[Open Thread] - Coffee Shops and the People Who Go to Them

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The Sanctuary is not the only place Altalita Bastion haunts. In fact, she has several in the Nexus that she regularly passes through.

One such place is the True and Brew Coffee Shop in the Nexus. Inside the AVF, and far enough away from any of the fighting, that it wouldn't be much of a bother. It's also far enough away from her Nexus Shop to, you know, be somewhere different.

And so, she sits in the outside Café, with a hot cup of slightly spiked Joe, with her white and pink iFate laptop out and checking various daily events throughout several worlds and the Nexus itself. She's wearing another one of her sort of elaborate outfits, although today involves pants and high boots, and a loose top with her preferred billowy sleeves. Her hair is up in a high ponytail with several strands of it over her shoulders, and several beads to hold it this way.

Of course, knowing how much of a social butterfly our dear Ms. Bastion is, she likely not to mind any sort of company!

((Open post! Anyone can meet her, and individual threads are treated as separate events so we have no clashes between folks, two people can meet her at the same time, and not meet each other through virtue of Weird Nexus Time!))

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Scene Switch, The Temple Ruin

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He figured she wouldn't, less effort on her part. After paying the Koopa Troopa (and leaving a rather impressive tip that, when he sees how much it is, causes an amusing Koopa-version of the :GONK: face...) He'll lead Midna out of the Cafe, grinning a little.

"Hmmm." He stops just outside it, thoughtful for a moment and eyes growing ditant again. "Right.. about." He snaps his fingers, and in a loud crack of displaced air, and a bit more of a tug of supernatural power, a portal buzzes its way into existence before the two of them. It's a shimmering purple colored thing, buzzing and smelling lightly of burnt ozone.

"Ladies first, m'dear~" He winks flirtatiously and gestures to the portal with a bit of a flourish. Oh, yes. Sometimes he does like to be showy.

Once Midna steps through the portal, he'll follow.

On the other side is a great big stone ruin of unknown, ancient origin. Some sort of ancient temple that appears to have been torn apart from the inside, somehow. It stands in the forest, a little out of place, but evidently having been there a long time. Moss grows in the cracks of the stone, and a great archway is past the both of them.

If she likens it to the remains of the Temple of Time, she wouldn't be far off, except it's larger than that ruin, and a different shape and design. Black stone walls, and what used to be great, stained glass windows are now empty hollows. Behind them are what's left of the temple's doors, great, big metallic things. Only about half of one of them is left, and it's half-rusted in place. Some sort of symbol is on the door, but due to the damage, and the fact that only one door's left, it's difficult to even guess what it is.

Birds quietly chirp in the distance, several of them sound odd and strange, due to the fact that this is still in the Nexus.

The temple itself, however, is quiet aside from this.

Both of them might be able to pick up on the faintest hint of magical power, here. But whatever its source was, is long gone now. It's merely residual remains of it.

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"Now this is incredible." She says quietly, hopping into the air and taking the equivalent of a step forward. "It looks almost like the palace at home... Do you have any clue what this place used to be?"

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The portal collapses behind them both, its quiet buzzing and smell of ozone fading away quickly and quietly in the silence of the temple.

"I'm not entirely sure." Altalita answers at least somewhat honestly, "I think it was some sort of goddess's temple or something, there's several female statues over there that have seen better days. And down that way." She points down past the archway in front of them, "Was some sort of ceremonial chamber of some kind, it also splits into several hallways that lead underground." He takes this time to take his hair down, looking around the temple.

"I know it wasn't originally in the Nexus, and I don't really think it was originally in a forest either."

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"Probably not. Is this the largest thing you've seen displaced like this?"

She's going to wander towards it, of if he doesn't follow as far as earshot. A bird of some sort screeches in the trees to the right.

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He follows, mainly because he's explored this temple before, "It's not the largest, no. I've heard of a ship wreck or something that's even bigger than this--of course, most of the temple's collapsed and other parts are underground, so it's sort of a moot point to compare when I don't know how large it originally was."

He runs his hand along the wall as he passes, glancing in the general direction of the screeching bird. The stone is black, not as smooth as it once was, and about the same temperature as everything else. "I'm not entirely sure if it was in a town, either. Probably outside of one in some fashion, given the sheer size of it."

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"Probably. Temples do tend to be stuck in remote places, in my experience. But I've never felt one so... empty, before. There's so little power left." She floats up and alights on a broken column, sitting. "It must've been in the Nexus for a long time... so, do you come here often?" ^_~

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"Occassionally," He grins up at her, stepping lazily towards her, "It's a fairly secluded place to go if you don't wish to be bothered, getting through the woods is a bit of a pain on foot, after all."

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"Take a lot of women here? Or men?"

She smirks down at him. The pillar isn't all that tall. In fact her long, patterned legs and the hem of her skirt-wrap still dangle within his reach.

Her feet are bare. Her toes wiggle slightly.

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"Surprisingly not, you're the first one I've brought out this way." He smirks right back, reacting to smooth his hand along her leg a bit, quirking an eyebrow at the possible reaction.

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Her leg is smooth and cool, and she draws it up against the other a little when he first touches her. Then it stops. Her expression is unreadable for a moment and then gives the dimansion wizard a slow smile.

"And here for a moment I thought that this is what you always did with girls you wanted to put the moves on."

Her robe seems to flow backwards across the stone as she slips from the podium and lowers herself. Her arms drape over his shoulders and if his hand is still on her leg, it could slip up to her thigh.

"That is what you're trying to do, isn't it?"

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"Am I that obvious?" His hand goes to his chest again and he blinks innocently. It's sort of amusing how well he can pull this off. Although the hand-to-chest thing's effect is different as a male, being he's lacking a rather... copious bosom, and the shirt's still rather loose.

