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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"Toby," Toby offered. "I'm new." A pause. "...That's not a costume, is it?" very astute observation, Logan.

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Lion-o chuckled. "Nice to meet you, Toby. And no, it's not a costume, though someone else thought the same thing at the picnic. He kept trying to compliment me on doing a great job with my costume, and I kept trying to explain that this is what I really look like," he said.

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"So, um. Are you," how to find a way to phrase this that wouldn't be horribly offensive? "um. Not human, then?"

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"Nope. Not human, and not from this planet, either," said Lion-o. The question would have seemed strange a few years ago, but Lion-o figured he was a veteran of breaking new student's brains by now.

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"Let me guess: you're pretty used to that question by now," Toby said with a grin, picking up on that thought easily. The idea of people from other planets was still freaking him out a little- or, okay, a lot- but Toby was pretty good at pretending he was just fine. Came with years of pretending he had no idea about all the random weird crap people thought about all day.

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"When you're the only Thunderan on an island with mostly humans, you really stand out," said Lion-o, smiling in return. "I guess it just gives me the experience to be an ambassador for my people."

He briefly wondered how the other odd students managed with those questions. It wasn't like he spent much time talking to the frog or the unicorn.

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And yeah, Toby knew a little bit about being the different one in a crowd, even if his difference wasn't nearly as visible. "That's a totally positive way of looking at it," he remarked.