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Nyx Ulric ([personal profile] nyxus) wrote in [community profile] thisavrou_log2017-05-20 12:15 pm

burger flippiiiiin

Who: Nyx & Anybody
When: Morning and Evening, end of May
Where: Pax Hamburgana
What: Working hard, or hardly working? Stop by for service with a smile! :D
Warnings: G. I will switch to brackets if you prefer that!


e a r l y.

The diner didn't serve breakfast, though understandably there still had to be someone there relatively early. Prep work needed to be done: goodies baked, beans boiled, dough kneaded, pickles sliced, and so on. Nyx wasn't really a morning person but he didn't mind taking the early shifts. One benefit was that he could play music as loud as he wanted to and sing along while he worked without worrying about anyone interrupting his (non-existent) musical talents.

This morning in particular a song with a heavy beat and danceable melody came on, which had Nyx not only singing along but dancing back and forth around the kitchen as he put together the ingredients for the Strawberry Rhubarb Pie. Personally he hated the taste of the pie, but it sure did smell wonderful baking. He was in a good mood, and entirely unaware that he hadn't locked up the diner after himself, nor did he hear any sounds of anyone coming in.

l a t e.

Nights like this reminded him of the bar he and Libertus ran back home. It was dark outside, there were only a few stragglers left eating or drinking, and the mood was super mellow. He was tired; it had been a long day. It had been a profitable day though and Nyx was pretty sure that Kaz Grumpyface Miller might even be pleased with the ledger. No new customers had come in during the past half hour and he began his nightly cleaning ritual.

Nyx might have not had the most spotless apartment but when it came to his job, he was meticulous. He loved the idea of every piece of cooking equipment from the stove to the spatula being shiny and glittering clean. There was something therapeutic about it. Or, maybe, he told himself that because going home alone to an empty apartment really sucked after awhile. Whatever the reason, Nyx was not afraid to use all the elbow grease he had to make sure the stove had not even a micro-atom of grease anywhere on it.
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[personal profile] ultravires 2017-05-27 08:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Ardyn had an ambiguous smile. His eyes followed Nyx’s face and his lips as if waiting for further explanation to the joke to help him make sense of it. When none came he shook his head and he looked down to his dough and shrugged one shoulder. The many that he’s healed in the past, the many that he’s risen up from darkness in more recent history. Perhaps he was a father of some sorts.

Perhaps he was a force of science against the natural womb of bearing children in the ways he created his own fledglings. Yet, Nyx did not fit into any of what children he had previously created.

“I don’t think I could have ever create something so bright from my darkness.”