2nd Floor Common Room - Tuesday Evening

[goodgirlmeg.livejournal.com]

Meg wanted to reward herself after working hard today. A cupcake sort of reward. So after showering (she had been playing in the dirt all day) she headed to the kitchen to see if there were any cupcakes in the fridge. But there wasn't any. Not even regular cake. So she decided to take matters into her own hands and make her own damn reward. Meg's cupcakes were better than store-bought ones anyhow.

[Open. I am so bored.]

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[ella-obeys.livejournal.com]

"Hi Giselle," Ella returned. "No, I just spent the day trying to avoid the heat. Where were you planting flowers?"

[stucklikadope.livejournal.com]

"No, Meg was," Giselle said. "Wasn't that nice of her?"

[ella-obeys.livejournal.com]

Ella nodded. "Flowers are always nice."

[OOC: now with sense-making.]

[stucklikadope.livejournal.com]

"Oh, yes!" she agreed. "How are you, Ella?"

[ella-obeys.livejournal.com]

"I've been well," Ella said. "I handwavily went to the other island the other day and it's just gorgeous. Have you been yet?"

[stucklikadope.livejournal.com]

"I didn't," Giselle said sadly. "I was going to go but then I was helping the birds find some nice leaves for their nest, and I was just busy all day. I heard you could feed dolphins! I don't know what they are, but they sound cute, don't they?"

[ella-obeys.livejournal.com]

"They're big fish, except they breathe air," Ella explained. "And, Giselle, they have the friendliest eyes. You would love them."

[stucklikadope.livejournal.com]

She clapped her hands happily. "Oh! I wish I could go see them. Will you come with me? We could go and feed them and say hello!"

[ella-obeys.livejournal.com]

"I have two classes tomorrow," Ella said slowly, "and I don't know I could find them for sure. But perhaps we could do it Thursday or over the weekend?" She wouldn't mind seeing the dolphins again, after all.

[stucklikadope.livejournal.com]

"That would be so wonderful!" Giselle said happily. "We'll find them. We can ask the birds! They'd know."

[ella-obeys.livejournal.com]

Ella looked a little dumbfounded. "Okay, if you say so ..."

[stucklikadope.livejournal.com]

"Well, they don't talk here," she acknowledged. "But if you ask them nicely, they'll still listen. Sometimes you have to sing."

[ella-obeys.livejournal.com]

"I really don't like to sing," Ella declared. "We learned to, in school, but I'd rather not do it if I don't have to. Maybe that's why they don't talk to me."

[stucklikadope.livejournal.com]

"Why not?" Giselle asked, looking both curious and worried. "How do you express your heart's desire then?"

[ella-obeys.livejournal.com]

Not many people cared about Ella's heart's desire, but she bit back that answer. "I suppose I could write, or talk," she said. "Does everyone sing where you're from?"

[stucklikadope.livejournal.com]

"Well, not all the time, of course," Giselle said. She still looked slightly worriedly at Ella. "But talking isn't the same at all."

[ella-obeys.livejournal.com]

"No, but ... I wouldn't even know how to sing about my heart's desire," Ella said, trying to laugh it off.