Third Floor Common Room, Saturday Morning

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It was with great seriousness that Zachary Uriah Addy made his way to the common room, dragging a cart piled almost as high as he was with books and pieces of lab equipment behind him.

While most kids believed the weekend was a time for cartoons, he knew it was also a time for SCIENCE!

After turning on the television, Zack sat next to his cart, opened a book and began to assemble...something...

[Open as common rooms are.]

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Lack of interesting activities had driven River from the 5th floor. She had recalled having seen an interesting book collection in a room on the second floor, and had mananged to get into said room she'd found a couple of interesting ones that she now carried under her arm.

It had caught her attention that the third floor common room was being transformed into a temporary lab, however. She peeked inside, and sneaked up behind Zack. "Need assistance?" she asked hopefully.

[Sam's books stolen borrowed with permission.]

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Zack started at the sound of River's voice and stared at her with wide eyes for several moments, before smiling and offering River the book, pointing to a massively complicated diagram. "I'm making this."

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River took the book and tilted her head, studying the diagram. She gave a quick nod. "We could modify it a little," she suggested, picking up some pieces to go in the top part. "Make it hover over the floor."

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Zack's smile got even wider. "Coooool."

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River smiled back, looking quite cheerful. This was fun! "Your lab is quite impressive," she commented, sounding perhaps just a little jealous.

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Zack carefully fitted several components together "You can share it," he said, happy to have someone else who liked labs with him.

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Turtle had a very busy day ahead of her! First order of business was, of course, breakfast, as she went wandering in hopes to find somewhere without parents so she could have a good breakfast before her mother could find her and make her have oatmeal or something. It ran the risk of missing her daddy's flapjacks, but it would be a worthy risk.

Her head tilted at the something that looked like it was going to be assembled.

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Zack looked up at Turtle and waved shyly.

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Turtle waved back,but her wave seemed distracted.

"What'cha makin'?"

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Rive beamed. "Thank you. I really appreciate that. If my brother was here I'd steal his medical experiment kit and share it with you," River replied. "Oh, and I found some books," she added, pointing at the astrophysics books that she'd brought with her.

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"I like medical experiments," Zack grinned back. "Especially when they have to do with skeletons, did you know there are two hundred and six bones in the human body?."

Zack stared at the texts. "These are even bigger big person books than mine."

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"It's gonna hover."

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Willow, perhaps drawn by the call of science, peered into the room.

She hung back though. She didn't want to interrupt and be in the way.

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Mel ran into the room in a very bouncy manner. "Hi everyone! Hi! Hi! Hi!"

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"Willow!" Mel called out. "Hi! Ya wanna watch cartoons?!"

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Zack caught sight of Willow and held out a book to her. "We're experimenting and constructing," he said.

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"Mel!" Willow waved at her. "Hi! Is Bitterwoman on?"

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Zack smiled shyly to Mel.

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Oooo, books! Willow came forward to take the one Zack offered. "What's your hypothesis?"

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"Life....off the groun' an' stuff?" Turtle asked, crouching down so she could hold her hand a little off the floor to demonstrate what she meant.

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"Hi Zack!" Mel waved. "Are you building your robot army of DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM?"

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"What's a bitter woman?" Mel asked scratching her head.

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"Uh-huh," Zack replied. "River says we can do it."

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"River says that by modifying the design we can make it hover."

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Turtle picked up a Cheerio and flung it at Willow for being silly and hanging back and not playing. Although playing so far for her had meant munching on Cheerios out of the box and watching Zach work.

Supervising. She was supervising.