3rd floor Common Room: Sunday morning [7-8-07]

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

Lana curled up on the couch and skimmed through channels for something to distract her. She finally settled on a movie about a shy girl who wants to break into the music industry and in the mean time works at a pretty wild bar. Not award winning material, but nice fluff.


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[abhorsentobe.livejournal.com]

Sabriel had decided to continue exploring today, and wandered up the stairs and into the third floor common room. She smiled to the girl already there, and glanced towards the television. "What are you watching? Is this a..." she hesitated, trying to remember the name. "A show?"

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

Lana smiled over at her. "A movie, actually. Hi. I don't think we've met. I'm Lana."

[abhorsentobe.livejournal.com]

"I'm Sabriel," Sabriel said, grinning a little sheepishly. "I arrived in May, and I'm reading up on this time and place, but there's so much!"

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"Where are you from?" Lana asked curiously.

[abhorsentobe.livejournal.com]

"Ancelstierre." Sabriel waved a hand in what she though was towards the east. "It's not in this world, but if it was, I think it would be more towards the east. Towards your Europe."

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"Oh, how interesting!" Lana said with a smile. "And I'm guessing it's very different from here."

[abhorsentobe.livejournal.com]

"We have cinemas?" Sabriel offered. "But they're not in colour. And we don't have this much technology!" She shook her head in amazement. "I don't understand how everything works when there's also so much magic around. Technology and magic is really not compatible in my world."

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

Lana nodded. "It must be very strange here for you. The technology is familiar to me, but it took me a while to get used to all the magical stuff."

[abhorsentobe.livejournal.com]

"It is strange," Sabriel agreed. She smiled. "But not in a bad way! Does your world not have magic?"

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"Not as such, no," Lana said slowly. "There are people who have some strange abilities caused by the meteors in my town, but otherwise, no."

[abhorsentobe.livejournal.com]

Sabriel gave her a puzzled look. "Meteors? The rocks from space?"

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

Lana nodded. "Smallville, where I come from, is called the meteor capital of the world. And for some reason some people become... mutants because of them."

[abhorsentobe.livejournal.com]

"Mutants? You mean they change? What do they change into?"

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

Lana shuddered despite herself. "They develop... powers. And it seems to affect their mind. They seem to become sort of... evil."

[abhorsentobe.livejournal.com]

Sabriel winced. "That doesn't sound good. Is there a way to change them back?"

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

Lana shook her head. "Not that I know of. They usually either end up locked in Belle Reve or... they end up dead."

[abhorsentobe.livejournal.com]

"Sounds very unpleasant," Sabriel said, and made a mental note to avoid meteors, just in case.

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"It's not something we enjoy very much, no," Lana said. "But otherwise Smallville is a pretty nice place."

[death-of-hope.livejournal.com]

Since it was still far too hot out for her tastes, Anemone was back to wandering the dorm. Noticing people in the third floor common room, she stuck her head in. "Sabriel! Hi! And hi other person I do not know. What is the television telling us about today?"

[abhorsentobe.livejournal.com]

"Hi Anemone," Sabriel smiled. She tilted her head at the television. "A very strange public house, I believe."

[death-of-hope.livejournal.com]

"Public house?" Anemone squinted at the screen sideways. "What is a public house? Is this a fictional program, or an educational one like the people with the food?"

[abhorsentobe.livejournal.com]

"A public house is a place you can buy drinks and some foods. I believe there are some in town as well? Caritas and the other place?"

[death-of-hope.livejournal.com]

"Ah." Anemone nodded wisely. "I've heard of Caritas. I was told it was an excellent place where they serve various types of alcohol. I've never actually been in one, since I was always on-call for work. Then this about girls who work in public houses? Interesting." Watching the television intently, she looked puzzled. "Do all girls in public houses dance like that? Why are they dancing, shouldn't they be serving the food more efficiently?"

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

Lana smiled at her. "Hi, I'm Lana. And this is just a fluffy feel good sort of a movie - a story."

[death-of-hope.livejournal.com]

"Oooooh! Like a fairy story! She's a Cinderella, and the Prince isn't here yet." A light went on behind her eyes. This, at least, was familiar. "Lana. That's a very pretty name. I am Anemone."

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"Yes, I suppose it is," Lana said with a smile. "I hadn't thought of it that way, but you're right. And Anemone... That's a very nice name as well."