Starter for: @mayor-rob
Where: Antiquities Avenue
The little town of Goodluck was anything but sleepy. Outwardly, that's how most would describe it. But its inhabitants knew better. Ailith knew better. And thought it had been some time since the town had made any headlines, the recent happenings after the eclipse broke that spell.
Ailith sat in the small living room of the apartment on the second story of the building that housed Antiquities Avenue. Eating her normal, everyday bowl of Nut-N-Honey cereal, she watched the local news. When Goodluck's name came up she paused, holding the spoon hovering over the milk in the bowl. Though she could hear the words coming from the television, her thoughts wandered and she wondered how Mayor Rob would handle this one.
She dropped the spoon into the bowl and with her now free hand snatched up the remote and turned off the TV. Making her way into the small kitchen she dumped the milk a few bits of cereal down the drain. It was 8 A.M., time to start the day, and likely to be a slow one.
Looking out into the street through the tall glass of the door to her shop she noticed that there were few cars. And the ones she saw were the regulars, mostly heading to one of the various industrial buildings bordering the town boundary. As she unlocked the door and flipped the CLOSED sign to OPEN, she spied the man she'd been thinking about just a few minutes prior, crossing the town square. "Fuck," she said aloud to no one. "So it begins."
She'd expected as much, but she wasn't about to head outside and meet him on neutral ground. Inevitably he had a plan. What that plan might be, she had no clue. But one thing she could always be sure of was that it was going to be a disruption.
Ailith made her way behind the counter situated along the side wall opposite the door and sat upon the stool she kept there. She quickly pulled up a volume from the Encyclopedia set she kept under the counter and opened it to a random page. The irony of landing on Congress when the man approaching was a politician wasn't lost on her. She acted like she was reading as the door opened, clipping the small brass bell hanging behind it that signaled a visitor. Without looking up she greeted him, "Mayor, here for some bad taxidermy? Or perhaps I can interest you in a vintage guitar?"