Fourth floor common room: Sunday evening

[vkandis-son.livejournal.com]

Karal was staring at the television in bemusement. He'd thought it was baseball, at first, but it hadn't taken long to work out it wasn't.

He still didn't know what it was, beyond a fat man and a thin man who he was sure were seconds away from coming to blows.

"If I mentioned the third baseman's name, who did I say is playing third?"

"No. Who's playing first."

"What's on first?"

"What's on second."

"I don't know."

"He's on third."

Altra was snickering from his spot on the back of the couch. Karal just kept staring.

[ooc: open of course!]

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[vkandis-son.livejournal.com]

He caught it automatically, staring at her in surprise. "Thank you?"

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"No," she said, moving chairs around until she had what could vaguely be called a diamond. "Baseball rules have to make more sense when you're actually dealing with a situation, because otherwise no one would know what anyone was talking about. I mean, these are jocks."

Once she was satisfied, she went to stand in the center of the diamond. "Now, throw it to me, and we'll pretend you hit it. Then you need to run to first." She pointed.

[vkandis-son.livejournal.com]

Karal was still staring at her, surprise changing to confusion, but he obediently lobbed the ball back at her and ran to first. "Now what do I do?"

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

Dawn let the orange fall to the ground next to her. "Now, since I'm an infielder and the ball touched something before it touched me, I think it's a fair ball. Er, orange. If I'd caught it, though, you'd be out and have to go sit on the bench."

She pointed to the couch.

[vkandis-son.livejournal.com]

"That actually makes sense," he decided after a moment. "They could have made the rules clearer."

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"But then anyone could play," she grinned.

[vkandis-son.livejournal.com]

"I am beginning to understand why the professionals get paid so much," he told her, grinning back. "I read the book of rules, and they deserve it if they have to understand the whole thing."

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, I don't know about that," she admitted, never having considered that before. "Maybe?"