A Church in Midtown | Thursday Afternoon

This was the closest Annie had come to feeling really at peace in...days. Weeks? Being in Fandom had calmed her down, seeing her mom had been cathartic, but this was...almost peaceful.

She had been feeling somewhat at odds with her faith ever since Believe Expo. She'd always been able to fall back on her relationship with God as something she could count on, but it was getting increasingly difficult to believe that any loving god would allow...all of this. Vought experimenting on babies. Her mother lying to her for Annie's entire life. Flight 37. The disgusting money-making machine that was the corporation she worked for.

But this - sitting in a church, with its vaulted ceilings and stained glass, and listening to the choir rehearse - was almost enough to make Annie reach for prayer. Just to sort out her thoughts, to arrange her feelings into an order she could understand.

Maybe she'd get there. She kind of missed talking to Him.

( But of course, Annie can't even get a moment of peace in her own church )

[taken from The Boys 1.08, "You Found Me," usual warnings for language apply and preplayed with myself! NFB/NFI/OOC welcome per usual!]

Vought Tower | Thursday Evening

Starlight was drunk. Drunk enough to not feel self-conscious in her new outfit here, in the middle of this party, where Ashley had basically begged her to wear this uniform rather than the family-friendly one. Drunk enough to do as she was told and allow this Navy man in dress whites to hold her ungloved hand and flirt with her. Not so drunk that she didn't feel like absolute dirt about it, but drunk enough to get through it.

She wasn't drunk enough to trip in her heels as she hurried away from him a moment later, her smile vanishing as soon as she'd made it to the stairs.

But she was drunk enough that she threw up as soon as she got to the bathroom. But then she felt a lot better, so there was that.

( Starlight had whipped past her coming up the stairs, and Maeve didn't like that she still had the impulse to check on her, but she did, so here she was )

[taken from The Boys 1.08, "You Found Me." Sure, open for calls and texts, make me figure out where she keeps her phone in the bodysuit.]