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Exciting Mail Fraud
Dramatis Personae Alice, Blink
In Absentia	2016-06-25 "Minor romance is good, too!"
Location <NYC> Blink's Apartment - Brooklyn
This efficiency is small and ancient and poorly maintained. The plaster walls are peeling and discolored, the linoleum floor buckling where it's not covered with threadbare rugs. There isn't much in the way of furniture, just a sagging futon, a coffee table, and a few chairs and bookshelves, all mismatched. The stuffy afternoon feels later in summer than it actually is, and the heat inside the apartment is even more stifling than outside. The window that does not abut the fire escape had been left wide open, but the breeze that stirs through it feels warm and thick. Alice shoulders the door shut behind her as she enters, wearing a white spaghetti strap top and tight capris in flame-colored geometric prints, and strappy black sandals. She carries a fat stack of mail in her hands, sorting through them as she goes. Tossing all of the junk mail into the recycling and grabbing a Lime Jarritos from the fridge, she pulls the other window open and climbs out onto the fire escape with the rest of the mail. A swirling purple vortex appears in the middle of the room, and Blink hops lightly out of it. She's dressed very lightly by her standards, a gauzy lavender peasant tunic and a ruffled three-tier skirt in darker purple, a crisp green sash cinched around her waist and a black courier bag over her shoulder. Her black-and-magenta hair is tied back into a single, thick, messy fishtail braid, with a bright blue chicory flower tucked at the left temple. She peers out the window, then goes to it, leaning out to read the letters over her sister's shoulder. "{Are you having very exciting mail fraud?}" she asks in sing-song Mandarin, reaching to snag an Official Looking envelope from the front of the stack. Alice only sees Blink out of the corner of one eye just in time to move the letters out of her reach. "{Super exciting,}" she insists, dangling the one Blink had reached for. Taunt, taunt! "How was your day? Any daring rescues? Near-misses with the cops? Grand romances and high adventure?" Blink vanishes in a whirl of purple light and reappears on the other side of Alice on the fire escape, snagging the letter from her grasp. "No daring rescues. One run-in with the police, but it wasn't even close." She's tearing open the envelope as she speaks, dropping down to sit cross-legged beside her sister. "Don't know if any of it qualifies as /grand/ romance, but a busker in South Street Seaport gave me a flower -- oh..." Her brows wrinkle as she peruses the letter. Alice does not seem surprised at all by Blink's sudden relocation, but she surrenders the letter easily all the same. "Minor romance is good, too!" She grins broadly, adjusting the flower on her sister's head. Continues to sort through the rest of the mail. Stops, when Blink trails off. "{What's wrong? Is it a bill?}" Blink shakes her head and presses her lips together. "{An eviction notice.}" She sighs. "From over a month ago." Taking the rest of the letters from Alice, she starts riffling through them. "I /really/ should remember to check my mailbox here more often, it's just, I get my official mail at the PO box..." "{Eviction?! What for?}" Alice doesn't wait for an answer, just snatches the open letter from her sister's hands. Her incredulous expression turns sour as she reads. "What the actual fuck --" She stops, glances sidelong at Blink. "Cuz you have an additional resident here not on your lease. That is some bullshit but..." She grits her teeth, hangs her head. "{I'm sorry, Sis.}" Blink gives up the eviction notice, but doesn't really go on to read the rest of her mail. "{It's just an excuse -- they would have found something else, if not this.}" She wraps an arm around Alice and touches her forehead to her sister's temple. "I never liked it here, anyway. We have time to find a new place. We'll start tomorrow. But first..." She presses a kiss to Alice's cheek as she rolls to her feet. "Let's get some food."