Closed to Raven Kids

[fictor]

Who: Raven kids
When: The entire month of July
Where: Mostly the Barns, but I'm okay with it being used for anywhere in town
Warnings: Let's just make it R for everyone's sake. It might have everything in it.



With the lights out, the month of July takes the shape of some sort of weird slumber party. During the day everyone goes about their business. Adam works, Gansey researches, Ronan bugs the ever living crap out of Adam. Noah and Blue do whatever Noah and Blue do. Ronan suspects they’re still adjusting to this place. He knows it’s got to be a big adjustment for Noah. It’s probably not an easy one for Blue either who’s more accustomed to being around the craziness of 300 Fox Way rather than the craziness of Monmouth.

He knows it’ll be awkward at first, but when the electricity fails Ronan suggests that everyone stay out at The Barns. There’s plenty of room and several things that don’t use electricity to work like toasters and one shower that never runs out of hot water. Ronan feels better having the people he cares about under one roof, particularly when they’re not sure what the hell else is going to happen. Gansey agrees readily enough, always happy to have all of his people close by.

While The Barns allow everyone the space they need so that no one is piled up on top of each other, it is lacking in bedrooms. There’s the bedroom that Niall and Aurora shared, Matthew’s bedroom, Ronan’s bedroom and Declan’s bedroom (they can draw straws for that one). Ronan didn’t give anyone (including Adam) a vote when he claimed his room for he and Adam. He told the others they could sleep wherever the hell they liked. The couch in the den was pretty damn comfortable.

The Barns are also cluttered with dream things. The house, for the most part, contains the bits and pieces that function properly. Aurora had seen to that. However, there’s an entire barn full of frustration dreams for everyone to explore. The animals still lie sleeping where they’d been when Niall had died. For the most part, Ronan doesn’t mind his friends picking through the things and exploring. Niall’s office in one of the barns is locked and it’ll stay that way. He’d prefer that no one touch the mask on the wall that he’d had that awful dream, but it’s really only off limits to Adam (who knows that by now).

Explore, settle in. Ronan really is happy to have everyone here, to be able to share this with everyone.

[You’ve all read the book. Feel free to make shit up about the Barns. If you’ve got questions, ask and I’ll do what I can to answer them. Treat this as a month long mingle. Play with it and have fun. Adam’s birthday thread down below]

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[fictor]

Calm of any sort is a new phenomenon to Ronan so let him call it whatever he wants, Persephone. It's progress.

He steps into helping hesitantly, handing Persephone a bowl when she needs it, finding a whisk. Be fore he knows it, he's helping alongside Persephone the way that he once helped alongside his mother.

"Why Custard?" he asks.

[dontscryalone]

"Because it's something we can make if we don't have fruit, or if we do, we can put the berries on top," she decides. "We need five egg yolks. Can you separate the whites from the yolks?"

[fictor]

Ronan hesitates at her question before dipping his head in a sort of nod. "Does it matter if the yolks are broken?" Because that might take a level of gentleness that Ronan is incapable of. He's learning to be gentle from Chainsaw and Adam, but it's a work in progress.

[dontscryalone]

"No." Really, Persephone is more fastidious than that when making pies on her own, but with Ronan 'helping,' she will need to be more lenient. The pie will still taste the same, even if it may not be perfect.

"Adam's been scrying?" she asks as she whisks flour.

[fictor]

Ronan can be fastidious. Anyone that can dream the things he dreams in such perfect detail has to be, but this is something that he hasn't done in a very long time. It's something he's not entirely sure that he knows how to do anymore. It hurts a little, remembering the afternoons he used to help Aurora. it's also nice.

He nods at her question as he takes the eggs out of the icebox and puts them on the counter. He follows it up by placing a couple of bowls on the counter as well.

"Yeah, usually using the tarot cards, but sometimes a bowl of water," he tells her. He doesn't understand the scrying. He doesn't really want to understand it. He just knows that Adam has to do it and someone has to stay with him when he's doing it.

[dontscryalone]

Persephone will talk to Adam about what he's found. About being careful. Scrying is dangerous after all. Very, very dangerous.

"And do you all live here?" she asks of the house, which seems so full of the not-quite-alive as to be overwhelming. Hence the pie.