Third floor common room [early afternoon]

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Mat arose at the crack of noon, as was his habit, took one look out the window, realized that snow was nothing he particularly wanted to deal with today, and headed down to the common room instead to look sad until someone made lunch for him.

Besides, company was always welcome especially since it would bring mistletoe. He flopped into a chair and began pushing random buttons on the remote control.

No, he hadn't yet figured out how to get the television to turn on.

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"So it's explosive?" Zayne asked, misunderstanding the first part of the word.

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"Like a firework?" Mat replied. "I don't think so."

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"Well, that's good," Zayne said. "Plants that suddenly appear are one thing. Plants that suddenly appear and blow up, that's trouble."

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"It would be a little more interesting," Mat declared unwisely.

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"'Interesting' is something to watch out for around here," Zayne pointed out.

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"Wonder what it wants?" Mat mused. "The angels yesterday apparently just wanted to melt and leave small puddles everywhere."

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"Maybe it just wants to be a decoration," Zayne mused. "Or... can you eat it? Maybe it's trying to be your breakfast."

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"I think it's poisonous," Mat replied. "I remember Nynaeve screeching something about that when I was younger."

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"So it probably doesn't want you to eat it," Zayne noted. "It's probably just decorative, then. It's kind of a weird decoration, though. You'd think there would be more of them or something."

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"Well, it's festive," Mat replied, frowning up at it, "but I'm not going to do what it wants."

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"What if it just wants you to enjoy break?" Zayne asked.

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"Then I will, and happily. But if it wants me to kiss another man, it is going to be some terribly disappointed foliage," Mat warned it.

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"Wait, it wants you to do what?" Zayne asked, looking at the mistletoe. He didn't see how it was going to make anyone kiss anyone else.

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"It's used for kissing games at home," Mat replied with a small shrug.

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Zayne remembered that week where everyone was... ahem, participating in a week-long kissing game, leading to some people winning very big. And sometimes very ofen. It was very rough on the local Jedi. "And now it just showed up randomly. Does the island really have to give people another reason for that kind of thing?"

Of course it did.

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"I don't have problems getting kissed," Mat replied a little smugly. "I don't generally need the help."

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"Well, that's not really help, it sounds like. Just encouragement," Zayne said.

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"Maybe it's trying to help you," Mat said. Helpfully.

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"Well, it showed up when we were the only two people in the room, so I don't think you'd appreciate the way it's trying to help me," Zayne pointed out.

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"Not terribly," Mat admitted with a grin.

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"I hope the lack of kissing isn't making it feel bad," Zayne said.

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"You're a nice guy, but you did kill me not so many weekends ago," Mat teased.

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"Neither of us were ourselves," Zayne said. "And I'm still sorry about that."

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"And you should be," Mat laughed. "It was one of the bloody stupider ways to die."

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"I'm still trying to figure out how that could have been fatal," Zayne said. "It was just a pillow."