3rd Floor Girls' Room, Monday Morning

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For the most part, Didi liked being mortal. She loved food, she enjoyed sleep, and if there were things that were a little less enjoyable, the good parts of her life made up for it.

Then she woke up with a raging headache and a grinding cramp in her lower stomach. A few minutes later, she was in the girls' room, resting the back of her head against the cool tile as she tried to decode the instruction sheet from a box of tampons. It shouldn't have seemed nearly as complicated as it did, but, then, Didi had never exactly had to deal with this first-hand.

As soon as she'd sorted it all out, Didi vowed, she was going to eat her weight in Doritos. That might be enough to let her be her usual philosophical self about this.

[OOC: Open to girls and very brave boys who don't mind screeching. Squirrels, uh ... be discreet?]

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"Congratulations," Didi told her, smirking. "Well. It's either a month, or sixteen and a half, or immortal. So, uh, my age is flexible."

... she might have been enjoying being difficult. It went well with cramps.

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"...immortal?"

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And that was where Didi decided to quit screwing around, therapeutic as it was. It wasn't like she cared if people thought she was nuts.

"Technically I'm Death," she said. "I'm just kind of doing this mortal ... thing for a while."

Because that made so much sense.

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"...."

Jean, stop staring.

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"... I'm not here working!"

Didi's volume went up at the end, there.

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"You're Death?" Jean asked slowly.

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"Yeah." Didi raised her chin a little. "Mortal incarnation of her, anyhow. Is it really that weird at this school?"

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"I thought death was a concept, you know?" Jean ventured, looking at her as though that would help add more deathly things to the picture.

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"It is," Didi said, more softly. "I am. It's just ... also a person."

She remained a slight girl with a nest of black hair, not terribly tall, dressed in black with a large ankh around her neck. She looked more like a Hot Topic salesgirl than like an immortal.

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Which kinda made Death less than scary if you thought about it.

"Do you... do this a lot?"

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"What, go to the bathroom?" Not helpful, Didi, and she sobered.

"No. It's supposed to be one day a century so I know what being human is. This time I fell through a fountain and ended up here. I think I'm stuck. For now, anyhow."

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"Oh." Which begged the question. "Do you like it?"

That had to be totally weird.

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"Yeah." She looked rueful. "A little less today, but yeah. I get to read books and learn things and make friends and ... eat. Food's amazing. Life is amazing."

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Okay, now Jean was finding it extra hard to be frightened of this death thing now. That wasn't fair. "You should get some chocolate for today. It helps."

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It wasn't scary! Just inevitable.

... possibly more inevitable for Jean then for most people.

"I'll get some in a second."

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"And it usually--" Jean looked distinctly uncomfortable. But, hey, you learned this with more then just a few girls in the house. "--ends up happening around the same time as everyone else."

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"... chocolate?" Give Didi a second. She'd figure it out.

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"Uh..." Jean was just going to hope she realized so there wouldn't have to be a Talk.

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"Oh!" Didi facepalmed. "I get it. I just ... lost track of what we were talking about."

"That's probably why it's been busy in here, huh?"

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"At least there were people around if you needed help," Jean offered, nodding in agreement with that.