Sphinx Campfire - Monday Morning

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Neil had decided he could definitely get into this two classes a week deal, though he was feeling a small niggle of guilt as if he should pick up another job or something.

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Nah!

Not when he could enjoy a beautiful May morning, stretched out in an old beach chair he'd dug up somewhere, reading the last of the Ninth Wonder comics he'd borrowed from Peter(Steve).

There were worst ways to spend a lazy morning.

[ooc: Open as a fire out in the middle of the woods tends to be.]

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Chris spotted Neil after his workshop and stopped to talk. "How's it going, man?"

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Looking up from his comic, Neil smiled brightly at Chris.

"Hey there, Chris. It's going good, lazy summer morning. How was your trip?"

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"It was really good," Chris said. "It was nice spending time with Piper. Did you do anything interesting this weekend?"

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"Picked up some comics from Petrelli, checked out the luau but it was pretty dead so I spent a lot of time napping."

Which was a rare treat for Neil, who had always been scheduled to the Nth degree during the summer back home.

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"Sounds like a nice time," Chris said. "I wish I wouldn't have missed the luau, but we kind of had to go and fill Piper in on another family member showing up in town."

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Neil's eyes widened.

"Another Halliwell? Goodness, Chris, how many does that make on the island now?"

Neil couldn't immediately think of any other family on Fandom who had so many members come through the school.

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"On the island right now? Four. Me, Wyatt, Phoebe and Prue," Chris said. "But Phoebe will be leaving at the end of summer. Prue is apparently in my class."

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Sitting up, Neil waved to a log nearby in case Chris wanted to take a load off.

"Okay, I know Wyatt is your brother, Phoebe is your aunt so Prue is your?" He left the question hanging.

He was assuming maybe another aunt due to the "P" name but it was dangerous to assume. Particularly with those who were magically inclined."

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"Prue is the eldest Halliwell sister," Chris explained. "Except this Prue is apparently from the same dimension as me and Wyatt, whereas Piper and Phoebe are from a different dimension."

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"And here is where my brain starts to leak out my ears," Neil said with a rueful smile.

"But you said she was in your class, if she's from the same dimension, why isn't she older than you?"

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"Time travel," Chris said. "It was 2020 back home when Wyatt and I left."

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Time travel, you know that brought up an interesting point.

"So, is time sort of fluid when you leave Fandom? I haven't been off the island since I came here, except for a field trip but if I was to go home, do you think it would be possible to change the time in which I went home?"

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Chris bit his lip. "I have no idea. I haven't visited home since I've been here. I think that you'd end up going back to your own time though."

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"Drat, that could have been really useful," Neil said with feeling.

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"Well, you could visit where you're from, but it wouldn't be your dimension," Chris said. "If that makes sense."

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Well now, that certainly made a body think and for a short while, Neil wondered what a different one of his dimensions might be like.

I wonder if there's one where I succeeded?

"Yes, yes it makes sense. I wonder..." Neil began and then bit off his own words. He'd been about to ask Chris if it would still work if you no longer existed in the dimension but stopped himself just in time.

"I mean, I bet it would be interesting."

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Chris narrowed his eyes a little, suspecting that Neil was asking for a specific reason, but didn't push.

"I guess. I was in California this weekend, but not my town, so it's hard to say if it's really different. It didn't seem that different though."

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"Hmm...I might have to consider a road trip maybe later in the summer."

Neil had been so thankful that Mr. Perry hadn't ordered him home that he hadn't even considered leaving Fandom for other reasons.

Now, however, he was feeling curious.