Second Floor Common Room: Monday Afternoon

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After "Awesome" class Layla found herself in the common room sitting cross legged on the counter roasting a marshmallow on a stick with the marshmallow in question inserted into a very hot toaster oven.

And in between making and eating "indoor s'mores" Layla would spend her time writing down random haikus in her Hello Kitty journal as she thought about the events of the last week.

True, she could have gone to the campground and lit a fire but this was so much less work.

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Fiona was feeling the need to be out and about, mostly because she was feeling better about life, which found her in the common room, blinking at the other girl. Once she understood what she was doing, there was less blinking, but she still wondered what was just so wonderful about marshmallows that people might feel the need to do that.

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"Hi Fiona," Layla said looking up briefly from her toasting duties. "S'more?"

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She waved off the offer, blinking as she... hadn't actually thought she knew the girl before pulling someone out from under her hair to put her on her lap. The kitten pouted at her before she started scritching it's ears.

"Sorry. I, uh, don't seem to remember your name. Thank you, though."

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"Layla Miller," she replied as she stacked up a s'more. "I know stuff. You sure you don't want to eat? It's lip smacking goooood."

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A faint smile.

"I don't eat," she said with a shrug, "but thanks. Is it really worth the trouble?"

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Firekeeper and Blind Seer made their way into the common room- still getting used to the fact that this was their floor now, after nearly a year on the 3rd.

Firekeeper tilted her head at the toaster-oven s'more making. "Did not know such was possible," she admitted.

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"Just a lazy way to do things instead of walking to a campfire and lighting things up," she replied. "How are you doing Blysse?"

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"Totally and completely," Layla replied as she sucked a bit of sticky marshmallow off her finger. "Too bad you don't eat. It's one of humanity's crowning achievements."

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To be honest Firekeeper thought campfires were easier than microwaves and such, but to each their own. "Good now that sleeping problem others have is fixed."

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Yeah, nothing she could comment on.

"Everything tastes like sawdust to me," she explained, "so there's not much of a point. But I remember eating. I liked it. Just kind of pointless now."

Trying not to be bitter, trying not to be bitter-- ooo, kitten. That was the best idea ever. Just look down and there's fluffy adorableness that can make you forget that you can't enjoy things like food anymore.

Nyx got a scritch just for that.

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"Yeah, that was quite the alternate universe stumper," Layla said, frowning a bit before she bit into her s'more. "I hate it when I don't know all the details. Looks like it turned out for the best though some people are going to have some post traumatic stress disorder as a result."

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"Suit yourself," Layla replied as she geared up to toast another marshmallow. "More for me."

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"So I see," she said flatly, trying not to sound annoyed. There was enjoying things and then there was being polite. Then again, she really had to learn to settle herself around people more often, not get so upset.

"Glad things are back to normal at least."

They could share that, couldn't they?

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"I not know what many of your words mean, so I 'take your word for it' as they say," Firekeeper replied with a nod.

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Layla shook her head and laughed.

"For speaking those words, that you think fine... You will begin to regret them.... in time."

She seemed a little too amused by that. "Yes," she agreed when she was done chuckling. "Everyone is back to normal. As much as this place is considered normal."

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Layla laughed. "Yes, that's probably for the best. Did you get sucked over there too?"

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Okay. What was that?

"Exactly," she said after a few minutes, "'here' normal. There's no such thing as real 'normal', I don't think."

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"And if anyone was normal they'd get sucked into the weirdness in no time," Layla said with a sigh. "Tragic really."

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"Is there anyone like that? I don't think I've met anyone who isn't, well, a little weird in one way or another."

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"Did not," she shook her head. "And could not be much help with looking in books, here. Did not much like this doing nothing."

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"Depends on your definition," Layla said licking one end of the s'more. "Of course in this place normal is weird."

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"I got to help a little bit," Layla said with a frown. "Not as much as I'd like to do. I'm used to watching people do all the work when something bad happens but I usually know the end result."

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"What would you define as normal?"

She was curious.

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"Someone who comes from Earth that isn't from the future, has magic, mutant abilities, out space, has advanced techonology, isn't a robot, or had been turned into super powered individual because of some incident," Layla shrugged. "Even then they're life is pretty fucked up somehow. Closest person who I would say was normal before she got here was Francine. Maybe."

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"I haven't really dealt with her much other than while everything was going on."

Maybe she should try and correct that a little.