[OTA] Paint the Town

[uncutclarity]

When her close girlfriends were around, they'd had a routine. End of the relationship rituals. But it seemed strange to do them on her own, so Avery didn't dig out a short dress or high heels, and she didn't leave the Castle with Wren and Tegan to go first to the Four Suits and then to the Wild Card. Instead, once shed cleared her inbox, she changed into jeans and boots and headed out to the quieter, grittier bar Ben Mackinnon had opened near the Spade section.

She got herded a bottled beer and a set of balls from the bartender and proprietor, and it wasn't until shed set up the game that she was reminded that it was Davin's game. Maybe she should have gone with darts instead.

Well, she thought, it would just be weird to turn around and change her mind now.

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[theacethatmatters]

"Isn't that what the researchers are working on?"

Not that they've found much of anything.

"Or did you have something else in mind?"

Did you stumble across a cache of this is how you do Deck magic manuals, Avery?

[uncutclarity]

Oh, yeah, she's been using them to shore up the furniture that's been breaking in the mini earthquakes. Except not so much.

"Earthquakes usually have epicenters, don't they? Maybe we should try mapping them." As much as they could map anything.

[theacethatmatters]

"I suppose I shall add looking for geologists to the list of people I need to co-opt into doing things."

Like the engineer-types for making sure the Castles actually weren't in danger of falling down.

[uncutclarity]

She gives him a highly amused look, and nods in the direction of the center of Town- where the school was.

"I hear the teach it in the high school science classes." So the science teacher was probably a good place to start.

[theacethatmatters]

"Lovely," he remarks, draining the rest of his glass and setting the pool cue down on the table. "We can set students to the work, then."

Not that he had anything against child labor. Considering.