Third floor common room [Saturday morning]

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Cade was being followed around by a karking animal today. A talking karking animal called a hy-eeda or something.

"STOP EATING THE COCOA PUFFS."

...that apparently shared Cade's taste in breakfast cereal.

"Kark me," Cade groused, flopping onto a sofa.

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[ultron_junior]

//Pobrecito, you suffer so//, Remedios said, and if Topher could pick up on her tone it was fairly clear she was laughing at him that time. //We feel better when you feel better, that's all.//

"But jackals are cool," Victor tried, managing not to swat at Remedios again. "How's she get along with Broca?"

[dollpocalypse]

"I think she thinks she's too cool for him," Topher shared. "Which is ridiculous, because no one on the planet is too cool for a robot dog, ever."

[ultron_junior]

//She probably realizes you're all too old for toys//, Remedios muttered into Victor's ear.

"Hush," he told her, then glanced back to Topher. "Maybe she's jealous? Like, you shouldn't already have a dog, even a mechanical one."

//I'm still not a pet//, Remedios reminded him, but seemed to see it as a losing battle.

[dollpocalypse]

"That's probably it," Topher agreed. Cyrilla rolled her eyes in Remedios' direction. "Or she's just a fun-killer, which I already suspected since she vetoed all of my breakfast choices this morning in favor of oatmeal."

Ugh.

"I should bring Broca to work today and make them hang out."

Bad plan, Topher. Just bad.

[ultron_junior]

"Remedios is making me cook eggs," Victor volunteered. "I think she thinks I don't get enough protein."

//You don't//, the bird in question squawked.

Remedios wrinkled his nose -- half at that, half in thought. "Do you need to go to work when things are weird?" he asked. "It's not a great lace for a jackal."

[dollpocalypse]

"I think I sort of do," Topher admitted. "Unless it's, like, raining corrosive acid or something, which now that I've said it is probably going to happen sometime, but in general, yeah. The weekend shift was probably a bad call on my part, all things considered."

[ultron_junior]

"It means you never have to lose time running back and forth from the school?" Victor offered. "I had that last term and it was nuts, but I didn't want to change my shift since it was only two months, you know?"

[dollpocalypse]

"Yeah, that would suck," Topher agreed. "But weekend shifts mean you can't just be lazy and sleep the entire day. Unless you do it in the store, but then JARVIS calls me names until I wake up."

[ultron_junior]

"... and not being allowed to sleep all day is a good thing?" Victor asked, suspicious of this concept. "'Cause to me it does not sound like one."

[dollpocalypse]

"Dude, it's sleeping," Topher said. "For an extended period of time. That's like... the dream."

[ultron_junior]

Victor stared for a second. "...I think we started talking in circles," he decided. "Since that's what I was trying to say. Yes. Sleep is good."

[dollpocalypse]

[[WHOOPS. I CAN READ, I SWEAR. double negatives, man.]]</small. "Oh." Well then. "Yeah. It's very good." Topher agreed. "For example," Cyrilla observed, "more of it might have led to you not misunderstanding him just now." "Oh, shut up."

[ultron_junior]

"I might have just not been making any sense," Victor offered, to mollify Cyrilla. "It happens."

"He speaks truth," Remedios agreed, switching to English. "And sleep is boring."