Fifth Floor Common Room, Friday Evening

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Toby had a stack of pizza boxes with him as he flopped down on the common room couch and flipped through the channels until he found one playing a marathon of the Death in a Fence movies.

One might ask how exactly a kid with no money to his name managed to afford enough pizza to feed several people other than himself. The answer? A few rounds of pool with the old guess-your-weight trick for good measure.

In any case, once again there was pizza and a Toby and a common room, and this time he'd be far more inclined to share.

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[didntchewgrass.livejournal.com]

"I was born this way, in fact," Elphaba said. "And as I've not lived in a land without mirrors, I am quite aware that my skin is what it is. Do bowlers tend to be green?"

[exactlyaverage.livejournal.com]

"Nooo... Not usually," Jack answered honestly. "It's just that I knew some. Bowlers. Who were green. Temporarily."

Yep. Green person. This was new.

[didntchewgrass.livejournal.com]

"Well I'm neither a bowler nor is this temporary," Elphaba said. "I'm Elphaba Thropp, from Oz. What you make of what I am is your own business."

[exactlyaverage.livejournal.com]

"Well, see right now all I know is that you're green and from Oz," Jack said shaking his head. "And not contaminated by low level radiation. So I don't know what that says about my business."

[didntchewgrass.livejournal.com]

"Low-level radiation?" Elphaba said. "I think I've read of that. Is that what happened to the bowlers? Isn't that dangerous?"

[exactlyaverage.livejournal.com]

"Nah," Jack said with a wave of his hand. "Not unless you have a large single celled organism that eats radioactive waste."

[didntchewgrass.livejournal.com]

That got a puzzled look from Elphaba. "I didn't know such things existed," she said, somewhat intrigued. "How large do they grow?"

[exactlyaverage.livejournal.com]

"Like the size of a small poodle," Jack said with a nod. "But since you're a natural green you'd have nothing to worry about."

[didntchewgrass.livejournal.com]

"Oh, I wasn't worried," Elphaba said. "Just curious. I'm always wanting to find out about things I've never heard of, really. It's how you learn to expect the unexpected, as silly as that phrase is."

[exactlyaverage.livejournal.com]

"Yeeeeah," Jack said. "We'll the unexpected always seems to find me no matter what I do. And I never expect it."

[didntchewgrass.livejournal.com]

That actually got a little chuckle out of Elphaba. "Well I can promise you that at this school, there is no shortage of the unexpected. So you should feel right at home."