Picky Eaters [Felix]

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September 29, 2025
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Eeva held a map in one hand, and her eyes intently staring down at it. It was her first time in London. Hell, it was her first time in England. The circus had come here a few times, but she'd never come with them when they visited the country. Mostly just due to timing though. IT was always when she'd wanted to take a vacation and visit some exotic location. This time though, she'd made sure to come. Because she needed answers. Answers she couldn't get overseas. 

Though, before she did that, she needed to stop by some shop and pick up an order the circus had put in for Abraxan feed. The horses were a picky bunch (Eeva knew well, as she was the one that trained them), and so they wouldn't accept anything less then the brand they liked. But this stupid map was confusing as hell. She turned it over, thinking that seh was perhaps reading it upside down. It made even less sense. While she'd had plenty of time to master english it didn't mean it was her favorite language to read. Especially on a tiny map like this. Immediately she realized that the map made a bit more sense (as she had been holding it upside down before). Now... just to figure out where she was. She looked up, her eyes scanning the shops around her, then back down at the map, to find them on the map. Where in the world was this blasted Menagerie? 

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September 29, 2025

Felix had been out running a few errands elsewhere in Diagon Alley and was on his way back to the ice cream parlor when the sight of another pedestrian stopped him in his tracks. It had been years, but he was certain that he recognized the relatively young woman walking past, even if her face was obscured by some sort of reading material. From his vantage point, Felix couldn't tell what it was in which she'd found herself so engrossed, but he really hoped that she wasn't doing it to that she could escape his family's notice.

"Hannah!" he called after her, knowing that there was no way that she wouldn't have heard him.

He knew that Ilija was apparently no longer in a relationship with Hannah, but they had been together for so many years. As evasive as Ilija had been about how things had ended between them, Felix still considered her as family. There was one little hiccup: He hadn't come out as transgender since he had last seen her in person, but he hoped that she would still recognize him.

@eeva

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September 29, 2025
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Eeva was pulled from her thoughts, and attempt to figure out where she was going, by a loud voice, calling after her. Though, it couldn't be her they were yelling to, as it'd been a name. Hannah. It wasn't familiar to her, aside from just being a name. Likely someone had just seen someone they knew that was ahead of her. But as she glanced up to stare at store signs, she realized that no heads turned. interesting. Ah well, wasn't really her concern, was it? She stopped walking to stared down at the map again, squinting just a little as she tried to read the very small text on the map. She turned where she stood, trying to see the sign of the shop she'd just passed, when she finally caught sight of a young man. He was turned towards her, looking right at her. It was a bit unnerving. It wasn't one of those careless, just glancing around stares where you happened to look at just the right moment. He was definitely looking at her.

"Um... hello? Can I help you?" She asked slowly in her thick accent.

(... I didn't notice you responded to this >.<)

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September 29, 2025

It took the woman whom Felix presumed to be Hannah a moment to realize that she had been spoken to and to acknowledge him, though her expression showed no sign of her recognizing him. "Um… hello?" she started, obviously hesitating. "Can I help you?"

Felix suddenly understood her confusion but was awfully surprised, himself. He had assumed that she didn't recognize him because of the fact that he was transitioning, but it wasn't that. From the accent in which she spoke, she was clearly not Hannah and presumably just a tourist from somewhere. She could have been Hannah's twin, though, Felix thought to himself; she looked that much like her. Apart from her voice, he didn't think that he would have known that it wasn't actually Hannah there.

He knew that he needed to apologize, because it was his own fault. She wasn't who he had expected her to be, even if he was still somewhat amazed that he wasn't conversing with Hannah herself. It was kind of a shame, too; it had been so long since he had seen her, and he loved the thought of being able to catch up with her.

"Sorry," Felix told the woman quickly, still trying to shake that she wasn't Hannah. "I, er… I thought you were someone else." He didn't want to be creepy about it. Telling a perfect stranger how much she looked like someone he knew wouldn't really be helpful to her; it would probably just freak her out. After all, how much could two people who were likely unrelated to each other and had never once crossed paths actually look alike?

@eeva

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September 29, 2025
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The young man seemed to take a moment to realize she'd spoken to him, but then he recovered and was apologizing. Eeva blinked, before holding up the map in her hands. He finished speaking and it finally made sense. Ah, he'd mistaken her for someone else. Of course. That made more sense. After a moment Eeva smiled softly. "It's alright," she answered. No doubt she'd done the same thing before. It especially wasn't surprising considering how many red heads were around these parts. She knew red hair was quite common in the UK, as the young man had red hair himself!

Though, now that this young man was here, and he seemed to be quite familiar with the area considering that he didn't have a map (unlike her), she realized that this was a prime opportunity to ask for assistance. "Actually, are you from around here?" she found herself starting to ask. "I'm trying to find a shop called Magical Menagerie, but I can't seem to find it." She raised the map in her hand a little, pointing out that she definitely was not a local, or even been here long enough to be familiar with the area. "Could you perhaps point me in the right direction?'

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September 29, 2025

Still stunned by how closely this stranger resembled Hannah, Felix took a second to recover from the fact that she wasn't and the embarrassment of his having mistaken a stranger for somebody else. Luckily, the other redhead who wasn't actually Hannah didn't take offense to his error and assured him that it was alright. It could have been worse, Felix supposed, including if the woman coincidentally happened to be named Hannah, too.

If thinking that she had been someone else hadn't been enough, he was caught off guard when the stranger spoke to him again. "Actually, are you from around here?" she wondered, also a sure sign that she really wasn't Hannah. "I'm trying to find a shop called Magical Menagerie, but I can't seem to find it." She then indicated the map in her hands. "Could you perhaps point me in the right direction?"

Felix nodded. He was certainly from "around there", and he knew precisely where Magical Menagerie was. He wondered if there was actually anything that he didn't know about Diagon Alley, in fact. "Yeah," he told the stranger, "it's down a bit farther." He gestured to indicate the direction in which the store could be found. "When you hear loads of creatures," he noted, "you'll know you're almost there." Luckily, Diagon Alley wasn't too difficult to navigate, provided that one didn't accidentally wind up in Knockturn Alley instead. In that case, it would be a little trickier—mostly because the people who tended to hang around those parts weren't always the most trustworthy, to put it lightly.

Not wanting the stranger to take a wrong turn, though, Felix glanced at her map. "I can show you on your map, if that's easier for you?" he added. That way, if she needed to make multiple trips to the shop, she could do so with less chance of getting turned around.

@eeva