Second Floor Common Room, Wednesday Morning

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Liara had discovered the television that morning. While it was depressingly backwards technology, it did provide mental stimulation. She hadn't had to search far to find a documentary on Earth archaeology that captured her attention, even if it did not seem to be mentioning anything about the Protheans (to her great disappointment).

But after an hour or two of being engaged by that, she was quickly beginning to grow hungry. And that meant... choices.

Choices she still hadn't fully mastered.

So anyone coming downstairs into the second floor common room this morning was going to be confronted with the sight of an asari poking her head into every possible cabinet, closet, and even nook in the room-- while someone on TV blathered on about excavating urns.

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Susan could never find what she wanted on her own floor, but it wasn't uncommon for her to find it on all the other floors. She wasn't quite used to a blue person poking around, though.

"Exploring?" she asked.

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"I'm just trying to see what kind of food is available," Liara called.

Her voice was slightly muffled - by virtue of her head being mostly upside-down as she tried to peek into a cupboard.

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"How's that going?" she asked, tilting her head while she watched.

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"You have many kinds of cereal flakes," she said earnestly, "But most do not seem to have much in the way of nutritional content."

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"There's muesli in that cabinet there," Susan said with a nod to the cabinet.

Guess who often found the lack of nutritional anything annoying.

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"Ah."

Liara rose up in order to get it, but... banged her head off the top of the cabinet she was in. "Er, thank you."

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"And there's aspirin in that cabinet," Susan said helpfully.

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"...Aspirin?" Liara asked, rubbing her scalp as she reached for the cabinet with the indicated muesli.

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"It's a pain reliever, used to get rid of headaches," she explained.

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"Ah, an analgesic," Liara said, and promptly rummaged around for that, because ow. "Sorry," she added. "I should have done this last week, but I didn't expect to still be here right now."

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"I think that tends to happen fairly often here," said Susan. "Where did you expect to be?"

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"Home," Liara said. She shrugged lightly. "But I suppose that is what most people say."

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Pretty much. "I'm guessing that's nowhere near here."

Susan was astute enough to notice a distinct lack of blue people on Earth.

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Karolina didn't have classes today, so she was mostly just wandering. And when she came downstairs from her own floor and heard noises coming from the common room, of course she had to investigate by poking her head in.

"Oh, hi," she said, spotting Liara. "Looking for something?"

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Liara reached into the cupboard and waved a cereal box around. "Do you know if this is good?" she inquired. "I still don't know much about human foods."

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"Cereal?" Karolina asked, coming in the room now and looking at the box. "I think it's good. Plus it's kind of a breakfast food, so at least it'd be timely?"

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"I know, but I have been looking at the contents of some of these boxes, and they seem to be mostly sugars," Liara said earnestly.

She set the box down on the counter.

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Karolina wandered over to take a closer look at this particular box. "Some people like that," she said. Thinking of Chase and Molly, really. "I think I just like regular corn flakes best."

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"What do you eat for breakfast?" Liara wondered. "Outside of... regular corn flakes?"

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"I like fruit," Karolina replied, with a little smile and another shrug. "I don't like a heavy breakfast, so fruit are good."

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"Then I will try that," Liara decided. She turned around, leaning back against the counter. "I'm sorry," she said, "I've forgotten your name."

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"Karolina," she supplied. "Or just Kar for short."

She was... not entirely sure, if she was honest, why she'd felt the need to add that.

"And you're Liara, right?"

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"Hello, Kar," Liara said, and granted her a smile. "And that's correct."

She crossed her arms. "I hope you've been well since we last met."

Interacting with humans, as it turned out, came to her just about as naturally as interacting with other asari did. Which was to say not at all.

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And Karolina was just attributing that to cultural differences, because people with blue skin probably had different sort of manners too, right?

Privately, she wondered whether Majesdanian had different sort of manners as well.

"Well, um," she said, "I was stuck as a doll for most of last week, so it could have been better?"

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Liara frowned. "...You were a doll?" she said. "That must have been grueling."

Yes, Liara. Thank you.