London Calling [Closed Log]

[dragoonrouge]

Date: 3rd November
Characters: Sadie Moore and Benjiro Thorne

Over the last few weeks reservations had been booked, tube maps examined, money set aside, itinerary created, and a video planned all for one very important purpose. A date. Specifically a date outside of the Mossgate area. 

 

Sadie sighs deeply as Ben stops his phone recording, fiddling nervously with her handbag strap as the train pulls up to the platform. There was a lot riding on this. 

 

“This'll work.” Sadie says to Ben, like saying the words out loud will make them more likely to be true. “It'll work and we'll have a wonderful date.”

 

Sadie and Ben had spent a lot of time looking at peak times of travel from Mossgate to London and had selected the least busy service, it was important that they get a mostly or completely empty carriage. As such, it didn't take long for the two of them to find a four-seat and table in an empty carriage and start getting set up, it wouldn't take the train long to pass that invisible boundary afterall. Train rolling out of the station, Ben sets up the phone and video with headphones ready and waiting to play. Sadie pulls the itinerary out of her handbag alongside a handwritten letter covering the details of the video incase that didn't work. 

 

Switching out her sunglasses for her old glasses Sadie's heart races as she shares a nervous smile with Ben. Linking hands just before-

Comments

Welp, I let this one sit a while. Oops 8T

[warped_replica]

Her blush makes him shy a moment, in the way that his smile quirks and he glances off, but he doesn't look away from her more than a second or two. "With school, I'm sure you'll have time to save," he replies before a less expensive option comes to mind, "Until then, maybe there are spots around Mossgate worth looking if you haven't hunted for fossils there yet." It would be a nice way to spend an afternoon with her even if the yield would only include common finds.

Benjiro sticks close to her as they exit the exhibit, although his attention wanders enough to slow as he looks at the hanging fossils along the way to the room with screens showing erupting volcanoes. The massive model is a grand depiction of the planet, and while he does appreciate those, he finds her excitement more compelling. He gives her hand a light squeeze as he agrees, "Very cool! While I'm looking forward to the Science Museum, I don't want to skim here."

It is left to Sadie to guide him, and as she provides a verbal lesson with the trip through the exhibit, Benjiro will ask questions as they come to mind. It's all fascinating!

Surprise? >.<'

[dragoonrouge]

Sadie practically vibrating as she leads Ben onto the escalator, "Oh it gets so much cooler! Look!"

Reaching the top of the escalator leaves then standing in a corridor that runs all the way around the edges of the atrium that is lined floor to ceiling with well-lit glass cabinets completely chock-full of rocks and gems and fossils, "Thisis the best place in the whole museum aside from the dinosaur exhibit. Just look at the amount of specimens they have!"

Sadie waves him over to a display showing a massive chunk of Welsh Anthracitic coal, "And you'll be hard pressed to find such excellent quality too!" What follows is almost a switch of the dinosaur exhibit, with Sadie now driving the trivia with the occasional Geology rant thrown in, "...And that's why horneblend and amphibole are bullshit! Their identicalness exists purely to make fieldwork as difficult as possible!"