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A Strange Coin (Three Trinities Haven Church) - Tatyana - 01-16-2025
Tatyana looked at the odd coin in her hand with its strange grinning face. She’s never seen anything like it. The first thought that went through her head was she could sell it. It had to be worth something. Tatyana pulled out her stash, a metal container that held her pills in it. Opening it she could see she was running low. She’d had to ration them until she could find more cash. This coin might be enough to get her more though.
The more she looked at it, however, the more she didn’t want to sell it. Tatyana wanted to know what it was and why it was here. It had been the clinking sound that drew her to it. Someone had dropped it - or possibly thrown it. Why - she didn’t know. Still she looked around. No one was around or they were hiding. It didn’t matter. The coin was hers now. She put it in her stash with her pills.
She had originally come here for solitude, but now that her high was wearing down she was more amiable to company. Not that she wanted to talk, but she didn’t want to freeze and the church housed refugees. She wasn’t one, but she doubted they would turn her away because of that. She went back to the church, passing by the unconscious bodies of the men that had tried to steal her food. She thought about the fight. Tatyana was strong, but not so strong that she should have been able to kick one man across the entire alley. Today was a day for strange occurrences.
Tatyana arrived back at the church and going to the area were the refugees stayed she found a place to sit alone. She then felt a tear begin to fall, a sign the numbness was going away.
Fuck! she thought.
She was supposed to ration, but she figured one more wouldn’t hurt today. The high might even ease her into sleep later. She opened her stash and took out the coin and one pill, which she took with a sip of water from her canteen. It would take time for the high to take effect, but the knowledge it was coming kept the demons at bay. She held on to the coin and contemplated it.
RE: A Strange Coin (Three Trinities Haven Church) - Nox - 01-18-2025
Morgan & Mackenzie
Morgan missed Nox. He'd been gone so long, but his home was her home and Kallisti was warm when they needed a place to stay away from the crowd. And now Kenzie was happy here, with him gone. but she liked the others. And recently there were more of them, more kids. And they seemed happy. Morgan wanted to visit more often. Kenzie didn't so today they played at the chruch.
A woman who just started hanging around had a shiny coin in her hand. Morgan went up to the stranger. Kenzie grabbing on to her and keeping here away. "That's pretty. It looks like something I've seen around here before." Morgan didn't remember where, but she'd seen it while she was playing.
RE: A Strange Coin (Three Trinities Haven Church) - Tatyana - 01-19-2025
Two little girls approached Tatyana. One excited and the other trying to pull her away. They had dirty faces, but Tatyana could tell they were clearly twin sisters. Tatyana usually didn’t smile, but seeing these girls for some reason reminded her of better times. When she was that age, he dad had been teaching her how to fight. She missed those sessions.
”It really is pretty, isn’t it?” Tatyana said, giving the girls an encouraging smile. ”You say you’ve seen something like this before? Do you know what it means?”
The coin really intrigued her. Why was it thrown into that alley? No one else had been around. Tatyana was sure it was for her. All things had a price. What was the price of this coin?
”My name is Tatyana. What is yours?” she asked, the friendliness surprising her.