[Midnight Hotel] November catch-all

[gistful]

Characters: Anyone, everyone.
Date: Month of November, 2015 (2016 in-game).
Location: The Midnight Hotel.
Situation: Catch-all post! Feel free to use this post for anything that happens within the Midnight Hotel during the month, using the subject header to label specific rooms or for specific people. See also the OOC note at the bottom.
Warnings/Rating: Mark your threads if content warnings become applicable, please!

The Hotel’s processes are chugging along in November. Some absences due to Foreigners leaving means that the Hotel employees are fewer, and while nothing changes in terms of services, things are a little bit hectic. For this reason, some of the kedanese part-timers will be more prominent—particularly at the desk and in the lobby, and keeping the peace.

There’s also that incident with Ravel becoming a bunny rabbit, which puts a little extra strain on the staff, having lost one of their own … temporarily.

The kedan who know Anton well are tiptoeing around him a bit this month. Some of them witnessed him with China at the masquerade and there are some rumours going around the Hotel that the proprietor has a squeeze on the side. Those who actually mention it inside his hearing find out quickly not to do it again, and even on good days he’s tense and almost grumpy. The only times his mood lightens at all this month are when he has the care of the tiny white bunny Erskine’s become.

[ooc: The Midnight Hotel’s status page is available here, with the rules at the top and ongoing status at the bottom. PLEASE POST TO THE STATUS PAGE IF YOUR CHARACTER WOULD LIKE A ROOM, JOB OR AREA IN THE GARAGE, OR ARE MOVING OUT. Anton will manufacture means of payment until Foreigners are able to properly offer recompense or choose to move out.]

Comments

[gistful]

Fix. Anton knew that River had certain abilities, and had chalked them up to a kind of Sensitivity from another world. He didn't mind having his moods read. It was probably safer that way.

But that made him pause, again, because he couldn't immediately parse what it meant. "Fix what, exactly, and how?"

[problematical]

She doesn't answer exactly, not in words, but she's staring at his chest in a way that doesn't have anything to do with her being quite a bit shorter than he is. River isn't sure exactly how she plans to do this, and certainly not immediately, but she wants to try. Simon has told her over and over that anything broken can be fixed, and if her brother believes she can be made whole, surely Anton isn't beyond repair either.

[gistful]

The way River stared made Anton tense slowly. "I do not think that's wise," he said quietly. Exposing a Sensitive to the gist wasn't something Anton would do by choice. There was a reason most of them didn't live long. And there was the pact to consider. It wasn't just a matter of an unresolved past event. "The gist isn't in a state which is ... resolvable."

[problematical]

"But Simon says everything can be fixed," she answered, looking pensive for a moment before glancing away from Anton. "I want to believe him."

[gistful]

"You should," Anton agreed. "To have hope is a good thing. But sometimes 'fixing' does not mean removing that which makes things difficult. Sometimes, trying to revert to what was might make things worse."

It's been so long that Anton didn't know what might happen if he and the gist were one thing anymore. And he wasn't willing to take the risk of what would happen if it was tried. Or sure whether he wanted it.