Second Floor Common Room: Thursday Afternoon

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With a day off from classes and work, Layla was lounging on the sofa with her Chuck Taylor's and striped socks resting up on the coffee table watching watching old episodes of Seraph.

Next to her was a giant bowl of pink and green potato chips that she found on a back shelf at the local Kwik Stop that she was totally willing to share...

Though if you were smart you probably wouldn't want to partake of them.

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[bitten_notshy]

Jack didn't have much of anything to do until play rehearsal, so he was roaming the dorms looking for signs of life.

"Layla," he greeted. "I haven't seen you in a while. ... are those snack chips green?"

Because that was the key thing.

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"I've been pretty quiet lately," Layla said with a shrug as she offered the bowl for Jack to take a chip. "Have some. The green ones are seaweed and the pink are shrimp."

[bitten_notshy]

Jack had never been so grateful to turn food down. "I don't eat shellfish," he said, not bothering to make it sound like an apology. "And does anyone eat seaweed, really?"

No one had told him what the green stuff on sushi was.

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"Sure," Layla replied as she sandwiched a shrimp pringle between two seaweed ones. "For centuries it's been a traditional food staple for the Japanese, Chinese and Koreans. It's not bad really..."

Then again most people didn't have Layla's palate.

[bitten_notshy]

"I am not Japanese, Chinese, or Korean." Though Jack did take a seaweed chip and break off the tiniest corner of it.

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"Really? I hadn't noticed," Layla snickered. "But yeah, it's not exactly a common thing to run across here in the states. Unless you go to a Japanese restaurant of course."

[bitten_notshy]

Jack let the chip dissolve to mush in his mouth and, after a pause, swallowed.

Not ... horrid.

"I don't mind sushi."

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"Well depending on the type of sushi you eat, you've probably already eaten seaweed," Layla munching on her pringle "sandwich."

"Honestly I don't think seaweed has much of a taste really."

[bitten_notshy]

"Oh, that would be the green bit." And now Jack felt like an idiot, meaning he needed to change the topic. "What's on the television?"

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"Seraph," Layla replied. "It's about a werewolf living in LA trying to do good. It's a spinoff from that Wendy the Werewolf Stalker show. Ever seen it?"

[bitten_notshy]

"Part of one, I think," Jack said as he flopped into a seat. "I don't really watch much television. I've never gotten into the habit."

"I didn't know werewolves could do good."

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"Oh this guy is different," Layla replied. "There's a whole bit where he's a good werewolf and all the others are evil. There was a curse done by a gypsy clan after he slaughtered one of there members. However if he ever has a moment of complete happiness he goes evil again. Strange loophole but hey, it's television."

[bitten_notshy]

"The gypsies wanted him to be miserable," Jack summarized. "Well, I suppose it's kinder than turning him inside out or shooting a silver bullet between his eyes."

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"Well being turned inside out would be awfully unpleasant," Layla agreed. "Though once the spell was broken he did go off and kill one of the gypsies so I'm not sure how well that worked for thme in the long run."

[bitten_notshy]

"Depends how many of them he would have killed without it," Jack pointed out. "Though I do still wonder why they didn't just kill him outright, rather than live with the risk."

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"I'm thinking so that Wendy and Seraph could have a tortured love life," Layla replied. "Or at least fictionally. Maybe I'm looking at the whole thing too closely."

[bitten_notshy]

"You're looking at it as a story," Jack answered. "How do they handle things during the full moon?"

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"The spell keeps him all good during the time," Layla replied. "So I guess it's all Yay for magic?"

[bitten_notshy]

"Perhaps," Jack said. "It all seems implausible, but that seems to be true of the television at the best of times."

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"Well there are those who think mutants with strange abilities are implausible as well," Layla said munching on a seaweed chip. "Or magic, or robots for that matter. I guess we can be forgiving of a tv show if that is the case."

[inthereflexes.livejournal.com]

Jack was off for a bit of a wander, and found himself in the Common Room. It was a short wander. Hush.

"They make chips in green?" he asked, staring at the wrongness.

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"It's seaweed," Layla said offering him a chip. "Want one?"

[inthereflexes.livejournal.com]

"Sure!" he said, accepting the chip, which properly vanished into his maw. "Tastes like sushi," he said, once he could speak. "Not bad."

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"Try the pink," Layla said offering another chip.

[inthereflexes.livejournal.com]

He did. "Is this shrimp?" he asked. "These are good!"

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"You have a very good palate," Layla noted.