Fifth Floor Common Room, Saturday Morning

[scary-jeff.livejournal.com]

It would probably be better, all things considered, if Jeff never ever talked to Jack ever again.

As it was, he was standing (well, hanging over the back of the couch) in the common room, watching television, wearing shorts and a naked cat (on his shoulder, not anywhere dirty), and not really much else.

He was watching nature documentaries again. He may have been explaining a few mildly obscene things to Prince Oscar Pedro in the process.

[ Open. Chad's cat modded with permission. I'll be around for the next hour, should anyone actually be up, then pick up any potential dangly pings when I get home, which will probably be right about when everybody gets up ]

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[falcon-or-blade.livejournal.com]

Faile smiled and glanced at the mostly naked boys. "Mostly harmless is good." She chose a chair nearby and sat down. "I am called Faile," she said and held out a hand to shake.

[southernbender.livejournal.com]

"I'm Katara," she said, shaking the offered hand. "You're new this term, right?"

[falcon-or-blade.livejournal.com]

Faile nodded. "Yes. I haven't even been here a month yet. What about you?"

[southernbender.livejournal.com]

"Since the middle of the winter," Katara said. "Not that it really ever gets cold here. Are you liking it so far?"

[falcon-or-blade.livejournal.com]

Faile blinked as she thought about that question. She was in a world that she had just stumbled into, taking classes at a school that had been expecting her, she wanted to cry every time she was forced to learn new technology quickly, she'd met a snot monster twice and yesterday she had tried to teach two boys how to defend themselves from fruit.

"I think I am liking it, yes."

[southernbender.livejournal.com]

The pause and the blinking didn't go unnoticed and Katara smiled. "It's overwhelming, isn't it. Or it was for me."

[falcon-or-blade.livejournal.com]

"This place is nothing at all like home," Faile said with an answering smile. "It might have been less overwhelming if I had known I was coming here. Possibly not though."

[southernbender.livejournal.com]

Katara stared then smiled slightly. "You too? I thought it was just me! Did the school know you were coming? My big sibling knew I was supposed to be here two days before I actually got here!"

[falcon-or-blade.livejournal.com]

Faile stared back. "This school is strange. That man, Drax, had a file on me already, yes. He gave me John Sheppard to be my big brother though."

[southernbender.livejournal.com]

"I wonder how they know," she pondered for a second then shrugged. "I met the Principal - Washburn, I mean out on the grounds." Katara made a face. "She gave me detention."

[falcon-or-blade.livejournal.com]

"What is detention," Faile asked. "The woman with the voice mentioned it too."