Much deserved fun

[a_time_slip]

Instead of popping up in Julian's place uninvited, Janie knocked on his door a few minutes after she got the last note from him.

She knocked, and waited for him to get to the door.

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[lostinthefog]

"Thank you for bringing me here."

He raised his gaze to see what Janie was pointing at, just in time to see the greenish shimmer getting slowly larger, constantly moving, shifting, changing.

"Wow", he muttered for the second time today, and probably not for the last.

[a_time_slip]

"You're welcome... any time." She was silent as she watched the lights, amazed at the natural phenomenon. "You'd think, with traveling all around the universe and time, that I'd take time out to see something like this and I haven't."

[lostinthefog]

Julian joined her in watching silently for a while, enjoying to see for real what he only knew from pictures.

"Hm. Too busy?"

[a_time_slip]

"No. I've got time, but I force myself to focus on things. Work, or kids or anything but spending time on stuff like this. I'm not sure why I do it."

[lostinthefog]

"Focussing is good, and surely necessary, when you have such important things to focus on. But don't you need a break sometimes? For me, doing things like this, being in such awesome places, is relaxing like little else."

[a_time_slip]

"I suppose I do. Yes, I need a break, but then I start to think of all the things that need to be done and I can't bring myself to relax."

[lostinthefog]

"Yeah, I know that feeling." He paused a moment, still staring at the sky. "Is it like that now, too?"

[a_time_slip]

"No." she smiled a bit "I think it's because I know I can go back and not lose any time."

[lostinthefog]

"Yeah? I'm glad. It'd be sad if I were the only one who's enjoying this. Sharing the experience is much better."

[a_time_slip]

"Yes. We'll have to do something else like this one day."

[lostinthefog]

"Sure! I'd love to." He gazed at the sky and the marvelous lights for a little longer, until he began to feel the cold.

"What would you say about getting some food?"

[a_time_slip]

"Yes, we should. Um, do you know where to go?" She still gazed at the sky, taking in every detail that she could and committing it to memory.

[lostinthefog]

"I have to admit I'm not quite sure where we are. Can you get us to the nearest city? There'll probably be plenty of restaurants to choose from."

He couldn't resist glancing up every now and then, the spectacle was hypnotic.

[a_time_slip]

"Yes. I will use the teleport, whenever you're ready?" She programmed it, then went back to looking at the lights.

[lostinthefog]

One last, long, wistful glance and he nodded.

"I am."

[a_time_slip]

"We can always come back." she offered, before taking his arm and teleporting them to the nearest city.

[lostinthefog]

Julian nodded when he heard Janie's offer, nevertheless the first thing he did when they arrived in the city was to look up to the sky. The lights were still there, but much harder to see from here due to all the light around.

He started looking for a restaurant instead, one that offered Norwegian cuisine.

"I think there's something, at the end of that road ..." He pointed at a sign in the distance.

[a_time_slip]

"Do you want to walk, or... get there quickly?" she asked, looking up and around. She wouldn't have minded the walk, but didn't know how hungry her friend was.

[lostinthefog]

"I'd like to walk, look around a little. What about you?"

It was a quite pretty city with a port, well worth a look. The houses were comparably small and some of them painted in bright colors. The salty smell of the sea was all around and stronger in the direction in which Julian had pointed.

[a_time_slip]

"I would, yes. It's nice here."

The houses all seemed pretty, and she hadn't been to a place where she could just look around for quite some time.

[lostinthefog]

"Yes, I like it, too. I've seen it only on pictures ..." He started walking, hardly looking ahead because he wanted to take in his surroundings. There were plenty of cafes and shops, some of them already closed because of the late hour, and of course restaurants, most of them advertising their seafood.

[a_time_slip]

"You've one up on me then." smiled Janie, also looking around "I love how colorful it is here. It's nice, lovely even."

[lostinthefog]

"Yeah. It looks so friendly, doesn't it?"
In some distance, there seemed to be a river, then the sea. But before that, the sign Julian had seen came closer. It belonged to a cozy restaurant at a corner of the wide road.
"Looks like we might get that reindeer steak here. What do you think?"

[a_time_slip]

"It does... It reminds me of- I'm not sure, but it had to be something good."

She looked toward the river and the sea, then to the restaurant and nodded. "Yes, lets get some food."

[lostinthefog]

Julian noticed Janie's look and grinned. "I'm sure we're going to need a good, long walk afterwards anyway, so we'll get to see a lot more of it."

With that, he held open the restaurant's door.