Third Floor Common Room [Saturday, Mid-morning]

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

Trouble with being six, rather than sixteen, was always going to start with the size problem. Mostly the height problem. Everything good always seemed to be kept just out of reach of small hands, and that included a decent breakfast.

Effy didn't really want to starve, but at the same time, there wasn't exactly anyone around to do it all for her.

So she was going to stand and stare up at the higher cupboards, like maybe she could make them relinquish the food in there with just the power of her mind.

Clearly it wasn't going very well.

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[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

Rose had woken up way down in town, but she wanted food, and the place for food was the castle. ...she didn't know why she knew that, but it was totally true. Really.

"What are you staring at, silly?" she asked the girl as she tumbled into the Common Room.

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

Effy turned, only briefly looking put out at being called silly, and then pointed right back up at the cupboards high above her head.

Duh! What did it look like she was looking at?

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

Alex, who blessedly missed this bit of weirdness, wandered into this common room because he could and he didn't want to be downstairs. Unfortunately, he missed the small children that were wandering around because he wasn't expecting that to happen again anytime soon. The island liked its cycles.

Also, they were tiny and he was not. He'd see them in a minute. Maybe.

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

Maybe.

But it appeared they'd see him first. Effy peered at him from around a table leg as he came in, taking her attention off the kitchen cupboards for the time being. He was probably getting used to getting watched by that intense blue-eyed stare. Age didn't really change that... she was just a fair bit smaller.

[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

"Who are you?" Rose demanded, hands on her hips as she eyed the intruder warily. "Are you too old to go to this castle?"

[joan-notjane.livejournal.com]

"Oh, thank God I'm not the only person around here over three feet tall," Joan said.

[trigons_child]

Raven did not like this place. She'd rather be back in Azarath, where it was quiet and peaceful instead of so noisy and full of emotion, but there wasn't anything she could do about that right now. On the other hand, something she could do something about was that she was hungry. The fifth floor common room was empty, so she wandered downstairs until she found other people. "Hello," she said quietly.

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

Effy blinked at her, and after a brief moment lifted the hand that wasn't clutching her stuffed giraffe in a sort of wave. It was about as good at this whole 'greetings' thing as she got.

She then hopefully pointed towards the cupboards. So what if Raven was only about as big as she was. You never could tell.

[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

"It's not quiet time," Rose informed Raven. "You don't gotta be quiet."

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"Another one," Alex said, kind of just staring now. "I don't know if I know you? You gotta name?"

[joan-notjane.livejournal.com]

Joan wandered down to the common room to get herself some breakfast and blinked at all the kids.

Didn't they just do this? She eyed them warily, wondering if any of them were going to call her 'mom'.

[trigons_child]

It was tempting to smile at a face she recognized, but Raven made herself remain calm as she'd been taught. "Hello, Joan," she said.

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

Effy had her food now, and was lying on her stomach on the floor under the table, nibbling at a pop tart.

Joan, for the moment, was just going to get watched right back from that floor-level vantage point. She so sneaky.

[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

"You're big too," Rose informed her. "All the big kids are s'posed to be in the senior dorms. DUH."

[bloody-luck.livejournal.com]

Mat strolled into the common room with all of the cockiness a, well, five year old boy could have.

"Is there breakfast?" he asked eagerly.

[trigons_child]

"I believe Joan intends to make us something," Raven said, looking over at Mat.

[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

Maybe," Rose said, tossing her hair back. "Who says we're gonna share?"

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

There was! Rose and Effy had seen to that with much clambering on the cupboards.

A typically solemn Effy, leaning around the leg of the table, offered out a Pop Tart. It only had one bite taken out of it. It was still good!

[joan-notjane.livejournal.com]

Joan had no idea who any of these kids were aside from Raven but that didn't matter much. "I was going to make some pancakes," she said.

[tasenburn.livejournal.com]

Elle woke up tiny, cranky, and starving.

This... was not altogether unusual, aside from being tinier than was usual.

So she got out of bed, got dressed, and wandered off in search of food.

Enter the third floor common room.

"It's too high!" she whined.

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

Effy nodded seriously in agreement, and indicated to the chair she'd used with Rose.

Or the other option... she wedged Pato under her arm and used the other hand to point at the Big Kids. They also helped with that whole reaching part.

[joan-notjane.livejournal.com]

"What's too high?" Joan asked.

[likethestore.livejournal.com]

K-Mart was little, but that wasn't stopping her from going after breakfast.

Unfortunately, since she was four years old, it also meant she wasn't being very successful in her breakfast attempt.

But as she wandered into the common room, she beelined for the cabinet that she knew had breakfasty stuffs in it. Now to get it open.

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

See this one, Effy could definitely help. She was little and Effy with her 'all of two years' over her had Pop Tarts and a way to climb onto the counters.

Of course, she wasn't talky enough to actually offer, but she did tail the other girl over there to watch what she was doing and jump in if it came to that.

[sexonyoursheets.livejournal.com]

Noah was only four, so he didn't know how to get food for himself. But he did know how to run, so he ran allllll the way down to a room where there were peoples! "Hi!" he yelled.

Little Noah had not yet learned 'inside voice.'

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

Effy, on the other hand, had only inside voice. If you were lucky.

And she could pass on that knowledge to other people and everything, but putting one finger to her lips as she waved Noah towards the stash of breakfast food she was building up, here.