Fifth Floor Common Room; Sunday Morning [ 05/09 ].

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Sleep? Who could possibly sleep at a time like this? Although Ariel was absolutely exhausted from yesterday, the seahorses in her stomach were stampeding about in excitement and so she didn't have much for sleeping. Even the thrill of sleeping in a human bed was enough to keep her up. So it was tired but still bouncing Ariel that had padded down to the common room that morning, eager to explore and rifle through the unbelievable amount of human artifacts at her disposal just down the hallway.

For a girl who didn't talk, she wasn't very quiet about the whole thing either. Cupboards banged, drawers slammed, utensils clattered as her eager hands and hungry eyes went through every single one and examined all the marvelous items. Dinglehoppers, a whole drawer of them! Gazoodzits, too, and flangongers, and here there were some plates! Plates! Ariel reveled in the new word as she took each one out, looked it over, turning it along its circumference. And then there were the boxes of things filled with other things, and gloopfezzits and, oh my gosh, oh my gosh! Ariel stared in awe as she even found a thingamabob, unlike any of the twenty she had back home in her grotto, with a pretty red case filled with all sorts of other gadgets, like the little mini snepfitters and gormazers...

It was almost too much. Occasionally, Ariel had to force herself to stop, letting out little silent squees to release her excitement.

She'd probably be less excited once she'd gotten through all the cupboards and had to start putting all the stuff back.


[[ open common room is open, of course! ]]

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[vanillajello]

Kate had been on her way to see if Bod happened to be alone and awake yet, or failing that, she'd been thinking of going to the roof, but... There was something going on in this common room. She had to investigate.

And boggle.

"What are you doing?" she asked from the doorway.

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Ariel twirled around quickly at the sound of a voice, red hair whipping around and the momentum almost making her lose her balance. She wavered a little, but she barely seemed to notice as she brandished forward what was, for all intents and purposes, a pair of tongs as if it was the most magical item in all the world. She squeezed it with her hand, snapping it at the air.

She didn't know what it was but she knew one thing. It was amazing!

And, if the tongs weren't amazing enough, she gestured toward everything else...and it really was practically everything else...that she'd extracted from the drawers and cupboards with utter glee.

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Hayley wandered up into the common and then proceeded to watch Ariel's searching frenzy.

Somebody was crazy.

"Whaaaaaaat are you doing?"?

[vanillajello]

Uh huh.

That was one overly excited person. Overly excited about tongs and... random crap, even.

So, Kate was just going to take a moment to raise an eyebrow, eyeing the girl and the mess around her, before asking, "Why?"

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Wasn't it obvious? Ariel smiled at the other girl, a great big bright smile of pure excitement as she took the funnel she'd most recently extracted from the drawer and then placed it, at a jaunty little angle, on top of her head, just like Scuttle had taught her. It never once occurred to Ariel that perhaps a funnel hat might be on the same level of fashion as a dress made of sails and ropes, nor did she even once question why a hat would be kept in a kitchen. Instead, she simple presented the accessory and waited hopefully for what the other girl thought of it?

Oh, and there was another one! Ariel grabbed it off the counter and offered it out in case the other girl wanted such a cute accessory for herself.

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Hayley, for her part, thought it was kind of an adorable crazy.

And proceeded to take the offered 'hat' and place it on her own head with a giggle.

"Gee, you don't talk much, do ya?"

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Why? Ariel's eyes widened at the girl in surprise for such a question and she swung her arms in a gesture toward all the wonderful, amazing things that surrounded her in a clear indication of why not?

A better question, if you asked Ariel, would be why were all these fantastic treasures hidden away in all these drawers and cupboards in the first place?

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Ariel's hands clapped together happily to see the other hat donned, nodding with approval, before shaking her head to answer the question. Yesterday, she might have been just a bit forlorn about it, but, this morning, surrounded by all these wonderful things, it was impossible to be forlorn about anything, so the shake of her head came with a silent giggle, a sort of general acceptance and a shrug, and she went to see what else was in the drawer.

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Kate raised both her brows at that, taking a few steps further into the room. "Yeah, I still don't get it," she said. "But I hope you're gonna clean all this shit up, too."

Not that it was Kate's problem, anyway, really. She didn't even live on this floor.

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"Well how come?" Hayley said. "I mean, you sure seem like you got a lot to say. And maybe I can help you find whatever you're lookin' for. Because it's pretty clear that you still haven't found what you're lookin' for."

She paused. Had she heard that somewhere before?

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Ariel gave the other girl a slightly disparaging, mostly pointed look because of course she was going to clean it up. In her own fashion. And to say that it wasn't at all shit. This was one of the most amazing collection of treasure she had ever seen.

Seriously! She picked up a gravy boat, showing it off in her palm. Was this not the most incredible thing ever? It wasn't even cracked!

