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Second Floor Common Room, Saturday Evening

Anna had takeout.

Anna had a lot of takeout, from about half of the restaurants in town, and while she didn't expect she could eat all of it, especially not after pancakes (with lots of butter and syrup and bacon) for breakfast and a cheeseburger (also with bacon) and fries and a chocolate milkshake (oh, chocolate) for lunch, she intended to at least try to sample everything. Because food, as it turned out, was even more delicious than she remembered, and she hadn't been able to decide, so she just...bought all of it.

Since she didn't stand a prayer of eating all of this, she was more than happy to share, but if anyone tried to touch the brownies she'd gotten at J,GoB, she'd probably take your hand off.

"Okay, so what's Pad Thai?" she muttered to herself, and then took a bite.

Pad Thai, as it turned out, was delicious.

((Open common room is open! And full of food.))

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Kenzi wandered in and flopped down on the couch, then grinned at Anna. Who would be the only one to get why that was an accomplishment. "Did you go to *every* restaurant on the Island?"

Anna blushed, which was yet another thing she was not capable of doing twenty-four hours ago. "Not every restaurant," she said defensively. "Just...maybe half. But we didn't have any of this! You know, in my town. Before." Vagueing it up because they were in public now, yes.

And blushing wasn't something Kenzi ever did, so that was interesting to watch. "Gotcha." Kenzi shot bang-bang fingers at her and asked, "So what's your fave so far?" She stared at the food and said, "It makes me wish I were hungry."

"It's all so good, I don't even know where to start. I liked the pizza," Anna said, pointing to that. "And the egg rolls. And this Pad Thai is delicious." Then she looked sympathetic at Kenzi and said, "I mean, you can try, but I don't really know what would happen."

"Mmmm. Yeah, I'm not *that* brave." Kenzi grinned. "I see you have spicy, chocolate, massive carbs, and Italian. You're set." She pulled her legs up and examined her feet. "I need to get shoes on, maybe when you're done stuffing my face."

"I still forget I'm wearing them and walk out of them sometimes," Anna admitted. "I didn't have them for the longest, so." She shrugged. "They feel weird." And then she picked up a container that turned out to contain fried rice. "Ooh!" She returned her attention to Kenzi. "It's really not like I need them, just, people kept noticing."

"Yeah, if it were summer, I wouldn't bother. Or if we were in Rio already. But not a good plan while there's ice outside." She wiggled her toes. She wanted to tell Anna that she'd practiced going invisible in the stairwells earlier, giggling as she couldn't see her own hand. And then getting a little freaked out. But it was public, so....

That had to be rough. Not telling people. "Hey. Uh. Anyone else-- know your backstory?"

Anna chewed and swallowed before she answered. She wasn't a savage. "Tara and Loki know I'm. You know. A ghost. But no one else here knows the whole thing, no. It's not...it's not like it's something it's easy to tell people, you know? 'Oh, hey, by the way, I'm...'" she sort of trailed off, poking at the rice with her fork. "Dead."

Kenzi nodded, wrinkling her nose. "It's not like you're one of my coworkers at Caritas." And she didn't mean Tino, though that was a good thing too... "But yeah. I get it. Lots of people here have... stuff." She frowned, connected thoughts making her think. "I should track down Toby, so he knows you're me, or I'm you, or whatevers." She cocked her head. "Stacy won't mind if I don't head back to your room, right? You can sleep in mine, where all the clothes for that body are, if you want."

"Well, she hasn't figured out I don't sleep yet, I think? So no, she probably won't even notice," Anna assured her. "Don't--don't tell anyone about...me? I swear I'm not dangerous or anything." You know, any more. And if something happened and she went nuclear, she didn't think forewarning was going to keep the body count down much anyway.

She was disturbingly pragmatic like that sometimes.

"Seriously, wasn't planning on it. I mean, you're not cursed any more, right?" And if someone did need to handle Anna ever, it would probably be Bo, who could take care of herself. "I'm kinda surprised more people haven't noticed. You're good with the blending."

"Right, the curse was broken," Anna confirmed. "I think..." Still looking more at her takeout container than at Kenzi. "I think people here sort of...expect people to be different somehow. So I don't stand out as much as I would have thought. Sometimes I mess up, though. No one really buys I'm from now, and I don't want to tell them, well, I am, it's just that I was trapped in an abandoned house for fifty years. You know? I still don't know if a podcast is a real thing," she grumbled.

"Yeah, I wasn't thinking about that too hard, 'cause either your parents were locking you up--" Which they so, so had. Gah. "Or you weren't from this year, but not copping to it. And yeah, a podcast is a real thing. Freddie and Sam do their version of one every Friday night in the rec room."

"See, I knew that Topher guy was messing with me," Anna complained.

"Wait, what did Topher say?" Kenzi frowned, fluffing out her skirt. "I'm gonna have to tell him not to piss you off. Not why, though."

"He said it was a Flemish word," Anna explained. "But he wouldn't say what it meant. And then I think he wasn't even sure if Flemish was a language." She wrinkled her nose in clear disapproval of these shenanigans.

"I don't know anything about Flemish. Or Flems. Flemmen?" Kenzi paused, then shrugged. "But yeah, sometimes Topher's an ass. You probably noticed." Just like all the other girls who'd hit him, or wanted to.

"Yeah, I definitely noticed," Anna agreed. "And, um. Yes. When I lose my temper--I try not to!--but, it can be...bad." She decided it was time to try lightening the mood. "It's too bad he didn't say Finnish, then I would have known he was lying," she said with a wry grin.

"And can I add that your accent sounds cool in my voice?" Kenzi asked, grinning, going with the topic change. "Also, no big surprises waiting for you with my bod. Aside from the appetite."

"I'm sorry, I'm a little afraid that whenever this ends, none of your clothes are going to fit," Anna admitted. "It's just...I forgot how good food is. And it's so weird to hear my voice without the accent."

Kenzi snickered. "Sleeping, too, you've got that to look forward to. And more clothes! Hey, have you ever though of putting trim on this thing? Would that even work?"

"I don't think so?" Anna said. "My dress is...I can't really take the dress off. Or I can, but always just sort of winds up back on me. And if it gets ripped or stained or anything it just goes away, so I think if you added anything to it it would just go away, too. It has to do with the curse, I think. But I can change my shoes now!"

She looked down at the outfit she was currently wearing and said, "It's really weird to be wearing different clothes. Nice, but weird, but...please don't take this the wrong way but we have really different style."

Kenzi snickered. "No worries. I've got a ton of different stuff, but feel free to buy another sweater or something. Most of it's red or purple or black, I admit it. If you want something another color--" Like pastels. Bleah! "--you're out of luck, so feel free to wear it while you've got driving privileges."

"I think most of my money this week is going toward food anyway," Anna said a little ruefully. "It's fine. Just a change is really good. I mean, look! Pants!"

"I am so not going to be able to fit into those when this is over, am I?" Kenzi grinned. Then bounced. "I am so going to be sneaky at people with this."

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