elfs | Character models and their problems

This afternoon, I stopped by the local pharmacy to pick up some prescriptions that Omaha and I had called in, some of her epilepsy medicine and some fexofenadine, an allergy med, for myself. The allergy pills were generic, and differently shaped this time from the last time, and oddly smaller. They had run out of medium bottles for Omaha's med and they only had these bottles as big as my forearm.

While I was waiting, I saw a pretty young woman her early 20's come in to get a prescription. My first reaction when seeing her was that she could have been a perfect model for Shandy Oxenhollar, the catalyst character for the next Misuko & Linia story: a little soft and short wearing beaten brown cargo pants and aging bomber jacket, reddish-brown gently curled hair, big glasses, big breasts, and a cheerful smile. She even had a grey sweatshirt tied around her waist, just like the character.

I was wearing my glasses, which give me 20/15 vision, what I'm used to having. I could read her prescription from where I sat. It was clear on the label of one of those large bottles in which you usually get prescription cough syrup. Methodone. And I thought to myself, no, that's not a problem I'm giving to Shandy. She's got enough already.