Fifth Floor Common Room, Monday After Classes

[snarkyhealer.livejournal.com]

Shira still wasn't entirely sure about this place, but her Queen had wanted her to go here, so she hadn't argued. And she was even willing to give it a try, as strange as the place seemed.

She was sitting in the common room at the moment, having dug around in the cold box -- refrigerator, she thought it was called -- and come up with a can of something that called itself Pepsi. She'd tried it cautiously, found it sweet and sugary, and figured it wasn't so bad.

And now she was on the couch, watching the TV in fascination and horror.

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[snarkyhealer.livejournal.com]

"These people are.... disgusting," was Shira's opinion.

[anarchist-queen.livejournal.com]

"The worst is Jerry Springer I think."

[snarkyhealer.livejournal.com]

"I haven't seen that yet. I think I should be considering myself fortunate," Shira said, moving to take a sip of her Pepsi and finding the can empty. "Well, damn."

[anarchist-queen.livejournal.com]

"Want some Jolt?" Leda offered.

[snarkyhealer.livejournal.com]

"What's that?" Shira had seen the Jolt in the refrigerator while looking for something, but she'd known it belonged to someone -- it'd been all the way at the back. So she hadn't checked it out.

[anarchist-queen.livejournal.com]

"It's like Pepsi, only it's got more sugar and caffeine."

[snarkyhealer.livejournal.com]

"Ooh." Shira thought about it for a second. "In that case, I'd definitely like to try it. If you wouldn't mind." She was assuming the stash she'd seen belonged to this girl.

"I'm Shira, by the way," she added belatedly.

[anarchist-queen.livejournal.com]

"If I minded I wouldn't have offered." Leda smiled, getting her a can.

"Pleased to meet ya Shira." She hadn't meant to fall back on her old rhyming habit, but it felt natural just then. "I'm Leda."

[snarkyhealer.livejournal.com]

"Where I'm from, there's not a lot to share," Shira explained. "We share what we can, but it's... well, it's hard."

How could it be anything else, when the Shalador reserves had been steadily chipped away at by Queen after Queen after Queen?

[anarchist-queen.livejournal.com]

Leda nodded. "I've lived through tough times myself, I know how that can be." When Castle Pup was just starting out, they'd gone hungry on more than one occasion.