Fifth floor common room, Wednesday evening

[kenselvren]

The television in the room had not wanted to play anything other than annoying people doing silly things. Jalian had tried the remote control, but it hadn't helped. She had then tried to turn it off, but the machine was having none of it.

She'd finally pried off the back of it and taken a look. And to her delight had found that a) it had a number of lower-tech pieces in it that might actually be useful, and b) that shut it up.

She was now happily examining and testing various parts of the guts of the thing.

Hope nobody wanted to watch things tonight.



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[tigerundercover]

Raven had been pretty distracted recently, what with her best friend and roommate on the other side of the country madly fighting zombies and trying to save her world. Between that and her 50's background telling her she was not allowed to do what she was about to do, she'd put it off for a lot longer than was probably wise.

At least it wasn't quite literally the last minute.

"Hey Jalian." She tilted her head as she watched the other girl work for a moment. "Something tells me you're not building a television."

[kenselvren]

"Raven." Jalian grinned at her. "It wouldn't be quiet. Now it is. And some of these circuits are very old! If I build a Doorway, they might help."

[tigerundercover]

"That's like a portal?" Raven asked. She came over to sit next to Jalian and watch her work. "You know, I'm pretty sure I'm technically older than those parts."

[kenselvren]

Jalian smiled over at her. "Like a portal, yes. Not quite the same, but for traveling timelines. And I am technically not yet born, so I don't think we can trust these parts as a judge," she added with a shrug.

[tigerundercover]

"Point," Raven said. "So are you planning to try to go back to your own time after school, then?"

[kenselvren]

"Not for long." Jalian grimaced. "The people here say they can return me only to where I came from, not to where I was going. But if I return to my own time, I can use a Doorway to try to travel back again."

She glanced at Raven curiously. "What about you. Will you return to your own time?" It seemed a rather annoying time to her, but Raven might like it.

[tigerundercover]

Raven shook her head. "Nope. I decided I'm done with living pre-Civil Rights. Kathy invited me to go to her world instead." She grimaced. ". . . Assuming it hasn't been destroyed by zombies." Kathy would tell her if it had gotten that bad, right?

Anyway, she shouldn't have gone into future plans. It was distracting her from her point. "I was actually thinking more about the near future lately, though."

[kenselvren]

"The near future?" Jalian asked, curious.

She was also curious about the whole "zombies" thing, but that seemed like a bigger topic.

[tigerundercover]

"Like, as in this Friday?" Raven smiled shyly. "Sorry, I know in this era you're supposed to do a whole big production and it's really last minute, but -- would you go to prom with me?"

[kenselvren]

"Oh!" Jalian cocked her head. "Is it supposed to be a 'whole big production'? I don't need one. Of course I will!"

She bit her lip. "It means more than only walking there together, yes? What else do I do?"

She wasn't exactly up on her prom minutia.

[tigerundercover]

Raven beamed. "Definitely more than that. It's a date. A big fancy one with dinner and looking amazing in our outfits and -- do they have limo rickshaws?" Prom in Fandom was a little weird. "And slow-dancing to slow songs and just -- being date-y and cute."

[kenselvren]

Jalian grinned back. "That sounds very nice. I don't know about limo rickshaws, though."

[tigerundercover]

Raven shrugged, still smiling. "Well, walking will be just fine, too."

She had a date for her senior prom! Eeee!

[kenselvren]

"What will we wear?" Jalian asked. "That's important, I think. Or what I will wear and you will look like wearing," she corrected. She was still a bit jealous of that.

[tigerundercover]

"Something fancy," Raven said. "Most girls wear dresses, but I don't think that's an actual requirement. What do people wear to be fancy where you're from?"

Since she could look like she was wearing whatever she liked, it seemed only fair to let Jalian and her physical clothing take the lead.

[kenselvren]

Jalian shrugged. "Their nicest leathers. For here, I like pants, but I have worn fancy ones. I like white." Because she knew it set off her coloring now. "But I don't mind skirts if I can still move in them."

[tigerundercover]

"The dance is on Friday," Raven said. "So maybe stick to what you've already got on hand. Should we match, do you think? White usually goes well with the blue. . . ."

[kenselvren]

"Or you could wear the white and I could wear the blue," Jalian suggested. "I can buy something. Then we would match, but not be the same."

[tigerundercover]

"Now that's a fun idea," Raven said approvingly. "If they don't have anything in town, I bet there'd be something in Baltimore."

[kenselvren]

"Definitely!" Jalian grinned. "I'll find something, and show it to you, and you can match?"

[tigerundercover]

"I can absolutely match," Raven said. "It's one of my prime skills."