The Corner Cafe | Closed To Nepeta and Feferi

[drawntotheflame]

Kanaya walks in the shop around 8:00 Saturday morning. She has changed and is setting up the chairs when Nepeta comes in. "Hello," she calls.

Kanaya waits until she and Nepeta are both at the counter to broach the matter at hand. She fiddles with the coffee machine, unsure of how to start. Finally, she settles on: "I've been made aware of why the girl in here yesterday was behaving so strangely."

Comments

[lunaquatic]

W)(ale so far it's you and me and possibly -Erifin and maybe your frond...
I don't remember exactly w)(at else I've seen t)(ere apart from purples... and crab people....
Do you fin the crab people exist out )(ere too??? 380
...Wait do you mean t)(e purple city or t)(e reel city??

Feferi clicked her phone off and set it atop her bag as she got up from the chair and paced the study room, thoughts whirling around in her head. She was tempted to try and fall asleep at once immediately and put her plans into action. Not that it was exactly easy to plan around dreams, but now that she wanted to remember things she was irrationally confident that she would be able to do it easily.

[cattobekittenmerightmeow]

Fifteen minutes later when some loitering customers finally left, Nepeta was left alone with Kanaya once more. In a somewhat stealthy manner Nep slipped the phone out of her pocket and read Feferi’s messages. After looking them over she started her own round of replies.

:33 < i’m talking about the real city
:33 < if i’m furom the city, and you're furom the city, and eridan is furom the city
:33 < then would anyone else furom the dream city also be furom sburb?
:33 < what do you think it means that were dreaming about the city?
:33 < why just us? and pawssibly more than just us, but why not efuryone?
:33 < as fur the residents of the purrple city, i don’t think they're real beclaws i’ve nefur met one and i really don't hope i do

She hit send and set the phone on the counter, and picked up her drink instead. The entire situation was just way too weird to be able to wrap her head around. She fiddled with the plastic lid, bending the close flap back and forth anxiously until it snapped off.

[lunaquatic]

Feferi was taking notes in class when she felt her phone buzz against her chest. She pursed her lips but, given that she had unwisely chosen a seat near the front of the room in an attempt to keep herself awake and focused, she opted to wait until after class to respond to the texts.

Rather than risk someone snooping, she headed into the first bathroom she spotted and ducked in a stall before flipping her phone on and scrolling through the texts before beginning her reponses.

Maybe t)(ey live underwater...
Or underground??
Glub glub glub glub glub...
I don't reely know w)(y t)(is would only be )(appening to us?
T)(ere mast be otters, rig)(t?
Next time you dream of t)(e city, sea if you can count t)(e towers.
I remember t)(ere being ot)(er towers t)(an t)(e one I wake up in and t)(e one I found you in...
Do you fin you're always in t)(e same tower??
I'm not s)(ore if I am or not...
T)(e more I try to remember t)(e murkier it all gets...
GLUB GLUB GLUB GLUB GLUB GLUB!!!!!
Maybe everyone is t)(ere and we just don't remember meeting all of t)(em??
Maybe t)(ere are infinite dream cities in all t)(e colors!!!!!

Feferi hit send on her last excited text and chewed her lip as she stood up and straightened her outfit after tucking her phone away in her bodice again so she could be certain to feel it if it buzzed again.

The unknown always made her hungry so it seemed like the ideal time to wash her hands and head off to get something to eat.