Fifth Floor Common Room; Wednesday Morning.

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

Even though it was still probably early enough in the morning to cancel out any idea of 'laziness,' Turtle Wexler decided that, since she had no classes today and was already up and kind of hyper, she'd have a lazy sort of day, lounging in the common room in the PJs, slippers propped up on the coffee table, with a bowl of the most sugary cereal she could locate in the cupboard, seasoned generously with more sugar.

She was even watching cartoons as she slurped her spoonfuls of goodness waiting to spring cavities on her. Because, as much as she loved it, sometimes the business news was just way too depressing these days for a morning like this.

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[multi-madrox.livejournal.com]

"Hey, Wexler," Jamie said wandering into the common room and raiding the cupboards. "What are we watching today?"

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"'Ar'oons," Turtle, mouthful of sugar and sugary cereal (but, hey, milk was good for you, right?), responded, well before chewing and with her eyes mindlessly glued to the coyote chase that bird thing. She hoped, with all the physical damage that coyote went through, he had a damn good insurance plan. In fact, as such a loyal customer for such faulty products, maybe he got a pretty good compensation deal from that ACME company.

[multi-madrox.livejournal.com]

"What? No Wall Street report?" Jamie asked as he flopped on the couch with a couple of pop tarts.

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"Too depressing," Turtle admitted with a wrinkle of her nose. "I'll catch up with it later in the paper. It feels like a cartoons morning. I'm not all business, you know."

[blinkandsneeze.livejournal.com]

It was probably best not to question why Viki had managed to wander up to the floor above her. No doubt she wouldn't know the reason either, but she poked her head into the room.

"Hello!" And blinked. "You have a talking box!"

[withoutverona]

A new girl; to go by the question, very new. "Good morrow!" Romeo greeted her. "Sometimes the box sings, as well."

[blinkandsneeze.livejournal.com]

She beamed at him. "It does? Really?"

[withoutverona]

He beamed right back at her. "Aye," he confirmed. "And sometimes it shows explosions and gunplay. It will show you almost anything."

He'd explain it was technology and not magic. Eventually.

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"Well," Turtle said, "I wouldn't say I really have it, since it's not mine and belongs to the common room as a whole, but, yeah, we have a talking box. It's on cartoons right now, because, apparently, no one else thinks the news is interesting."

Which wasn't why she didn't have the news on right now, but she didn't want the new girl getting the wrong idea. She wiggled her toes in her fluffy slippers a bit.

[blinkandsneeze.livejournal.com]

"The news?" Viki asked. "How does a talking box know the news?"

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"Well, the talking box doesn't," Turtle explained. "But the people inside of it do."

Of course, Turtle had meant to say the people on it, which may have been equally confusing, but she was still a little sleepy, and wasn't quite with it yet.

[multi-madrox.livejournal.com]

"It's pretty much a one-sided conversation though," Jamie said with a grin. "Don't expect it to talk back."

[blinkandsneeze.livejournal.com]

"Can it not hear me?" she asked curiously. "Is it deaf?"

[withoutverona]

Romeo was done with classes for the week; this was cause for celebration in the form of sugary cereal.

"Good morrow, Turtle," he said, dumping what was likely the same box she had used into a bowl. "I wonder if this will turn the milk colors?"

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"Good morrow, Romeo!" Turtle chirped back, even though she wasn't sure what morrow meant, but it felt clunky to respond with a different word like morning when the other person had already said morrow. "And it will if you put food coloring in it! You know, just to make sure. Can never have your milk change color in your cereal too much."

[withoutverona]

Romeo looked skeptical for a moment. "That," he decided, "is a brilliant idea. I could make the milk blue, or purple, even if the cereal lets me down."

He stretched to his full height and started poking through the cabinets for food coloring.

[multi-madrox.livejournal.com]

Jmie waved at Romeo. "Hey, man. What's the good word?"

[withoutverona]

Romeo considered this for a moment. "Felicitous," he finally said. "Good morrow, Jamie."

[finding-x-dream.livejournal.com]

Agnes, with rumpled hair and missing her hat, followed the noise upstairs and yawned.

She stood, as unobtrusively as she could, near the edge of the room and stared in awe at the television.

[blinkandsneeze.livejournal.com]

"Your hat is missing," Viki informed her cheerfully. "Have you lost it?"

[finding-x-dream.livejournal.com]

"Hmm?" Agnes asked, blinking at Viki. Oh, very eloquent, that. "Oh, hat. No, I just haven't put it on yet." She yawned again. "What sort of... thing is that?" She gestured at the TV. "It gets much better reception than a glass fishing buoy."

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

Turtle was starting to wonder if she missed the memo that it was Newbie Gawking at the Television Day. Still, she gave the girl a little wave from the couch. "Hi. Come on in. Nothing will bite, I swear."

[finding-x-dream.livejournal.com]

"I wasn't worried about things biting," Agnes clarified. "I just... We don't have those where I'm from. The whole electricity thing is new to me." Assuming that's what it is.

[multi-madrox.livejournal.com]

"Hey new girl," Jamie said waving his spoon as she came in. "I'm Jamie. Welcome to Fandom."

[finding-x-dream.livejournal.com]

"Agnes," she said, waving back. "It's... certainly an interesting place, that's for sure." Ask him about the tattoo. Ask him about the tattoo. "Have you been here long?"