Ed Goldberg

Can’t Be Still | Open

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Huh. Was her perception off today or something? She could have sworn the young man walking hurriedly down the street looked lost. Judy was just about to shrug and tell him to have a nice day when he turned back around and requested her help.

Her help. Had she mentioned how much she loved her job?

The brunette smiled and gave him a quick nod. “I do! I’d give you directions, but, well — the streets move and usually render them useless. I could just show you the way, if you’d like?” she offered, taking a step toward him. “It’s not too far!”

Ed’s face scrunched in confusion as the officer talked. The streets moved?! Now, Ed thought he knew almost everything about magic, but moving streets? No wonder he’d been getting so lost in this town.

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Roadkill // Open

Aquata generally got pretty wound up when kids acted like this to her, but she supposed she was the one who yelled at him in the first place. If she could dish it out, she could take it. 

It didn’t seem worth it to get into it with this kid, though, so she took a deep breath. Picking her battles was something she was working on.

“I dunno, it’s a small town. I pretty much know who everyone is, so I guess it just surprised me,” she said frankly. “Welcome to Swynlake, then. You go to Pride U?”

Ed would’ve considered going to college if his situation was different. But ever since he left Chicago with his siblings, they never stayed in one place for long. Adding with the fact the trio didn’t have much money to their names. College was just something he knew he’d never be able to attend.

“Nah not really the college type. Moved here with my siblings for job opportunities and stuff like that. So I’m guessing you grew up here or something?” Ed replied raising an eyebrow.

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Roadkill // Open

Tod had been on his way home from picking up food for dinner when his grocery bag just had to have ripped. Rice, packaged meat, and some spices went spilling out right onto the concrete, bringing a deep sigh from his lips. 

He held up his hand, hoping to warn anyone behind him that he had to stop until he felt a sudden push and went down with a thick thud. 

“When they drop a ton of sh– stuff… Yeah,” he replied, turning around to try to put some of his things in his backpack instead. “My bad.”

Ed watched as the man started to pick up the groceries that were now scattered across the ground. He knew what he said was rude, but in this moment he really did feel like an ass.

With a sigh Ed knelt down and started to help the guy pick up the groceries “Sorry about that. Didn’t realize you dropped all of this. Damn this place really needs to get better grocery bags.”

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“Oh? Coding?”

Huh. Alice did not know anything about that. Much less where it was. But she could use deductive reasoning.

Anything to know more about this guy that confused her wolf.

“Not at all!” She quickly said. “I mean, I don’t know anything about it - but you like what you like, right? I come here a lot so I can help you look if you want. Normally I’m in the fiction section, but you never know, I might find something about coding that interests me.”

Though, she’d be totally lost.

This girl thought she could possibly be interested in coding? That was a new one. Whenever Ed brought up anything with coding to his siblings, they would often roll their eyes and talk about how boring it sounded. He liked the idea of someone trying to enjoy his own interests.

“Well Coding isn’t really the most exciting thing, but sure if you want to help that would be great!” Ed responded with a smile. “Huh the fiction section...Well I’m not really an avid reader, but if you have any recommendations I can check them out?”

Ed never really enjoyed reading. Back when he went to school, Ed often hated the books he had to read. Which was probably why he never had an interest in reading for fun. But since this girl was willing to check out coding it was only right to try the books she liked.

“Oh also I’m Ed by the way. It’s nice to meet you.”

Ed Goldberg Adult Prom 2020

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Roadkill // Open

Lymantria had been enjoying the misty morning. She closed her eyes for a moment to really feel the air around her, the way that the summer breeze almost felt cool, and how the season had not quite shifted into the heat of summer, yet still there was change in the air. She summoned a bit more coolness to the air, washing the area around her with a bit of a misty rain when –

“Pardon me,” said Lymantria, when the man bumped into her. She stumbled a little backwards, a bit shaken. “I apologize – sorry.”

The misty rain dissipated instantly and Lymantria ducked her head, stepping aside so he could walk forward.

