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@tfemersyn
TEXT: Everyone
Atlas: If I go AWOL, I don't want you to panic Atlas: Maybe I'll go back to New Jersey for a while... Atlas: Are you around right now?
@rededgerpstarterblog
Emersyn: This is a joke right. You can't go AWOL on me. You know I'll Track your ass down. Emersyn: I'm at the salon. Come see me.
Under the Sun Challenge - Pirate's Cove
By sunrise, Emersyn's phone hadn't stopped ringing. Residents wanted answers. Business owners wanted power restored. Volunteers needed direction. Every conversation ended the same way.
"What do we do now?"
As District Representative, the answer was hers to give.
She established Pirate's Pier as the district's primary cooling center. The amusement park had the largest open space and enough backup infrastructure to safely shelter hundreds of residents. Volunteers transformed the midway into an emergency relief site, handing out bottled water, cooling towels, and meals while checking on anyone showing signs of heat exhaustion. Her next decision was harder.
With rolling blackouts becoming unavoidable, electricity would be prioritized for homes with vulnerable residents before businesses. Families with elderly relatives, young children, or medical equipment received priority access. Businesses were told to shut down unless they provided an essential public service. The calls came almost immediately.
Mariana Florez and her family closed Florez Bar without argument, turning their refrigerated food into free meals for volunteers and shelter residents before it spoiled.
Not everyone accepted her decisions so gracefully. Owners questioned why they couldn't receive generator power to protect expensive inventory. Residents argued that if businesses were closing, they deserved compensation. Others demanded extra water simply because they had arrived first. Emersyn said no.
Water was distributed by household, with additional allotments reserved for the elderly, children, expectant mothers, and anyone with medical needs. Every resident, from Anastasia Hill to Yasmin Hadid, would receive enough to get through the day before anyone received extra.
The criticism spread faster than the heat. Some accused her of favoring friends. Others claimed she was hurting local businesses. A few insisted she wasn't acting quickly enough. She listened to every complaint. She changed none of the policies.
Late that evening, after checking the shelters one last time, Emersyn looked over the latest report. No fatalities. Only a handful of heat-related hospitalizations. Water reserves were low, but stable. Businesses had taken financial losses. Residents were frustrated. Her own salon would need weeks to recover. But every family in Pirate's Cove had made it through another day.
Leadership, she realized, wasn't measured by how many people applauded your decisions. It was measured by how many people were still alive to disagree with them tomorrow.
Emersyn at the Red Edge Festival
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"You think so? Think I'll make all the other players jealous?"
"Oh for sure. Just don't let them get broken by a stray puck."
"Uh, I was actually going to ask you if you knew how to get back." She admitted to her friend with a laugh. "I am so damn lost."
Emersyn laughed, the sound echoing over the busy street. "Well... that's comforting. Between the two of us, we've got exactly zero sense of direction." She hooked her arm through Elena's with a grin. "I vote we find food first and panic about getting back to the hotel later. Worst case, we bribe someone with Google Maps."
The only reason Devin where where she was, was because she had been here before with the family that she nannied for. Perks of being a live-in nanny meant she got to travel. She had just put her phone away when she spotted the other blonde and smiled. "I do know where we are. I've been here before, and it is just as wonderful then as it is now." She said. "You ready to go back or do you want to explore more?"
Emersyn smiled, looking equal parts relieved and amused. "I knew asking a familiar face would save me." She glanced down the glowing street before looking back at Devin. "Maybe just a little more exploring. I don't get to say I wandered Tokyo every day, and it's probably safer getting lost with someone who actually knows where they're going."
"There's not, but haven't you been crushing on this person since the day you met them?"
"Maybe. But it's complicated."
tfemersyn: Went to a Japanese Head Spa today. I really need to do this at the salon when we get back!
"Yeah, yeah, I'm fine. My head is just killing me." He admitted and rubbed his face. "I think I'm hungover."
"This is a little hungover? I'd hate to see you worse."
Atlas decided to take a walk and realized he was further than where he intended to go. When he spotted Emmy, he crossed the street and ran to his best friend. "Hey Emmy." He greeted with a small grin. "I do, considering that I came from that direction." He pointed from the way he came from. "What are you doing out so late? C'mon." He took the shopping bag from her. "Jesus Emmy, did you save enough tourist shopping for the rest of us?" He teases.
"Atlas!" Emersyn let out a relieved laugh when she saw him. "Thank God. I was about five minutes away from accepting my fate and becoming a permanent resident of Tokyo."
She rolled her eyes as he took the bag. "Excuse you, some of us are contributing to the local economy." Reaching over, she nudged his arm. "And for the record, half of that isn't even for me. What are you doing wandering around by yourself this late anyway?"
"Your training manual probably just got lost in the mail. Ironic, but if I were you I'd sue the post." He said as straight faced as he could as he prepared to lead them back until she continued.
"I mean, you're welcome to come along, but I should warn you, my intentions of getting lost may be a bit of the nefarious sorts. Trying to find something a little more entertaining than the sake I've found at every restaurant I've come across."
A grin tugged at Emersyn's lips. "That's either the best idea I've heard all day or the exact reason people end up in international incident documentaries."
She fell into step beside him anyway. "Lead the way, Captain. Let's see what Tokyo's got for us."
Liam couldn't help but notice the irony of how two goals can exist at such opposite ends of the spectrum. While she'd was at the point in her day where it was time to return home, he'd set out with the goal of getting lost. Felt a certain degree of confidence that what he was searching for would be much easier to come across once the sun had gone down.
"I don't mean to brag but, back home I live in PC. We pirates are great at following the stars. I should be able to get you back. Although I'll say, lost isn't always a bad place to be."
Emersyn laughed, shaking her head. "Funny, I live in Pirate's Cove too, and somehow that skill never rubbed off on me."
She glanced down the brightly lit street before looking back at him. "But maybe you're right. If we're already lost, we might as well see where Tokyo decides to take us first."
Tokyo felt different after dark.
Emersyn stood just outside a small convenience store in Shibuya, a canned coffee in one hand and a shopping bag dangling from the other. Neon signs painted the street in every color imaginable while crowds flowed around her like a river. She glanced down at her phone, realizing she'd somehow wandered farther from the hotel than she'd meant to.
Looking up, she spotted a familiar face in the crowd and let out a relieved laugh. "Please tell me you know how to get back to the hotel, because I'm about ninety percent sure I'm lost." @rededgerpstarterblog
"I'm keeping these sunglasses." Gage said with a laugh. "When my NHL season starts up again, I'm wearing these out on the ice, what do you think?" @rededgerpstarterblog
"I think you'll be the most stylish player on the ice."
"It's also great for anyone to track you." He shrugged. "And we both know I don't need a phone, I can just show up to see you."
"And yet you were just complaining you didn't know how to reach out. Make up your mind Florez."
"I'm sorry, what are you doing in my house? What time is it?" He looked at the person who was in his house. He clearly had gone all out the night before and was very much hungover. @rededgerpstarterblog
"You called me last night and told me to come meet you for lunch." Emersyn said as she looked around the house. "When you didn't show up, I got worried. You good?"
"You mean to tell me, that after all these years, you still haven't asked your crush out? It's really not that hard, I mean, they aren't married or dead, are they?" @rededgerpstarterblog
"I wasn't aware there was a time limit on crushes."
