The Roof, Monday Afternoon

[trigons_child]

Raven found autumn fascinating. Azarath didn't have seasons; therefore the changing colors of the leaves was truly a new experience. So after class she headed up to her favorite spot on the roof and sat cross-legged in the sunlight, eyes closed as she sent her Soul-Self soaring over the Preserve. While her Soul-Self soaked in the reds and golds and oranges of the trees, she thought about Lady Ghanima's class and how she had said to spend the rest of the day contemplating being a better person. Her checklist was slightly different than the rituals they'd discussed that morning. Pay attention in class and please her teachers. Use her gifts to help any who needed healing. Stop occasionally wanting to kill Max, and heal the damage that was done in the other Fandom. Not become her father's servant and help him open gateways to other worlds so they could be conquered or laid waste.

Yeah, that last one was a big one.


[I am desperately trying NOT to fall asleep at work, so Raven is highly interruptable. :) ]

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[onlysmokesnics.livejournal.com]

"Oh, hi Raven," Hayley said, stepping out onto the roof. She already had a cigarette in her lips, and had a matchbook in her hands. "Nice day for the roof, huh?"

[trigons_child]

"It is a lovely day," Raven agreed, opening her eyes. She frowned at the cigarette in Hayley's mouth. "If you must smoke, please at least let me make certain you have no illnesses developing in your lungs."

[onlysmokesnics.livejournal.com]

Hayley paused, and held up her cigarette. "That's what the filters are for," she said.

Oh, the sixties.

[trigons_child]

"Those do not work as well as you think they might, Hayley," Raven said, shaking her head. No one on Azarath smoked, but when she'd studied Earth culture, she'd seen a few PSAs learned of the dangers.

[onlysmokesnics.livejournal.com]

"...but why would they still sell them if they were dangerous?" Hayley said.

It was this sort of thinking that led to Hayley's Nicotics addiction.

[trigons_child]

"I do not know," Raven said. "It is something about this world I do not understand."

[onlysmokesnics.livejournal.com]

"...It doesn't seem like a good joke," Hayley said.

[trigons_child]

"Not at all," Raven said. "Perhaps you should quit?"

[onlysmokesnics.livejournal.com]

Hayley frowned, not sure what to think.

"Somebody oughta teach them a lesson," she said.

[trigons_child]

"It is not right that they market their product with misleading information," Raven said, nodding.

[onlysmokesnics.livejournal.com]

"Bet they don't even smoke," Hayley said. "I ever find out who does this, the joke's gonna be on them." She spoke with an odd conviction.

[trigons_child]

Raven gave Hayley a concerned look. "Are you all right?" she said.

[onlysmokesnics.livejournal.com]

"Just don't like people lyin' to me," Hayley said, mellowing back to her normal, bubble-headed demeanor. "Just no fun, you know?"

[robinthefrog.livejournal.com]

"Hello." Robin greeted the new girl he hadn't met yet. Sometimes he tried not to be too exuberant when talking to new people. He never knew how they would react.

[onlysmokesnics.livejournal.com]

"Who said that?" Hayley said, trying to figure out where the voice had come from. She completely overlooked Robin, what with him being so small.

[robinthefrog.livejournal.com]

"Down here." Robin waved. Maybe he should have been standing on something. He was easier to see then.

[onlysmokesnics.livejournal.com]

"Down where?" Hayley said, before she spotted Robin.

"...golly, you gotta be kidding me."

[robinthefrog.livejournal.com]

He'd had worse reactions. "Hi, I'm Robin."

[onlysmokesnics.livejournal.com]

"You're a frog," Hayley said. "Wow."

[robinthefrog.livejournal.com]

"I sure am." Robin agreed happily. "I might be the strangest student here, judging by some people's reactions."

[onlysmokesnics.livejournal.com]

"Well, you're a frog," Hayley said. "And you talk. That's pretty strange."

She said it with a smile, though.

[robinthefrog.livejournal.com]

"It's still a little strange to people back home too. But less now than it used to be."

[onlysmokesnics.livejournal.com]

"You're like something out of a fairy tale," Hayley said, bending down onto her knees. "I'm Hayley."

[robinthefrog.livejournal.com]

"Pleased to meet you Hayley. Some people back home think that the old Fairy Tales about talking animals were about animals like me."

[onlysmokesnics.livejournal.com]

"Golly," Hayley said. "That would make sense, wouldn't it?"