Third floor common room, Tuesday afternoon

[notmyownage]

No classes or work -- and not quite having the energy to go out and attempt to rebuild the trebuchet -- made for a nice lazy afternoon. Claudia was curled up on one side of the common room couch for a little light reading.

Look, when you spent more than half your time studying theoretical physics, Gravity's Rainbow WAS light reading. Maybe not as light as, say, Vonnegut, maybe. And, okay, she'd only made it 20 pages in, so far. She kept getting distracted by the whole thing with the giant blobby slime monster eating London.

Literature was totally screwed up, yo. English teachers never told you that.

[ooc: Do I have to meta Pynchon? Open!]

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[notmyownage]

Claudia grimaced. "Yeeeeeeah. Friday was a weird day."

[squire-hand.livejournal.com]

"So I heard," he said.

Not admitting anything.

[notmyownage]

"I'll probably have to fix it up at some point."

[squire-hand.livejournal.com]

He nodded. "It's rather hard to fling anything when it is all but pieces."

He plopped into a nearby chair. "I trust your weekend got better after...that day."

[notmyownage]

"It'd be a challenge for it to get worse. Everything go okay on your end?"

[squire-hand.livejournal.com]

His smile didn't quite reach his eyes. "After a fashion, yes."

He paused. "Is this what happens? I've heard stories, about the island..."

[notmyownage]

"Yep. Keeps you on your toes. I was nine one weekend. And a guy another."

[squire-hand.livejournal.com]

He blinked a few times. "Magic?" he ventured.

[notmyownage]

Claudia bit back a groan. "Just unexplained, dude."

[squire-hand.livejournal.com]

"This place is frustrating," he said, almost in a growl.

[notmyownage]

"You just have to find the right way to look at it. Think of it as an adventure."

[squire-hand.livejournal.com]

He glared at her, just a little. "I don't like adventures."

He lies, really.

[notmyownage]

"Then man are you in the wrong place."

[squire-hand.livejournal.com]

That got a smile from the squire. "I know."