3. The Public Wants what the Public Gets Sitting and taking notes during the final town hall isn't too unusual, Reines likes to think. At least, she believes it shows no small amount of due diligence in wishing to meaningfully participate in republican matters, and showing an active interest in the politics of London.
Reines also believes she has a huge hand cramp from writing so quickly and on such a small notebook. The writing continues throughout the entire event, making no distinction between the speeches and Q&A. Mixed with quotations are personal notes, some a bit rude and the others a critique of how a particular matter is handled. Norrell is given no small amount of ink with his aggressive stance (Counterproductive) while Nora's have more notes of agreement than anything else.
But that's all nothing compared to the presidential speeches, which end up requiring Reines to take out a second pocket notebook before the whole thing is through. Come the end of the evening, Reines' hand is well and truly cramped, and she leans back in her seat towards the exit, letting her perfect facade fall for a moment to reveal how tiring she finds just listening to all of this.
4. Fire Festival Reines knows one truth, if there is any: Beltane is the best time to check in with allies. As a result, Beltane is the absolute busiest time of year for a young witch with no small amount of ambition, and that means she isn't at one or two Beletane celebrations. She is at all of them she can possibly get to, spending her time politely nibbling on whatever food's available, taking small sips of wine and nursing drinks so she can remain stone cold sober, and talking politely to anyone she pleases.
There's a goal in all of this - assess the pulse of things. It's an election season, which means that plenty of things can change in a few short weeks. She's happiest listening to others voice their opinions, while carefully ensuring that she says precious little about her own. Where things go in the next few weeks and months to come will impact what she does. There's family expectations to start genuinely entering politics now, and Reines expects confrontations if she doesn't take advantage of the current climate.
So she circulates. She talks. And most importantly, she listens.
5. Something Wicked This Way Comes The festival is done for Reines, as far as she's concerned. She appeared, she spoke to people worth speaking to while keeping an eye on others, and now, now it's time to go home and take advantage of how thin the line between worlds just so happens to be. After all, a practitioner of summoning magicks would be a goddamn fool not to take advantage of tonight and perhaps get in contact with a few fae.
But then, Reines knows, she has just as much a chance of walking into one on the street as she makes her way back home. So rather than take the tube back to Kensington, she walks, her heels clicking along quiet residential streets. She hums to herself, something light and airy with no particular lyrics, her pale blue eyes ever alert.
Reines Archisorte | Fate/ | Witch
Sitting and taking notes during the final town hall isn't too unusual, Reines likes to think. At least, she believes it shows no small amount of due diligence in wishing to meaningfully participate in republican matters, and showing an active interest in the politics of London.
Reines also believes she has a huge hand cramp from writing so quickly and on such a small notebook. The writing continues throughout the entire event, making no distinction between the speeches and Q&A. Mixed with quotations are personal notes, some a bit rude and the others a critique of how a particular matter is handled. Norrell is given no small amount of ink with his aggressive stance (Counterproductive) while Nora's have more notes of agreement than anything else.
But that's all nothing compared to the presidential speeches, which end up requiring Reines to take out a second pocket notebook before the whole thing is through. Come the end of the evening, Reines' hand is well and truly cramped, and she leans back in her seat towards the exit, letting her perfect facade fall for a moment to reveal how tiring she finds just listening to all of this.
4. Fire Festival
Reines knows one truth, if there is any: Beltane is the best time to check in with allies. As a result, Beltane is the absolute busiest time of year for a young witch with no small amount of ambition, and that means she isn't at one or two Beletane celebrations. She is at all of them she can possibly get to, spending her time politely nibbling on whatever food's available, taking small sips of wine and nursing drinks so she can remain stone cold sober, and talking politely to anyone she pleases.
There's a goal in all of this - assess the pulse of things. It's an election season, which means that plenty of things can change in a few short weeks. She's happiest listening to others voice their opinions, while carefully ensuring that she says precious little about her own. Where things go in the next few weeks and months to come will impact what she does. There's family expectations to start genuinely entering politics now, and Reines expects confrontations if she doesn't take advantage of the current climate.
So she circulates. She talks. And most importantly, she listens.
5. Something Wicked This Way Comes
The festival is done for Reines, as far as she's concerned. She appeared, she spoke to people worth speaking to while keeping an eye on others, and now, now it's time to go home and take advantage of how thin the line between worlds just so happens to be. After all, a practitioner of summoning magicks would be a goddamn fool not to take advantage of tonight and perhaps get in contact with a few fae.
But then, Reines knows, she has just as much a chance of walking into one on the street as she makes her way back home. So rather than take the tube back to Kensington, she walks, her heels clicking along quiet residential streets. She hums to herself, something light and airy with no particular lyrics, her pale blue eyes ever alert.