I lived there for a little while when I was nine or ten. [ This is the easiest segue into her life, might as well start young, and she grabs two coffee mugs as she smiles fondly in remembrance. ] I found a cat and a cute boy, while my uncle was digging up artifacts. That was in nineteen...twenty-eight, somewhere in there.
[ With the living room decided on, Claire slides the plate of cookies over. ] Then that's what we'll do, and thank you. I'll be right behind you with the coffee. [ Busying herself with getting everything arranged on a tray, she knows it would be easier and certainly much faster to simply let the Horizon do all of the work. She likes it though, likes being busy with her hands, so in her own domain, she usually does the work.
When she gets to the living room, the tray is put down on the table in front of them, milk and sugar there if Annabeth wants it. Pouring the coffee, she picks up her anecdote about Cairo once she settles on the couch. It's cozy but not too deep so no one struggles to get up, the cushions a deep navy blue with dark wood trim. ]
If my memory's correct, we were in Egypt around sixteen months, and then we went somewhere in the East. It all blurs together a bit sometimes, we moved so often. I think that's why a home like this was the first thing that came to mind when I made it to the Horizon. It's a home I chose, something I had a say in.
[ It's the same with her home in Solvunn and why it means something to her. The home she lived in for 20 years raising her daughter never felt like her home. Frank picked it, Frank hired the decorator for it, Frank loved it. Frank brought his mistress there. It was never Claire's to sink roots into, she never wanted to be there in the first place. ]
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[ With the living room decided on, Claire slides the plate of cookies over. ] Then that's what we'll do, and thank you. I'll be right behind you with the coffee. [ Busying herself with getting everything arranged on a tray, she knows it would be easier and certainly much faster to simply let the Horizon do all of the work. She likes it though, likes being busy with her hands, so in her own domain, she usually does the work.
When she gets to the living room, the tray is put down on the table in front of them, milk and sugar there if Annabeth wants it. Pouring the coffee, she picks up her anecdote about Cairo once she settles on the couch. It's cozy but not too deep so no one struggles to get up, the cushions a deep navy blue with dark wood trim. ]
If my memory's correct, we were in Egypt around sixteen months, and then we went somewhere in the East. It all blurs together a bit sometimes, we moved so often. I think that's why a home like this was the first thing that came to mind when I made it to the Horizon. It's a home I chose, something I had a say in.
[ It's the same with her home in Solvunn and why it means something to her. The home she lived in for 20 years raising her daughter never felt like her home. Frank picked it, Frank hired the decorator for it, Frank loved it. Frank brought his mistress there. It was never Claire's to sink roots into, she never wanted to be there in the first place. ]