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First Floor Lobby | Tuesday | February 8

It was Alex's turn to sell tickets fort he upcoming Valentine's Day dance and flowers for the upcoming Valentine's Day holiday. He was just glad he didn't have to be completely surrounded by pink and red. He might have retched up his breakfast if that had happened.

Taking up a seat behind the table in the lobby, he started slowly sipping the coffee that was needed to wake him up while he contemplated sending flowers to anyone. He wasn't really a flower type of guy but he knew girls got a kick out of them and he wanted girls to get a kick of him too so maybe he'd have to make a sacrifice.

For now, he was just sitting there, looking lazy.

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"I don't," Sov assured him, then added: "You mean the ones where no one dances because the musician got drunk on the beer before the whole thing started and accidentally poured out the rest of the barrel?" That hadn't been fun.

Alex raised an eyebrow and couldn't stop a laugh from slipping out at that depiction of a bad party. "Yeah, that sounds pretty bad. I've been to parties where the food's bad, everyone gets sick, and retches on your feet. Not one I wanna repeat. Ever."

Sov made a face. "So, let's hope for better luck with this one. I'm Sov, by the way. I'm new here."

"Alex," he said, extending a hand across the table. "Not new at all. And I've been to a few of these dances and never gotten sick so I think we're good on food. Hopefully I didn't just jinx us."

Shaking Alex's hand, Sov said: "Hopefully not. But I promise I won't hold you responsible if it does."

"Thanks," Alex snickered, shaking his head. "Wouldn't wanna get an even worse reputation around here than I already have. People would be out for blood if they thought I ruined their dance."

"And how did you get a reputation like that?" Sov asked, amused.

"Perseverance and hard work," he said, smirking mightily. "I don't censor myself or really care what I say and sometimes that means offensive things come out and not everyone likes that."

Clearly Alex enjoyed that reputation. "That's true in many places," Sov noted. "I try not to offend people, but this place is really different from home."

"You're not alone there, at least," Alex said, nodding. "I mean, for me, it's nothing that new besides all the weird crap but a lot of people here are from radically different places so it's understandable to feel like that."

"The weird crap?" Yes, Sov still didn't know. "And you're from... Earth?" It was still strange to say that. Sov grinned.

"Yeah, you know, like the rose petals?" Alex asked because maybe Sov had missed that. "That were everywhere yesterday? That kind of stuff doesn't happen outside this island. And yep, Earth. Born and raised west of here."

"Oh, those! It was a lot to clean up." Of course, Sov had just thought that it was a natural occurrence on a planet with so much plant life.

They nodded. "I'm from a planet called Gethen, which you've probably never heard of." No one else had.

"Nope." Alex confirmed with a shake of his head. "Totally different from this place, then?"

"Totally," Sov confirmed.

[night!]

"Yeah, that's what most people say," he replied with a nod. "Takes awhile to adjust even for us that came from places on Earth."

[Night!]

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