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[gevurah]

Date & Time: 22nd to the 24th
Location: a synagogue in the city
Characters: Kate & whoever else volunteered to help and/or anyone who wants to see what is going on.
Summary: can we fix it? I hope so.
Warnings: ???


The exteriors of the synagogue aren’t too shabby surprisingly, but the main door needs a good push before it can be shouldered open properly and it creaks loudly as it swings on its hinges. Bits of the walls outside are chipped and discoloured, slowly but constantly being eroded each day in the never ending rainfall that blankets the city.

Inside the building is still as cold as it is outside; windows missing entire panes or broken bits still clinging to the frames, still sharp and dangerous enough to cut deep into one’s flesh if they’re not careful enough. Wherever the windows are, cold wind blows in, and the floor beneath the sills are damp and around the edges have some mold growing. There’s also pieces of glass laying on the floor.

There’s dust and broken bits of wood everywhere. Wooden beams that are supposed to support the building lay half rotting around the building. Some of them are in the way if people want to go further into the building, so they’ll need to be carried out outside by a few helping hands. The air in the building is stuffy and unpleasant, even with wind passing in every now and then.

Honestly, it may feel more depressing inside the worn down building than it does outside in the rain that never ceases.


( ooc: feel free to tag in however as you like! characters can work together, do their own clean-up, take breaks, whatever you want. )

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[innominata]

[ The girl had watched from a distance before joining, more out of a desire to do something than any desire to see the building restored.

She knows the layout well. She knows the hidden openings that even a direwolf may fit through. By the time she makes it to the main sanctuary her hair is more gray than brown. She has little paths clear for her wolf to walk safely. The glass from the floor she collects into a careful pile; a few pieces she hides for herself.

When she tires she reclines against a wall. The wolf is her only constant company, alternating between napping and helping. ]

[shelkethetransparent]

[Shelke's 'help' has mostly been contained with cleaning up in some places and organizing bits of building materials and dirt and debris. She gets too tired too quickly to do much else, which is the same frustrating roadblock she's hit in her own small reconstruction project elsewhere.]

[But she's quietly trying to help, and at the moment she's carrying a small pile of stones with some mostly intact pieces of glass on top. She's about to turn a corner when she nearly runs into Arya, taking a quick step back and rebalancing before she drops anything.]

Excuse me.

[innominata]

[ The girl moves aside, her steps quick and light. She keeps her head down as she waits for the other to continue. ]

[shelkethetransparent]

[Shelke starts to move past then hesitates, her glowing eyes considering the girl carefully. It was odd to see another child...no, just a child. She was not a child...but it was odd to see one, regardless. Especially here, helping with something like this.]

[She shifts the things she is carrying lightly, and after a moment...]

Do you need assistance with anything?

[Her voice is still as quiet and empty as anything, but she's trying.]

[innominata]

[ A brief head shake. ]

I'm fine.

[gevurah]

[ Kate doesn't bother her the whole time she carries out the broken pieces of wood from the building. Eventually, she disappears for about half an hour from view and returns from what looks like a walk down a street or two in the rain, judging from her damp boots and the plastic bag in her hands. She heads straight to "Cat", pulling out a sandwich wrapped in plastic and holding it up for the girl to see. ]

Heads up. [ She calls and tosses it lightly in her direction. ]

[innominata]

[ She catches it with one hand. Her fingers make quick work of the plastic. After seeing the contents, she smiles at Kate. ]

Thank you.

[gevurah]

You're welcome.

[ The rest of the plastic bag is still being weighed down by something. She places it before Nymeria and pulls apart the plastic; fresh chicken meat again. ]

You both look like you could use the energy boost.

[innominata]

[ Nymeria pulls it to her by a leg. She begins ripping it apart almost immediately. Long used to it, the girl is not put off at all. She digs into her own with only slightly better manners. ]

Did you eat too?

[gevurah]

[ Kate nods, watching Nymeria go at it. She's glad no one's been stupid enough to go over and provoke the wolf since they got here. She had warned people not to do so. It's not that she doesn't want to be responsible for injuries. It's that Kate has low tolerance for blatant obtuse behavior. ]

Yeah, I'm good for now. [ She'd packed her own food from the apartment. If she needs food again, she could just walk down the streets. ] I'm kind of surprised by the turn out today.

[innominata]

[ She swallows before noisily admitting: ] I told people.

[gevurah]

To come?

[innominata]

Yes. [ All that's missing is a "duuuuh." ]

[gevurah]

Thanks for doing that, then.

[innominata]

[ She shrugs. ]

You couldn't have done it by yourself.

[pixieboots]

[ It's a few minutes before he can place that face; the girl from the market he'd almost taken out on the way down from the roof. She won't know him without the cape and mask, if she'd even held on to that odd little memory in the first place. The thought gives him the boost he needs to head over to spot she's acquisitioned, stopping a few feet away to lean a little against the same wall. ]

Man, this place is busy.

[innominata]

It should be.

[ Someone else perchance. But she has been taught to to look past distractions to what is truly there. He's familiar and it takes her a while but she finally decides who he is. Her expression doesn't change. ]

[pixieboots]

Could've been worse, I guess. [ She hasn't told him to go away yet so he considers himself invited, taking a seat cross-legged a reasonable distance away. ]

You want any? I brought extra. [ He's holding up a bottle of water. ]

[innominata]

[ She shakes her head. ]

I'm fine.

[pixieboots]

Suit yourself. [ He says it good-naturedly, then takes a swig before he sets the bottle down. ]

Everybody calls me Dick. Do you know Kate?

[innominata]

We met. I told her of this place. [ Sort of. ]

[pixieboots]

You did? [ He's frowning a little while he scans the window he'd been replacing from the new vantage point. It doesn't look half-bad, set with clean, new glass. ]

I was wondering who it was. I figured there had to be a reason she wanted to fix it up. Besides just being nice.

[innominata]

[ She shrugs. ]

I don't know what she thinks.

[pixieboots]

It's a nice building... [ Though really he figures there's probably more to it than that. For Kate, at least. He eyes the girl again, tilting his head curiously. ]

How'd you know it was here?

[innominata]

I lived here.