Shopping [backdated to before the scorpions]

[demifemme]

Who: Shura and open
Where: Virgo, then Taurus
Summary: Shura shops for the masquerade and for herself
Warnings: Shopping for porn books

VIRGO
Shura should have come earlier. There were not that many costumes left, and even less in her size, that were to her taste. Too ugly, ill-fitting, too revealing, too itchy... everything had something that displeased her, and she was getting discouraged fast. Help her pick?

TAURUS
The Red Lights district. It was quiet during the day, with bars and nightclubs closed, but some shops were open. Like, for instance, this bookstore that Shura was heading for, La Petite Mort. After discreetly checking her surroundings, she quickly entered, acknowledging the Lilim behind the counter with a shake of the head before going off to hide in the store in search of this "different porn" that Naoya had talked about.

Comments

Virgo

[ineedthemforanalyzing]

Latooni had been on her way home from work - and therefore dressed in her uniform frills - looking around the shopping district for food for the next week. She had vaguely connected the fact that fewer people were side-eyeing her dress with the fact that it was getting close to Halloween, but was otherwise unconcerned with the holiday until she saw Shura looking around a costume shop. Curious, she went in to say hi.

[demifemme]

Shura was so preoccupied with her contemplation of a nun costume that she did not feel Latooni's presence until she was right up next to her, and even then, it startled her a bit. "Oh hey!"

[ineedthemforanalyzing]

"Oh, sorry, I didn't mean to startle you," Latooni said, taking a step back. She was never especially good at determining where personal space began or ended. "Were you shopping for costumes?"

[demifemme]

"It's all right. I'm trying to find something covering so I can't be recognized by my markings right off the bat."

[ineedthemforanalyzing]

"I see," she said, considering Shura's 'tattoos' and nodding. "That way it's more of a disguise..."

She looked around the shop to see if anything caught her eye as being covering. "I guess I should buy a costume too, right?" she wondered. Was it required for Halloween here?

[demifemme]

Shura smiled at her. "You totally should! It's half the fun to be able to dress up however you want."

[ineedthemforanalyzing]

Latooni paused and thought for a second. She thinks back to her childhood, and to her recent adolescence, defined as it was by women like Garnet, Princess Shine, Lieutenant Excellen...

"You know, I'm not sure if I've ever dressed up however I want."