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**amaterasu** · 07-08-2020, 08:43 PM

Alouette snoozed peacefully in the second bedroom of the house she shared with Julianna, dreaming about traveling the world with her best friend in tow, seeing the sights they hadn't yet discovered on their travels for the Hylian Courier Service. She smiled in her sleep, content with the dream she was having, when she heard Julianna pounding on the door. She opened one eye slowly, then buried her head back in the pillows. She was not an early bird unless her job demanded it, and she had just secured a couple days off for the World's Fair. Reluctantly, she pushed her blanket off and climbed out of bed, stretching as she stepped out into the hallway and started down the stairs. "Honestly, Jules," she said when she opened the door to find her best friend standing there, hungover and bleary eyed. "You should have come home when you realized you forgot your keys." Allie picked up her roommate's keys off the table they kept by the front door and dangled them before Julianna's eyes with a smile. "I would have come and brought them to you, but I assumed you and the guys were bar-hopping." she stepped aside to let the Gerudo woman in, then retreated to the kitchen to get Julianna some water and to start making breakfast.

**Z64** · 07-08-2020, 09:37 PM

Juliana stared with amazement at the keys in her hands as she sat down at the dining table near the kitchen. She had said she'd forgotten her keys as a bluff, and had been planning on coming up for an excuse for why they were lost, but it turned out that she had actually just left them at home.

"Oh, thank the Goddess!" Juli exclaimed, putting her head on the table as she lifted her keys up in her hands. "Behold, the keys thought to have been lost in the cracks between the dirty stones of Clock Town have found! Blessed be this day, and the wonderful life which has allowed me to experience it! I can still call myself a mostly-functioning adult."

Juliana dropped the keys onto the table and turned her head to watch what Alouette was doing in the kitchen.

"Alright. That's my one slip-up in your presence for the month. From now on, I'm not gonna make even one more mistake. The first step in this process? Never going back to the tavern, ever again. Or any tavern." Juli grimaced as the headache temporary worsened. "Ahh, shoulda had more water last night..."

**amaterasu** · 07-09-2020, 04:48 PM

Allie snickered and placed a cup of cool water next to Julianna before returning to the eggs she was frying up for them. "Remind me, over easy or scrambled?" she asked, grabbing a spatula to flip her own. She'd pondered for a moment years ago, the ethics of eating eggs when she herself was of avian descent, but quickly dismissed the fact. If Zora could eat fish, this was surely fine, and cuccoo eggs were the easiest thing for her to cook on her limited menu. In a separate pan, she melted some more goat butter and laid a few pieces of bread in the skillet to fry them up. This was the closest she could get to toast, and she cooked up four pieces total - two for her and two for Julie. Returning to the egg pan, she cracked a few more and scrambled them up for Julianna, not waiting for her response. Messy eggs were the last thing a hungover person wanted to deal with - at least that's how she felt when she was hungover. "How many days off do we have again?" She asked, finally joining her roommate at the table and setting down a plate for each of them.

**Z64** · 07-09-2020, 07:39 PM

Juli took a sip of her water as Alouette sat across from her at the table. The cool liquid proved very soothing to her throat, which was currently pretty dry. She thought about making a mind-reading comment when she saw that her friend had gone with scrambled eggs instead of over-easy, but refrained.

"Mmm, I think it's like a week? Week and a half??" Juli picked up her water again, this time drinking thrice as much as her initial sip. "Not long enough for the whole thing, but hey, we're couriers. I'd bet a horse's leg they end up sending us to do something over there anyways." The Gerudo then began to slowly work on eating the food on her plate, her headache gradually easing up.

**amaterasu** · 07-10-2020, 01:54 PM

Allie nodded and sighed around bites of her eggs. "It's so hard to find time to save the world around work," she lamented. "Not that the world needs saving right this second, but there just feels like so much more we can do!" she washed down the last of her toast with a big gulp of water before standing up, excitedly. "But! A week and a half is plenty of time to get something done around the Fair! Jules, are you with me!" she grinned widely at her best friend and held out the arm she kept a red bandanna tied around. She knew that Julianna was still very hungover and that her shrill voice and loud excitement wouldn't help, but she decided it was a form of light-hearted punishment that was well-deserved.

**Z64** · 07-10-2020, 05:46 PM

Juli winced at the volume of her friend's voice. The Gerudo was almost certain her friend had done it on purpose, but that wasn't important. Looking upon the outstretched arm, she spotted the red bandanna and couldn't help but smile. It felt like just yesterday the two of them were arguing over deliveries in the middle of Hyrule Field.

"You know I can't say no to that, " Juli replied with a weak grin. Her right hand moved to take Allie's, but then stopped halfway up.

"Wait, I just realized something," she said, moving her hand back down. Propping up her left arm, she took hold of the purple bandanna tied around it and began to take it off. "If we keep them on different arms, then we can't do a handshake where both our arms have bandannas on them."

As she finished speaking, Juli fastened the bandana around her right arm, and then finally took Allie's hand. "There, now we're talking!"

