The Roof, Wednesday Evening

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Dawn was on the roof, reading as the sun went down, then just standing and feeling the wind and rain kick up. She loved the wild weather and energy before a storm, and who cared if she got a little wet?

She was spinning in circles as the rain started to fall.

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Lyra missed the roofs of Jordan college, so much that even though it was raining, she climbed out one of the windows that had a ledge, and pulled herself up over the roof's edge.

It wasn't until she was already on the roof and soaked that she realized there was another person up there. Too bad it was too dark to see who.

"Uh, hullo?" she called.

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Dawn stopped spinning and took a minute so she didn't fall over. "Hi!" She squinted, but didn't recognize the voice. "Who's there?"

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Lyra stepped a tiny bit closer to the edge of the roof, just enough so that the lights from the ground lit her face.

"Lyra Belacqua. I don't think we've met."

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Dawn stepped into the same light. "No, we haven't. Hi, I'm Dawn. Dawn Summers. Nice to meet you."

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Lyra held her hand out to shake. "Pleasure's mine."

She looked up at the clouds and blinked rain out of her face. "Sorry if I bothered you. I thought the roofs'd be deserted."

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"Not a bother at all," Dawn countered, "I'm just too silly to come in out of the rain."

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"I know what you mean." Lyra laughed. "Back at home, they don't credit me with much sense."

She looked around; the roof was hidden in shadow, mostly. "Is the roof a popular place to be?"

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"Me neither," Dawn grumbled, "and I don't know. I've only been up here once before. It was, er, pretty empty then." Hopefully Lyra wouldn't see her blush in the dark.

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Lyrs was busy looking over the edge of the roof to notice the blush or hesitation. It was a dizzying height.

"Oh. It's a nice roof. Not as big as the one on Jordan College, though."

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"You were in college?"

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia wandered up to the roof, for once without her guitar or any brownies.

The roof in the rain held very good memories, after all.

"Oh, hi, I didn't know someone else would be up here."

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"Hey. Yeah, it's a rain thing."

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"Understood. It's nice that the heat is starting to die down, but I'm sad to see summer go."

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"Yeah, I'm not sure how I feel about new classes and winter coming." Dawn tilted her head back. "So what brings you to the roof?"

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"No, no." Lyra laughed again. "I grew up there, in Oxford. My un- my father left my there to be raised. They taught me some things, but nothing formal."

She looked back at Dawn, through the rain. "What about you, where did you grow up?"

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"I like it up here. I come up to practice sometimes."

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"What kinds of things did you learn?" Dawn made a face, then explained, "I grew up in Sunnydale, California. About two hours outside of Los Angeles, if you're familiar with it."

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"If you want to practice, I'll totally go stand over there," she pointed to the other side of the roof, "and pretend not to hear or something."

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"California? That's here, right? In New Denmark. I mean, America."

Lyra, brushed water out of her eyes, moving over to sit on the parapet. "The scholars taught me lots of things, mostly, uh, physics, I think you call it. They were always supposed to tach me basic things," she smiled at the memory. "But somehow they always ended up lecturing me on their experiments."

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"I haven't taken physics yet, but I'm not a big fan of math," Dawn shrugged. "And New Denmark? I've never, er, heard the United States referred to that way before."

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Nadia smiled and shook her head. "I don't have my guitar with me. And I wouldn't mind if you listened, anyway."

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"I was hoping you'd say that. I like listening," not like she wouldn't have been eavesdropping anyway, but now she had permission. "So, terrorizing the newbies?"

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"Not trying to, but it always seems to happen anyway."

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Dawn grinned. "That always happens when I talk about Sunnydale, too. Something about blah, blah, blah, vampires, blah, blah, blah, demons really wigs people out."

[nadiathesaint]

"Though when you think about it, that just makes sense."