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Moon Base Station is, apart from certain restricted-access sectors, built for tourism. Some tourists, like Duo, are just killing time during a layover; others come here, to the cheap hotels or the expensive ones with a real-time video view of Earth, to spend their whole vacation within the base's walls.
There's a casino area somewhere not too far away, but River and Duo have opted for one of the more family-friendly bits instead. It's a shopping area, full of glittering storefronts and small food-court nooks, with an intricately tiled floor and fountains every few dozen meters. Tiny potted trees show off the station's opulence -- this is space, after all, where trees are hard to come by.
River's already found herself cotton candy somewhere.
There's a casino area somewhere not too far away, but River and Duo have opted for one of the more family-friendly bits instead. It's a shopping area, full of glittering storefronts and small food-court nooks, with an intricately tiled floor and fountains every few dozen meters. Tiny potted trees show off the station's opulence -- this is space, after all, where trees are hard to come by.
River's already found herself cotton candy somewhere.
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Date: 2010-06-14 06:10 am (UTC)...Hushed is not a tone that works all that well under buzzed twenty-something bickering. For the record.
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Date: 2010-06-15 03:06 am (UTC)And even if you find watching drunk people amusing, it's not best done in front of pretty scenery anyway!
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Date: 2010-06-15 03:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-15 03:39 am (UTC)He glances around as they walk out again.
"Ever been in a casino?" Do they have casinos out where River's crew wanders around? They must.
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Date: 2010-06-15 03:42 am (UTC)(River tends to forget that all her friends do not automatically know what she knows.)
"I count cards," she informs him, regretfully.
...Maybe mock-regretfully.
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Date: 2010-06-15 04:12 am (UTC)He beams.
"We should play sometime!"
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Date: 2010-06-15 04:15 am (UTC)River beams back, right on the verge of laughter. "It's a deal," she informs him; she's trying for solemnity, but failing pretty miserably on that score.
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Date: 2010-06-15 04:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-15 05:08 am (UTC)Well, a totally illegal ID. But it's an excellent fake.
"It's efficient," she approves, with conspiratorial cheer.
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Date: 2010-06-16 03:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-16 03:42 am (UTC)It's probably to the good that he's steering, and that River still has her hand on his arm, because she's giving most of her attention to the ceiling. (Possibly looking for clouds.)
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Date: 2010-06-16 03:45 am (UTC)"You know, there's actually some new kind of depressive hallucinogenic they're calling 'Clouds'. I hope no one tries to go for dramatic irony and uses it tonight where I can see them. I just got off duty."
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Date: 2010-06-16 03:53 am (UTC)Instead, she's peering at him with the dubiousness River reserves for the concept of volunteering for depressive hallucinations.
"It's not an appropriate scene dressing."
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Date: 2010-06-16 04:10 am (UTC)And way back in training when-
Okay, FINE. He sighs.
"Nah, I agree. Not really all that much fun in the end, is it?"
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Date: 2010-06-16 04:36 am (UTC)"It's in the subjectivity," says River, to a table across the room.
Or maybe to the empty air in between.
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Date: 2010-06-16 04:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-16 04:58 am (UTC)Which was probably Duo's plan, but hey, it worked!
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Date: 2010-06-16 05:15 am (UTC)(These decks are, of course, of a different mark and color than the official house cards.)
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Date: 2010-06-16 05:21 am (UTC)And examines it for several seconds, with interest, before she remembers that one is supposed to take off the plastic wrap.
(Sitting down is something else she'll get around to in a minute.)
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Date: 2010-06-16 05:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-16 05:32 am (UTC)Then she blinks at him. "The chair moved," she informs him. "We'll call it a vestigial gesture. I don't have a bustle."
Like a proper young lady, with great dignity (or at least some approximation thereof), she settles herself in the indicated chair.
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Date: 2010-06-16 05:54 am (UTC)He settles in the seat opposite her, so as not to encourage cheating by peering at his cards.
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Date: 2010-06-16 05:57 am (UTC)Without looking, although also without any particular show-off variants. (She's got the dexterity for them, but not the practice. She doesn't actually know any fancy shuffling well enough to replicate it.)
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Date: 2010-06-17 02:57 am (UTC)"...wait a sec. We have to deal with another one of those cross-universe dealies, now. What game are we playing? And do we both know the same set of rules?"
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Date: 2010-06-17 03:04 am (UTC)Or, uh, wait a round and take over dealing. Whatever.
River, meanwhile, is giving him a blank look. "It's in the variables," she says, unhelpfully and possibly as a question.
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