#brightwindsbarony

"Oh.. well.. I am very happy here."

"oh, Sparrow" A tut "I've been a modern day bartender.. that is a barista, enough to know when a question isn't really being answered. I'm not trying to set you up on a date. I just wonder if I should invite some of your old Earth Runes friends over"

"I... wasn't very close to many at Earth Runes, either..."

"Well, " Hope says "No help for it. I'm still a wilder myself. I guess when I'm off the clock I'll be your friend. I'll need your favorite color, your birthday, and your three favorite songs to listen to."

Sparrow blushes nut laughs. "Hope!"

"Don't worry, I'll give you mine in return- Fair is fair" Hope says

"It's.. really, my friendships haven't ended well."

"Well, my encounters with sidhe until now weren't great. Looks like we both get a turn around" Hope says , and waits a beat "Pink. Oh I call it rose, or dawning mist or other things, but I actually like Pink. Got no end of tteasing when I was younger about it. But I do love Pink... the lighter shades more than the hot pink."

"More shell or rose, of course... no shame in it. I think pink gets unfairly maligned. If god paints the sky with it, how bad can it be?"

"not bad at all" She smiles "You? I've seen you use all those colors so beautifully I'm not sure I can guess"

"Mm.. probably blue, or yellow. Like... sky blue, or a tawny golden ochre..."

"Sky Blue and tawny yellow...I'll try to remember" a nodd

"Now, want to watch a movie? I have Disney plus ...and a friend's netflix account"

"Well... popcorn?" Her wings have a way of resembling Ladybird's ears when asking for a treat.

"Sure, how much butter do you like?"

"Oh, scads of it."

"Oh we'll get along juuust fine " Hope admits

".. at Earth Runes, we used to have Truthbranch movie nights."

"that sounds lovely. Wha's your preference? If you leave Disney movies up to Boggans there's a danger of getting a Mary Poppins overload. She's one of us, you know?"

"Oh, she is. I can see it. Maybe Tangled?"

"Oh I like that one. " Soon, hot buttery popcorn between them, they are watching tangled

Hope admits to having a wee bit of a crush on Eugene, not Flynn so much - the distinction is important

A discussion about how people can just hide their true selves to protect them... Rapunzel and Eugene are BOTH hidden away at the start, yes?

Oh so very true and both better when they dare to come out. This could be quite the indepth conversation

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