third floor common room - monday after classes - 12/08

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

From the depths of his esoteric chamber crept the Thropp, his uneven gait a suiting punishment for the variety of unnameable and unknowable components which weighted his arms. Like a toll of doom, his shadow slipped sinuously over the counter, the oventop, yes, even the refrigerator as he entered the corner of the common room feared by many and bested by some few, brave souls such as he.

For hours did he toil at this task, sifting and stirring and beating, aye, beating the dough as a man possessed! The cauldron beside him bubbled with exotic potency to bewitch the nose and conjure forth the denizens of this strange architecture. And when his work was complete, the great flaming womb of darkness opened and it's fruit pulled forth, only then did he proclaim his triumph!

"Fresh bread and soup if anyone'd like," he said as he took his portion and retired to a corner of the common room to work out a bit of homework.

[open! *can't stop giggling*]

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[bad-nose-job.livejournal.com]

Penelope found herself wandering down the hallway from her room because she smelled something wonderful. Looking towards the kitchen when she first walked in, she didn't notice Liir in the corner, so she proceeded to help herself to a cup of soup.

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

Liir didn't notice her yet, as he was very intently staring at something in his notebook, but neither did he disappear and he would be rather obvious to spot if or when she turned from the soup to get a piece of the fresh baked bread.

[bad-nose-job.livejournal.com]

She did turn to get a piece of the fresh bread because it looked too delicious to ignore. And she did spot him.

Penelope froze.

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

There is something to stillness, or perhaps to the emotions that come with it, that made it hard for Liir to miss it even entrenched in his work as he was. As such, his head went up, and as such, he gave Penelope a faint, warm smile.

"You're welcome to as much as you'd like," he told her with a tip of his head, "and how have you been? It seems like ages since I saw you last."

[bad-nose-job.livejournal.com]

He made it. He made it and she just took it without asking because she assumed it was there for everyone and how was she? Did he completely ignore the gesture behind the flowers she sent him?

Of course he did! It was so stupid of her! Stupidstupidstupid. Not to mention three weeks ago now.

She took a moment to swallow what was in her mouth before she carefully set her bowl down. "I didn't know it was yours."

[robinthefrog.livejournal.com]

"Hi Penelope." Robin waved from his perch on the back of a chair. "You missed it, I was human this weekend."

[bad-nose-job.livejournal.com]

She blinked. "Oh. I didn't know."

[robinthefrog.livejournal.com]

"It was weird. And kinda scary at first."

[bad-nose-job.livejournal.com]

"I'm sorry you had to go through that, Robin."

[robinthefrog.livejournal.com]

Well it was back to normal. His glimpse of what it was like to be human had been a lot of fun. Except for the bruising and crashing and scraping and pain. But that was all gone now.

He did miss being larger.

"Hi Liir." Robin said when he came in. "How was your weekend?"

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

"Well enough," he admitted.

Thankfully, his adopted dogfish had chosen to remain a dogfish and as such, his weekend had been relatively quiet.

"Quiet. I've started working on something and it keeps me in sometimes. Yourself? How've you been?"

[robinthefrog.livejournal.com]

"Pretty good. I turned human this weekend."

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

"Oh? Did you want to? Did you enjoy it at least?"

Considering his forays as a kitten, it seemed the thing to ask.

[robinthefrog.livejournal.com]

"Well, actually I sometimes wondered what it would be like. And it was kinda nice."

[wantstodirect]

Tony followed his nose upstairs and helped himself to bread and soup. "Did you make this?" he asked Liir.

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

"I'm almost surprised people ask anymore," he said with a brief smile.

"Yes. A few minutes ago. You're welcome to as much as you'd like."

He leaned back in his seat.

"How are you, Tony? How goes things?"

[wantstodirect]

"It's good," Tony said, of the food. He was still getting used to people cooking around him. "Things are good," he added. "And hey, it's almost Christmas break."

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

He shrugged in ignorance before smiling.

"I've read a little about it. It seems to be celebrated much like Lurlinemas, but it's all about someone's birthday. That's about all I know about it."

[grasshopper-mol.livejournal.com]

Molly was famished. Nay, she was nearing starvation and about to perish from the lack of sustenance. She crept on uncertain feet into the nearest gathering area, drawn by the heavenly scents of freshly-baked bread and fragrant soup aloft on the wisping winds of fate.

She beamed with happiness when she saw the gracious benefactor. "Hey. That smells great. Mind if I mooch?"

[robinthefrog.livejournal.com]

"Hi, Molly right?"

[grasshopper-mol.livejournal.com]

"Uh huh," she nodded, still not used to the presence of a talking felt frog. It was more than a little unusual. "Robert? No. Wait, I can get it...."

[robinthefrog.livejournal.com]

"You got the first syllable right."

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

He laughed.

"It's not mooching if I made it for anyone who'd come by," he pointed out to her with a smile.

"Do go along and have as much as you like. If it runs out, the soup is quick enough and the bread's got another loaf cooling in the icebox."

[grasshopper-mol.livejournal.com]

"You are so my hero," she went to give him a quick kiss on the cheek as she passed by him on the way to the bowls. "Thanks."

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

He smiled warmly at the kiss to the cheek and bowed his head.

"Happy to provide, really," he said. "And I wanted something simple from home."

He took a bite of bread himself from his plate and scribbled something on the page.

"How have you been, Molly? Well, I should hope."