swirl no. 1

[autumnish]

She was running. Just a minute ago. She was chasing a bus, because although the next bus wouldn't delay her by more than ten minutes, fifteen max, chasing buses is an inevitable part of Aarhusian daily life. Everybody does it and so, Aki did as well. Then, she turned a corner and now, she has no idea where she is. It doesn't look like the square she was heading for, it doesn't look like a square at all.

In the blink of an eye, she's landed herself in a small, vintage-style cafe with blue-patterned porcelain and highly decorated cupcakes, beckoning for her to take a rest, enjoy a break, it seems like an invitation, the oddest she's received in her life. Aki comes to think of Alice, her great adventures in Wonderland and at the risk of running into her very own Queen of Hearts, she moves over to the nearest of the large armchairs and sits down, gingerly. Lets her eyes follow the many rows of books displayed on the shelves that are hanging on the wall. Touches her teacup with careful fingertips.

Whom might she not be joined by, in a place as dreamy as this?

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[autumnish]

"Is it awful that I really want to," Aki replies, a tentative smile forming on her lips. Everything looks picture perfect, if she'd brought her phone, she'd taken a ton of pictures to post on Instagram. She's acquainted herself with quite a few of the cafés in Aarhus at this point, this place is nothing like any of them. It's its own world. She truly does feel like Alice and she embraces her own curiosity, the adventure of it, turning her attention towards the other woman. "You haven't been here before either?"

[earthangelic]

"No," She replied to the young woman.

"This place gives off a bad energy I can feel it."

[autumnish]

A bad energy... She throws a glance in the general direction of the cupcakes filling up the stand on the table she's chosen to sit down at. They're tempting and if she's not going directly into morning class, they'll be bad for her figure, too, but if cupcakes are the worst thing this mysterious place can present her with, she'll take it. Be adventurous. Enjoy a taste. Aki reaches for the nearest cupcake, a hot pink girly mess. Bites into it slowly. "It's delicious, though," she comments, once she's cleared her mouth of icing.

[earthangelic]

The cupcakes look delicious though, she pick up one of them and move towards her lips and take a bite out of it.

"Yum!," she said, " Just like my mom use to make them."

She turn to Aki.

"By the way My name is Demeter Willow, I am from fort lauderdale florida."

[autumnish]

Aki can only manage a half-bow from her seated position, but puts the cupcake down to do so. "I'm Aki," she introduces herself and feels her features fade into neutrality for a moment as she actually fights to decide where to say she's from. Japan will always be her home, but it isn't where she's living currently, it isn't where she came from just a moment ago, strictly speaking. The pause stretches into another second, then she decides on the long version. "I'm Japanese, but I'm currently living in Denmark. It's nice to meet you, do you want to have a seat?" With one hand she gestures towards the chair across from her own.