mingle log | the quad and elsewhere | we were young and drinking (coffee) in the park

[lamiaceae]

Characters: Gansey and whoever shows up
What: Interpersonal interaction! Meet each other face-to-face while nothing is on fire
Where: the quad, unless elsewhere seems cool to you
When: loop 1, day 10 (6/10 irl)
Content Warnings: nothing yet. please use and check thread subjects

It's a pleasant day outside. There's a nice breeze and the sun is doing its best. At very least, it's not raining and warmer than it was yesterday. This is, statistically, likely to bring college denizens out of their dorms and offices since rain seems to often be on Newcomb's horizon. Fall in not-at-all-New England is lovely that way.

Gansey, for his part, can be found throughout the day in several places! He likes hanging out near the clocktower to study, since he's found time works best there (at least for him). It's nice to have a watch that's doing something vaguely akin to timekeeping for once.

But he's an explorer at heart, so he can probably also be found in the library, the computer lab, and wandering the grounds. Gansey isn't sure he's interacted with anyone outside a classroom or on Fermii since the train crash, so he's more likely than usual to strike up conversation instead of waiting for it to come to him.

The real question is this: where's everyone else hanging out today?

[ i'll be throwing gansey at anyone who doesn't note that their tag is closed. please mingle! ]

Comments

[lamiaceae]

"In some ways it's like my university, but the odder aspects remind me of other places I've been. Newcomb seems to turn its nose up at the idea of being mundane."

"The feeling of the place isn't entirely foreign, just different." The campus has a subtle personality to Gansey; secretive, aloof, wryly mischievous. "It's more like a place I'd search out than a baseline normal, so I'm not mad about getting dragged here yet."

[pursuitofcappiness]

"Well, tell me about some of these places you've been," he inquires. Because he's sure Gansey has a lot of stories to tell, and he feels like it might at least give him a better idea of what they're looking at here.

[lamiaceae]

Gansey definitely has stories. Steve gets an elevator pitch overview of Glendower's history and a similarly short primer on ley lines. This leads into Gansey meandering over Europe from the UK to Rome searching out ley line phenomena and finding other things along the way (little things, like a few pottery shards in a well-excavated dig in Rome or a small circle of standing stones in a fallow, muddy field in Powys) and his eventually proven theory about Glendower's body being moved from Wales to Virginia.

He's a good storyteller, and between the stories is the uniting thread of a kid who aches for some sort of greater significance beyond the smallness of himself. The hints of connection that led him from Wales to Virginia are barely whisps, logical leaps on insubstantial ground that miraculously paid off. Gansey seems legitimately blessed with the ability to find things, but believes wholeheartedly that the price of this talent is the obligation to always be looking.

[pursuitofcappiness]

He listens to Gansey talk, and just kind of soaks it in. He likes hearing him speak because it's clear that he's got a lot of hopes and dreams, and there's a brightness that comes to him whenever he talks about his adventures.

Hopefully he can find some sense of that passion here, as well.