Summer 16 - Dreary Day Mingle

[kollomods]

[ It's another calm, quiet day on the island. Swedish summers are like this, from time to time. Cloudy, too cold to spend outside but not so cold that you can really cosy up under a blanket. Another gray, endless summer day, the kind school children dread. Even the birds are quiet.

The Community Center lies mostly abandoned, the only sign of activity being the steaming pots of coffee and hot water set out on the counter, alongside a small assortment of cinnamon buns and shortbread cookies. The locals are busy elsewhere. Come, sit. Spend some time together. ]

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holiday madness mostly done, let's see about getting back into this thing

[dispare]

[She didn't feel like holing herself up in her room on this day, despite the weather making it awfully tempting to do so, so April had come out to see if there was anything going on. Barring some signs of activity—such as the food and drink that had been set out—it didn't look like there was, but that didn't mean she had to turn back and return to the cabin; she could probably find something to occupy herself with here.

She could be found just about anywhere in the center (or at least anywhere that she wouldn't immediately be shooed away) looking to see what she could busy herself with. So far, though, nothing particularly drew her attention, and she was almost starting to wonder if she should just return to her room anyway.]

[readystopwatch]

[Ianto has been just as keen to get out of his cabin and enjoy the day, weather or no weather. He’s spent most of the morning here in the community center, reading and drinking coffee but eventually his natural inclination to organize took over and now he’s found himself wandering around replacing abandoned books on the shelves or reorganizing things in alphabetical order. It’s his version of relaxing.]

Excuse me, do you mind passing me those? [A friendly sort of smile as he nods towards the stack of books on the table near her.]

[dispare]

[The moment Ianto had chosen to approach just happens to be one where April was beginning to get lost in her thoughts—and she hadn't really been expecting to be approached to begin with—so she startles a bit when he calls to her.]

Huh? Oh, uh, no, no, I don't mind. [She picks the books up and carries them over.]

[readystopwatch]

[He accepted the pile of books with a friendly, appreciative smile and begins flipping through them, sorting them into order.] Thank you. It seems a shame to leave them lying around in case someone else might be trying to find them.

[dispare]

Maybe whoever was looking at them before had to leave in a hurry. [Or maybe not. She doesn't know, she's only guessing at a possible explanation.

She also starts looking around a bit, to see if any other books have been left lying around. Helping clean the place up a bit wasn't something she'd been planning on, but it is something to do, and all she really cares about at the moment is not letting herself remain idle; the activity will keep her from thinking too much.]

Were there any others, or just those?