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Third Floor Common Room; Monday Morning [05/13].
Wayne had not had a chance to get outside yet that morning, so he had, thankfully, not yet had to deal with trying to reconcile why they were in a jungle and why there was some dinosaur theme park shenanigans going on out there. Nope, he just got up, bright and early as he'd never really lose his internal farmer's clock, caught up on hockeyfights.com as he always did first thing before getting ready to start the day. And best way to start the day, of course, was with breakfast.
Especially when he owed someone crepes.
Now, Wayne didn't really know if Vette would appear like she had the first time around. He hadn't really thought to make them until this morning, and, after a tour of the kitchen to make sure he had everything needed to make them, from flour to fruit, figured even if she missed them, well, there wasn't exactly a thing as too many crepes, now, were there? He'd just make 'em again some other time, which suited him fine, since, fuck, what else was he going to do around here, anyway? So there would be crepes, and there's be toppings for the crepes, there'd be some more bacon and egggs and toast if little tiny super thin pancakes weren't really your thing.
It didn't escape his notice, though, that he'd gone and done pert'near the same thing last week, come in the kitchen, whip up some breakfast, and two times in a row was enough to make him think he might as well make it a tradition. He didn't have much to do on Mondays right now, and he always enjoyed a good tradition.
[[ work might eat me. might not. It'll be an adventure! Anyway, open! Come have breakfast ]]
Especially when he owed someone crepes.
Now, Wayne didn't really know if Vette would appear like she had the first time around. He hadn't really thought to make them until this morning, and, after a tour of the kitchen to make sure he had everything needed to make them, from flour to fruit, figured even if she missed them, well, there wasn't exactly a thing as too many crepes, now, were there? He'd just make 'em again some other time, which suited him fine, since, fuck, what else was he going to do around here, anyway? So there would be crepes, and there's be toppings for the crepes, there'd be some more bacon and egggs and toast if little tiny super thin pancakes weren't really your thing.
It didn't escape his notice, though, that he'd gone and done pert'near the same thing last week, come in the kitchen, whip up some breakfast, and two times in a row was enough to make him think he might as well make it a tradition. He didn't have much to do on Mondays right now, and he always enjoyed a good tradition.
[[ work might eat me. might not. It'll be an adventure! Anyway, open! Come have breakfast ]]
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And he did love his traditions, that Wayne.
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So far, if he was considering friends, the best ones he'd made so far were a small blue alien girl and a talking dog.
...He was trying not to think about that too much, really.
"Wayne," he offered back, brusque yet friendly enough. "How are ya now?"
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His squint was joined by a frown.
"Free time."
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Aside from that feeling that she should be doing more.
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He trailed off a little, the sort of trail-off that made it hard to tell if he was just lost in thought a little or if he'd merely run out of gas.
But he turned toward Sabine, hopefully suggesting the former. "So, what'd'you do 'round here to pick up a paycheck?" he asked.
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Oh, Sabine.
He was so new.
So, so new and so, so clueless.
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Which it was back home. In space. Where she grew up on a planet full of warriors.
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"That's true," he said, latching onto something solid instead. "You can never go wrong with a bit of preparation for anything. Maybe I could stop in some time, check it out. Didn't bother bringing any of mine."
Didn't realleh seem worth the trouble of sending them through customs and what have you. Didn't think he'd be using them much, but there did seem to at least be some enthusiasm for firearms, at least.
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"Good mooooooooorning!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" she said wandering in with a hopeful air. Please feed her, Wayne. "How are you?????????"
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"I'm doing pretty great, thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!" she said, which was a bit of a white lie, given that she was avoiding her roommate and a bunch of her friends but, hey, whatever, it just meant she could go out and make new friends and that was never a terrible thing! "Do you, like, know Owen???????? Yesterday I showed him the ropes at, like, the book store and today, oh my gosh, I don't even know what's up with Foomy, but he's all, like, spiky??????????"
It was a mystery, really, but given what outside looked like today, Nina was rolling with it.
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"Can't say I've met anyone named Owen yet," he admitted. "Maybe I'll have to swing by the bookstore, introduce myself."
Wasn't much a reader, really, but who didn't love a good book, on occasion? Good way to pass time on a tractor, really, on the bigger fields...
"You work there, too? ...and how do you mean, spiky? Foomy is...a pet?"
Please be a pet. And pity for the poor sod walking around being called Foomy if it wasn't.
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Rufus was so thrilled by her having taken over his shop. Really. So thrilled.
"And oh my gosh, yes!!!!!!!! Foomy's my pet. He's, like, usually round and chirpy, and today he's still pretty small but he's all happy growly and spiky and it's a little weird??????????? Not that, like, I'm concerned, exactly, but it's the first time he's done that…………."
And who knew what that meant for jelly demons? Maybe Foomy was entering a difficult stage of adolescence or something?
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"Could take him on down to the vet at the pet shelter," he suggested, with the assurance of someone who'd gone and played with puppies down that way once, so clearly now he was an expert. "If anyone's likeleh to know what's up, I'd put some money on it being her. And if not? Well, then, you could just do what we do when a cow's acting a bit moony or a dog's got the doldrums. Keep an eye on 'em, and if it don't clear up in the next few days, well, then, you go find yerself a second opinion."
Through all that, he realized that he'd somewhat slipped in his manners and hadn't offered her any food yet. And that wouldn't do.
"Fix you up a plate, Nina?" he offered.
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And she didn't really want to talk to Sidon right now either. Not that she was really fighting with him or, well, with anyone other than Norman, but she still didn't want to see them either...
"Oh! If you wouldn't mind, I'd love breakfast," she said, and, since Nina actually did have manners, added, "did you, like, want help cleaning up afterwards??????????? I can do dishes like a champion!!!!!!!!!!! And, if Foomy's not doing well in a day or two, I'll definitely take him there!!!!!!!!!!!!"
