tushanshu_logs | [OPEN] The late heaven of a summer day...

Characters: Bakura, Jack Frost
Date: Through July
Location: Various
Situation: Catch all for July
Warnings/Rating: None yet

A. BAKURA - Jade Dojo

Activity at the Dojo had returned more or less to previous levels from before the attack, although it tended to be less busy on days where the temperature spiked particularly high. Thus it wasn't unusual for Bakura's midday to be a lull, which he sometimes filled with his own practices on the target dummies or, if someone requested it, perhaps a spar.

On the outside of the dojo, one might find him sitting on the wooden-planked veranda that runs around the perimeter of the building. Sometimes he appears to be asleep, leaning up against one of the vertical columns with his eyes closed in a patch of sunlight, and Diabound a bundle of white scales and feathers in his lap.

B. BAKURA - Around Keeliai

The heat is hardly a deterrent for him, and if anything seems to have put him in a better mood. He's more likely to engage in casual conversation and linger in public places like cafes just for the sake of it. Occasionally he'll bring along what looks like a translation project, working in two notebooks: one filled with kedanese, and the other with hieroglyphics.

C. JACK - Welcome Center + Around Keeliai

With Zatanna having taken on extra responsibility due to being one of the elected leaders of the Foreigners Guild, the spirit has been trying to pick up duties around the Welcome Center in order to lessen the workload for her. Part of this requires keeping up with the contacts around the city, especially ones that had agreed to host potential new Foreigners as employees. Most of the time, he makes these visits in the early morning or later, after dusk, and frequently by air and rooftop.

D. JACK - Wood Sector

Even the summer weather isn't enough to entirely dampen his spirits when it comes to kids, and he calls up little pockets of snow in parks for them to play in. He's good with them, even luring older ones who are too "cool" to play with the younger aged ones.

Not often, but sometimes the conjured snow will be laced with his particular magic to bring out the playful side of even the most stalwart grouches.

E. WILDCARD

Hit me with anything that doesn't fit in the above starters!

Threaded | Flat

After their conversation, Bakura made sure all the ledger books were where they were supposed to be in the office. Hiring a bookkeeper wasn't strictly necessary-- it wasn't like he couldn't actually do the work himself, if he had the mind to. The finances for the dojo weren't particularly complicated, just tedious.

He could have hired a kedan to fill the post... which he probably would have done, had Sonja not responded with interest. Although he'd meant it largely in humour, it was surprising how many people really did get taken back home after taking the position. More than half a dozen now, which was starting to edge out of the territory of coincidence and into... well, he wasn't sure what it was moving into. Something, anyway.

Bakura had left the time and date open to Sonja's choice for stopping by to get acquainted with the run of the job, so he kept an idle eye for her arrival while working on other things or watching the dojo's patrons in their usual rounds.

Why did Summer have to be a thing? She liked the Spring far more, with its vibrant colors in the flowers waking up from their slumber - even the Fall was preferable, with its crisp, fresh air that inspired her to jog about. Okay, Winter was nice too. But did the temperatrures have to be so extreme?

Eh. Well Marinette was out again with her drawing pad, a pencil tucked behind her ear, when she overheard the giggling of children, young and older, and followed the sound out of curiosity to see what was going on. There is happiness here and she needs to be a part of it!

Even with the heat, Pepper mostly keeps to her usual schedule at the dojo. She's glad to have a proper summer this year, and more than that, to have thunderstorms. It's hot enough out that when there's a downpour, it's actually fun, unlike the hurricane-like storm they had back in January.

While they're taking a break, Pepper sets her staff aside and walks out to the veranda. It doesn't do much to relieve the humidity, which is partially explained by the approaching clouds. "Looks like it might rain," she says with a grin. "Good thing the roof is fixed."

The hotter days were the ones where Gene really hounded everyone to drink water, especially after one kedan nearly fainted in the middle of a spar. The dojo was open enough for airflow, but people still got stupid and cocky.

And Gene knew from getting stupid and cocky.

One afternoon he came outside and leaned against a nearby pole, but not before placing a glass of ice water next to Bakura. "If you desiccate out here, you'll only have yourself to blame," he said, a little teasingly.

Following their conversation, Bakura had exactly an idea about how to prove his point to Aya about how everyone desired power. More specifically, how everyone could be seduced by it. Nothing beat a practical demonstration, after all.

closed to Sonja - Jade Dojo;

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closed to Aya - Jade Dojo;