Open Post: Hooked On A Feeling

[rememberettersberg]

What hobbies have you got? Susan had asked him, and he had to admit to not being sure. At school and for some time after, he played rugby. More recently, he only watched it on the television Peter had set up in the tech cave. Here at the mansion, he has books and research and the beginnings of mentoring, but it occurs to Nightingale that he has been building himself a facsimile of work and very little else. He's survived that way for half a century and been perfectly all right (though others may disagree with that assessment) but here, in this hinterland between realities, he is feeling a growing itch for... whimsy, perhaps.

At this moment, propping up the bar with a pint of bitter and a crochet hook, no one would dare accuse him of being whimsical. Nightingale is scowling fiercely at the hook, the yarn, his pint, and the book sitting open beside it. Company would be more than welcome.

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[involuntaryturncoat]

"Do all pastimes cause quite that expression on your face?" Asmodean asks as he walks in, head tilted curiously. "If so, I'm not exactly sure that you've found the right pastimes."

[timebethine]

Laertes has a habit of glancing into the bars as he passes, just in case Sagramore is there--but this time, he's a bit startled to see Nightingale both outside of his summer house and apparently engaged in a ferocious battle with a length of yarn. "Hallo," Laertes calls. "What are you making?"

[ravkanwitch]

Nina has been on the talent show warpath lately, which means she's been looking for him.

"Nightingale!" She says, brightly, spotting him at the bar. She stops short when she gets close. "Are you knitting?"

[wickedwit]

"Nightingale! Just the man I hoped to find," Claudius says, in that walk-and-talk tone he usually reserves for sharing developments with Crowley. He sidles up to the bar, and launches straight to the point. "Circumstances have shifted since last we spoke, and we may need to convene and strategize our next steps -- before or after speaking to Aziraphale. Are you busy now? What are you working on?" he asks with new curiosity, noticing the crochet hook and yarn. "Are you and Laertes exchanging pasttimes now?" Has Claudius ever seen Laertes crochet? No. Does it seem like something Laertes might pick up? Yes, absolutely.

[sagramore]

"Sir," warmly, as he enters with his books; he puts them down and gets out things to make himself a drink. "How are you?"