Second Floor Common Room; Saturday Evening.

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One would think that, after oh-so-handwavily spending most of the morning (she could hardly call it most of the day as she'd been asleep for most of it) in River'd bed, Adah would be ready to seclude herself in her room for a good amount of time to fulfill her usual quota of solitude. But she had discovered half of her room transformed and, as a result, any attempts to read or writee or theoreticize on the half-lives of certain bacterum were thwarted by a strange feeling of longing that some might call homesickness. Ssenk Cise Moh. Whether to escape or delve further into it, Adah had limped to the common room to curl up on a couch. She might even be feeling somewhat socialible but, if not, she'd brought a book to amuse herself with.



[[ open as common rooms be; i'm boredish. dance for my entertainment! ]]

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Sulley wandered down from the third floor, feeling a little restless. He decided to stop in at this floor's common room to see what was going on. "Hi!" he greeted enthusiastically when he recognized Adah from one of his door searching expeditions.

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Thankfully, someone like a big, blue, furry fellow is not something one easily sets out of mind to be surprised by again and, well, spending a good deal of time sleeping in the same room with a blue tentacled monster under the bed helped a bit to. Adah offered Sulley a small smile and a nod of her head when she saw him and was greeted. After all, it also helped confirm the fact that their last meeting had not just been a hallucination of sorts.

Or, perhaps, it just proved that at least her hallucinations were going to be consistent.

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"Anything interesting going on tonight?"

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Adah's smile turned a little wry as she shrugged her left shoulder; her eyes slipped around the so far? empty, quiet room meaningfully and then lifted the book out of her lap to continue to denote the completely thrilling evening set ahead of her. Although the last bit wasn't entirely honest; Melville, like any lucky hack, could have his moments.

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"I guess not, huh? What are you reading?"

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With that, Adah leaned forward a little too offer the book to Sulley to flip through if he wanted; seeing as she most likely wasn't likely to be explaining it to him, that was his best bet for information.

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Sulley gently took the book and looked at the cover before handing it back. "I don't think I know that one. Books are a little different where I come from. You don't really say much, do you?"

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Adah grinned at the comment, her head tilting as her eyes settled on the large blue fellow with a look that almost questioned whether he was being serious. Difficult not to be amused by it, though, and she took the book back only to settle it in her lap again and promptly tapped her finger against her nose a few times once she'd let go. Hit that one dead on.

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"Is it because you don't like talking or because you can't?"

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Adah held out a single finger, as straight as possible, to denote the first one.

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"Oh. Not even a little?"

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The grin sharpened a little, and Adah responded with a small, exaggeratedly sad shake of her head. What was the point, after all, when she was communicating just fine without it?

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"You're pretty good at saying stuff without talking," Sulley admitted. "But what if you wanted to sing? Or tell someone you liked them? Or let someone know that they've upset you?"

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Adah bit her lip a little, partially against an even wider grin over the fact that the last two should be obvious. There were definitely easy ways to express both of those without words. It was the first one that was difficult, and, thinking about a way to respond softened the smile to something a bit less devious. She kept her hand held out in front of it, forming her fingers around an invisible pen, writing invisible poetry in the air to explain that she sung, it's just that her singing was silence.

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"It's not exactly rock and roll," he joked.

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With a soft breath of a laugh, Adah shook her head again. Clearly, Sulley had never seen her writing, but it certainly did share a place on the list of things never allowed in the Price household, rock and roll included, so she figured them similar enough through their shared prohibition.

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"Well, I'll let you get back to your book. If you change your mind about talking, or you want to talk without talking, I'm in room 309."

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Adah ducked her head slightly in a nod, taking a moment to remember the number. 309. 903. First number is the square root of the last number, circling around a single absence of numbers. She liked that; it would be an easy number to remember.

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With a wave, Sulley headed out and left Adah to her book.