[open] a friend in need's a friend indeed

[nedofpies]

Who: Ned and OPEN
What: Random encounters & fallout from dream-walking tomfoolery
Where: House 20, the garden, anywhere around town
When: Day 89

It's been a long week. A long, mostly-sleepless, weird week during which Ned has seen far more of his friends' and neighbors' subconsciouses than he would have liked to. Plus, a creepy city made of crystals that everyone seems to have seen, but no one will claim as their own. Shady stuff. Today, he is determined to wear himself out. Perhaps if he's tired enough, whatever mojo the men behind the curtain have put on him won't be strong enough to stir him out of a deep and dreamless sleep.

It's probably a futile tactic, but he can't just do nothing.

So he is a bustle of activity - cleaning the house, walking around town, checking on the crops to see if they are holding up well (carefully, with an eye for any enterprising tigers roaming too close to the edge of the forest), keeping an eye out for new faces and an ear out for rumors of missing ones.

Comments

[mentis]

"Because I absolutely refuse to be bald."

Charles offers him up a cheeky grin, one that speaks volumes of the man he used to be. Here, he is often wound up in a feeling of responsibility. But people like Erik know the soft, ridiculous creature he had been merely a few months ago. He looks boyish, conspiratorial.

The fact that he had been ... chair bound would also trouble him if he let it free from it's steel trap within him, "I've been told by a certain mumber of ladies that my hair gives me charm, I intend to keep it."

[nedofpies]

The sheer indignation - over something as superfluous as whether or not he'll go bald! - earns a laugh from Ned. He doesn't laugh often, or loudly, but when he does, it transforms his whole face, makes him look like a different man entirely.

"A certain number, huh?" he echoes, voice rich with amusement. Ned is one of the people here who has never really seen that aspect of Charles. He's seen a few sides (pedantic, nurturing, tea-loving, terrifying, apologetic, determined) but never flirty or Casanova-ish.

"I'd say it would take more than losing your hair to deprive you of charm."