She'd just be picky about her days that she did so. Unless, like, it was an emergency. Because childishly (and it was childish, she realized that) avoiding people she loved came second to the health of her ridiculous pet.
"Right now he's just being, like, weird and... well... have you seen the plants outside yet????????????? Those are super weird!!!!!!!!!"
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There, now. Nice and simple and plenty polite, since he had a feeling his next question was going to lead to a conversation quite a bit in the opposite direction of polite.
So he nodded his gratitude when he handed over the plate, but his expression had squinted in the direction of preemptive disapproval.
"Super weird...how?"
Because, no, he hadn't been outside yet. Hadn't even so much as looked out a window, realleh. He'd mostly been focused on hockey fights online and getting together this nice breakfast. And he didn't know how he felt about potentially having that nice breakfast ruined with something....super weird, Nina.
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"It's the least I could do!!!!!!!!!" she bubbled. "Thank you so much!!!!!!! Like, it only seems right if you're cooking that I offer to help clean up, right??????? So, like, any time, no problem!!!!!!!!!!!!"
And it wasn't a problem. Nina was used to that sort of chore and it was one of those boring, menial things that she actually found relaxing.
"Ummmmmmmm, weird, though, like... the plants are all really funny and huge and a lot, like, leafier than they were yesterday and not in just a 'oh, yeah, like it's totally spring' sort of way??????? And we don't seem to, like, have proper birds any more but rather these big things with claws and creepy looking bat-like wings???????????"
Nina did not actually know what dinosaurs were, so this was... an adventure. She shrugged a little, a bit apologetically, as she folded herself on a chair to dig into her breakfast.
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Wayne abandoned his kitchen station to go find himself a window and just have a look right out of it.
"....fuck a duck!"
See? Opposite direction of polite.
But, just to make sure someone hadn't gone and thought themselves funny by putting up some hyper-realistic ruse, he opened the down and stuck his head out, waving his arm a little in the air to confirm it was just air out there and not some backdrop or sign...he supposed it could be a projection, but the more he looked, that had to be one hell of a hologram if that were the case.
"Fuck every goddamn duck."
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Then she started giggling because, well, really.
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And that was a bit frustrating, wasn't it? Seeing things just traipsing around like nothing when they were 'exposed to be extinct?
Wayne turned toward Nina, his shoulders squared, stance solid, one hand with his thumb tucked into his belt looks while the other jerked up in front of him so he could start ticking off items on his fingers as he said them. "So's here we've got animals that 'exposed to be extinct, we got a climate that's 'exposed to be humid subtropic but clearly isn't at the moment, we got blue alien girls and talking cats and dogs, girls who claim to turn into dogs, a fucking criminally excessive amount of glitter...
"Well, fuck me running,
meta forToto," Wayne concluded, tucking that other thumb into his other belt loop with finality, "I don't think we're in fucking Kansas anymore."no subject
"Like, I've never even heard of Kansas????????????" she said earnestly. "But ohmygosh, please, just keep going, it's great!!!!!!!!!!!"
It would be solidly less great if he was mad at her, but he wasn't, and so Nina was all for someone (or something else) getting lectured.
That was... actually kind of nice right now.
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So he pressed his lips together thoughtfully for a moment, though it really didn't take him long to find another thread to pull.
"How the fuck," he started, "have you not ever heard of Kansas? I heard the American education system was a shitshow, but fuck. And that's another thing, too, this place and what they pass off for classes. Oh, sure. Sure, now, it's a whole lot better than staring at the back of some skid's head while some hawkey coach tries to teach you about algebra--speakin' of algebra, why you gotta put numbers and letter together? Why can't you just go fuck yourself?--but maybe, just maybe, by the end of the summer, I'll have learned how to finally get fucking glitter out of my shirt and how to walk through the woods without some degen in pressed khakis holding my fucking hand. And then there's science class, fuck, with someone who can't appreciate the idea of putting ants on SeaDoos. Now you tell me, what kind of man of science isn't going to jump out of his fucking labcoat for the chance to get ants riding fucking SeaDoos?"
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"Hey, Nina," Sabine greeted her.
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Because Nina was incapable of saying Sabine's name in any other way.
She beamed.
"Oh my gosh, how are you????????????"
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"I'm okay. In need of caffeine. And apparently there are lizards outside."
You know. Casual.
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Foomy was still small and Nina still loved him, but she hoped she got her jelly demon back to normal sooner rather than later.
"Do you always caffeinate in the morning????????????????? I, like, never got into that habit……………."
Which, for the love of God, was best for everyone.
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"Can you, like, even imagine that???????? That'd be the worst!!!!!!!!!!!! Unless, like, you could channel that withdrawal into more power…………………."
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Nina considered that.
"I hope he, like, isn't sick or something???????????? I mean, given outside, maybe not, but who knows with peanut butter jelly demons???????????????"
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There was actually very little so far she'd looked up that she didn't find somewhere. But she hadn't googled demons.
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Though she'd already figured out how to steal peoples' contact info off phones that were distinctly not hers, so Nina wasn't doing too badly on the tech front.
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"I work at the bookstore," she said, smiling. "I'll probably check there, first, since it's something to do while customers aren't around!!!!!!!!!! And, no, I don't think so?????????? Norman, like, summoned this one by accident????????????"
Then Nina had stolen it. Because Nina.
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It did feel pretty on brand, though.
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Admittedly, Nina was aces at magic, so her idea of easy was probably skewed.
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Between the Jedi and the Sith and the magic people she knew, she was pretty okay letting them all do their thing.
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"It's the one thing I can draw that might rival your skills," she said cheerfully. "I'm great at circles!!!!!!!!!!"