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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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"Mmm..." Reno hummed thoughtfully as he popped another hot, sugary zeppola into his mouth. To be fair, he'd dragged Rude to quite a few booths now. But it was so infrequent that they got a chance like this! They'd been working their asses off for years, especially the last two. There had been no festivals, no carnivals, no occasions for unhealthy celebration. The last big celebration Shinra had had was probably Rufus' presidential parade. And there was hardly anything carnival-like about that event. Reno had actually spent part of it in a bar (whether or not he should have).

Could he probably have gotten at least half of this stuff on his own time, somehow, somewhere? Sure, with some effort. But it was a lot easier to justify it this way.

"Yeah," he conceded. "At least for awhile. No promises about a couple hours from now. It's not like this stuff fills ya forever."

"Of course." Rude snorted lightly and smiled. He reached in his pocket, pulled out a roll of antacid tablets and handed it to him. "So you can't blame me later." All this festival food was bound to give them indigestion at some point, and now he can't pin it on him. Rude had done his part to ensure he didn't get ill. The rest was on Reno.

It was definitely nice to have some down time to celebrate.

"Why would I blame you?"

Not like he didn't always do that anyway, or somehow drag Rude down with him. Not like Rude wasn't the first person Reno went whining to about anything, especially feeling ill. But that was just the nature of their relationship. Rude was comfortable.

Reno took the antacids and pocketed them for later, with a smirk that said he knew full well what he was doing. And would do.

"Still... this is nice," he sighed. "I mean, even with the Lifestream kickin' out bodies an' shit bein' weird... it's not, like, end of the world weird? Not yet, anyway..."

Reno wasn't sure if they'd ever have any real downtime ever again, the way things had been going the last few years. But the illusion of it right now was welcome.

"I just hope Sephiroth doesn't come out."

Rude gave a quiet grunt in response to that. Reno always blamed him for things and he almost always went with it and took the blame despite knowing it wasn't his fault. Sometimes it was easier than arguing, other times he was sticking up for him by accepting it.

"It is nice," he agreed. Anything that wasn't world ending levels of weird was welcome as far as he was concerned. He would take a fire in the Mognet server room any day over Sephiroth, remnants and Bahamut terrorizing the city.

"I don't think he will." It was only a hunch, but if it was the Lifestream somehow choosing who it sent back, he doubted it would release that terror on the world again.

"What makes you so sure?" Reno's brow furrowed as he waited for an answer. The question wasn't skeptical or sarcastic -- Reno genuinely wanted to know. If Rude had a good hunch, maybe things would be okay. If nothing else, it gave Reno some personal comfort.

"Hope. There has to be a reason these people are being sent here. There's no reason to send him back." Not that he has any clue what reason people are being released from the Lifestream could be. But surely there has to be one.

"Hope..." Reno chewed thoughtfully in silence for a moment more.

"Well. I hope you're right." He frowned. "I wanna believe the best, y'know, I wanna believe that things're gonna work out. But until everyone's vetted an' we know why this is happening..."

Until a lot of things. And even then, was it really okay? What about the other worlds that were missing people? What did it mean for Gaia to have the dead walking again? What did it mean for the Lifestream?

"I'm worried," he admitted, serious for the first time since they'd arrived at the fair. "But not seeing Sephiroth again? That'd be great."

Rude was just as curious about everything involving all these new people, animals, and what not being brought into their world. But he had to hope it was nothing terrible or he'd lose his damn mind contemplating all the reasons. He wasn't the one assigned to investigating the Lifestream (for now at any rate,) so it wasn't his job to do more than keep abreast of the situation. He listened to and read reports on the findings, but so far there hasn't been anything resembling an explanation for why.

"It would be great. Then again, we have two Clouds and two Zacks. It's possible there could be a Sephiroth from some other reality that's comparably docile." Though Rude hoped that not even that would come through the Lifestream. The uproar it would cause among the citizens of Edge would be chaotic at best.

Reno paused. He hadn't thought about that. A "normal" Sephiroth? One that hadn't been totally screwed up, didn't try to take down the Planet -- maybe even was conceived normally? What an idea.

Everyone would hate him.

"Poor bastard wouldn't stand a chance," Reno murmured in agreement, eating another zeppola and shaking his head.

"He would be eaten alive." And it would be no fault of his own. He would be paying for the sins of the Sephiroth that had lived here. Rude felt a little bad for the hypothetical normal Sephiroth. Not that there was any point to voice it as it hadn't happened yet, and possibly wouldn't.

Reno's face screwed up into a twisted cringe as he thought about it. Never in a million years did he think he'd ever feel bad for Sephiroth, of all people. And yet, that's what was happening.

"Ugh, I'm actually feeling bad for this fake Sephiroth now," he admitted, his nose wrinkled. "Sephiroth. Gods, that's fuckin' weird. New topic, man."

It almost made him lose his appetite. Almost.

Rude gave a hearty chuckle. "I didn't think you were that soft." His tone as he spoke, however, showed that he too felt the same.

"Did you hear that there was a bunny trying to apply to be a Turk earlier?" he asked.

"Shut up." Soft. Tch. Whatever.

Hearing about the bunny caught Reno by surprise. "Okay, I thought I heard somethin' like that, but I sure as hell didn't believe it. You tellin' me it's true?"

He didn't think Rude would lie to him, exactly. Tease him, sure. But this was such a weird story, Reno didn't think Rude would actually make it up.

"It's true, her name is Judy. Tseng turned her down." Speaking of, Tseng will probably chew him out later for using the potential to become a Turk eventually in convincing her to apply as a security officer. But it'll be worth it.

"Okay, but I heard she was an actual rabbit. Like, for real, a talking rabbit." Reno stared hard at Rude. "Not, like, a bunny girl or a stripper or, y'know, whatever -- like, a real fuckin' rabbit."

That part couldn't be true, right?

Rude nodded. "She stands on two legs, dresses and talks like a human, but she was definitely an actual rabbit. She was about the size of a small child."

Reno whistled again. "Holy shit." Rude was serious, right? Right?

Damn.

"There's no way she could be a Turk. No." Reno shook his head decisively, dead-set against it. A rabbit? No. "She'd get fuckin' trampled!"

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