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Summer Solstice

Summer Solstice Fair

The sun is shining, the Mognet is working again, and the summer solstice fair is here! The WRO hopes to makes this an annual thing, but this is the first year they're doing it. Everything you could ever want from a fair is here and open to the public.

*Fair Rides: Ferris wheels, a mini rollercoaster, that thing that looks like an octopus and spins around--the WRO spared no expense to make sure everyone would have fun here today. There's even a gravity ride that takes you up to the top of a pole and then drops you!

*Food: So much food. So much unhealthy food. Funnel cakes, hot dogs, burgers, ice cream, you name it. And it's all fairly cheap too, since the WRO promised to pay for half of what the merchants sell!

*Carnival Games: And most of them aren't even rigged! The Gold Saucer donated games for the fair and there are so many games. There's your standard shooting games, some basketball games, a dunk tank, hoop tosses, you name it. A few are rigged, though, so buy beware! There's also a few card tables set up in a tent for those who like their games a little less wild.

*Speed Dating: ...yeah, the WRO has no idea. This came with the Gold Saucer stuff, along with a Cait Sith and Moogle mascot pair that will coax anyone they can into sitting down and participating.

*Job Fair: With the influx of new arrivals, both native and Streamers, some employers see a golden opportunity to get some jobs filled! In one corner of the fair is another, mini-fair fill with tables and presentations on various workplaces: the WRO, ShinRa Tech, the volunteer emergency services of Edge, and the Highwind Air Taxi Service, just to name a few. Anyone of working age is welcome to wander in and have a look around.

Of course, the fair is taking up the entire center of Edge, so there's lots more to see and do!

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Then it might be best if you leave before one of the couerls decides you'd make a good cat tree.

["You've annoyed me."]

I will see you around, Cloud.

[With a nod Cloud turns and starts away from the games, moving at a slow and easy pace so it doesn't come off as him marching the other off to an interrogation or anything. Sure he had questions, sure he was nervous, but that didn't mean he was going to be an ass about it. He just wanted to get a feel for this kid, that's all.

It's easy enough to find a less crowded area and the blonde finally glances over at his companion.]

...The WRO told me about you--about what you are. [It's said softly, nothing accusing about his tone as much as he doesn't like what the other is.] They said you apparently grew up with your world's Zack?

[That gets the faintest grin out of Cloud and he gives the other a slight nod.]

Wouldn't want that.

[And with a half-hearted wave as he turns, the blonde heads off.]

A gorilla.

[She repeats it like she's trying the word out, nose twitching a bit.]

You're a mammal, too? [Strange.] But there aren't any gorillas in Zootopia. [That last bit is said thoughtful as she tries to make sense of this.]

[And he'll follow the older man, keeping his guys forward at all times. Some of the people they pass seem to turn to each other with whispers, and he's willing himself to ignore them.

When they stop, he keeps his gaze focused and expression neutral, holding onto the chocobo plush with both hands. Say what you want how you want to, Cloud. He's been through this all before.

Which is why he moment he's done mentioning the WRO he averts his gaze. It's a bad habit unfortunately.]

Something like that. [Because geez, Cloud, that almost makes him sound normal. He sighs lightly.] He found me in a lab years ago.

[His eyes do flicker back to the blond with a scrutinizing look. Perhaps he's jumping to conclusions or jumping the gun but, he wants to know. His curiousity is really just that.]

...You fought with him, didn't you?

A gorilla.

[Winston thought about this for a moment. A city, or a land named Zootopia, and there were no gorillas... curious.]

Likewise, my world has no talking rabbits. However, it might be a stark difference between our worlds.

"Of course." She smiles and stands up straight again. He was so sweet, and unfortunately for Terra, she had little experience with city orphans who needed to take advantage of people. Only small town orphans who were desperate and needed someone to care for them.

"Where do you think he is?" She tucks her hands behind her back, lacing her fingers together. It was really just so she doesn't make him nervous or uncomfortable.

He seemed so small in this big city. She wanted to mother hen him but at the same time it looked like he might be at that age where that kind of mothering was shrugged off.

Terra felt a little silly when he pulled out his phone to show her a map, even laughing in that high pitched nervous way. She leans closer so she can look over his shoulder, nodding as he describes the different places. She was very attentive to these things and looked to wherever he pointed. Her lips moved as well as she tries to memorize the names.

