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Entry tags:	larps goth patricia mckillip charlaine h

Leo the LARPer!

Kaitlin and I were going to go hang out at the beach today.  The beach here isn't like you see in a movie - sun, sand, beautiful tan people in barely any clothes.  It's flat and rocky and cool to cold, and we tend to be pretty bundled up, most of the time.  But we were going to do one of my favorite things, pack a lunch and a couple blankies, go down to the shore and read or write in our journals - that's the one the world will never see. \;+)  Stace and I do that a lot.  He even fixed his iPod headset so that it has two sets of ears, so we can both listen, as long as we're sitting fairly close together.  He took that to Scotland with him, though, and I didn't feel like trying to drag a radio.  Hey.  I just thought.  He's over there with his double head set.  He better not be sharing that with some Scottish hussy!  With all those hulking redheads running around, a cute little gothy like Stace will probably be in major demand.

So, anyway, we expected it might rain, but we were going to give it a try - you know goths like a gloomy atmosphere - then we got thunderstorms.  I may like atmosphere, but I'm not stupid enough to go where I'm the tallest thing around, wearing silver amulets, and there's thunder and lighting going on.  So, no beach. Kaitlin and her dad were picking me up at the shop.  It's only a few blocks to the beach, but since they're new in town, her parents are kind of overprotective.  She says they're always like that in a new place, and they'll relax in a while. We decided to go to the Library instead.

Our city Library is pretty small, but it's got some good stuff there.  I thought we were going to have to sneak the food in and sit in the back, 'cause our Librarian is a real pain about stuff like that, but there was some guy I'd never seen at the desk. We sat at the back but where we could see the front door, just in case Miss Bracken was only at lunch or something.

This area has so many Wiccans and Pagans, they have good references and histories.  And a good fantasy section in fiction.  I've been reading Patricia A. McKillip, Winter Rose.  It's so good, so beautiful.  I know just how Rois feels, being different.  It hurts my heart to read it sometimes, but it's a good kind of hurt. Anywaddles, I don't read that with other people around.  I have to be alone for that.  But they have all the Sookie Stackhouse books by Charlaine Harris.  Now those are funny.  Kaitlin had never read any of them, so I showed her where they were.

She was reading and I was staring around, thinking about nothing.  You know, how you can do?  And this goth god walks in the front door.  I have never seen anything even remotely like him around here, unless a band came through or something.  I mean, he looked so cool, not like an ordinary mortal.  Like he was a faerie, but this guy was not using glamour.  He was just plain hunkalicious, in a long-haired, pale and dark way.  I couldn't get my jaw shut.  I swear my chin was on my chest.  ;+)))  So, Kaitlin looks up, turns to see what I'm goggling at, then she calls out, "Hey, Leo!"  OMG, I thought, she knows him?

Turns out, Leo, short for Leopold, is her cousin from Germany. He's into LARPs, and he was in Seattle for some conference or something, so he came up to visit the relatives.  Don't feel bad if you don't know what LARPs are.  I didn't either, so, I had to play along and pretend I knew what he was talking about.  Turns out it's those things where people get in costumes and play fictional characters or something.  LARP means live action role playing.  He was telling me about a LARP he was in over the winter that was based on Storm Constantine's Wraeththu books.  Damn, did I spell that right?  Which are very cool, but only guys.  No fair. (Although, you'd never get me to one of those.)

We started making too much noise talking, and Miss Bracken had snuck in when I didn't see her, so we got thrown out.  ;+)))  Leo had his car there and wanted to take us for coffee.  I knew my mother wouldn't want me to go without meeting him.  I felt like a dweeb, but I said I needed to go by the shop first.  Leo didn't act like that was weird, and Kaitlin is used to her own parents, so it was okay.  More soon.

Griz