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Ariel snorted a little; that was an understatement! Ariel had plenty to say, but, since she couldn't even say an explanation, she gestured, hands to her throat a moment before pushing them forward, opening her mouth, as if showing how words might try to come up, but nothing will come out, followed by that accepting shrug. After all, who needed a voice when you had--

---oooooooh. Ariel pulled a whisk from the drawer next, holding it up to her face and practically staring at it crosseyed as she wondered what in the world such a funny looking thing could be used for.

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"Oh my lord," Hayley said, her eyes filled with saddened horror. "You can't talk at all?"

That was possibly the most awful thing she had ever heard.

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"Yeah, that is one interesting thing," Kate said, in a way that made it clear that it really was not. "So I'm guessing you don't really have much stuff like this where you're from, huh?"

The fact that the other girl didn't seem to be speaking, like, at all, hadn't quite registered yet. It was early; give her time.

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Ariel shook her head again, nonchalantly, seemingly oblivious to how terrible the other girl seemed to think it was. Sure, it wasn't any fun, but, really, Ariel could not complain since her silence had gotten her here, to this moment, where she'd discovered this fascinating object. She looked it over from every angle, enraptured, carefully holding her funnel hat to keep it on her head as she considered the possibilities of the whisk.

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"So are you planning on making an omelet?" Hayley asked. "Because that's what the whisk is for."

She slowly took the funnel hat off her head, but kept it in one hand.

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Ariel shook her head, and despite the attitude, she was just too excited to really care, so she smiled at the other girl; she really didn't have stuff like this where she was from, and anything she did have had been completely destroyed by her father, so to be surrounded by so many of them, in such good condition.....it was like a dream to Ariel.

And she looked now at the other girl hopefully, holding out the gravy boat a little more. She shrugged to show her own ignorance, and then looked at her with eager inquisitiveness that maybe she could tell her what it was for, what did it do, what were the cute little bushy tailed animals etched into the design on the side?

Leave it to Fandom to have a gravy boat decorated with squirrels.

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Ariel blinked, looking at the other girl through the wires of the whisk, and then she blinked again before straightening. She held the whisk up in a position of reverence and gazed at it with fresh eyes, now able to bestow a name to it. A whisk. And it was used for making omelets.

Which, of course, now begged the question: what was an omelet? She turned to the other girl for guidance.

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"You want to know what that is? It's a gravy boat. So you can pour gravy on stuff. Not really sure why they call it a boat but eh, language is weird."

Kate could be nice, too. Especially when it went well with feeling smart. Being able to identify stuff you find in a kitchen. Yes.

She leaned a little closer to peer at the design. "... Are those squirrels? Jesus, Fandom, that's not even funny."

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Hayley was really confused, now.

"Well, do you want breakfast or not?" she asked. "Because I tell you right now, eggs aren't exactly my specialty."

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Gravy boat. Boat, Ariel understood; gravy might have to wait, because, as she examined the gravy boat again and thought of it in context, despite the girl's claim that she didn't know why it was called such, she couldn't help thinking of it as a boat for the furry tailed creatures (squirrels) on the etching. That would explain why her hand danced it along the air as if riding on waves, to a nautical tune in her head, and she chuckled to think of the squirrels inside of it.

And she knew she saw them somewhere before, probably at the picnic, and so she pointed again to the squirrel on the design, and then mimed a pen in her hand and writing.

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Eggs! Ariel knew them, and she knew she liked them, especially the deviled kind she had yesterday, but the girl said they weren't exactly her specialty. And Ariel had never cooked before in her life. Her face looked thoughtful for a moment, before she tilted her head questioningly at the girl.

If it wasn't eggs, what was her specialty?

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"What, you want me to make you breakfast?" Hayley said. "I dunno. If people came in, saw me cooking, they might blame me for the mess you made."

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Oh, that was a gesture Kate recognized.

"You already saw the squirrels?" she asked, making a face. "The little bastards take notes for the radio."

... She didn't expect the girl to know what that was, either.

"You know, like news? Gossip that gets broadcast to all of the island?"

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Grinning a little, Ariel rolled her eyes and put a hand to her heart, leaning back in theatrical tragedy. Clearly, this other girl had stumbled onto her secret evil plan to pass the buck of the mess on someone else. Laughing her silent laugh, she shook her head and waved a dismissive hand. It was just an idea, if she was up to it. But just an idea. Ariel set the whisk down on the counter and, after casting a glance back into the drawer of treasures, told herself that it would still be there when she was done and reminded herself that people were just as interesting as prizes.

So she turned to the other girl and introduced herself. Which meant motioning to her ARIEL nametag from yesterday, carefully transferred from yesterday's clothes to today, because that nametag was going to be her lifeline for a while still.