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[makeslouder]

At some point in the chaos, Persephone had disappeared. Blue had mourned the loss of the woman who had helped to raise her. But as more time has passed, the easier it's become to live here without feeling the ache of missing people back home. Sure, she still misses her family almost every day. She especially misses Moira Sargent. This is the longest she's ever been away from home and her mother and it hasn't always been easy. But Blue's lucky. She knows that she's lucky. Each of her raven boys are still here. As long as she has them in her life, Blue knows that she's at home.

Since it's return, Blue has spent a good amount of her time cleaning up Monmouth. She doubts that the warehouse home has ever been so clean. At least, not since Gansey had originally moved in. The big difference between the Monmouth here in Itinere and the one back in Henrietta is that this one is her home. She had moved in shortly after arriving here and has yet to move out. Even the appearance of a 300 Fox Way on one of the random blocks in town hasn't gotten her to budge. She had tried for all of one night but it's just not the same without all of the women that lived in the house with her.

So she cleans. And cooks. And continues to work her part-time job at one of the cafes downtown. She rides her bike around town and spends enough time at the beach that she suspects that she might be getting a tan. As lives go, it's not a bad one. Especially given that whole end of the world thing that nearly happened a couple of months ago. Blue's not complaining. But there's still one thing that she wishes she could do above anything else and that's kiss Richard Gansey III. Dating a boy, let alone your true love, is difficult when kissing will never be an option.

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[mightbeconcussed]

Lucy doesn't have a set schedule. She likes that about her life. She works at the Houndstooth part of the time. She shops like it's her job and she spends a lot of time on the beach in a bikini, getting a tan. That's where she runs into Blue. She's stretched out on a lounge chair, earbuds in, drink in hand, book off to the side half read. She catches movement to one side and pulls her earbuds out, looking over at the girl who'd sat down on the sand next to her.

"Amazing day for sunbathing," Lucy comments.

[makeslouder]

Blue's intention isn't necessarily to spend time sunbathing as it is to just enjoy a life by the water. The ocean seems endless, not at all like the lake near Henrietta. She's found it hard not to be amazed. It's the perfect place to catch up on her reading. Really, Blue can't ask for any better background noise when she's at the beach.

She wears cut off denim shorts covered with various paint splotches and a tank top with a beaded fringe that looks like it probably came out of the '70s. Dropping her backpack on the sand, she follows suit a few seconds later and stretches her legs out in front of her.

"Or an amazing day to read," she says, pulling out her own book from her backpack. "There aren't many better views here."

[mightbeconcussed]

Sometimes they're the same thing. Lucy sometimes wonders just how endless this ocean is. She doesn't think that it would let them sail to anywhere besides Itinere, but she hasn't a boat so she doesn't know that for sure.

Lucy smiles a little at Blue's comment. "If that's your thing, totally," she agrees. Lucy reads, but she's not an avid reader. When she does read it's usually trash sort of novels. She gives the view a look, nods in agreement then looks back to Blue. "What are you reading?"

[makeslouder]

It would be something amazing if they could cross the ocean? Or travel along the cost to see what might exist past Itinere’s shores. Sometimes Cabeswater seemed endless in such a way that Blue wouldn’t really be all that surprise to find out that she never truly left Henrietta but only stumbled upon some extended part of the forest she can’t yet leave. Blue has so many questions that she unfortunately suspects might never be answered.

“Don Quixote,” she answers, closing the hardcover and turning the book so that Lucy can see it. “I met a man claiming to be him a few months back.”

[mightbeconcussed]

Lucy suspects they'd find out they were just going in a circle. She knows the City worked like that and there are some things that are the same here in Itinere. As for Cabeswater, Lucy hasn't any idea what that is or how it works.

A smile curves Lucy's lips. "Fictional characters are always the most fun to meet. So what do you think? Was it him? Or was he crazy? You can never tell in a place like this."