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Nori (littlenori) wrote in devils_tower,
@ 2009-03-11 20:01:00

Entry tags:

hollywood, nori

Who: Nori and Hollywood
What: She's finishing up giving some of the kiddies haircuts! And then she runs into Hollywood
Where: The hospital, of course
When: Wednesday afternoon
Rating: I'd say PG for her flirting

Nori was always busy, though with the changing of the seasons came even more things to do. The kids needed people to help them out with things like clothes and haircuts. Naturally, being like the little mother to everyone she was, she did her best to help everyone out when they needed it. Now, though, that entailed mending up all of the kids' clothes and giving everyone haircuts. They'd all gotten so thin during the winter months, so some were swimming in their clothes. She'd started on those tasks during the very end of winter because it was quite a job in and of itself. And she was still working now. One by one she called the kids over, using some quick stitching to make shirts and pants smaller and more fitted for the thinner frames they all had. And then afterward, with her handy pair of scissors, she'd give their hair a trim if needed. A lot of the boys had really shaggy hair now. With a little bit of work she had bangs back in line and hair trimmed to an an appropriate length. With the girls there tended to be more hair taken off, if only because some of them would trip and fall if their hair remained that long.

"Thank you, Nori," the latest little girl, named Kitten, said as she ran her hands through her now much shorter hair. Nori finished up the hem of her pants with a smile. "No problem, Kitten. Just come find me if you need anything else, okay?" She gave a little wink at the younger girl. "Scoot now. I'm sure there's someone around who wants to play." She knotted and cut the thread, letting Kitten run off to find some of the other kids. Nori tucked her needle and thread as well as her scissors into her bag, slipping the strap up over her shoulder she wandered out of the room on the first floor.

"Hm...what to do, what to do?" With no one else seeming to need her help, she found herself just wandering around on the first floor and just thinking. Daydreaming. But soon enough she found herself in a seemingly empty room. Leaning in the doorway she was intending on turning around and heading out. But that was when she spied just who was in the room. "Hollywood?" she asked, though tentatively. She could have been interrupting him, after all.

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ezra_katz
2009-03-13 03:39 pm UTC (link)

Hollywood had spent most of the day rummaging through odds and ends within the Hospital walls. It was a new day and a new project was at hand to set a new trap, this time it wasn't one from the tribe, but for himself. For years now, he had been slipping in and out of the Trading Port, trading far less superior traps he made for various thing, put what he traded for most often were Chocolate chip cookies. They were an obsession and to be honest likely half of his daily intake. He always put half of his profits to the rest of the tribe as was fit, but someone had their hands in his cookie jar and he had noticed one go missing every couple of days.

It wasn't that he minded sharing, no if anyone asked they could likely have fleeced him for everything he had, he was just that kind of person. What bothered him was the lack of ask, so he had decided he would catch the thief red-handed. He had quite gotten to the idea of what to do once he did catch them, but that was Hollywood... he just wasn't good at confrontation.

He had heard that Nori was cutting hair and hemming clothing in the hospital today, but he had made himself scarce. Ezra liked his hair long, and generally just cut it himself when it was getting uncontrollable. He also didn't like clothing that was tight, he preferred to use belts to make sure that his pants didn't fall fo his arse, and he like to swim in shirts, which was likely why he didn't mind that living off of cookies made him very slim.

As he was rummaging at the time through some drawers, Hollywood didn't hear Nori enter the room, but at the sound of her voice, he jumped and turned and said, "I don't need a haircut." Typical boy.

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littlenori
2009-03-15 05:12 pm UTC (link)

Nori knew that Hollywood was good with traps and such. Many of the booby traps around the hospital and the sewers were his handiwork. He always seemed to be working on something every day. Not that that was a bad thing. Keeping yourself busy was good, most especially in a tribe with so many people running around. If you didn't have anything to do, you'd simply be bored. Being the watchful eye she was, she also knew that Hollywood traded his traps for chocolate chip cookies a lot. Why, she had absolutely no idea. To each their own. The other part of his profit was put toward the tribe, so it wasn't much reason to be concerned or anything like that.

She'd noticed that Hollywood hadn't been among those who'd come to her for a haircut or any alterations to his clothes. She did what she did just to help, so no one was really obligated to get their hair cut or have their clothes sewn to make them fit better. Nori just wanted everyone to be comfortable and happy. Small kids swimming in their clothes and having hair in their eyes weren't exactly a part of that. The older members of the tribe were free to do as they pleased and if they needed her help, then she was more than happy to give it. No ifs, ands or buts.

When he jumped, her expression immediately became apologetic. Though his words were sort of comical. "Oh...no, that's not what I came here for. I was just wandering and ended up in here," she said, brushing back her shortly cropped black hair. "I'm sorry if I disturbed you. But...just what are you doing?"

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