[ clothing says a lot about a man. for every shirt with a plunging neckline that kaveh gravitates towards, there is a man out there who walks about in the city in a buttoned-up dress shirt carefully tailored for their personality. daniel larusso seems a man put together with care; kaveh looks between robby and daniel, and wonders if they're from the same world. there's something to be said about intergenerational friendships, but sometimes bonds are formed in other ways.
still - kaveh smiles. he offers in turn the firm handshake of a man whose callused and scarred hands are used to wresting dreams kicking and screaming into a reality where dreams go to die. ]
The pleasure's mine, Mister LaRusso. [ and then, because this is kaveh, he rolls his wrist by means of a cue. ] And the knocking down of walls isn't much of an issue. The walls here are mostly plaster and wood lath. All it takes is a crowbar and time, though the annoying part is levering out all the nails. The only thing we'd have to pay attention to is which walls are load-bearing and which ones aren't, lest the entire building gives in over our heads.
[ with a red glint in his eyes, kaveh continues: ] Now, on the topic of which store to take over. [ robby's fingers draw a map across a stucco-bricked building. kaveh hums as he considers it. ] Both are corners, which allows for maximum window or wall seating. The clothing store has the advantage of already having wall-to-wall windows to work with, whereas if you take over the other store, if you wanted large windows, we would have to open up the wall and source the glass from some of the office buildings. [ hm. ] You'd also want to consider the things that can't be moved - for example, where is the bathroom in each of those stores, and is it in the place where you want it to be? They say with a big enough lever you can move heaven and earth, but moving the plumbing here sounds like a nightmare even the biggest of levers ought not touch.
[ the roll of kaveh's shoulder. he is already removing a heavy-duty drafting pad from his tote bag, still shimmering with the colours of an untenable sea. his fingers flip to a blank page. a pen materialises from the crow's nest of his hair, spinning across his knuckles at a clip. kaveh looks up, first to daniel, and then to robby, and grins. ]
Shall we go inside and take a look? I find these sorts of things are much easier to suss out once you're inside and you've a feel for the space.
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still - kaveh smiles. he offers in turn the firm handshake of a man whose callused and scarred hands are used to wresting dreams kicking and screaming into a reality where dreams go to die. ]
The pleasure's mine, Mister LaRusso. [ and then, because this is kaveh, he rolls his wrist by means of a cue. ] And the knocking down of walls isn't much of an issue. The walls here are mostly plaster and wood lath. All it takes is a crowbar and time, though the annoying part is levering out all the nails. The only thing we'd have to pay attention to is which walls are load-bearing and which ones aren't, lest the entire building gives in over our heads.
[ with a red glint in his eyes, kaveh continues: ] Now, on the topic of which store to take over. [ robby's fingers draw a map across a stucco-bricked building. kaveh hums as he considers it. ] Both are corners, which allows for maximum window or wall seating. The clothing store has the advantage of already having wall-to-wall windows to work with, whereas if you take over the other store, if you wanted large windows, we would have to open up the wall and source the glass from some of the office buildings. [ hm. ] You'd also want to consider the things that can't be moved - for example, where is the bathroom in each of those stores, and is it in the place where you want it to be? They say with a big enough lever you can move heaven and earth, but moving the plumbing here sounds like a nightmare even the biggest of levers ought not touch.
[ the roll of kaveh's shoulder. he is already removing a heavy-duty drafting pad from his tote bag, still shimmering with the colours of an untenable sea. his fingers flip to a blank page. a pen materialises from the crow's nest of his hair, spinning across his knuckles at a clip. kaveh looks up, first to daniel, and then to robby, and grins. ]
Shall we go inside and take a look? I find these sorts of things are much easier to suss out once you're inside and you've a feel for the space.