Fourth Floor Common Room | Sunday Evening

[didntchewgrass.livejournal.com]

Still feeling more than a bit vexed (and not at all relieved to find out others were experiencing similar circumstances thanks to the posters she'd seen about), Elphaba busied herself in the common room kitchen that evening with baking a vegan apple pie.

She found that if she kept busy, she didn't get too upset. Which was important as she didn't want to accidentally break anything with her magic. Which seemed a likely possibility if she let herself go unchecked.

She had the TV in the common room tuned in to some strange television show about people who came into a shop to sell all sorts of odd things, and then would haggle with the shopkeeps. It was at least somewhat realistic, Elphaba thought to herself.

[ooc: Open common room!]

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[didntchewgrass.livejournal.com]

"I'm not entirely sure we have them in Oz, either," Elphaba said. "But we certainly have magic, and it had to come from somewhere. But that's neither here nor there when thinking about the bigger picture right now. And... I don't slight you for what you are good or not good at. I think we all probably will handle these things differently. I should probably contact those numbers on the bulletin boards, the ones asking about the lost friends and family. They might have better ideas."

[chief-cheerio.livejournal.com]

Quinn nodded slightly. "Ben's a good guy," she said. "Ender's kind and absurdly smart. And he's missing a sister, too. Maybe he has some way to solve the problem. Assuming it doesn't wear off."

Which would still be her first choice.

"Oz like the movie, huh?"

[didntchewgrass.livejournal.com]

"Sort of like the movie," Elphaba said with a rueful smile and a shake of her head. This, at least, was a good distraction. "It's a bit misleading in more than one way. And I've never seen any wicked witches about. Green or otherwise."

[chief-cheerio.livejournal.com]

"What about little girls from Kansas?" Quinn returned lightly. "I kind of see the witches' point, anyhow. Her sister gets a house dropped on her and somebody steals her shoes. I'd be pissed too."

[didntchewgrass.livejournal.com]

"I'd never heard of Kansas at all until I came here," Elphaba said. "No houses have ever landed in Munchkinland like that, at least not in my lifetime. My father is actually the royal governor there. And he's also just a Munchkinlander, like myself, not Munchkins. We seem to not exist in that strange version of Oz."

[chief-cheerio.livejournal.com]

"...huh." Quinn didn't have a lot to say to that, but it was interesting. "Typical Hollywood, always getting things wrong?"

[didntchewgrass.livejournal.com]

"I'd say more like whoever wrote the children's story left out a few things, actually," Elphaba said. "Probably for the insulting reason that he thought you had to dumb down things for children so they can understand it all."