[September]

[intheruins]

Even after having moved her belongings from her apartment in the city out into the countryside, Serena's house remains barren and desperately in need of decoration once having realized she had no furniture to her name. She hadn't minded too much what their house looked like in North Carolina – though of course, it was beautiful – but her priorities had been different then and she'd barely spent any time inside at all. Here, she has her son to think of, and she wants the place George is raised in to be warm.

So she's made an arrangement to go shopping with Edith, one of the few people in all of Darrow who might understand her sense of style – and why modern decor has her so at a loss. They decide on Törgt which is a store that she's never heard of – a fact that doesn't surprise her in the least. It's relatively inexpensive, though, and that's a selling point now that she's hardly wealthy.

George is sleeping in his pram as they wait by the entrance of the store for Edith, Serena turning through the pages of a catalogue and trying her best not to judge until she sees anything in person. Still, she can't help but think about what a waste of wood to lacquer it in such outrageous colors. There are scattered options that look like they might match what she has in the house already, but none of it has any soul to it and she can't help but gently sigh.

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[ghostsarereal]

Edith has never been to Törgt before. In fact, the very concept of it seems fantastically strange to her. Still, she's heard good things, and though she rarely uses her computer for anything more than writing, she'd managed to do a quick search for it, and it seemed like a promising place to find sturdy yet inexpensive furniture — a good option, then, for what Serena needs. With that being the case, she thinks it might well prove to be fun, anyway, or at least something like it. Better than one of the two of them tackling it alone, still so hopelessly out of their own times. There's an easy kinship to be found in that, something that she's noticed has been a foundation of a good number of her friendships here.

Spotting Serena and George by the entrance of the — admittedly rather daunting in size — store, she smiles as she approaches. "I haven't kept you waiting too long, have I?" she asks, then nods towards the magazine. "Any leads yet?"