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WHO: Billy Kaplan and anyone else
WHERE: A store
WHEN: Backdated to yesterday before the start of the plot, throughout the day
WARNINGS: Billy is a geek lol? XD
SUMMARY: Billy is wandering around the city. Meant to be for all the people I plotted with on the CR meme about meeting Billy since I figured it'd be easiest to just make one post and have whoever wants to jump in do so :)
FORMAT: Anything you want, take your pick

Billy is in a store, spending the day shopping, although he'll probably end up buying only one thing. It could be a gaming store, a book store, a comic book store... It might even be your store. He is currently looking at something, be it collectable cards, a video game guide, a sci-fi or fantasy book, a comic, or maybe even a new game he hasn't seen before. Do you approach?

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[dragony]

Not initially, though that can be excused. Her presence alone is sort of eye-catching alone.

The store in question is a bookstore, independent from any major chains, and the person in question is a girl in her early teens. That alone might be unusual -- for reading is a hobby falling by the wayside for the younger generations, especially that of books still printed on paper -- but her appearance is striking as well. Not her clothing; that's almost conservative, with long sleeves (in late May) and a knee-length skirt.

No, it's the hair. It's a tealish, seafoam green, tied up into pigtails more closely resembling rabbit ears.

She's loitering in the mythology section, one heavy-looking tome held open on her arm, and the edges of what look like playing cards poke out of the book intermittently as place-markers. When Billy comes into this section, the girl glances up (amber eyes, almost too large for her face, just intensify the rabbit motif) before returning her attention to the book. She wouldn't want to interrupt his book search uninvited.

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Billy doesn't say anything at first, smiling when the girl looks at him before poking about until he finds a book on Norse mythology. He knows the stories well but it's always fun and nostalgic to re-read them... even though it makes him miss his dad a little bit more than usual.

Idly, he wonders if the girl's hair is dyed - if it is, it's very well done. His brother has white hair and he knows others who have non-natural looking hair so it wouldn't surprise him if it was real.

"Finding anything interesting?" he finally asks, smiling a little as he glances at her again.

[dragony]

For a moment, the girl doesn't look as though she'll respond. Maybe she didn't hear him? But the moment passes, and when she looks up again it's with the realization that, why yes, he is in fact speaking to her.

"I suppose so, yeah," she answers; her voice is lower and more mature-sounding than her young appearance would imply, but sounds pleasant enough. "Are you?"

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"Nothing I haven't already read before," he admits, holding the book up so she can see the cover.

[dragony]

The girl's eyes move from his face to the book, brows bending for thought. "Norse? That's the one with Ragnarok, isn't it?"

In her own world and at this age, Ruka would have been more familiar with it -- at least, with a certain selection of its Gods, and the legends thereof. That other Ruka would even journey the Bifrost, risking her life as the Rainbow Bridge dissolved behind her and her companions. But that was a journey this Ruka had not yet taken -- and, perhaps, never would.

"I haven't read as much about that one, yet," she continued, indicating her own sizable book. "I still have a long way to go, with the Greeks."