In the perfume shop
Feb 16, 2014 4:22:06 GMT -5
Post by Teja on Feb 16, 2014 4:22:06 GMT -5
Teja was working at the perfume shop as hard as she could, difficult granted as it wasn't a busy day - a busy day would have been better to get her mind off the atrocious and anxiety-filled night she'd had, out at the opera with a society of vampires and an emotionally unavailable fiance she kept finding herself more and more distant from. Them being vampires was bad enough, but then their personal natures made it worse - the older patriarch, faintly judgmental and comfortably intimidating, the pretty woman who'd snubbed her and looked at her with gleeful condescension all night, and of course, Herbert, who Teja had never been that comfortable with. At the time she had not been hurt by his blunt statement that Teja could go but Loki had to stay, but the almost misogynist dismissal of her and her relationship with Loki eventually got through to her and she was still upset about it, on top of everything else. In fact she started to put together from everyone's behavior that that had been the real point of the evening. Not merely to get to know each other, not merely out of curiosity in Loki's god-self, but because Herbert desired to fuck him. Well, that was just lovely.
Herbert's motives were fairly plain - he was a blunt, childish... person, so to speak, and didn't bother hiding what he wanted or felt. The other two, she didn't have a very good read on. The girl was an enigma. There seemed to be no point to how she had treated Teja. What was her relationship to the Count? At first reference to her as his Sarah it had seemed sentimental, but despite a few exchanged smiles and the uncomfortable making out at the opera they seemed almost bored of each other, and frequently a little upset. He was rather snappish with her during Herbert's fit and if Herbert had fits often surely a more loving girlfriend would have acted concerned instead of bored? So perhaps Sarah was merely a roommate he sometimes slept with and they had known each other so long there was no longer a word for their relationship? Vampires might have different relationships due to their strange lifestyles and lifespans.
The Count was the strangest of all. She had felt so ill at ease with him, yet he also extended kindnesses to her for little reason, and a few times they had talked she had found it easy - he reminded her sort of of Veidt, though less glib. Veidt's glibness though seemed solely extant due to his experience as a public figure and Krolock had made a point of stating that he rarely went out even at home. So perhaps they were more similar than they looked on the outset. In either case he was straightforward if not transparent in the slightest. It was easier to talk to people like that. If he were merely focused on her fiance, why would he bother to speak to her at all? Perhaps it was only an attempt to be a gracious host. But that didn't account for everything, did it? Then again, whenever she'd spoken to Veidt it had been circumstantial, convenient. She didn't want to give herself any credit.
She sold a pair of coeds a new celebrity fragrance as an old woman came in, and Teja helped her find a perfume that she had worn decades ago. Once she'd sold it to her she was the only person in the shop, and Teja took this time to turn her back to the door and set a summer ad. Conveniently, she did not realize somebody else had come in as the last customer exited...
Herbert's motives were fairly plain - he was a blunt, childish... person, so to speak, and didn't bother hiding what he wanted or felt. The other two, she didn't have a very good read on. The girl was an enigma. There seemed to be no point to how she had treated Teja. What was her relationship to the Count? At first reference to her as his Sarah it had seemed sentimental, but despite a few exchanged smiles and the uncomfortable making out at the opera they seemed almost bored of each other, and frequently a little upset. He was rather snappish with her during Herbert's fit and if Herbert had fits often surely a more loving girlfriend would have acted concerned instead of bored? So perhaps Sarah was merely a roommate he sometimes slept with and they had known each other so long there was no longer a word for their relationship? Vampires might have different relationships due to their strange lifestyles and lifespans.
The Count was the strangest of all. She had felt so ill at ease with him, yet he also extended kindnesses to her for little reason, and a few times they had talked she had found it easy - he reminded her sort of of Veidt, though less glib. Veidt's glibness though seemed solely extant due to his experience as a public figure and Krolock had made a point of stating that he rarely went out even at home. So perhaps they were more similar than they looked on the outset. In either case he was straightforward if not transparent in the slightest. It was easier to talk to people like that. If he were merely focused on her fiance, why would he bother to speak to her at all? Perhaps it was only an attempt to be a gracious host. But that didn't account for everything, did it? Then again, whenever she'd spoken to Veidt it had been circumstantial, convenient. She didn't want to give herself any credit.
She sold a pair of coeds a new celebrity fragrance as an old woman came in, and Teja helped her find a perfume that she had worn decades ago. Once she'd sold it to her she was the only person in the shop, and Teja took this time to turn her back to the door and set a summer ad. Conveniently, she did not realize somebody else had come in as the last customer exited...