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The Roof, Tuesday Early Evening

Still a mess from the exploding gourd (what the hell what the hell what the hell) and other plant carnage earlier, with scratches on her arms and face from being tackled by an artichoke and wincing from the related bruises on her ribcage from where she'd landed on her crossbow thanks to said artichoke, Kennedy had finally gotten back to the dorms.

The roof was a safe vantage point from which she could keep an eye out on the grounds below (yes, Kennedy, because god only knows what would happen to the island if you weren't keeping a lookout, really) while on the phone to her Watcher.

"--told me I'd get to fight things here! You said I'd get to put my training to use. You didn't say it was gonna be for food prep purposes!"

Entitled little Potential Slayers. So picky.

[[couldn't resist. roof is open. i don't know, i think i hate myself today or something.]]

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Raven left a little early from work due to being covered with cucumber guts, and after a shower, she headed up to the roof to meditate and make sure all the hunger was purged from herself. When she saw Kennedy, she nodded in greeting, but did not interrupt her phone call.

Kennedy nodded back, then went on in that vein for a few minutes longer, finally wrapping up with "Yeah, okay, fine, it was an interesting experience. I gotta go. I'll check in with you this weekend."

She looked down at the goop-covered phone, sighed, and stuck it in her pocket. "Hey. Hell of a thing today, huh?"

"Lady Aphrodite's lunch attempted to attack me," Raven said. She frowned at Kennedy. "You are injured."

"Just scratches. No big," Kennedy said, shrugging. She was not explaining how she got those, thanks. "You got out of it okay?"

"More than that," Raven said, sensing the pain in her ribs as well. "I will heal you if you will allow me." She didn't like asking for permission, but she'd learned some people were twitchy about their pain.

"You know, if that's a pickup line, that's a new one," Kennedy remarked, giving Raven an odd look. "Little banged up, but I'll be fine. It's not a thing; don't make it one."

Stop trying to act tough, Kennedy.

"If that is what you wish," Raven said. "And it is no pickup line. I thought perhaps you would want to be completely uninjured if we are attacked upon the roof." She glanced over at the emo garden; at least it had no vegetables.

"Thanks, but..." Kennedy shrugged. "I think we're good up here. The healing thing's still kinda freaky to me. And so are salads now. Great."

"It is really no bother for me," Raven said. "But I may have to keep my distance from you, for I can feel your pain as much as you do."

Raven had learned the guilt trip. Fear her.

"And yes, I am having second thoughts about my diet now," she went on. "I am glad that fruit did not attack as well."

"Don't eat meat, huh?" This, with a slight, smug quirk of her lips.

...

KENNEDY.

"Seriously, don't make a thing out of it? It's just a bruise. It'll go away."

Raven shook her head. "I have never eaten meat," she said. "Though I am not as strict as some about eggs and dairy. I do enjoy those."

"Hey, if that's your thing." Kennedy held her hands up, and sighed when a few pumpkin seeds fell out of her sleeve. "Wow, that reference flew way over your head, didn't it?"

"...reference?" Raven said, confused. "I am sorry, I must not have understood what you meant. Will you explain?"

Kennedy grinned smugly. "You really want to know?"

Raven nodded. "Yes, I do."

Kennedy tucked her thumbs into her pockets and smirked again-- not leaning in, the way she could've, just grinning. "What I mean is, I don't do guys. You're really not from this world, are you?"

"Oh," Raven said. "Oh! So by meat you meant the.... I do not either. I mean at all. With anyone. And I am not. From this world, I mean." She was blushing and babbling now.

"So it would be like an otherworldly experience if..." No, Kennedy. Bad.

Raven really wasn't sure what to make of Kennedy. She did doublecheck herself to make sure she wasn't using her powers unaware again. "Yes, technically, but...I cannot," she said. "It is not a good idea."

"Relax," Kennedy said with a laugh, holding her hands up. "I'm not offering."

And wasn't that kind of weird?

"I did not think you were," Raven said. "I was merely...." She shook her head and sighed. "I am not accustomed to discussing such things."

Kennedy tilted her head and looked speculatively at Raven. "Home wasn't really big on the sharing, was it?"

"Home was not big on any sort of emotions," Raven said. "And...intimate contact was very rare, and only for procreation." Yeah, no wonder those of Azarath were so uptight.

"That explains a lot," Kennedy declared, mostly sympathetic with a side of scandalized. "I swear, loosening up? Not going to kill you."

"I have 'loosened up,'" Raven protested. "But I cannot become...too loose."

"Yeah, nobody wants that either," Kennedy said, in a little better mood now. Ahem. The phrasing was unfortunate, but she couldn't help laughing.

Raven didn't quite get the joke, poor girl.

She shrugged a little and managed a small smile. "My romantic experiences thus far have proven unfortunate," she said. "It is best that I focus on studies instead."

"Hey Rach. How was your day?"

"There was an incident with salad ingredients at work, but otherwise it was good."

"You too huh. I went out for a walk and wound up getting more exercise than I expected. Got to practice with my magic which was actually kind of nice."

"I was able to use my gifts to defuse a tomato of anger."

"Really? What was it angry about?"

"What all of the vegetables were angry about, I assume."

"Yeah, I guess that was kind of a dumb question. They figured turnabout is fair play?"

"Perhaps. I hope it does not last, whatever it is."

"Yeah no kidding. I'm not averse to vegetables, but I prefer they don't move around. Or try to eat me."

"I hate asparagus." Leda muttered, coming up out of the dorms. She looked freshly showered, but also had that certain glow that some people had after a good workout.

"If it grows in a garden, I think I hate it right now," Kennedy said distractedly, glaring at the plants in the containers nearby. "What the hell."

"Some kind of revenge for Halloween?" Leda guessed. "Have we met? I'm Leda."

"I think we might've, at the picnic when I first got here?" Kennedy bit at her lower lip thoughtfully. "That was crazy, though. Kennedy."

"It was when I first got here too." Leda said. "Nice to meet you Kennedy. Which veggies came after you?"

Kennedy snorted and sat down at the edge of the roof. "Hit up Wikipedia and type in 'vegetable,' and if it's listed there it probably did."

Leda snickered. "Yeah. I didn't even recognize half the things I blasted. It was disturbing and kinda amusing at the same time."

"It was dumb," Kennedy griped. Yes, she was still on about this. "Vegetables."

"I'm sure next time it will be much more worthwhile. Were you here for the mutant alligators?"

"No. That would've been more fun." Kennedy rolled her eyes. "Arthur mentioned them earlier."

Before the artichoke tackled her. God.

"I've heard of some other interesting things. Trolls, Jello Dragons. They seem to run the gamut here."

"Trolls would be kind of awesome," Kennedy muttered. "Not so sure about the Jello. Well, as long as I'm not doomed to two years of fighting Saturday morning cartoons I guess I can let it slide."

"No I'm sure the next invasion will be much cooler."

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