Fifth Floor Common Room, Monday Evening

[not_in_the_book]

"Can you hand me the ginger?" Ronan asked, as he ground some spices with a mortar and pestle. "The fresh, I mean." The fragrant smells of cooking curry were already pervading the common room, and probably making their way through the rest of the dorms. When Isabel handed over the asked-for ginger, he added some to the mixture in the mortar, and went back to grinding. "Thanks. I hope this isn't too spicy for whoever else comes along," he added.


[OOC: Open, as common rooms are! Come have some curry. :D]

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[not_in_the_book]

"Johnny, hey!" Ronan said, smiling. "How's it going?"


[Don't forget his new scar, dividing his eyebrow -- I figured it would be the kind of thing Johnny would notice.]

[fantastic-torch.livejournal.com]

"Hey, Ronan," Johnny said, returning his smile until he drew closer and noticed the scar. "What happened to you?"

[not_in_the_book]

"Got cut," Ronan replied, shrugging. "I, uh, had a bit of an adventure over Parents Weekend."

[fantastic-torch.livejournal.com]

"With?" Johnny came closer, studying the scar. "You didn't heal yourself?"

[not_in_the_book]

"No, I did," Ronan said. "I just... was somewhere that it wasn't quite as effective." He bit his lip. "I was away for a year, Johnny. I mean, it was just a weekend here, but it was a year for me."

[fantastic-torch.livejournal.com]

"A year?" Johnny frowned. "But how is that possible, Ronan? Where did you go and who did this to you?"

[not_in_the_book]

Ronan shook his head. "It's a wizardry thing," he said; already he was starting to get tired of explaining this. "Look, just... I went home for Parents Weekend to help track down an artifact that was stolen. I got caught sideways, in a world where wizardry isn't quite as effective, and it took me a year to find another way home. That's all. It just means I've caught up, timeline-wise. Did I never mention before that I was from a year in the past?"

[fantastic-torch.livejournal.com]

He shrugged a shoulder. "Maybe; I can't remember." Johnny could tell by his attitude that he wasn't much up for talking about it. "Whatever. As long as you're all right."

[not_in_the_book]

Ronan nodded. "I'm okay," he said. "Mostly, anyway. Everything else'll heal."

[fantastic-torch.livejournal.com]

"There's more than just the scar?" he asked, not really pushing for answers as he was just being concerned.

[not_in_the_book]

"... Not physically." Ronan shrugged again. "It's just... really weird, being back," he added. "'Cause everything's the same, but I'm not, so it's like nothing's the same. Or it doesn't fit right, or something."

[fantastic-torch.livejournal.com]

Johnny nodded, trying to get that together in his head. "You want to go have lunch sometime, maybe talk about it?"

[not_in_the_book]

"That would be nice," Ronan said. "Maybe later this week? Just not on Friday, I've got three classes."

[fantastic-torch.livejournal.com]

"How about Thursday? Lunch at the diner?" Johnny asked, feeling good that Ronan didn't give him a quick no. They were friends and Johnny didn't want, or need, to lose that.

[not_in_the_book]

"Thursday sounds great," Ronan said, smiling. "12:30?"