An intentionally overdramatic sigh, "Well, admittedly, I am flirting with you quite heavily, you're a lovely woman." He smiles at her arms draping over his shoulders, and allows his hand to slip up higher on her outer thigh, tracing fingers up her leg, "But how I 'put the moves on' tends to vary from person to person, everyone's different, after all."

His hand, by contrast, is warm. Like a normal person's should be.

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Normal is a relative term. His touch is hot to her, and it causes her to gasp quietly but not from pain.

"Th... thank you." There's a beat and she suddenly smiles, fingers behind his neck playing with a few strands of hair. "You're a lovely man, too. And how much flirting were you intending on doing?"

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Well. Normal in the human sense of the term, even if he's still not quite human himself.

He leans into her cool touch, subtle. Alta's hair is straight, black, and very well taken care of.

His fingers continue tracing her outer thigh lightly, ghosting towards where the robe hangs, but not passing it. Not yet, "That largely depends, like before, on your reactions to said flirting, m'dear." He murmurs, his other hand reaching up to brush against her cheek, and if she allows him, to remove the hood so he, too, can run his hand through her hair.

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Oh, she allows him. Her hair is straight as well and an unbelievably bright orange-red, as it had been said before. There's a snap of her fingers behind his head and the odd hair pipes and headdress pixilate and flit away somewhere, leaving her hair loose. It falls to the small of her back, and when he strokes it it seems to shift and move through his fingers just a little more than normal hair should.

One of her long hands move down to the meeting point of his clavicles, gently stroking with her fingertips. She doesn't say anything but she still has that knowing smirk on her face.

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"Mm, I like this color, too." He murmurs, meaning her hair, continuing to run his hand through it, and noting its movement as well, but not commenting. His hand on her leg slides up and behind her back, seeking to trace over her lower back, preferably with skin to skin contact.

He's also a bit closer to her as well. Not pressing against her, not yet once more, but almost. A teasing game of a sort, see which one of them may give first.

Alta is also smirking slightly right back, too. Compared to her, and really, most anyone, his skin is fairly pale. A contrast only further enhanced by her unique color and dark clothing.

A contrast, incidentally, he likes.

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"Mmmm... thank you."

Once more her skin is cool to the touch, and she can't help but shudder just a little when he touches her. She's trying to control herself; she recognizes the game for what it is and is happy to play along. Those fingers start to trace the edges of the open neck of his shirt, ghosting along his pale skin of his shoulders.

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"Mm, like that?" His fingers trace higher along her cool skin, running along her spine in a manner that can only be described as 'lazily' so.

Alta also likes that she recognizes this little game for what it is, even if the end goal is what it is. His other hand slides fingertips along her neck, tracing and attempting to see where she likes to be touched. He's watching her reactions carefully.

And sort of amused at the fact that he's ordinarily a she doesn't seem to bother Midna.

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She smiles as a response, then her eyes close and she tilts her head into his touch, long neck bending slightly. Her hood had been hiding a pair of long, pointed ears with black tips that seemed to be a bit lower now then they were before. "Hmn. I don't think I need to give you an answer to that one."

The underside of her cloak feels odd as his hands brush against it. It seems to give off a kind of energy that makes his skin tingle. She shifts a little in his arms, letting out a near-silent sigh. The hand that had been stroking his hair is now going to snake around his waist, fingertips grazing his back.

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He chuckles, low, lightly heated "Mmno, I don't, do I? You certainly seem to like my warmth." He keeps tracing her back, running his fingers over her skin. He's starting to become tempted into giving in first. And that tingly feeling of her cloak is just interesting.

If she goes underneath the shirt, his skin is still warm--hot to her touch, and getting warmer as this is going on. He continues to watch her with lidded eyes, breathing slowly and deeply.

Incidentally, the shirt is made of silk.

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"Yes. I do..."

Her fingers do, in fact, go under the silk, seeking out the heat. He's not the only one that's tempted. Their bodies are so close that she can feel the heat coming from him. She can't help but pull herself closer, her body brushing lightly against him now. Her breath comes slow but not quite as steady as his.

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If asked, he'll swear to Hitsuzen or any god available that it was a draw. As soon as she draws herself closer, he does the same, pressing against her lightly and leaning up just the little-bit-taller that she is. Both of his hands slide up her back now, underneath those robes.

And at this point, his breath is just a bit unsteady too. "We might be coming to a point of no return, soon, sweet." He murmurs, voice quietly heated, moreso than before, leaning in close. Feeling the cool contrast of her body against his, "So if you're going to object, now would probably be about the best point."

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Her arms tighten around him. It felt like forever since she'd actually held anyone. She hadn't realized how thirsty for it she was and now her skin is drinking up the contact oh gods--

"Why would I want to do something like that?" She pants. And probably before he can answer, she'll take his lips with her own.

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He's about to say good in the sense of understanding each other when she kisses him. He makes a soft sound and kisses back, pressing against her and possibly gently pushing her against the column behind her for just something for them to lean against. His lips and skin are hot against hers, and his arms tighten around her a little as well.

Oh, yes. He likes.

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The column will do very nicely! She squeaks in short surprise when her back hits it but that's all the more protest he gets. In fact she'll murmur approvingly against his lips, oh yes, that'll do just fine~

One probably wouldn't expect a person like Midna to reach down and grab Alta's ass. Of course, just because one doesn't expect it doesn't mean she doesn't do it...

Squeeze.

"Mmmnhm--"

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He makes a sort of surprised noise at the squeeze as well, nipping her lip slightly. And it's quite a nice ass to squeeze, too. "Someone seems to approve." He murmurs teasingly against her lips, breath hot and still pressing her against the column.

His fingertips rake over her sides a little, too, as he presses against her and hotly kisses her neck, sucking on her cool flesh lightly.