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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She watched him mull it over as they walked and maybe she took a bit of a longer way around to her bar's stand just to give him time for that. There was no rush and besides - he had a lot to work through. More than just the average streamers who were at least coming into brand new lives. Cloud was coming into one that had already been lived in a way and she imagined that only added another level to the difficulty.

She thought he was up to it though. It wasn't his life after all. Not anymore at least. His life was unwritten for him now and he could make it anything he wanted, now that there was no mad scientist to interfere, no insane general to jerk him like a puppet, no world ending around him and a fractured mind and memories. Cloud, she very firmly believed, could take on anything, do anything he set his mind to even if it took some trial and error and side trips. She didn't know what this one would do - but she thought it would be something to be proud of.

She hoped she could help, even just a little.

His smile, and his little summary, brought her own smile washing back over her face and some of the tension she hadn't realized had snuck into her shoulders at old memories slipped loose and relaxed again.

"Well, maybe we'll stick to fresh air and control for that one," she gave him a teasing answer, happy, and then stopped walking to hand him the giant stuffed chocobo. They were at the stand.

"Hold this, please? I'll get you something to cool down. You want a drink or flavored ice or both?"

The whole thing really was weird, and felt both like a reassurance and that somewhere he'd failed to be quite strong enough to hold out. Cloud tried to not think about the implications so much, but he was Cloud Strife so of course he did.

Right now, though, he was mostly thinking about the possibility that he might actually be able to ride something and not get motion sick. Or at least have it mitigated...

And then Cloud was staring into that huge and very ugly plush chocobo as it was pushed at him and he grabbed it reflexively, giving it a small frown. It was so ugly... Well, at least he wasn't the one who'd get stuck with it.

"Yeah," he said softly, drawn back into an anticipatory little smile, "he... um, your Cloud suggested that too." It was kind of funny both his older self and Tifa had suggested it, but that just seemed to cement the possibility that it might work.

"Oh... flavoured ice? Please." Cloud swayed on his feet, then had to stop, because while the huge plush wasn't really heavy, it was unwieldy.

'Her Cloud' huh? It was cute and the noise she made was close to laughter but she didn't mind. If they were going to make a distinction she supposed there had to be some way to talk about both Cloud's without overlapping them and confusing things. Hearing that he's suggested the same thing -

"Great minds," she teased, tapping the side of her head. "We'll have you on a bike in no time at this rate."

And then she gave a little nod and a bounce on her toes before turning and heading over to the stand.

"One flavored ice, coming up!"

A little embarrassed when Tifa almost laughed, Cloud ducked his head. But it was so awkward this thing. How was he even supposed to talk about himself, when that meant someone else instead of just him?

But still, he smiled at the comment about the bike and nodded, feeling cautiously excited about the possibility, and followed Tifa the rest of the way over to the booth. Now that she'd brought it up, he realised some flavoured ice didn't sound like a bad idea at all.

Summer Solstice

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seem like a good place to wrap it up?

:D Yeah, works for me