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Hannibal and Jono had both sent out e-mail to everyone they knew on the island, as well as posted in the school's boards, and everybody was invited. After this weekend, some of them seemed like they would need it.

Hannibal had a very well-stocked bar and wine cellar, there were darts and billiards and a card table downstairs as well as a media room, a music room and library on the first floor, outside decks on both if you didn't mind the flamingos, and of course, food.

Pork tenderloin crostini with cranberry pepper jelly
Pumpkin carrot soup shooters with coconut cream
Prosciutto, mango, and parmesan salad
Sweet potato ravioli with lemon sage brown butter
Mini beef wellingtons
Beef tenderloin with garlic and merlot jam
Chocolate and peanut ganache tartelettes
Chocolate orange mousse, spiced fruit brioche and yoghurt sorbet
Raspberry sorbet



[Open post! Everybody invited.]

Re: Arrive!

Date: 2015-10-05 05:01 pm (UTC)
that_oldsaying: (OHGOSH)
From: [personal profile] that_oldsaying
She beamed up at him, distress gone.

"A hot chocolate, please?"

A beat.

"Can I help? Can I have marshmallows?"

Re: Arrive!

Date: 2015-10-05 05:14 pm (UTC)
that_oldsaying: (with a bunny)
From: [personal profile] that_oldsaying
She'd never done it before, but that meant nothing.

"I think so," Alluka hopefully. "I'll try really hard."

Re: Arrive!

Date: 2015-10-05 05:43 pm (UTC)
that_oldsaying: (heeheehee)
From: [personal profile] that_oldsaying
Oh oh oh! Alluka loved holding hands and eagerly reached out to take his hand.

"I'll pay attention," she said happily. "I promise!"

Re: Arrive!

Date: 2015-10-05 05:54 pm (UTC)
that_oldsaying: (with a bunny)
From: [personal profile] that_oldsaying
"I can do that!" she chirped, happily abandoning him to peer into the containers.

They all looked pretty marshmallow-y to her, so she let her bunny peer into the containers too.

"What's your favourite one?"

Re: Arrive!

Date: 2015-10-05 06:18 pm (UTC)
that_oldsaying: (Yay! (w/jacket and hair up))
From: [personal profile] that_oldsaying
Pink was the best colour.

Alluka looked over at him and grinned.

"Can I have both?"

Mint-Raspberry would taste good and look pretty too!

Re: Arrive!

Date: 2015-10-05 06:41 pm (UTC)
that_oldsaying: (Nanika - strange child)
From: [personal profile] that_oldsaying
Alluka giggled as he handed her the whisk.

As he turned to put the rest of the things away, the giggles stopped abruptly and her bunny fell to the ground as Alluka was shuttled off to the back of her mind, to nap, and someone else looked out through her huge blue eyes.

To those sensitive to it, Nanika's presence appeared like an anvil falling; heavy and unstoppable.

Nanika extended her hands towards Hannibal (the whisk clattered to the floor). "Give me a hair off of your head."

Re: Arrive!

Date: 2015-10-05 07:17 pm (UTC)
that_oldsaying: (Nanika - strange child)
From: [personal profile] that_oldsaying
And Nanika simply kept on holding out her hands and repeated:

"Give me a hair off of your head."

Re: Arrive!

Date: 2015-10-05 07:37 pm (UTC)
that_oldsaying: (Nanika - give me)
From: [personal profile] that_oldsaying
Clarifying was for the weak! Also for those able to be side-tracked.

Nanika's expression (which had begun to grow stormy) lightened as she took the hair and inspected it. Then she closed her hand around it and when she held out her hand again, it was gone.

"Give me your left sock."

What was she going to do with a sock? Nanika wasn't telling. But she wanted it.

Re: Arrive!

Date: 2015-10-06 02:56 am (UTC)
that_oldsaying: (Nanika - give me)
From: [personal profile] that_oldsaying
The only emotion Nanika showed was a certain calmness to her demeanor as her request was fulfilled. She barely looked at the sock as she took it.

Alluka's blue eyes were steady and relentless and with someone alien behind them as Nanika refused to answer his questions and simply said:

"Give me the jar full of peach marshmallows."

Alluka, it should be noted, didn't even know there were peach marshmallows. But Nanika did. Somewhere in the middle of her request, the socks had disappeared. They hadn't disappeared with a poof or between one blink and the next, but had simply... gone elsewhere while she'd spoken.

Re: Arrive!

Date: 2015-10-06 11:50 am (UTC)
that_oldsaying: (Nanika - strange child)
From: [personal profile] that_oldsaying
Her reaction was no reaction, though Nanika didn't look bothered by the weight of it as she took the jar in her arms. She cradled it close to her and didn't seem to notice when it went the way that the hair and the sock had done and simply vanished.

Hope you didn't need that jar back, Hannibal.

Nanika tilted her head up at him as her eyes and mouth turned to empty, black pits and her aura intensified.

And she waited.

Re: Arrive!

Date: 2015-10-06 01:04 pm (UTC)
that_oldsaying: (Nanika - spooky)
From: [personal profile] that_oldsaying
Alluka didn't really tend to respond during wishes or requests, unless something wasn't going her way.

Or unless someone tried wishing her away.

She simply tilted her head slightly at him, her black pits for eyes fixed on his face, and waited.

Re: Arrive!

Date: 2015-10-06 01:23 pm (UTC)
that_oldsaying: (Nanika - spooky)
From: [personal profile] that_oldsaying
She let him.

It wasn't like holding her hands was going to do anything to stop her, if she didn't like it.

Nanika's head remained tilted.

"When?" she asked, her voice somehow younger and older than Alluka's at the same time. "When, when, when?"

Re: Arrive!

Date: 2015-10-06 01:36 pm (UTC)
that_oldsaying: (Nanika - give me)
From: [personal profile] that_oldsaying
Nanika blinked at him, a frown drawing her eyebrows closer to each other.

"When?" she asked insistently. "When, when, when?"

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