Fourth Floor Common Room, Monday Evening

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

Stab 5: Internet Prey, was on the TV, and Billy had three pumpkins on the counter, along with some knives, and a bowl for collecting blood pumpkin guts.

There was an ordinary Pumpkin, an albino one, and a kind of mutant, siamese twin, two in one pumpkin.

He was currently staring at them, and referring to a note pad of possible designs.

[ooc: Open to all! Come carve a pumpkin! We can get more if needed! Whee!]

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[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

Setsuna wandered into the common room to make some tea.

And blinked.

"You...have an albino pumpkin," she noted, perhaps a little coldly.

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

"Yeah isn't it cool?" Billy grinned. "I found a weird mutant one too. You wanna make a Jack O' Lantern?"

He hadn't been unaware of the cold tone of voice but he was hoping to maintain a good mood, so he was ignoring it.

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

Setsuna stared at him for a moment, trying really hard not to link the topic of the albino pumpkin with the words weird mutant.

But carving a pumpkin meant cutting it, and cutting it meant taking up a blade. And the last thing Setsuna wanted to do right now was touch a blade.

"No," she said, reaching into the cupboard to grab a tea pot. "Thank you."

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

"Suit yourself." Billy said. "I'll probably attempt to roast the seeds afterwards if you want some."

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

Setsuna considered this, and she felt her mood lift just a smidgen. "You know," she said after a moment, "pumpkin seeds would accompany tea quite nicely."

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

Billy smiled. "I've never tried it myself." he said. "I've eaten some that others have roasted and they were pretty good. Didn't try it with tea though."

he began using a pencil to sketch a possible face onto the orange pumpkin.

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

"Would you like me to make a little extra for you? I was thinking of green tea, but if you're not a fan, I've got others..."

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

"Green tea's good, thanks." he said. He looked critically at the pumpkin. "What do you think, silly face or scary one?"

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

Setsuna nodded, grabbed a little more tea.

"That depends; which message would you like to convey? I would go for scary, myself."

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

Billy nodded. "Given the nature of the holiday, I agree." He began to make tiny alterations to the sketch, wanting it to look as much like Vader as he could make it.

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

Setsuna craned her neck a little to look at what Billy was sketching, but tried to make it seem like she was still mostly uninterested.

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

Billy looked at his sketch. Aside from the grill-like mouth, it looked like a skull. Which, might have been the point of Vader's mask.

[ktarian-wildman.livejournal.com]

Naomi was particularly bored and decided to go to the fourth floor common room, she entered and looked at the pumpkins, "what are you doing?" she asked curiously.

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

"I am preparing to toast a marsh melon to carve a Jack O' Lantern."

[ktarian-wildman.livejournal.com]

"A Jack O' Lantern?"

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

"It's a tradition for Halloween. At least in America. We carve faces into a pumpkin, and then put a lit candle in it to light the face up."

[ktarian-wildman.livejournal.com]

"Oh where I'm from we don't celebrate Halloween anymore,"

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

Billy stabbed the knife blade into the top of the normal pumpkin, but then paused. "Really? This is kinda my first halloween too."

[ktarian-wildman.livejournal.com]

"Yeah my Earth stopped celebrating over 300 years ago ... so this is my first halloween,"

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

"I never really got a chance to celebrate it. There was always something else going on. Never got to carve pumpkins, or go trick or treating. Wonder why they stopped celebrating it."

[ktarian-wildman.livejournal.com]

"After the last major war that was fought on Earth and after first contact was made and they were virtually rebuilding civilization they didn't see it as neccessary to continue with the tradition,"

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

"well, I guess as long as they still tell ghost stories and find ways to have fun, I suppose I can't complain."

[ktarian-wildman.livejournal.com]

"Ghost stories are still around," Naomi replied with a grin, "we're not completely boring in the 24th century,"

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

Billy chuckled. "Not, entirely what I meant, but good to know. Are ghosts still a big thing in the 24th century? sounds like there wouldn't be many more mysteries left on earth."

He went back to carving the pumpkin, cutting a round the stem.

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

Setsuna gave Naomi a little nod of greeting while she waited for her kettle to boil for her tea.

[ktarian-wildman.livejournal.com]

Naomi nodded back and smiled, "hi,"

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

The smile that Setsuna returned was a little small, a little forced, but still pleasant. "How have you been...Naomi, right?"

[ktarian-wildman.livejournal.com]

"Yeah I'm Naomi," Naomi nodded in confirmation, "I've been pretty good, how about you?"

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

Setsuna sucked in a breath. She didn't want to lie, but she certainly didn't want to act as sourly as she felt.

"It's....been a long weekend."

That was safe enough a response.

[ktarian-wildman.livejournal.com]

Naomi decided not to press further, "I imagine that was the case with a lot of people,"

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

"Was yours all right?" Setsuna did have a small kernal of hope that it had gone smoothly for at least someone.

[ktarian-wildman.livejournal.com]

"It wasn't as bad as what I had been expecting," Naomi replied, "mom didn't try and pull me out of the school so that was a good thing,"

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

Setsuna allowed another small smile. "I have a feeling that that was a fear of a lot of students."