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future_sandworm ([personal profile] future_sandworm) wrote in [community profile] fandomhighdorms2009-08-04 04:21 pm
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Behind the Dorms, Tuesday Afternoon

Leto had actually made some plans for this meeting, in case Arthur and Zack would still be asleep, although if they had been, there would certainly have been a lot fewer people showing up.

Those plans were now pointless, however. There was no way he would put people through defining the goals of defensive tactics today. Clearly those who had spend their weekend in another reality were a little too emotional to deal with that now. Leto knew that from experience; he had spent the previous day being bitched at (hello Arthur!) or hugged and cried on. It was obvious that people needed some kind of emotional outlet today.

Also, it seemed like some people had trust issues after having run into alternate vampire versions of themselves. That could prove dangerous in a fighting situation.

"Good afternoon," he greeted everyone gathered. "Today we will work on what I believe is referred to in this time as team-building. Without loyalty and trust - both of leaders and of fellow warriors - a military unit is nothing. Where that trust is strong and army may rise about their actual level of fighting skill."

"Often this loyalty has been nurtured by shared pain and suffering. A guerilla group might have faced persecution together for a long time. Many forms of military training forces the warriors to endure severe hardships together in order to achieve something similar."

Leto smiled. "Today, I decided for a more playful and gentle approach. We will start with a shared meal. Eating together is a sign of friendship in many cultures. First, you need to divide the food." He gestured at a blanket on the ground with a large fruit bowl in the middle. "It needs to be divided equally, but for every fruit you take, you need to tell the group something significant about yourself."

"When the food has been divided, you may eat, but you may not feed yourself, only other people."

He watched the people gathered. "Any questions?"

[Wait for OCD! OCD is up!]

glacial_queen: (Understanding)

Re: Arrive and mingle!

[personal profile] glacial_queen 2009-08-04 07:42 pm (UTC)(link)
"We all have dark places inside of us," Karla said. "But those places don't make us us. But there was a demon that wore your skin and got to pick and choose what it wanted to use. Even the nice things, like your friendship with Zack and coloring and singing, it used and twisted and perverted until it wasn't yours anymore. At your worst I don't believe you would do such things. Not without something else there, forcing."

She went to wrap an arm around Dinah, if she'd accept it. "I don't know what it was like, having those memories, or falling into a body with those needs and impulses. And doing so hurt you. It may even scar. But that doesn't change who you are. Not to me, anyway."

Re: Arrive and mingle!

[identity profile] blondecanary.livejournal.com 2009-08-04 07:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Put like that, it didn't so much feel better, as become more understandable. "I'm glad," she whispered. Dinah thought she maybe could even tell Karla about the flower shop, and not lose her friendship. But she still didn't know how she felt about it, and couldn't stand the idea of explaining yet. Or maybe never tell anyone besides Tony at all. She accepted the hug, and put her head down on top of Karla's. "All that we see or seem is just a dream within a dream," she whispered.

She really owed Adah Price for that.
glacial_queen: (Shared grin)

Re: Arrive and mingle!

[personal profile] glacial_queen 2009-08-04 07:52 pm (UTC)(link)
"That's really pretty," Karla said. "Quoting something or did Fandom just contribute to one of the most insightful phrases of our time?"

Re: Arrive and mingle!

[identity profile] blondecanary.livejournal.com 2009-08-04 07:56 pm (UTC)(link)
"Edgar Allan Poe." Dinah smiled a little more and squeezed Karla. "The girlfriend of one of my former crushes liked his stuff, so I had to read it. In a night, or in a day / In a vision, or in none / Is it therefore the less gone? / All that we see or seem / Is but a dream within a dream." She shook her head. "I don't know. With all the weird and psychic and disturbing dreams I have, I find that reassuring."
glacial_queen: (Proud)

Re: Arrive and mingle!

[personal profile] glacial_queen 2009-08-04 08:02 pm (UTC)(link)
"I can see why you would. It's pretty. This Poe is a poet, here in your world?"

Re: Arrive and mingle!

[identity profile] blondecanary.livejournal.com 2009-08-04 08:04 pm (UTC)(link)
"He was. He lived about a hundred-something years ago. I dreamed that line when I was on Arrakis, just before other people's dreams started." Dinah shook her head. "A warning, maybe, about what was happening." She tilted her head. "Not this rhyming chiming from today, no way."
glacial_queen: (Trying not to smile)

Re: Arrive and mingle!

[personal profile] glacial_queen 2009-08-04 08:14 pm (UTC)(link)
"I'm kind of glad that's not your line," Karla said with a smile. "It would mean your poems are better than mine."

That might or might not have been Fandom's influence. Karla wasn't going to say.