2nd Floor Common Room, Monday Night

[glacial_queen]

After a difficult morning and an afternoon of fruitless wandering, Karla was more than ready to come back to the dorm and do something silly and mindless. Teevee sounded like an excellent plan for that, assuming she could find something decent on. Half the time she was watching, she could only find those stupid shows where people on stage cried and argued with family members about sex all the time.

Clicking one of the buttons that made it change, Karla flipped channels until she found something she recognized: a baseball game. Since Darkest Night wasn't returning to the air, Karla'd run out of reasons to throw popcorn at the screen. This was perfect!

After making a few calls to potential interested parties, Karla settled back down to watch the game. And if anyone asked, she'd tell them she'd specifically burned the popcorn to make it better to throw, dammit.

[Open like a Common Room!]

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[boywonder03.livejournal.com]

"Technically, it's still cheating," Tim had to point out. "You'll just have to learn the rules so you can play fair."

[glacial_queen]

"The other team is clearly attempting to take advantage of my ignorance," Karla said, tossing her ponytail over her shoulder. "I'm simply leveling the playing field."

[boywonder03.livejournal.com]

"You're steamrolling it," Tim said. He flicked a piece of popcorn at her. "The other team wouldn't have a chance. You'd have to give them some magic, too."

[glacial_queen]

"What's a steamroll?" Karla had to get the important question out of the way first. "Is that like an iron? Or a fancy rolling pin?"

Tim. Do NOT give Karla ideas. Please.

[boywonder03.livejournal.com]

"Like if you mixed a rolling pin and a car," Tim said. "It's a machine to make roads smooth."

[glacial_queen]

Karla was picturing a rolling pin attached to a car now. A fun image, but she was still pretty confused.

"If you say so," she said dubiously. "I thought that roads were made from really hard stuff, though."

[boywonder03.livejournal.com]

"Sort of," Tim said. "They heat the stuff up so it's soft, lay it out on the roads and flatten it. Then once it cools, it hardens."

Tim Drake: Like Wikipedia, in a way.

[glacial_queen]

That seemed like an awful lot of work for just a rolling pin. "Wouldn't the car tires do a better job? They're bigger."

Karla: not dumb, but sometimes amazingly literal.

[boywonder03.livejournal.com]

Tim snickered. "No, sorry, like a really, really big rolling pin!"

[glacial_queen]

"Oh." Yep. Still a giant rolling pin attached to a car (a really, really big car), but at least the scale was right.

"I will have you know, I had no intention of bringing any kind of vehicular implements onto the field. So I'd hardly be steamrolling anything."

Okay, now Karla was just messing with him.

[boywonder03.livejournal.com]

Tim gave her a mock-scowl. "You'd be taking unfair advantage of an opponent. Hardly sportsmanlike."

[glacial_queen]

"They have the advantage of numbers and knowledge," Karla said. "That hardly seems fair!" She winked. "Should I only use my skills on myself then? Are you advocating selfishness now, Tim? I'm rather surprised at you."

[boywonder03.livejournal.com]

"Of course not," Tim said. "But you'd be cheating yourself of the chance to try new skills and push your limits."

[glacial_queen]

"Well, if you're going to put it that way..." Karla chuckled and threw popcorn at him. Her aim wasn't very impressive when she wasn't using Craft. "I suppose that if I am invited onto the field because of this jersey, I'll just have to sadly decline. Booo."

Then she perked up. "Though I'll have my jersey to console me, so I still come out ahead."

[boywonder03.livejournal.com]

Tim snagged the popcorn out of the air and tossed it into his mouth. "I'm glad you like the shirt."

[glacial_queen]

"It's astral!" You could tell that was true by the size of her smile. "I really, really appreciate it. Thank you for thinking of me when you were home."