Ed looked at the girl slightly puzzled. Wasn’t it just raining? Last time he checked the weather didn’t change that randomly. Magic maybe? It was hard to tell, especially when his Hyena was all sorts of confused from this town. Nothing made any sense here.

As soon as the woman apologized Ed felt a little bad. He should’ve been paying a little more attention to where he was walking.

“It’s fine... I should’ve been watching where I was going. Wasn’t it just raining? Does this town have weird weather or something?”

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Roadkill // Open

Megara wasn’t exactly enjoying her walk. There were days where her head felt foggy and filled with smog, probably the backlash of making sure her demon kept himself in line for the most part. And on these days, the hunger and want grew in a way that didn’t overtake her, but made her very, very sensitive to smells. Almost like a coffee withdrawal combined with a hangover and a bad head cold.

Meg paused in her walk. There was a new smell.

His essence smelt like a werewolf, but not quite… more curdled? Sour? It was powerful but she definitely didn’t want a taste of whatever was giving off that scent. It was getting closer and closer until–

“Oh yeah, having a real blast in the middle of this sidewalk, junior.” The brunette quirked an eyebrow up at him as she crossed her arms. She wasn’t in the mood for some American kid by the sound of it to mouth off at her. God, was he pungent. “I had stopped for a while before you bumped your way on over so whatever your deal is, you can keep it moving.”

“Junior? Really?!” Ed scoffed at the way the woman addressed him.  He could tell something was off. What exactly, he had no clue, but he’d have to be pretty dumb to not be on slight edge from this stranger.  Hell even the hyena in his was a bit uneasy and Ed really didn’t know why. Maybe another Magick? But Ed really didn’t know or care to much. “What crawled up your ass and died? You’re the one that stopped.”  Ed finalized sarcastically.

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Roadkill // Open

Aquata was only halfway to Olympus Gym and already she regretted walking instead of demanding she get to borrow the car (it was a little bit of a touchy subject after that parking ticket). If she had driven, she would have been able to turn around for her waterproof headphones and barely add on 10 minutes to her trip. But walking all the way back to The Woods and then again to the gym would be another twenty-five minutes at least. So instead of turning around, Aquata stopped short in the middle of the sidewalk and contemplated calling someone to come pick her up.

So having someone bump into her and then tell her off didn’t exactly help Aquata’s mood.

She whipped around. “You got a problem, pal?” she snapped. “I don’t enjoy stopping in the middle of the sidewalk, it just happened. You could have just gone around me.” Aquata paused, her tone changing from accusatory to curious. “Wait. Do I know you?” Everyone knew everyone in Swynlake, but so many new people had moved in while Aquata was at swim camp. She could barely keep track of them. 

If Ed knew this girl was going to snap back at him he wouldn’t have said anything. He shouldn’t have acted difficult in the first place.  With a sigh he rolled his eyes at the girl “ Well damn sorry I didn’t read your mind, geez.”  Ed responded with an annoyed shrug.

Ed’s once annoyed expression quickly changed to confused as this girl changed her tone in the span of seconds.  “What? Uh no? I just moved here? W-Why do you ask?”  Ed responded to the woman’s quick questions with slight confusion.  Did he really stick out so obviously?

To  Ed everything was strange. From the currency, to the accents nothing  seemed right in Swynlake. Ed never thought he’d ever miss Chicago, but in this moment he did.

It didn’t help that Ed felt sick. He couldn’t tell what it was exactly from. It could be stress from his new job.  Or all of his senses going crazy due to so many other magicks in the small town.  Hell,  he could also be sick from his hyena eating some nasty ass road kill  the other night. Ed really hoped it wasn’t the roadkill. Hyenas were  scavengers after all, and he really wouldn’t put it past his hyena form to stress eat in this weird environment.

With  so many thing going through Ed’s mind he didn’t even notice that the person  right in front of him stopped walking. As soon as Ed bumped into the them he reeled back.

“What the fu-“ Ed stuttered regaining his balance.  “So now people enjoy stopping in the middle of the sidewalk?!”