that's what's Missing. And, well. "That's what's best, you know."

[eucre.livejournal.com]

"Two~ why's the best? One too bitter and three too sweet? But things can never be too sweet, and you're a little boy, and boys should love sweets, silly billy boy." She doesn't know his name. Can't hear his name. But of course she'll pass him a cup of tea.

[takentrick.livejournal.com]

They have the same bright little laugh. Or had, anyway, if a person can even remember the way they used to laugh as a child.

"But Two's where everythin' starts, Miss Pip." There's affection in his whisper of a voice, despite the frustration of reaching for the cup and not really being able to take it. "Here, a' least."

[eucre.livejournal.com]

"True, two, Two, true~ very right, rightly so. Such a smart little boy." She laughs quietly, curling up in her chair. "But what'f I have four? Too much, too much?"

...is it wrong to want Feilim to troll the Zoe thread too. :<

[takentrick.livejournal.com]

"Nah," he tsks, blowing lightly on the cup before him, enjoying that the wind helps him bring ripples over the top. "Two for you and two for me and all for you's four, right?"

[headfollowheart.livejournal.com]

Even an anticipated trip doesn't involve a flurry of activity when one has a Chives who insists upon doing the packing. The most strenuous part, Zoe thinks as she cuts across the Green, was deciding what shoes and dresses to pack.

It was probably sentimentality that had her digging out the teal dress and red ballet flats that she'd worn when she'd wandered into a certain bar a little over a year ago.

Still, that was done, and Chives was packing everything in enough tissue paper that you'd think wool was breakable. And that leaves Zoe will little more to do other than the usual, and it's a trip to Town to pick up lunch for the accounting office. Which she's carrying when she sees Piper, all by herself.

"...Is it a party?"

[eucre.livejournal.com]

"Indeed, Miss Tarpsy, but if you ask so nicely, they'll move for you to sit." She nods at the seemingly unoccupied chair across from her, sipping at her empty teacup once more.

[headfollowheart.livejournal.com]

"That's very sweet of them." Zoe had played imaginary tea party herself, when she was little - it was the kind of game the girls she'd known in Hearts had played, before she met and started spending more time with Hadyn Novak. "If you wouldn't mind?"

[eucre.livejournal.com]

"Of course~ Waits for a moment, though, for the ghosties to move." It's not imaginary, silly~! Piper waits a moment, then points at a specific chair. "Sit!"

[headfollowheart.livejournal.com]

Zoe's eyebrows climb up at that. "Ghosts?" She echoes, as she slides into the - apparently just vacated - seat. "How many are at tea?"

[eucre.livejournal.com]

She points around randomly, counting to herself, then nods. "Somewhere around... eleventy." Yup. Nodding proudly. She can count.

still debating Jimmy since he didn't die in the Deck :|a

[topofmohs-scale.livejournal.com]

Juuso had quite liked the little girl when Säde was still taking care of her. Still liked the child even when she grew up talking to the sky and living in the trees.

And tea is a perfect way to pass the time, living or dead. "I could use a refill, Piper."

Tag with everyone. :| ♥

[eucre.livejournal.com]

"Right away, Mister Sir!" She hums happily before 'filling' his cup with the empty teapot. "Quite enough, yes~?"

might have to backtag- I don't even have a PB for him let alone an account xD

[topofmohs-scale.livejournal.com]

"Oh, absolutely." And now he's reaching to 'take' a lump of sugar, falsely stirring it in. "So, little laugher, you are sharing with everyone?"

That is a-okay! :D

[eucre.livejournal.com]

“Of course, of course! It’s a special! A special for Halloweening. All the ghosts can tea~”

[topofmohs-scale.livejournal.com]

There's a whole line-up of ghosts around stretching back over centuries, and Juuso briefly wonders how long this has been going on with Joker after Joker. "All of them? Perhaps a few more tables next year."

[eucre.livejournal.com]

She shrugs her shoulder. "Oh, they can fit, methinks~ They always do, you know."

ONE MORE TIME. :|

[sharpedgedheart.livejournal.com]

Georgios didn't often make himself known to the strange little Joker - though all Jokers were strange. He spent his time on-Deck trailing his daughter and his son. He was trailing Zoe now, in fact; uncertain that he was as happy about her trip to Prague as she was - and uncertain whether he was less happy about the destination (Prague was a dangerous city) or the company.

Still, if he'd learned anything over the years since his death, it was that there wasn't much he could change, and so he just watched. And when Zoe sat down at Piper's table, he sat across from her and spoke to the Joker instead of the daughter.

"Do we have teacakes?"

HELLO SEXY I mean what.

[eucre.livejournal.com]

Piper claps happily, setting a plate in front of him. He can probably see the teacakes, even if she can't. "Right here, Mister Sir~ Frosty and sugary and sweet, mm~"

[sharpedgedheart.livejournal.com]

They're lovely teacakes. They remind him of tea with Maggie in her villa outside the Castle, and he smiles a little as he picks one up. "Thank you, Miss Piper. You're far too kind."

His eyes flicked over to the other ghostly faces, and he smiles, nodding to the ones he recognizes.

[eucre.livejournal.com]

"Not a problem, not at all~ Isn't it lovely~? Such a lovely tea party." She beams at him.

[sharpedgedheart.livejournal.com]

"It's very nice," he tells her gravely. "Do you have them often, or is it a special for All Hallows Eve?"

[eucre.livejournal.com]

"A special for Halloweeny! Except this time it's ever so coldy."