[open] you bought a star in the sky tonight/ because your life is dark and it needs some light

[apotropaic]

Who: Open log. EVERYONE GET IN HERE.
What: Cockatrice Crafts --Baedal's brand new craft fair/market!
Where: Howl Barrow.
When: Sukkardi 12th of Ceidary.
Notes: This is an open post for everybody since we have so many new people joining. There'll be a sub sections in the post itself for general areas but other than that, feel free to mash you characters together like Barbies!
Warnings: None yet.

Baedal is a city that never sleeps, but everyone likes a long-lie in on a Sukkardi morning. At eleven o’clock, the Howl Barrow is climbing to a weekend buzz but it’s not quite there yet. But right off Carnelian Street, Cockatrice Markets is already has its doors open –and bubbles are floating down the street in welcome!

The Market is housed in what once would have been a small, high ceilinged factory building, but the inside and outside has now been painted all manner of colours and murals by local artistic residents. There are tables inside the airy structure, as well as in the outside alleyway, and a large mosaic chandelier dangles outside the entranceway.

It’s free entrance, fun, and like most places in Howl Barrow, friendly and inviting.

Comments

[agrat]

"My mother used to tell me stories." Not exactly bedtime stories, judging by her tone of voice. Lea sets off in the direction of some food stalls, though she's pretty idle about it, and the pace is anything but brisk. She carries her little friend like he weighs nothing, but given her abilities, maybe she's making him that way.

"You know a little bit of Arabic, too, then, right? --or is that not common?" Israel isn't something many Kurds actively support much, though there are some Kurdish Jews there, she knows. Still, it seems to her that with two societies in such close quarters, there must be a little language mixing on both sides.

[gramarye]

"It's not really very common for Jews to speak Arabic, no," he says, switching immediately, and the difference is clear; he's much quicker and more precise in his word choice. He's actually quite good at it, much better than English, although it's hard to tell with that given how the city helps him out there. He still gestures broadly, a habit he's gotten into since picking up ASL. "We can take it as a second language in high school but it's optional, not like English. But I had... but my friends were from Palestine and it was easier for me to learn Arabic than for them to learn Hebrew. So."

By 'easier' he does mean 'possible in a timely manner,' in that he did cheat with magic. He was five and he wanted to communicate with his friend, it was at least harmless.

HEY GUESS WHAT I'M ALIVE :C

[agrat]

She brightens, briefly, at the opportunity to switch languages--as she assumes with him that Hebrew is his first choice, like Kurdish is hers, Arabic is a lot easier. It flows faster, because what Lea needed was to talk faster, really. When she gestures, loosely, it's with her scorpion container in hand, and people around attempt to give her hand a wide berth.

"We just learned whatever we could from home. My neo-Aramaic isn't very good, but there aren't a lot of people to practice that with." Though she could probably find at least one person, somewhere in Baedal. "It's similar, isn't it? Kurdistan and Palestine. Although the government here isn't really perfect, either."

She phrases it more carefully than she's said other things, just because even in a different language--you never know who's listening.