#caseydundrich

Time off from work should be time off from work, but it isn't (when it comes to Tricia) and it won't (when it comes to Tricia). But it's close enough to start planning for the first week back to school now, isn't it?

So here she stands, coffee dangerously close to overflowing in one hand, chocolate muffin on a plate in the other, tote with her laptop in dangling from the crook of her elbow making every move a precarious one. Only problem now is a lack of seats. Tricia hadn't planned this far, but an idea comes quick to mind when she spots a familiar face. She's seen him before, for sure; definitely asked him to watch her stuff when she needed a sudden dash to the toilet in the past, on probably more than one occasion. This is her regular planning spot after all, seems to be his regular too. She shuffles over to the table in the busy shop. 'You don't mind if I sit here, do you?' Tricia asks with a smile, 'I don't normally ask, but...' She looks around them. 'Seems to be a busy one today.'

"I want to start up that book club I've been talking about for months." uni classes got a little but in the way. "But I need some help..." Here came the puppy eye's, as she sits down across from Casey, "And if you're interested, pretty please, could you help me find some people that are interested?"

Shifting her weight, Ari felt the heft of the hilt in her grip, reacquainting herself with it. It'd been a long time. A really long time. But even as she started the most basic flourish and the fading light of the sun hit the blade, it felt like none had passed at all. "Are you dressing?" Short. Because she assumed Casey would know what she meant as she focused on her breathing rather than too many words, "If not, you should. It'll be a good time,"

Aurora Bay events typically were in her experience. Not that she really went all out at them. It gave her an excuse to be around people and soak in that buzz atmosphere without having to integrate into it too much. No exhausting amounts of small talk because everyone was swept away with the commotion and she could bounce in and out and around fairly unnoticed. Just a little moth in a sea of butterflies. This one would be a little different, given she might have a chance to perform, but all in all, she expected to go about it the same. Dragging Casey out here for company had been impulsive though, so, maybe she'd prove herself wrong.

Ari hummed, twisting and letting the blade fall, twirling it before switching hands. "One of your wow characters? Maybe?"