Third floor common room, Saturday morning

[giveherahand]

Mara'd had a Very Trying Morning. She'd gone out for coffee and had been attacked by raining candies shaped like fruit and, weirdly, birds, and then been treated to a lesson on counting by a giant talking Number Four.

There hadn't been enough caffeine in the world for that, and it had not gotten better when she'd gone to Eggsy's room to bitch about it only to discover her boyfriend had turned into an actual egg.

So now she was down in the common room eating cereal out of the box and keeping a careful--if annoyed--eye on her boyfriend. The egg. Don't try to eat him for breakfast.

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[good_for_six]

Dutch had woken up in a bed that definitely wasn't hers (unless Lucy had somehow turned into a building overnight) and Johnny was nowhere to be found, so she was understandably wary as she wandered into the common room.

"Where the hell is this?"

[giveherahand]

"Fandom," Mara said, sounded tired. "I'm Mara. Who are you?"

[good_for_six]

"Never heard of it." And she'd heard of a lot of weird planet names, so forget the Quad, she likely wasn't even in the J anymore. Assuming this Mara was telling the truth. "Dutch."

[giveherahand]

Mara held up the egg. "And this is Eggsy, my boyfriend, who is normally a real person, I swear."

...and now she sounded like a crazy person. Excellent.

"It's an island on a planet called Earth, if that helps. Weird things happen here a lot. It's raining candy."

[good_for_six]

Yes, you sounded like a very crazy person. A crazy person with an egg fetish. "We're on Earth, and it's raining candy?"

[giveherahand]

"It's not very good candy?" Mara added.

Because that'll help.

[good_for_six]

"Yes, because the candy rain quality is important."

Someone had gotten into the hokk a little early today.

[giveherahand]

"Well, it's certainly not as good as the cookies were earlier this week."

Beat.

"I promise that I'm not crazy."

[good_for_six]

"Right, you only follow the candy and cookie rains because of an interest in meteorology."

Admittedly both those options were better than the rain at Westerley.

[giveherahand]

Mara nodded. "Well, it certainly make meteorology more interesting?" she tried.

[good_for_six]

"And sugary," Dutch said dryly.

[giveherahand]

"At least it's just coming from the sky," Mara said. "It's inevitable that one day something gross will come out of the faucets, and that's so much worse."

[good_for_six]

Thank you for jinxing them all, Mara.

"Ew."

[bestatmystery]

The spider in the corner watched Mara's carefulness with her egg and decided to help out.

Which would be why there was now a lovely, sparkling web above them with the words "SOME EGG" spun right into it.

[giveherahand]

Mara blinked up at the web. "Um, thank you?"

[bestatmystery]

Charlotte smiled and gave her a spidery thumbs up. Not that Mara could probably tell either detail. She worked quickly to add a 'you're welcome' to the web.

It might take a couple minutes.

[giveherahand]

This was the weirdest weekend. Mara had decided.