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Who: Everyone!
What: New Feather Party
When: Saturday Evening
Where: Rec Centre
Summary: Come one, come all! It's time for this cycle's New Feather Party!
Rating: PG -- to be changed in case of drunken shenanigans! Which are encouraged but it's a BYOB kinda deal. XD

[ooc: Alright everybody, here's how it works! Comment spam is the name of the game here and yes, my inbox can handle it! First comment is for anyone who's volunteered to help out and there's a lots of people so Selphie has already split everybody up into groups. aka: feel free to make your own groups. After that, there's just going to be general partyness going on! Threadjacking is more than encounraged (hell, it's expected and demanded) and there you have it! The grumps can come btw, they just can't grump at the party! xD]

The party was all set up and ready to go. The food had been delivered, the rec centre was thoroughly decorated and cheerful with its spring colours and Selphie was just hanging around waiting for the guests to arrive. Her small army of helpers had been hard at work since the day before and it hardened the perky brunette's resolve to make this one of the best parties she's ever thrown. A small part of her wished that her other friends from home and those who had left this place could be here to enjoy the party with everyone here. Even then, a larger part of her knows that it's better that they're not here.

Regardless, Selphie goes about getting this latest New Feather party arranged with every ounce of cheer and assuring those new people that not every people associated with Luceti is crazy. Giving them a welcoming environment to get to know some of their fellow residents is better than wondering what's going to happen next. Besides, it could help those shy people make some friends or get over their anxieties about social gatherings. Overall, Selphie felt that these parties were worth the hard work and would do them as many times as necessary.

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Oh, was that when... I mean, you once said something about fighting, if I'm remembering correctly. Were you with an army?

For a while, yes. [Well, it's what they'd called themselves. "The Slayer army". So it's mostly true. His time with the Council, Giles doesn't count that anymore.] We started up about two years ago, my time.

[This would be a look of polite curiosity. She's not prying for information, not at all.]

Who did you fight?

Vampires. Demons. Monsters.

[This would be the look of a man who is in no way, shape, or form joking. And who still doesn't quite get why anyone would think he would.]

[...well, now. She's heard "demon" and "monster" applied to members of the Shinsengumi in the past, but from the way he says it and the look on his face, it doesn't seem to be a figurative thing. Ayumu blinks once, mildly puzzled.]

Your world sounds... very different, Giles-san.

From what you and Okita-san have mentioned? Yes, I imagine it is.

[She considers him thoughtfully for a moment.]

Hm. Perhaps I can see why the two of you get along.

Really? I've never thought about it very much. [But God knows, there were days when Giles wondered.]

[Ayumu just smiles with what seems like genuine warmth and shakes her head slightly.]

I'm glad you're back for his sake, as well.

[It's good he has another friend, she means, since several have left recently.]

...I can't even really say that I missed anyone, since I didn't remember anyone I'd met here.

That's...very frustrating.

But once I remembered that I'd been gone? I did - very much.

Especially Okita.

Hm, but not Saizou, I'm sure.

Saizou has...behaved himself. Behaved himself remarkably well, for Saizou.

[But no, he hasn't missed that bloody pig in the slightest. Not at all.]

[She laughs quietly at that.]

Food usually distracts him, if you should have any on you.

But... when you returned, was it as though you hadn't left? At all?

Yes. It was as though someone had turned a light switch back on that I hadn't even noticed was off.

It took a while for me to remember everything, but that was more because it had been so long than because the memories were gone.

Hm, that seems like it must have been strange.

Is it true what they say, that nobody notices you've been gone when you return home?

Absolutely no one. Anya didn't even complain I was late when I got back to the shop.

[Both reassuring and not at the same time; Ayumu simply nods, however, mentally filing away the information. It's good to have confirmation, at least.]

Well, I'm glad to know the others aren't forced to eat their own cooking back at home while I'm here, then.

...you seem very attached to your home, Ayumu-san.

Mm, no more than anyone else who finds themselves in a very strange place, I suppose.