"A crater..? Well. ... I guess.. "

There was a sadness in her eyes suddenly, then she reaches out to carefully start drawing the lines of the continent. She marked a few places as well as she did so.

"My friend Edgar rules Figaro... and South Figaro is down here. The castle can move between two locations, is really amazing and.. this is Narshe, I.. ... That is where I was freed from the Gesthalan empire."

She points to another place. "Mobliz is here. I live here now, with the children.. Well, I. .. I did."

Then she draws out the southern continent. "This was Vector. It was where the gate to the Esper world was. Emperor Gesthal found the Goddesses within and the continent... broke free and rose to the sky. But Kefka moved them. They are not meant to be moved, they're statues you see.. but because he moved them it threw the balance off and..."

She swipes her hand across, erasing a good portion of the map. Then she redraws.

"This is how the world looks now... When the continent fell, it released monsters.. Mobliz was one of the places that burned. And the world was reshaped."

"Babysit Marlene. Or Denzel. Or one of the other thousand children. Or perhaps patrons at Seventh Heaven."

He didn't care. Tifa could distract Cloud easily enough. She knew him better than anyone didn't she? Friends for so long. Maybe Vincent was a little frustrated...

Frustrated with a lot of things, to be honest. This entire situation was just...

She wasn't dead so she wouldn't be coming from the stream.

"I need to find Tseng." He turns, starting to walk away from her just like that, deciding he couldn't or at least wouldn't let himself idle in his own thoughts.

Truth. Vincent's version of comfortable silences was 99.99 percent of the time, with 100 percent of people. Talking was often a waste because many people were lying when their lips were moving, at least by omission.

His tolerance of the AVALANCHE group was remarkable.

"Not at the level they used to have but they are rebuilding. They have made changes and adapted to this new ... Post-Meteor world."

And it meant they were valuable. Vincent had a history within ShinRa Electric, perhaps he could carry it forward.

"Draws didn't usually happen with us- my old school, at least." Akira has time to say before focusing on the hoop.

Ok, she's got this. She very much has got this, just line up, shoot-

And put so much pressure on the shot, that the resulting throw puts a dent in the backboard before dropping like a weight through the hoop. Cue perplexed blinking.

"Is- is that a good thing?"

"Ouch, that sucks."

At the throw, Sunset winced. "Um, kind of?" Sunset mimed throwing. "You want to make it arc upwards instead of throwing directly at it like a baseball would be."

"I completely and totally agree with you that this is not fair."

Laguna had stopped beside her, crossing his arms as he stares at the sign with her. He walks over to it then, putting his hand on the top of his head and moving it forward. It misses the top of the sign easily.

"Dammit. See, it says you must be THIS tall to ride, but I'm THIS tall." He uses both hands to compare before turning back to Marlene.

"Insane. Just insane. But I think if we work the angle right..." He lifts his hand to semi measure her, head tilting slightly as he squints.

"Mm... yes.. Yes I think we're just about there. Okay, I'm going to need you to take your shoes and socks off and bear with me because I'm going to make you taller."

Job Fair

The mako poisoning had been bad. That's what they'd called it, mako poisoning. He would recover. Laguna did recover, physically. When he opened his eyes and was explained where he was... He didn't take it well.

Raine was dead. His son and Ellone were gone. He needed to find them, he promised Raine to take care of Ellone and he needed to find them.. How was he supposed to find them here?

At least while recovering from the poisoning he was able to grieve. If he wasn't in that world any more, there would be no grave he could visit. And there would be no children to find. He'd lost both. No promises would be kept.

Oh how he had grieved.

Then he sucked it in, dug a hole in his heart and buried it down deep. Laguna was being shipped off to the festival along with some other 'streamers' as the natives called them. The ride was long and he was tired.

By the time he stepped foot off that transport, he was his normal self. Newly elected, successful Laguna Loire, now at the bottom of the barrel but ready to climb back up.

His intentions were to go to the job fair first. That was the responsible thing to do.

Carnival Games

The shooting game was his favorite. Sure, Laguna was generally a spray and pray type of person, but he knew how to use the basic rifle. No, not sniper level but he understood the concept.

