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r (keoughr) wrote in mirage_rpg,
@ 2008-11-16 13:42:00

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complete, day 23, giselle, group activity, haruka tenoh, zuko

Day 23 - Ice Skating
Who: Giselle, Alex, Haruka, and Zuko
What: Ice Skating Group Activity
When: Late Afternoon
Where: Lake
Rating: PG, maybe PG-13
Status: Incomplete

Yesterday's experience in the snow had been more fun than she'd expected from the cold white fluff. So, when she woke this morning, her blue eyes twinkled with the ideas that ran about in her head of possibilities for today. But, before se could get anything solidified in her mind, she heard the faint rustling of paper outside her door. The sound was familiar and her mind flashed back to a day about two and a half weeks prior when she'd been forced into an activity. It had been bowling then.

She pulled a silken pink robe onto her form and opened the door to find an envelope had been taped there. She peeled it from the door and shut it again, leaning against it as she opened it and glanced inside to pull out the small sheet of paper. She held it up, reading to herself as her lips moved lightly. Go to the frozen lake. You will be ice skating. This is mandatory. If you do not go a golem will find you and take you there. Do not leave until the activities are finished, or a golem will take you back.

Ice skating? She mused on this, wondering what it could be exactly as she got into the shower and then went to get breakfast. After breakfast she found a book of romantic short stories in the library and took it back to her room to read. She read for the majority of the morning and the time passed quickly. Soon it was time for lunch. She ate lunch and when she discovered she needed to get going, she dressed herself in an outfit similar to the one she'd worn the day before. It was baby blue this time, though.

She trudged through the snow toward the lake. The planet seemed to have replenished the snow over night. She knew that with all the people who had been out in it yesterday, it shouldn't have looked this pristine. It really was breathtaking. She smiled faintly as she came up to the lake. A golem was standing there with four pair of ice skates and a bench had been placed near the edge of the lake. She accepted the pair of skates presented to her, and sat down on the bench to change her shoes. She had no idea how to ice skate, but hopefully those who were going to be doing this with her would be able to show her.

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kaze_ni_naru
2008-11-17 05:41 pm UTC (link)

Haruka had been looking forward to spending the afternoon with her Michiru - perhaps playing a little music, perhaps playing in the snow. She hadn't expected to find a note taped to the door when she'd slipped out to breakfast that morning. Nor had she expected the note to essentially force her to go ice skating. She had read the note with some amusement and a little disdain. Now the Planet was telling them how to have fun? Enjoy or else? It clearly didn't understand how humans of any sort worked.

Still, Haruka didn't want to test the Planet's patience. She hadn't been punished for destroying that little building on the roof when she'd gone after Michiru a few days earlier - perhaps this was part of her penance. Refusing to go might make it angry, and she didn't want those golem things to frog-march her down, or worse, carry her down to the lake. So, she took her usual morning run, enjoying the feeling of running outdoors in the snow, and after a nice big salad for lunch, wandered down to the lake, clad in a sleek dark blue snow suit.

Ice skating wasn't her favorite past time, but she enjoyed it well enough. From what little she could remember about her past, she'd enjoyed it as the Princess of Uranus during the Silver Millennium as well. Ice skating had been the most popular sport on the Moon, and she'd been very good. Not as good as the Moon Princess, but she and the Princess of Jupiter had entered into a friendly rivalry over who was the second best skater at court.

As she approached the lake, Haruka could see two figures, presumably the others involved in this forced fun. The young man looked very angry about something, and the young woman...reminded Haruka rather forcefully of Usagi, for reasons she couldn't place. They looked nothing alike. The ever-present golems also stood nearby, one holding pairs of skates, and another almost guarding the angry young man. She raised a hand in greeting as she approached. There was no sense in being rude or upset at her fellow "guests" after all. "Everyone know how to skate?" she asked as she stepped up to them.

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