Fourth floor common room [Saturday night]

[sorella-vecchia.livejournal.com]

Triela had a project. This project, inspired in part by her exploration of other common rooms, involved checking the dates on various foodstuffs in the common room.

"This can't be right," she muttered as she eyed a bag of marshmallows. She was pretty sure that marshmallows hadn't even been invented by the date on the package.

And... she was pretty sure that that particular brand of cereal hadn't been produced for at least a decade.

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[likes-chicken.livejournal.com]

Hurley poked his head in the common room, on his way home from work.

Yeah, he'd stayed a bit late. Inventory and stuff, you know?

"Having trouble?" he said.

[sorella-vecchia.livejournal.com]

"Not unless you call finding food that's probably been here longer than some of us have been alive trouble." Triela waved a box of... she wasn't even sure what it was.

[likes-chicken.livejournal.com]

"It's probably still good," Hurley said. "Some stuff, like, Twinkies? Those things last forever."

[sorella-vecchia.livejournal.com]

"And most things don't," Triela pointed out. "But if you want to risk it? You're welcome to it."

[likes-chicken.livejournal.com]

"Depends," Hurley said. "Find any Twinkies?" He chuckled.

[sorella-vecchia.livejournal.com]

"Not yet, but I'm just getting started." She points at the (so far) small pile of random foodstuffs. "You're welcome to anything I've found. Or you could join in."

[likes-chicken.livejournal.com]

"I'll help the search," Hurley said, entering the common room properly. "So are you trying to find old stuff, or what?"

[weetuskenraider]

This wasn't Tahiri's floor, but she was restless and, okay, more than a little edgy about Ben being gone, so wandering it was.

"Hi, Triela," she said, coming into the common room in her usual bare feet and flightsuit. "What are you doing?"

[sorella-vecchia.livejournal.com]

"Trying to dig up all the stuff that expired before I was born." Triela shook her head. "You're welcome to any of it," she offered generously.

[weetuskenraider]

"I'm welcome to the expired stuff?" Tahiri asked dubiously. "Um, thanks, I guess. Why?"

[sorella-vecchia.livejournal.com]

"I don't know. Be creative?" Triela shrugged. "Someone may have some interesting ideas. Some of it may still be good?" She sounded dubious about that.

[weetuskenraider]

"I've eaten some pretty disgusting things, but I don't know," Tahiri said, picking up a can of something that was bulging a little on one end and looking at it skeptically. "Maybe we can build a fort and just throw it at people."

[sorella-vecchia.livejournal.com]

"Both of those more useful than leaving them in the cupboards," Triela grinned. "But that might be a pretty extreme thing to do if some of those things explode the way they look like they might..."

[weetuskenraider]

Very gingerly, Tahiri set the can back down and kept an eye on it. "Well, if the school ever gets attacked --" and she kind of hoped not, because she'd already had one school get attacked on her -- "at least it'll be useful then?"

[kestrelswolf.livejournal.com]

Firekeeper- Blind Seer at her side as usual- wandered in to the common room.

"What is you doing?" she asked curiously.

[sorella-vecchia.livejournal.com]

"Finding the food that's way too old." Triela sighed. "Some of this stuff expired years ago."

[kestrelswolf.livejournal.com]

"Expired?" Firekeeper frowned. Wasn't expired another word for dead? "Would be hard to eat, otherwise,"

[sorella-vecchia.livejournal.com]

"Not that sort of expired." Triela shook her head. "You're not from a modern world, are you?"

[kestrelswolf.livejournal.com]

"I am not sure what is this 'modern'," Firekeeper admitted. "But this world is not my own."

[sorella-vecchia.livejournal.com]

"When you package food like this," Triela held up a bag, "it only lasts so long. If you don't eat it before the expiration date you probably shouldn't eat it."

[weetuskenraider]

"Firekeeper!" Tahiri was a little extra glad to see her tonight. "Have you had a chance to listen to any of those songs yet?"

[kestrelswolf.livejournal.com]

"Have, yes," Firekeeper nodded enthusiastically, giving Tahiri a grin.

[weetuskenraider]

"What do you think so far?" Tahiri asked, then raised a hand to wave at Blind Seer.

[kestrelswolf.livejournal.com]

Blind Seer acknowledged the wave with a nod- a gesture he'd picked up from spending so much time around humans.

"Am liking!" Firekeeper said, nearly bouncing in her enthusiasm. "I cannot be using some of the lessons, not being Jedi, but the stories is good."

[weetuskenraider]

"I'll let Tionne know next time I can get a message to her," Tahiri said, sparing a small grin for Blind Seer's nod. "Oh, hey, did you hear about this fight club thing?"