[Sodium_noir] Hell is other people

[FlameFlash]

> Dr. Lazarus, 'Sandra Scoland', Mitsuko, Aurora
> Mage, Bastet, Avatar, Mage
> Lady Sinclaire's Mansion
>
> [Sandra]
> Placing her empty glass on a passing by tray carried by one of the servants,
> she quietly walked up behind Hiram remaining an unobtrusive distance from
> him and the new arrivals, waiting to be properly introduced.
>
> [Aurora]
> Aurora blinked, then blushed as her senses returned to the plain of flesh.
>
> "Dr. Lazarus!  It's good to catch up with you. We were invited to a new
> friend who moved in, couldn't pass it up," she smiles conspiratorially at
> Mitsuko.
>
> [Sandra]
> Sandra stands back watching the scene unfold seeing the distant gazes from
> the new arrivals. It also seemed the good doctor was caught off guard as
> well for whatever reason judging from his lack of response.  Then the
> dreaded 'pregnant party pause' happened... those moments at social
> gatherings where everyone just stands there with awkward grins waiting for
> the next topic, any topic, to come up.
>
> 'Well girl,' she thought to herself.  'You aren't going to get to know
> anyone new standing around waiting at this rate.  Let's see if we can't
> speed this up a bit, shall we?'
>
> "It seems the cat got the good doctor's tongue for some reason," she says
> from behind Hiram as she steps forward. "So it looks like I'll just have to
> take the initiative and introduce myself instead. Sandra Scoland, recent
> Gotham transplant," she says with her trademark 'meeting a new client smile'
> and holding out her hand to Aurora.
>
> [Aurora]
> Aurora smiled much more shyly, she fought the urge to glance back at
> Mitsuko.  She hated meeting new people in such a big place, much preferring
> the spirits she'd been talking to a moment before... her senses were still
> so full and open, but she steeled herself to the newness of meeting other
> people.  "Aurora," She says simply, smiling, accepting Sandra's hand.
>
> [Mitsuko]
> Aurora feels Mitsuko's hands on her shoulders, the girl leans gently on her
> from behind, peering over her shoulder. The Girl's presence and her raw
> spiritual energy slightly easing her self conscious discomfort. Somehow she
> knew the Oriental girl was grinning broadly back there.
>
> [Aurora]
> Aurora needed that, and visibly relaxed enough that her eyes shifted to
> green from the near grey-black they had been a moment before.
>
> [Sandra]
> Sandra looks somewhat perplexed for a moment noting how the woman relaxed
> suddenly. While that was something she had seen and worked with on more
> occasions she could count, the change in her eye color was something she had
> never seen before. Or at least not to that degree of extremes anyway. It was
> then she realized she was staring.
>
> "I'm sorry. Please forgive me," Sandra says as she releases Aurora's hand,
> "I don't mean to stare, but your eyes. They're beautiful. I have seen eyes
> change color before, but generally they stay within the same color range.  I
> have never seen eyes change so quickly, or as drastically, as yours. Have
> they always done that?"

Aurora blushes and looks away for a moment, had they shifted again?  A
more Amber tone this time?

"For most of my real life," Aurora answers honestly, if not oddly,
though they shift again to green, slowly this time.  "If I knew my
family, I'd probably know better if it was genetic."  She looks down,
shuffling her feet slightly.  "It's one of the reasons I don't go out
much."

She clears her throat, looking to the door, looking at the plant
nearby, finally back to Sandra as though she was searching for a
change in topic.

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