**amaterasu** · 07-11-2020, 07:11 PM

Alouette smiled widely, then started clearing the breakfast dishes. "I hear the new Hylian queen is going to give a speech on the first day of the Fair," she said. "Is that... today or tomorrow? We should invest in a calendar." she looked at a space on the wall next to the pantry that was begging to have a calendar nailed to it. "You know, like the big one they have at work? Only smaller so it fits on our walls." She sat back down across from Julianna and tried counting the days on her fingers. "I know we got the days off for the World's Fair, but if I remember correctly, you put in the request off for the both of us so I wouldn't forget."

**Z64** · 07-13-2020, 12:09 AM

"I'm pretty sure the Fair is tomorrow," Juli answered. "I wouldn't have gone out last night if it was today..."

She paused. Is it today? No, that's not possible. She looked at a spot on the wall near the pantry, expecting to find a calendar, but was greeted by nothingness. She zoned out staring at the spot for a few seconds before coming back to reality.

"Ah, I think I see what you mean about the calendar," Juli admitted, scratching the back of her head. "You know, we don't have anything to do until tomorrow, right? Why don't we go out and get one? A calendar, I mean. N-not right now, I wanna take a small nap first, but after that?"

**amaterasu** · 07-13-2020, 04:14 PM

Allie nodded, still bright eyed and busy tailed from her proper sleep last night. "Yeah, you could probably use it. No offense Jules, but you look like butt." She started running the water in the sink to start dishes while Julianna escaped upstairs to her room. While the Gerudo woman napped, Alouette putzed around the house, picking up what little mess they had made over the past few days that had been neglected by their busy schedule. The courier service they worked for gave them double duty the past few shifts to make up for their requested time off, leaving little time to take care of things around the house.

After a few hours, Alouette heard her roommate stirring upstairs, and hurried up to the second floor, excited to go run errands. She was surely a Hylian Retriever in her previous life, given her excitability. She knocked on Julianna's door and waited outside impatiently, bouncing on the soles of her feet.

**Z64** · 07-13-2020, 09:14 PM

Juli opened the door to see Allie eagerly awaiting her.

"Hey!" Juliana greeted, grabbing the Rito's hand and leading her down the hallway. "Let's go!"

The pair made their way down the stairs and out of the house, with Juli remembering to grab both her keys and some money. Still holding hands, they fast-walked down the street. The late morning sun shone down on them from above, the temperature gradually climbing toward its midday peak.

"Man, that nap was great!" Juli exclaimed, rolling her neck. "Alright then, I guess we should head towards the shops on the east side of town. You know, now that I'm thinking about it, getting this calendar probably isn't going to take the whole day. There anything you wanna do after, Allie?"

**amaterasu** · 07-14-2020, 09:46 AM

With her free hand, Allie tapped a finger on her chin, trying to think of any errands they needed to run while out and about. "If we're out long enough, I'd love to grab lunch - there's a couple of diners that have popped up that seem good. I hear the Hylians are trying this new way of eating - they only eat vegetables! Isn't that wild? I don't think I could survive without meat," she laughed and swung the arm she held Julianna's hand with back and forth jovially. "I think they called it being a veggie-tarian? Something like that?"

**Z64** · 07-14-2020, 08:16 PM

"Veggie-tarian?" Juli asked, trying to remember if she'd heard of it. "I don't think it's for me either, but it's not the weirdest thing. I mean, Gorons already eat rocks, so..."

As Juli finished her sentence, the pair passed by Clock Town's center plaza. It was a open, wide circled-shape area, currently packed with multitudes of street vendors selling various wares. The town's namesake, the clock tower, sat in the middle dwarfing even the closest buildings.

Doing a quick scan of the area, Juli couldn't help but be reminded of Tarrey Town, which had a center plaza with a similar layout. Even when she tried to look solely at the tower, she pictured the fountain which took the same spot in her hometown. You know, your great-grandparents were married right here, the voice of her mother spoke from a distant memory. Juli shook her head, trying to escape the thoughts with very little success. As she kept walking, she forgot to comment on Allie's mention of lunch.

**amaterasu** · 07-18-2020, 08:09 PM

"Yeah, but aren't Gorons also made of rocks?" Allie asked. "I hear they make really good food up on Death Mountain, but I haven't had a chance to fly up there myself. Most of the service trips get handed off to Gorons who know the lay of the land better anyway." she pouted for a second, then perked back up. "Anyway! Lunch! I wouldn't mind trying something veggie-tarrian if you'll try it with me," she smiled brightly at Julianna, blissfully unaware of the turmoil her friend was going through.

**Z64** · 08-01-2020, 07:52 PM

(OoC: this post was made with permission of both members)

Juli and Allie ran errands the whole day and cooked a nice dinner for themselves before going to sleep. The next morning both girls woke up early, excited to head to the fair. After a quick breakfast and some last minute fussing over outfits, the two left Clock Town.

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