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Oliver. King. ([info]cyprian) wrote in [info]bellumlogs,
@ 2009-12-03 21:43:00

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Entry tags:dorian gray

Who: Trent & Anne
What: A first meeting, something about Christmas decorations.
Where: The lobby.
When: Late afternoon/Early evening?
Warnings: None.




The day hadn't been a very productive one, and Trenton was returning to Bellum a little early for a change. The day had consisted of a brief perusal of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and an unfortunate brunch at the Biltmore that ended with a security escort off the premises. Two cappuccinos and a handful of valium later, and our boy had arrived.

An Opera pamphlet folded in one hand, slapping a drum solo concerto against the front of his leg. Strolling into the lobby like he owned it, toetapping to his own little beat as he strolled and waltzed across the tiled entrance. Bopping along to some unheard music, a trait that only those who knew him best would attribute to the fact that he'd swallowed a small handful of pills on the cab ride over. Old habits die hard, but Trent was looking put together at least! Working that nouveau professional angle with a white-cuffed blazer and printed silk tie. A regular bird of prey with that slightly overgrown mop of dark hair.


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[info]justlikelife
2009-12-05 01:52 am UTC (link)
The extended contact was just an excuse for Anne to stare at him a little more. She couldn't explain what was so mesmerizing about the way he looked at her, but it drove almost every other thought from her head; all she could think was how to reproduce it. Blinking again into coherency, she said, "With a lot of pepto-bismol?"

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[info]cyprian
2009-12-05 06:37 am UTC (link)
"The pink stuff?" His smile flashed again, habitual in the way his teeth drew tight on the seam of his lip. Amused, but not at her expense. Enjoying this fresh spill of conversation, of unexpected company.

"Can't stand the taste." Spoken in a fashion that said he couldn't imagine anyone who actually did. In time, his curiosity kept returning to the colorful paper she'd been working with. The ornaments that had obviously been created by her own interesting, fascinating, wonderful hands.

"I've never seen anything like them."

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[info]justlikelife
2009-12-05 05:34 pm UTC (link)
Maybe halfway between the smile and speech. The muscles around his eyes moved and made them glint in the most interesting way. A little bit of challenge, a give-it-all-I-can-take-it sort of look. Typically, Anne didn't do portraiture; she was satisfied with her shapes and her figurines, which provided endless implication and replication of life and thought without needing a human face to express them. However, she had done one or two works in a mosaic type fashion, using small, irregular pieces of paper of varying shapes. The result often became rather abstract, but the reception had been good.

Perhaps she would try again.

Smiling, she lifted the flat piece she was working on, put her mouth against it, and blew. The paper popped out into three dimensions, acquiring the interwoven roundness of the others on the table. She put it down amongst its brethren, rolled it a little with one finger. "They're ornaments for the tree."

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[info]cyprian
2009-12-05 08:20 pm UTC (link)
Suitably impressed, Trenton leaned closer to the magic trick she was performing. Brows twitching when she exhaled into the papery orb and inflated it. He couldn't imagine expending all of the time and focus that it would take to make an entire tree's worth of ornaments. Although Anne seemed to genuinely enjoy it.

"Impressive." Murmured as an afterthought to her art as the front doors of the lobby sounded with the coming scuffle of feet. A pair of small children herded by their exhausted looking mother, who had eyes only for the elevator.

"Good luck, Anne." Trent saluted her over the heads of the children as they rushed up to the table excitedly, chattering like rabid doves with the idea of a Christmas tree. And in the subtle chaos, Trenton untucked a pair of hundred dollar bills from his blazer pocket, and dropped them in amongst the change on his way to the elevator. Holding the door open for the frantic young mother as her children caught up, and winking to Anne as the doors hissed closed before him.

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