[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

i will take both of these psychos please and thank you

[rhinemaid]

“You look as if you're going to burn this place down with the power of your mind,” Ilde says in lieu of a more conventional greeting, in the process of cheerfully invading Bellatrix's space to link their elbows, pleased with the choker she's already acquired (tucked in her purse) and in the kind of lingering cupboard-love good mood that retail gives. “What've I got to do to be spared? Hello, alchemist.”

...just because she knows his name now doesn't mean he doesn't get a nickname.

[inkdamage]

"You could apprentice somewhere a bit more polished, too," he reflects, carefully situating the paper wrapping of his pastry. "You're good enough." Apprenticeship is a bit old school but it's certainly not wholly working class, and exclusive enough it might make Bellatrix marginally less nauseous than the idea of working as a shop clerk somewhere.

But whatever direction that conversation may have taken is cut short. In response to Ilde's sudden interruption, Severus greets her with the matching acknowledgment, "Rhinemaiden."

[orionis]

An apprenticeship wouldn't be so bad, and Bellatrix would even admit to the thought if she weren't interrupted by the (not quite so) sudden presence of her friend. "Ilde! I see you know Severus." And she's faintly amused by that, if her note is anything to go by. "It seems you know everyone some days." And that's certainly not a bad thing by her standards.

She overlaps one of Ilde's hands with her own, her face brighter now, with a smile even. "As for what you can do to be spared, offering your opinion will be enough. Severus and I were just discussing what I might do for... gainful employment." If it sounds like she's letting the other woman in on some secret, it's because she is, in a sense. Bellatrix isn't about to broadcast the fact that she's avoided getting a job because she just can't be sure of what she's good at that's actually marketable.

[rhinemaid]

Ilde's expression is immediately sympathetic, and not falsely; she'd never worked before coming to Baedal, has had an interesting time navigating her own fiscal responsibility (learning how to manage money and actually having to apply the lessons are, she's discovered, two incredibly different things), and is willing to admit that it's possible the only reason her pride isn't as bruised as Bella's is because there was a very obvious route for her to take and take advantage of.

“What are you good at?” she offers, off that thought. “What do you like to do?”

She assumes the latter question never came up in Severus's plans because Severus's personality. Just saying.

[inkdamage]

Severus is willing to roll with that assumption - with anyone else, it would be true, but concerning Bellatrix, he hasn't asked because of the likelihood of what the answers would be. Bellatrix Black may not yet be Bellatrix Lestrange, but the latter did not spring fully formed and psychotic from Zeus's head. He doesn't really want to hear about what she likes doing. He suspects, however, she's not going to tell Ilde she likes torturing Muggles, and so his silence and continued consumption of his cupcake goes on unbroken.