[ Gray feels very much out of place at a pub without an adult to act as her guardian — which is a crazy feeling to have after all the life-threatening situations she's been through, up to and especially recently including a species war. But deciding to drum up her courage, she enters the Blue Door at the heart of town, hoping to hear some of the local gossip and get a feel for the place.
One of the staff of the establishment regards her with a cross between confusion and outright humor, peppering her with questions about where she's from and how she's finding town. Being a Welsh girl in a Welsh town, she has room to answer truthfully: she's from a little village over yonder and is enjoying seeing a bigger town, actually. Eventually she manages to convince him that she's really just looking for a bite to eat, and that he need not fear that she has a secret alcoholic agenda. The bar is safe from her.
That is... until she hears a familiar voice raised from said bar. Turning away from her plate of Welsh cakes (which for a second made her forget about her actual objective), she sits up tall in her seat at the dining tables and raises a hand just above her hooded head to get Howl's attention. ]
Mr. Howl! Over here...
[ Have you ever tried to get the attention of someone across the room without drawing the attention of everybody in-between? It's a very fine art that Gray is doing everything in her power to achieve. ]
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One of the staff of the establishment regards her with a cross between confusion and outright humor, peppering her with questions about where she's from and how she's finding town. Being a Welsh girl in a Welsh town, she has room to answer truthfully: she's from a little village over yonder and is enjoying seeing a bigger town, actually. Eventually she manages to convince him that she's really just looking for a bite to eat, and that he need not fear that she has a secret alcoholic agenda. The bar is safe from her.
That is... until she hears a familiar voice raised from said bar. Turning away from her plate of Welsh cakes (which for a second made her forget about her actual objective), she sits up tall in her seat at the dining tables and raises a hand just above her hooded head to get Howl's attention. ]
Mr. Howl! Over here...
[ Have you ever tried to get the attention of someone across the room without drawing the attention of everybody in-between? It's a very fine art that Gray is doing everything in her power to achieve. ]