| Tuesday: February 12, 2008 |
[06 Oct 2009|01:22pm] |
Who: Chloe and Kali
When: Evening
Where: The Tiki Hut
What: Chloe is closing up when an interesting person comes along.
Closing up shop at the end of the day took a lot of work. More work than people thought, at least as far as Chloe was concerned. Everything had to be cleaned and put away, and then the things that didn’t have to be cleaned but put away were folded up nicely and tucked away so the wind wouldn’t blow them into the lake overnight. Torches had to be put out one by one, and The Tiki Hut had tons of torches. With the help of her co-workers, The Tiki Hut was finally ready to close once all of the torches were extinguished. Chloe was in the middle of helping out with that when she noticed a figure in the distance.
Chloe frowned and rolled her eyes. Few people apparently cared to read the signs that The Tiki Hut closed early during bad weather. Sometimes they were open all day with different shifts for the workers, but right now it was down to daytime only. It was way too cold these days at night to be drinking beer and dancing themselves silly. Although the idea appealed to Chloe as well, she knew it wasn’t any fun doing those things while your teeth chatted along in your mouth to the beat of the music.
“We’re closed!” she called out, hoping the late night customer would get the picture and head back home. “We don’t serve once we start cleaning up! Everything is put away already!” Chloe was still focusing on extinguishing the torches, which was kind of fun sometimes. The thing she used for it looked a lot like an oversized soup ladle, and it made her grin in amusement to think she was using a kitchen utensil to put out fires.
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| Tuesday: February 12, 2008 |
[06 Oct 2009|01:36pm] |
Who: Zach and Logan
When: Mid-day
Where: The Alchemy Labs
What: Zach works on something very special for Dante.
Alchemy was a very precise science, and Zach concentrated hard on the vial in his hands as he poured just the right amount of mixture to the proper line indicated in the book. The heat of the fire burned at the right temperature as far as he could tell, but the most important part was adding the correct amounts of the ingredients meant to liquefy the metal and keep it from hardening once it cooled. The alchemist had no need of a solid substance but a liquid substance, and making liquid silver was tougher than it sounded. He hadn’t ever attempted it before, and he was afraid of messing it up. Everything hinged on him getting it right.
He poured it into the mold shaped like a small bowl on the end. With the flames blazing upward, Zach slid the iron mold into the fire and let the arm rest within the hooks. He backed away from the furnace and removed his gloves to toss them onto the table. Zach wiped the sweat from his forehead, letting out a sigh, as he wondered how long it would feel like as opposed to how long it would really take. He knew the search parties would be happening soon, and he wanted to be prepared to join them.
Walking out of the room for a small break, Zach made sure to set the timer. The funny thing was his timer was an hourglass, but it was just as good as a watch timer. Too bad the batteries on his watch died recently, and he hadn’t bothered to see if he could fix it or find an old wind-up watch to replace it.
Outside of the labs, it was much cooler, and he hugged his jacket close to his body. Zach wasn’t expecting visitors today, not to the alchemy labs. People rarely came out this way, and it was a lot like a private refuge for him these days. Sometimes, though, when people couldn’t find him elsewhere, they knew to look here.
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