The Deck, Early Saturday Morning

[once-a-traitor.livejournal.com]

Winter was a while off yet, but it was considerably cooler than a few months ago. Naturally, this called for hot coffee. It was a good thing then that Edmund had been into town to the bakery and coffee shop. There was a large Thermos of hot coffee with some disposable cups and a box of pastries on the table if anyone came by. For now, Edmund was content to sit back in his deck chair and enjoy his breakfast.

[OOC: Open as decks often are. I'm asleep now though. Sleeeep.]

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[once-a-traitor.livejournal.com]

"I'm not sure I want to make brooding a legitimate hobby. It's far more satisfying when it's a casual thing," he deadpanned. "I think they renovated the sixth floor. It would be worth a look. I heard something about a ball pit."

[wannabehunter]

"But if it was, there could be a whole scoring system, like in sports," Jo suggested. "We could give points depending on how deeply someone expressed the pain in their souls."

"Yeah, I head that too. Those are supposed to be fun."

[once-a-traitor.livejournal.com]

"A scoring system would make brooding somewhat productive," he conceded. "Do you want to go up to the sixth and have a look at it one night?"

[wannabehunter]

"You could work in a whole sliding scale depending on what exactly they were brooding over," Jo added. "Hell, the squirrels probably have one already."

"Sounds like a plan," Jo said. "Did you have any night in particular in mind?"

[once-a-traitor.livejournal.com]

"Monday?"

[wannabehunter]

Jo nodded. "Monday works for me."

[once-a-traitor.livejournal.com]

"If you happen to turn into a ferret between now and then, I'll forgive you if you don't show up."

[wannabehunter]

"Believe me, I have no intention of that happening."

[once-a-traitor.livejournal.com]

"You say that as if intentions ever matter when it comes to Fandom strangeness. Some days I think the island thinks it's funny."

[wannabehunter]

"Like Wednesday?"

[once-a-traitor.livejournal.com]

"Was that when the girls suddenly weren't girls or was there some other strangeness I missed this week?"

[wannabehunter]

"If there was, we both did," Jo said, then added wistfully. "Waking up as a boy's a bit more fun when you have a boyfriend around to freak out with it though."

[once-a-traitor.livejournal.com]

Edmund grinned. "Devious, and yet I can't deny your point. You sound like you've had that experience before. Does your boyfriend live elsewhere now?"

[wannabehunter]

"The first it happened, Luke was sleeping over. I don't know which of us was more surprised," Jo explained. "Ex-boyfriend. He went home after he graduated last year, another galaxy's a bit too far for a long distance relationship."

[once-a-traitor.livejournal.com]

"That would be," he tried to find the right word, "overwhelming to wake up to."

[wannabehunter]

Jo snickered. "Just a bit, yeah."

[once-a-traitor.livejournal.com]

"Do you stay in contact? With Luke."

[wannabehunter]

"On and off," Jo said. "Emails here and there mostly. There's this whole rebellion against an evil empire thing going on in his galaxy, kind of takes up time."

[once-a-traitor.livejournal.com]

"Busy man," he nodded. "I suppose we have that to be thankful for here. We wouldn't really have time to go and visit the ball pit if we had a rebellion against an evil empire to run."

[wannabehunter]

"Not unless there were secret documents in it or something."

[once-a-traitor.livejournal.com]

"I don't know if I would hide secret documents in a ball pit. A five year old might find them and draw on them with crayon."

[wannabehunter]

"But no one would ever think to look for them there," Jo pointed out.

[once-a-traitor.livejournal.com]

"So you're saying it's a precarious balance between very clever secrecy and being outwitted by a child."

[wannabehunter]

"Exactly," Jo said. "I know that when I take over the world, I'll have a four-year-old advisor to point out flaws in my plans."

[once-a-traitor.livejournal.com]

"Who better than to point out gaping holes in strategy?" he agreed not at all seriously. "Though now I know your secret hiding place, so I'm a threat to security."