RP: In the Mall Characters: Ariana, Salem Time/Date: night time, October 23 Location: Halloween store, mall Warnings/Rating: None Summary: Ari's curious Status: Complete
After she saw the notices about doing something for Halloween -- and the decorations in one of the hallways -- she was curious about the entire affair. They'd certainly never done anything to celebrate it. Not that she could recall, anyway. Maybe they had before the incident, but she didn't recall any after.
So she'd wandered out of the hotel after picking up one of the umbrellas by the door. She tromped through the warm drizzle, stomping in any puddles she noticed along the path. By the time she actually reached the mall, she was very wet and a little muddy.
Shaking off the water from the umbrella, Ariana wrapped the strap around her wrist before she made her way toward the Halloween store. Muddy prints showed her path very clearly for anyone who wanted to follow her, though by the time she'd reached the store in question, most of the mud had fallen off to leave only wet prints.
Easing into the store, she looked around curiously. Some of what she saw was gruesome and seemed very odd to her -- skulls with red eyes that lit up and bony fingers reaching out of a patch of fake ground in front of a Styrofoam headstone. There were other things too. Lights and some sort of shimmery tinsel and black and orange and purple garlands and toward the back, there were costumes.
Ariana gravitated toward those, pushing aside the layers of fabric as she tried to see if there were any costumes that fit her that she'd like to try on ...