(closed) a revelation in the light of day

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Date & Time: dec. 11th.
Location: some small restaurant.
Characters: roslyn small and bariyan kozar.
Summary: the awkwardness of trying to strike up a friendship with a different version of your first best friend in this place cannot be summed up in words.
Warnings: none atm.

[ She'd missed Bariyan. Not in the burning ever present way that most people seemed to associate with loss, the way she'd once missed Lucy, or Adam, or her parents. She was older now, not quite the same person that she'd been when she lost them, and it had not been to death.

Or maybe she'd just told herself it hadn't been quite as bad, had pushed it down.

And now here he is, except it isn't him, and this isn't even the same as John because John seems to remain fundamentally the same person, he just doesn't remember her. Bariyan Kozar might share some similarities with Bariyan, but he is not the same person. Not from anything she could tell so far.

But she'd written him again nevertheless, asked him to meet her at a small out of the way restaurant, nothing fancy but the food pretty decent. If nothing else it would let her set everything to rest that his not-quite-return had brought up. Let her get some closure or something, maybe. He'd been her first friend here, her closest ally for months. His sudden disappearance had hurt, however much she'd tried to avoid acknowledging it. ]

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[ As Bariyan makes his way to the restaurant, he is weighed down by nothing more than the fear that he will get lost and be late -- a common fear, for him. He doesn't have anything else to be afraid of, he thinks. Probably no other semi-reunion here could be worse than the one he'd held with Martin.

Fortunately for both parties, Bariyan makes it to the restaurant with a couple minutes to spare. He stops right in the entrance to look around for Roslyn. Only he's got no idea what she looks like.

He catches the eye of a woman also lounging by the entrance, and cocks his head to the side. ]

Roslyn Small?