[center][h1][color=39b54a]Katarina Novakova[/color][/h1]
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Katarina was absolutely submerged in her work, not paying attention to anything around her and chewing on a pencil absent-mindedly. Her concentration was interrupted by quiet squealing and a few barks. She ran her hand through her hair nervously. [color=39b54a]“What, you want to go out again?”[/color] she turned to Lexie, who was watching her accusingly. [color=39b54a]“But it’s only…”[/color] Kat looked at the time and winced. Wow, was it already so late? Damn those Australians. Working on their project meant attending their Skype conferences, which wouldn’t be a problem, if it weren’t for the fact that they usually started at 2 or 3 AM for Kat. She hated having her regular schedule messed up like that.

She got up, stretched her back and yawned. Lexie licked her hand. [color=39b54a]“Yea, yea, I am coming. I just need to find something warmer to wear.”[/color] A quick search through her clothes revealed what she was afraid of – she was utterly unprepared for a winter in Scotland. She just now realized that it was a long time since she had spent a winter somewhere with actual snow, freezing temperatures, chilly wind and all those other fun things. She usually moved somewhere warmer – last year on Bali, the year before that it was southern Italy.

But for some reason she liked this place enough that she was willing to endure a winter here. She just needed to do some shopping, before her ears fall off or something like that.

She originally wanted to take a walk in the Glasvar park as usual, but rather large number of people on otherwise quiet street caught her attention. She followed a couple of them, curious about what is happening. A big sign above the street informed her that this is Drumvar’s annual Harvest festival. Of course, now she remembered she kept seeing adverts and posters announcing the event, pretty much ever since her arrival into the city.

[color=39b54a]“I’ve been working too much,”[/color] she mumbled to herself and crouched down to Lexie. [color=39b54a]“I know I have and I promise I will take a break after this project,”[/color] she said to the dog and scratched her behind her ear. Lexie barked excitedly, jumped to Kat and licked her face. “Let’s see what interesting can we buy with my hard-earned money.”

Kat walked along the stalls, peeking at the displayed goods here and there. She usually wasn’t into buying all those nice things people tend to put on shelves – anything that hadn’t practical use was just a pointless dust catcher. Finally, something caught her eye. An elderly lady was selling various hand-knitted goods, all warm and comfy and surprisingly not scratchy. Kat bought one of the large scarfs, then after a brief consideration, went back and added fluffy cap and warm gloves to her bag.

After that, she just followed her nose to find the source of the most beautiful smell in the world – coffee. She bought a large cup and sat down to one of the tables, sipping coffee with a blissful smile. Katarina nodded at a girl sitting a few tables from her, also warming her hands on a cup of some hot beverage. Lexie was lying under the table, apparently bored to death. Sometimes her ears twitched when she heard something interesting, like another dog barking, but otherwise she remained still.