Kiara comes - she brings friends, too, per request. Three of them, Sleepers from New York, in town to see her.
She doesn't come so much for the holiday (our version of all this happened back in September, but celebrating people I can do) but because she was asked. The four pagans spend time with Dan, though, chatting.
There's every likelihood they share common interests, common people. Dijon with her dark eyes and dreads, Blake, whose hair was buzzed close; nothing but white blond fuzz that showed off the shape of his scalp and tattoos - plenty of those - in contrast with Kiara's other companion, a mild mannered boy called Deacon with warm, olive skin and long hair who stayed close to her; talking in quiet conversational tones with anyone nearby.
Not part of whatever Kiara's [real] world had been, but acquaintances through college; through experimentation; through clubs and city nights. People she hadn't quite cut ties with.
They bring easy conversation for the evening, engaging and quick witted and Kiara let's them do much of the talking, butting in only every now and then to defend herself against random recollections of wild behavior in her youth.
She doesn't come so much for the holiday (our version of all this happened back in September, but celebrating people I can do) but because she was asked. The four pagans spend time with Dan, though, chatting.
There's every likelihood they share common interests, common people. Dijon with her dark eyes and dreads, Blake, whose hair was buzzed close; nothing but white blond fuzz that showed off the shape of his scalp and tattoos - plenty of those - in contrast with Kiara's other companion, a mild mannered boy called Deacon with warm, olive skin and long hair who stayed close to her; talking in quiet conversational tones with anyone nearby.
Not part of whatever Kiara's [real] world had been, but acquaintances through college; through experimentation; through clubs and city nights. People she hadn't quite cut ties with.
They bring easy conversation for the evening, engaging and quick witted and Kiara let's them do much of the talking, butting in only every now and then to defend herself against random recollections of wild behavior in her youth.