edgeoflife | 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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"I guess I'd have to worry if you hadn't found something yet." The arm that isn't linked with Zack's sneaks around to poke him in the side. He had loved his food, hadn't he? Not that she can talk too much, finding herself more and more fixed on the idea of corndogs and lemonade.

"That's true. Ah, I know they meant well at the hospital, but I kept telling them I was fine and no one would believe me! It was so boring, staying there." And maybe it had been just a little nerve-wracking. She was not particularly fond of the hospital setting. But she'd sat still long enough to be given a clean bill of health.

The food vendors are all over the fair, and between the two of them it doesn't take long to find where the corn dogs are being sold. She fishes out the gil to pay for hers and takes a bite promptly. "Mmmm. The fair is much more fun."

Yes, he did love to eat. Zack knew he wasn't the only one here either. Lightly batting at the hand that poked him, he couldn't help but laugh a little. The hospital wasn't any fun, no. He understood what Aerith meant, being unable to leave when they were fine more or less. Zack never did do well, just being still.

"It was," he admitted. "They were just doing their job though, right? In the end, it's better that they did check us out instead of finding out something was wrong later."

Zack was going to try to look at it in a bit more of a positive light. In the end, they were fine. They were alive and able to connect to the people that they had left behind. If it meant that they were holed up in a hospital for a few days, then that was a pretty small price to play in the end. So instead his focus was on the corndog in Aerith's hands.

"Oh yeah? I think I should inspect it..."

"Nooo, don't eat my corndog!" Aerith raises her arm high above her head to keep it away from Zack. ...Except she's a full foot shorter than him, so it's not exactly far out of his reach.

He can have a bite. But she'll make him work for it a little. Maybe just get up on tip-toes.

"I won't eat it!"

He was just going to have a bite. It wasn't like there weren't more to be had. Zack would play the little game of keep away anyway. Aerith wouldn't be able to keep it from him indefinitely, but that wasn't the point, was it? They were just being goofballs and honestly? Why not enjoy it?

Finally, he snatched her wrist and brought it down. Zack took a bite out of the corndog, looking way too smug for his own good.

She huffs and gives him a light shove on the chest, but it's hard to miss that she starts giggling soon after--and that that shove wouldn't have moved even a normal person, let alone a mako-enhanced SOLDIER. When she's gotten some of the laughter out, she takes another bite from the corn dog herself.

"I've missed little things like this." Being able to goof around is great.

It was true. That shove wouldn't have budged him at all. However, he knew how to play along. Zack grinned and moved just a little at the shove.

"Yeah," he agreed. "I almost had forgotten what it was like."

To exist in some physical form, that was. Laughing, joking. Touching. Interacting. Yes, the Lifestream wasn't the worst place to end up, but it certainly lacked some of these things.

"Time to refresh ourselves on everything! Starting with...carnival games!"

She may think it'd be hilarious to have a SOLDIER play the high striker game and see just how loud that bell rings. She'll give it a try herself, too.

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