Third floor common room [afternoon]

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Frankly speaking, a Mat Cauthon with too much time on his hands was a kind of terrifying thing.

Witness example number one: Mat, in a common room, juggling an apple, two spoons, and a carving knife.

At least he wasn't blindfolded?

[OOC: So very open.]

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Zayne walked into the common room and raised an eyebrow at the scene. "What are you doing?" he had to ask.

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"I'm knitting a scarf," Mat told him, grinning.

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"Without any yarn or anything. That takes skill," Zayne said.

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"I'm very bloody skilled," Mat replied with a nod. "Can you juggle? Or knit a scarf?"

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"I tried juggling once. It didn't end well," Zayne noted.

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Mat concentrated, remembering what Thom had taught him, and used the knife to slice the apple in half before catching the knife and spoons in one hand and half the apple in the other. The second half landed in his mouth.

"How bad?" came the muffled reply as he held out the second half of the apple.

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"If it was knives instead of balls, I wouldn't be here right now," Zayne said. "But since it was balls, everyone was just amused."

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"Whoa," Hurley said, blinking at Mat.

He'd wandered down to see what food was hiding on the lower floors' common rooms.

"...Dude."

He was ever so eloquent, that Hugo Reyes.

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"Hello," Mat said, still juggling.

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"I hope you do this a lot," Hurley said. "I don't want to help you pick up your fingers."

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Mat smirked. "Normally I juggle knives," he said. "It keeps me awake."

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"Dude, I just drink soda," Hurley joked. "I guess we all have our own little tricks."

He chuckled a bit as he wandered into the kitchen area. "You know if there's any marshmallows down here?"

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"The herb?" Mat asked, looking confused. "I haven't seen any."

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All Mirax had wanted was lunch. Instead she was getting a show, and stood with her head tilted, finally asking, "If I run to get something to record this, you're going to stop aren't you?"

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"For a pretty girl?" He grinned. "Probably not. I'm not sure I can keep going long enough for you to sketch it entirely, though."

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"Really? Because I'm willing to try that," she grinned. "As a bonus, my art's not even very good, either."

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"This deal is getting better all the time," Mat declared. "I'm Mat."

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"Mirax. So, uh, do I get to ask why you're putting on common room performance art?"

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"I was bored," Mat replied.

And he hadn't figured out how to turn the television on, shh.

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Effy watched for a long moment from the doorway, lingering silently for a moment as she tended to do.

"Impressive," she remarked eventually, before finally wandering into the room. "How long did that take to learn?"

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"Months," Mat admitted with a grin. "Hello, Effy."

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"Mat," she offered in return, curling a bit of a grin. "Bored, were you?" Assumed he must have been to learn that kind of juggling.

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"A bit," he said. "It turns out that riding across a bloody continent gets repetitive when you aren't being chased by anything."

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"Found the same goes for making your way around a city." It was always that bit more exhilarating when you were avoiding the police, irritated bouncers or 'that big guy your friend pissed off'.

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"I bloody love cities," Mat said with a grin. "The bigger, the better."