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♥ Who: Lup + Close CR (who will be contacted! <3)
♥ Where: Lup's house
♥ When: start of August
♥ What: A ladies (kinda) night, the redux!
♥ Rating: PG and up, probably

Those who Lup deigned to grace with an invitation will receive one at random: that at the recipient's convenience if they so desire, they are invited to join her in what she is calling (without explanation) a Pocket Dimension Party. As per the instructions, any time within the next 24 hours, they can enter through the garden back door and "find the cat".

Should one accept the invitation and follow those instructions, they can find Ditto curled up in the grass beside the house, dozing, though at the arrival of any visitor he perks up and stretches. Rubbing up against their legs, Ditto will head over to a section of the wall and paw at a corner, until a door abruptly glimmers into existence and opens for him. He meows plaintively and waits. Go on in! Just close the door behind you.

Inside the doorway, visitors will find… a mansion. Elaborately decorated, warm, and inviting, it is like entering a rich and immaculate house that someone's taken a lot of time and TLC to make perfect. No one greets them as they enter, but if they call for attention and no one is in the immediate vicinity, a semi-transparent spectral servant will arrive and guide them to Lup. Otherwise, they are free to explore the house and make use of the facilities as they please.

The following areas are available:

An extravagant entrance hall with soft wood paneling and fancy art on the walls
A lounge area with big fluffy couches, pillows, and blankets, as well as a projection screen that works with communicators and whatever digital media Lup is familiar with, or a music mix in lieu of said media being played
A full-service kitchen and dining area, where a collection of spectral servants (features to be determined) will upon request cook any meal a person desires, assuming they (and by association Lup) are familiar with the recipe and ingredients. It's all delicious, too!
A sizable basement with regenerating training dummies, various targets, and more servants who will act as moving targets on request. They can't be hurt, but they can move around freely.
A big and beautiful spa with all the soaps and pampering material that anyone could ask for
A "pet room", AKA a room devoted to toys, climbing shelves, cat trees- whatever an animal might want to stay entertained for hours unsupervised

More details to be added as needed! This is a mingle free-for-all, there is no set schedule. Visitors can come and go as they please for 24 hours, and at the end of the spell anyone still inside will be summarily booted out into the garden.

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Reminiscing...

[ It's a heavy sort of word, even if it is meant to reflect upon good things that are long past. She'd sat among flowers before, but none that drew any sort of meaning for her at the time. ]

Has he, now... you have not mentioned Horus before.

Oh.... Our falcon. Er-- Somnus'. [ She clarifies quietly. ]

Horus appeared as a gift from Rawna, after the Unburdening. [ Horus is, frankly, one of the few things she has left of him besides memories. ]

[ The 'Unburdening'. The way she refers to the incident is unfamiliar until she mentions Rawna, and she connects that to perhaps why when the Juniberries showed up, Pyra already seemed certain of why.

Perhaps if anything, that explained even more how deep her connection with this Somnus had been. ]

And yet he remained...

[ Our, she'd said. ]

I admit I am not... familiar with such creatures. Perhaps I will have to see him sometime as well.

I bring him out every morning for his flight.... [ And to simulate hunting by tossing some bait for him. ] --Sometimes, early enough to watch the dawn together.

If you can tolerate waking early, you're welcome to join us.

[ Most people are not ready to wake up that early. But Pyra doesn't need sleep, mostly, and she's available. Also, meeting Horus in town instead of her house with the juniberries is a lot safer. ]

[ She tilts her head, a hint of amusement in her tone. ]

There is much I can tolerate.

[ To wake early? There are nights when she does not sleep. Even if there are the rarer times where it is more difficult for her to drag herself from her bed. Time itself is an enigma, as much as she adheres to the twins' meal schedule. ]

I will have to recall it, if it is before dawn when I wake.

[ And if she is not immediately preoccupied with... something. But it is something to consider. ]

[ Inviting Honerva out to enjoy the dawn with her as Horus flies appears to be a nice prospect to Pyra, by the way she smiles.

Anyway. Enough about her. ]

You... have a few different pets too, don't you? Or-- erm, just Kova, correct?

Kova... and I suppose in a way we have adopted Rio and Harmony, with their original owner no longer in this world.

[ She refers to the other cats at the cafe, who had been there for quite a few months, now. ]

But that is all, unless you consider my small robots pets as well.

...Your small robot pets?

[ Say what. ]

... It was a jest, Pyra.

[ Sort of. Of course she's not quite good at that. ]

Perhaps the better term might be... helpers. For cleaning, and surveying, or any other task suited to them.

[ Too late— ]

Would you show me sometime?

[ EVEN ROBOTIC HELPERS ARE CUTE.... ]

If you'd like.

[ She's a little surprised that Pyra hadn't seen the roomba before, but it wasn't often taken out of the house these days, unless it was to make cleaning easier in the Cafe. Her other robot was a more recent arrival. ]

They are at the house. There's little need for them in here.

[ She doesn't need to see them right at this moment, so Pyra only nods enthusiastically. ]

The robots... are something I've admired of this world from the beginning. [ Even if becoming robots had contributed to wrecking the world, apparently. ] But your little helpers, did you make them yourself? Or were they a part of this world?

No... I built them while we were on the Fleet. One of them arrived here with me, but the other only showed up recently.

[ An unexpected find, but not an unwelcome one. ]

[ Cue surprise.

...And then sheepishness because, really given all that she knows of Honerva, she should have expected her to be able to make robots. ]

I've always been impressed with robotics. And if these robots are made with technology from another world, I wouldn't mind seeing them.

They are not so impressive.

[ She's modest, though they are small and simplistic in nature. But perhaps that is what makes them better than other things she's had a hand in designing. ]

... Still I admit I am fond of them, so it is... fortunate, to have them both here.

[ She thinks she must have been very lonely when she had originally made them and not realized it, but it was also around the time she'd met the twins, too. ]

[ She eyes her curiously, bringing her hand down upon her chest. ]

Did you name them?

... Not properly. I was not accustomed to my own name at the time, so they are mostly referred to by function. My... explorers.

[ She smiles a little, something a little distracted in her expression at that recollection. It had been such a different frame of mind, for only a couple of years. ]

Perhaps I might give more thought to doing something about that.

[ She may be mistaken, but there's something fond about the way Honerva addresses them as her explorers. ] Perhaps after famous explorers you know? Or puns!

[ "Famous explorers"... There's a considerable pause at that, ears flickering again. Her memory is not that reliable, but she had, undoubtedly, made such a choice before... and not for a roomba. ]

Puns? Perhaps that is a possibility. Jokes of that nature are... popular with the twins.