February 3

Who: Ronnie and Jesse
Where: Streets/Sunny Shores
When: Afternoon
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Who: Maddy and Pepper
Where: Pepper's Place
When: Afternoon

Who: December and Lucas
Where: on the phone / Lucas' place
When: late

Who: Nate and Arienne
Where: The Boardwalk
When: Night

Who: Brett and Eris
Where: Their place
When: Evening
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He woke up groggy - always a sign that he'd gone to sleep far too tired and fallen into a deep, deep sleep. The fact that the bed was cool beside him let him know that she'd gotten up some time ago, even if she'd come to bed with him at dawn. He glanced at the window, where the evening sun showed pale through a gap in the curtains. Apparently, he'd slept all day.

Who: Arienne and Jessie
When: Morning, during school
Where: The high school

Jessie was gathering up her books and paper, stuffing everything she had down into the messenger bag on her shoulder as she made her way hastily out of math class. She'd made a promise to herself that she was going to pay more attention in class and she had the notes to prove it. Pages front and back scribbled with formulas, problems, and answers in a crazy sort of disarray that happened when she was trying to take down everything she could.

who: December and Ethan
where: The boardwalk
when: Early afternoon

December was a girl who stood out. She did it deliberately, of course, but she definitely did so. She was off her shift at the haunted house, so she'd taken a little bit of a walk around the place, looking at it in the daylight, which was something she didn't see all that often. It wasn't that she was purely nocturnal or anything, but she burned to a crisp in the sunlight half the time so she avoided it.

who: Lucas and Chie
where: Chie's shop
when: late afternoon

Lucas had spent the morning at his desk, chain smoking and going over the files he'd nicked from the journalist who'd done the write up about the bodies and their O'Malley connection. Nothing had been jumping out at him directly, no hints about who'd killed them, or who even why they died.

Who: Angelo and OPEN TO ALL
Where: A gallery uptown
When: Evening

Who: Janey and Shoshannah
When: Late morning
Where: The hospital

Who: Lian and Dodge
When: Evening
Where: The Boardwalk Opening

Lian wasn't quite sure why she was here, other than the fact that one of her marks was milling around this opening. She'd been briefed by the elders that this job was going to be different. It would take a slightly different tactic to get the man she was after alone, and while they assured her that it would be more difficult, she doubted it. A crowded boardwalk opening was not much different than a crowded party and Mistress Orchid had more than enough experience with crowded parties and deadly deeds.

who: Ethan and Roy
where: The cemetery
when: Before the funeral

Who: Lucas
Where: his desk at the Echo
When: early morning

For a moment or two the ringing sound laced itself through his dreams until the ringing actually pulled him from his dreams completely and Lucas woke up, finding himself asleep at his desk with the phone ringing next to his head. Sitting up a little he rubbed his face and let the phone ring twice more. That brought the grand total of rings he remembered to six, which meant only one thing.

Who: Dodge and Corey
Where: The library
When: late morning

Dodge was a boy on a mission. He'd tried the Sixth Street Bridge entrance to the tunnels first, but those who loitered about the outside there hadn't seen Corey. Someone had suggested the library entrance, which was closer to her space. Dodge hadn't wanted to go there first, hoping to just happen up on her, but in the end he headed that way, considering it better than accidentally running into Roy in the bank building.

Who: Dodge
Where: Outside the Hill Street Theater
When: Early morning

Who: Maddy
Where: Around Town/Hill Street Theater
When: Morning

Pepper’s ‘funeral’ was uneventful. No one was sure if they had anything to say so the group ended up just standing around under the winter-bare elm tree staring into space. Contemplating their humanity and mortality and how it was just an inevitable fact that they’d all slowly die off.