Here comes santa claus!

[callmeemily]

The holiday this year is so incredibly different than the last.

Last year? Raleigh was holed up in the boarding house, no one in 300 miles but her shitty boss knew her name, and she was so poor that she was eating rice, beans, and leftovers from the Seaside bakery.

This year, everything's changed. Orchard House is chugging along astoundingly well; Raleigh puts in long hours, but it's paying off. She's been able to hire somebody else to work the register, she's getting custom orders - the whole thing. She has friends. Honest to god friends, and she's got enough money that she's actually got presents for people. For a lot of people - it's a mix of cookies and things, but there's a little something for everybody piled on the table in the back corner, and one mass-text later she's humming through the bakery, music playing from the speakers, warm cider in a carafe, and everything's warm and cozy.

She looks at it, at this business that she's made with the help of this whole town, and she can't help but smile. Tonight? Spending tonight with friends and found-family? That's what this whole thing's about.

Gathering post! Raleigh will tag everyone who tags in, but feel free to tag one another, too. :) It's up to you if they have gotten a text, or just heard the music and seen the crowd. Everyone'll get something!

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[starsfallen]

"Davin?" Raleigh has gone off to mingle about the room, and Corry sips a mug of warm cider, looking for a friendly face. The one she finds may not yet be a friend, but she has not seen him since the cave and its great to see him looking far less - well, how they all looked. Desperate and desolate and barely clinging to hope.

"It's Davin, right?" She shines a smile his way, tipping her mug to him. "Merry Christmas."

[davin]

Davin turns at the sound of his name and is a little surprised to see Corrine. They had only talked a little during that whole thing with the kidnapping and he hasn't seen her since everyone was found safe, but that isn't surprising. They don't exactly run in the same circles. "Aye, that's me. Merry Christmas t'ya as well, Corrine. How'vw ya been?"