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[freebitchbaby]

Who| Gaila and open
What| Making herself available
Where| Tribute tower lounge, out and about in the Capitol and in several bars
When| Today!

It wasn't unusual for the red-headed alien to be found swanning about. Ever since leaving the arena she'd been doing everything that she could to schmooze potential sponsors. Sponsors, which meant Captiol citizens, meant having the best equipment and seeing that she was already weaker than her human counterparts she needed that help.

That being said, as she sat in the lounge sipping a very large glass of overly carbonated soda, her feet were seriously beginning to ache from all this promenading about on the arm of some rich citizen. Back to being a status symbol again. At least she was better equipped to deal with it than some of the tributes.

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[revvinguptheharley]

And some tributes, didn't seem to mind either way.

Harley enjoyed going out and about to parties, but the more upper class they were the more bored she got.

Which is what would cause her latest shopping spree. She came skipping into the lounge with bags on each arm, stuffed dolls peeking out of the top of them.

"Gal Pal!" She cheered in her usual robust greeting to the green skinned idol of man, and proceeded to trot over to greet her.

[freebitchbaby]

"Hey girl." Gaila waved, too lazy to get up out of her seat to greet Harley properly. Maybe she would be able to get one of the mutes - Avoxes was it? - around here to give her a piggyback back to her room if she really couldn't muster the will to walk.

"Been out and shopping?" She questioned even though she knew the answer to the question. "Get anything cuter than you?"

[revvinguptheharley]

"Aww you're sweeter then ice cream!" Harley cooed setting her bags down as she arrived at the red haired girls side. She dug around and produced a plush yellow flower with a bright smiling face and two proud leaves. It began to wobble and wiggle as soon as it was exposed to light.

"It's so cute! And goofy looking! And I love how it wiggles." She declared proud of her find.

[freebitchbaby]

"Oh my God that is freakin' cute!" Gaila grinned, leaning forward to giggle at it. She would have to task her stylist with getting her one immediately for her room. There wasn't nearly enough real plants around here. "Like serious, where did you even find that?"

[revvinguptheharley]

"There's this shop down the street from my favorite Ice Cream joint. Zmax! It had all kinds of toys and things, from the high tech to what they call "Charming" To give an example she drew out a handful of rubber balls and began juggling them easily.

[freebitchbaby]

Gaila giggled. "Duuude. How'd you even do that?" Kevin Riley at the Academy had attempted to teach her to juggle to no avail. "I can never concentrate on all've them at once."

[revvinguptheharley]

"It's all about timing." She purred and kept the pace, while her eyes were on Gaila. "Practice makes perfect of course." She began to do a couple tricks, flicking a ball behind her and up over her shoulder only to catch it in the front.

"Sides, I'm sure you can do all sortsa stuff I can't do."

[freebitchbaby]

"Nothing I'm allowed to do in public, apparently." Gaila answered, sitting crosslegged on her couch and watching in near silent amazement.

[revvinguptheharley]

"Aw nuts to that." Harley declared and casually flipped a ball in front of her, kicking it with her foot to send it up over her head. With the same ease of someone bending over to pick up a coin she flipped her leg back and kicked the ball again with her heel putting it back over her head where she snatched it out of the air and had it rejoin the two she had been tossing about in it's absence.

[freebitchbaby]

If Gaila could have been greener with envy she would have been. The show of dexterity and concentration was attracting a few stared from the other people in the bar's lounge. All the same, she smiled.

"Jeeze, talk about keepin' all your balls in the air."

[revvinguptheharley]

Harley winked and with subtly ended the act by throwing the balls high into the air and dancing back and forth pretending to try and catch them. But with comical timing each one bounced off her head rolling in different directions. The last one landed in a drink splashing Harley with the alcohol. The viewers laughed and some clapped giving Harley the attention she so adored.

[freebitchbaby]

Gaila squealed at the splash, trying her best to make sure it didn't get on any of her clothes. She didn't need to be getting sticky this early in the day after all.

[revvinguptheharley]

"Sorry" Harley flailed plucking the ball from the glass and then chasing after the others. "Casualties of comedy." She giggled to herself dropping the toys back into her bag.

[tis_allgood]

Cuthbert just stares at the green woman, not bothering to be discreet.

[freebitchbaby]

Gaila was used to stares.

For one, she was smoking hot so there was that, then, there was the fact that she was unrepentantly green and the red hair did nothing to make her less noticeable.

As such she had developed a wide variety of ways of dealing with starers depending on how she felt at the given time. Thankfully for Cuthbert, the Orion was in a relatively good mood. She stuck her tongue out and crossed her eyes at him in a playful attempt to shock him, before waving and bursting into a fit of giggles. Humans were so very odd sometimes.

[tis_allgood]

He blushed a little at being caught, but he was smiling all the same. It didn't take much to get him to come over and talk to her. But that didn't mean he had to be nice about it.

"Not very ladylike behavior."

[freebitchbaby]

"I've been called a lotta things in my life, sweetie, but ladylike had never been one of them." Quite the opposite. She'd once made a living out of doing things that no respectable lady would and enjoyed it quite vociferously. "And I wasn't the one standing about like a phaser half-shot." She challenged with a cheeky smile.

[tis_allgood]

"I don't meet a lot of ladies quite your... shade. And I suppose I should be glad to hear you're not that sort of lady."

He has more fun with the women who aren't ladylike, even if he knows he shouldn't.

[freebitchbaby]

"Woman, sweetie." She corrected. "I'm not a lady, I'm a woman. Never had a title and sure as hell wouldn't want one." And there was no point in pretending to be something that she wasn't. Gaila took a sip of her soda and gestured for him to sit down.

"And you wont've. Not a lot of us manage to leave the planet."

[tis_allgood]

"Not many men of my world leave the planet either, and yet here I am, the only Gunslinger in all The Capitol."

He took a seat and relaxed. He didn't want to argue with her about titles, it was a fight he was destined to lose.

"What are you drinking? And how might I get some?"

[freebitchbaby]

"Well, look at us, a pair of anomalies then." Gaila commented flippantly.

"Soda." She replied. "It's carbonated water that tastes good." And it had most of the sugars that she needed to get her mildly tipsy without poisoning her like certain alcohols could. "Tell one of the Avoxes you want one. They'll bring it over." She gestures at one of the silent servants to point them out to him.

[tis_allgood]

"I try not to talk to those poor souls. I feel bad enough knowing they are forced into servitude here."

That broke the mood some. He watched the bubbles float to the top of Gaila's drink. Which gave him an idea on how to turn things around.

"Mayhap I can have a taste of yours..."

[freebitchbaby]

Gaila bit her tongue. She wanted to comment that some slaves bettered themselves and ended up equals but she knew that wouldn't do any good for the conversation.

"Help yourself, sweetie." She passed the glass over without a second thought. Sharing things was common on Orion.

[tis_allgood]

He brightened a little at being called 'sweetie', he always loved a good nickname. He took a sip and made a face, first in pain and then surprise.

"Gan! 'Tis sweeter than I could have expected. Do you drink this all the time?"

[freebitchbaby]

Gaila giggled. Geeze, did they not have soda where he came from?

"Yeah, I can't drink much booze, too much of it is poisonous to my species. Sugar on the other hand can get me nice'nd buzzed without killing me off." She replied with a grin. "How've you never had soda before?"