Understandably, he lost terribly multiple times.

His focus was now on skeeball, a game he seemed a bit better at. It seemed to be win tickets, earn a prize. Easy enough. And he was a lot better at this. He'd tied his hair up in a floppy pony tail as he continues to laugh over scoring another good set of points, the tickets making that ratchet noise as they pumped out.

This was a fine distraction!

Vincent saw Cloud leaving the Gazebo area. He had a feeling that Cloud wouldn't be patient and would go and speak with Rufus directly. Not that he wouldn't speak with the president directly.

He waits some minutes before approaching, silent. Vincent wasn't as non threatening as Cloud was. His gun was very obviously strapped to his leg and he wasn't sorry for it either. Vincent held trust for no one outside of AVALANCHE and that had been hard won.

"President Shinra."

Though, that was still a thing.

"I'm sure Cloud has filled you in on our intentions."

"Is all of AVALANCHE going to invade my supposedly private space now?" Rufus was not in a good mood after talking to Cloud, needless to say. His couerls press closer when they sense that and eye Vincent warily. "Yes, he has."

"I'm not AVALANCHE."

His tone was almost annoyed. He never considered himself to be part of that rather.. rag tag group of misfits. Never mind that he was the most ill fitted to any group, social, political or otherwise.

"The WRO may view me as a potential threat to their progress. I would like to get a closer look. How much clearance do you have within the WRO?"

"A little," he said with a chuckle. "That's where this guy came from, too. Lea won him for me. He's really good at the ring toss."

"That's him." He nodded. The scarf brought a smile to his face. "I'm not surprised he did. That's just the kind of guy he is. He won this dog for me even though I told him he didn't have to."

Isa took a bite of his hotdog and quietly chewed it. He didn't think anything of what the gesture of Lea winning the plushie for him meant. That was just something friends did for each other.

[He considers for a moment.]

Citrus and berry.

[Tifa's genuine smile and interest in how he's doing makes him smile again.]

Busy, but good. You?

[He'd elaborate, but it's official Turk business and all.]

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"I'm on my break right now." As in, he was technically working right now. It might not be his turn to shadow Rufus or stand guard near him at the gazebo, but that didn't mean he was off the job. But saying he's working right now, would only draw more questions he doesn't want to answer.

[Rude likes what she's saying. He nods every so often as she talks and only speaks up when she's done.]

Training doesn't matter. You have to earn trust before it will matter. If you prove yourself, there's a chance of promotion.

[He doesn't mention that it's a small chance.]

If you want to go somewhere else, go. You'll never be a Turk if you do.

[Rude hands her the business card.]

Contact the number on the back if you decide you want to be a security officer.

"There was a huge meteorite a few thousand years ago that created it, I think," Cloud shrugged, eyeing Terra a bit worriedly at that laughter, wondering if he should just have gone with drawing things out on the table. This way, though, was definitely easier.

Straightening up as it was Terra's turn, Cloud frowned down at the table and the lines being drawn in the dirt.

"It--- What?" Cloud stared, remembering what Lea had said about the meteor that apparently had been responsible for Midgar's destruction, "all of it? Just like that?"

How had anyone survived? Glancing from the redrawn map to Terra and back, Cloud frowned.

"... how did... anyone survive?" He didn't quite dare asking where she lived now. It made him think of Nibelheim again, and the fire, and the fact that it was all gone.

"I was wondering," Cloud said, drily amused now. At least there was independent confirmation, even if Cloud still was sure that was sort of... worrying. Just giving someone he'd just met an article of clothing they didn't even need, immediately?

Glancing to the plush, Cloud cocked his head, feeling a small smile pull on his lips. At the same time, he glanced to Isa and ducked his head to avoid any possible blush as he wondered if he and Lea were more than they seemed.

Not that friends couldn't give each other presents, but... well.

"Kind of seems like the thing you usually win for yourself," he said softly, then paused and bit his lip to muffle his smile, "... unless you choose something that'll annoy someone."

Or you're together, but that wasn't something Cloud was about to say.

Rufus snorted. Keep telling yourself that, Valentine.

"My clearance is none of your business and extends to personal employees only, I'm afraid."

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