2nd Floor Common Room, Friday Evening

[crimson_sister]

It had been a good day, with the library books being quiet and the cooking class being enjoyable as usual. Would Dr Lecter ever come up with something she didn't find interesting? Well, the eating of people wasn't to her taste, but besides that?

Making the evening as pleasant as the day had been, Lucille had braved the television and managed to find a channel broadcasting a performance of La Bohème, and with a pot of tea and sandwiches she settled in on the couch to watch.

[Common room is open. Lucille will hate you if you turn off the opera.]

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Rhys narrowed his eyes at that, sense that he was being insulted tingling. "Right," he said, reaching for the cupboard handle while not looking away from her. It would have been cool if he hadn't missed the first couple attempts.

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"Is it hard to find what you are looking for?" Lucille asked in response to the fumbling with cupboards, her gaze on the tv screen.

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"No." Yes. Yes, it was.

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"Well, cupboards can be complicated. They don't have them where you are from?"

If asked Lucille would claim that was a reasonable question.

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"Oh, ha ha," Rhys replied, rolling his eye as he successfully got a glass and filled it with water. "Hilarious."

[crimson_sister]

"Apologies for insulting your home."

Note that Lucille didn't apologize for insulting Rhys, or that she didn't sound particularly apologetic.

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That was almost homey and familiar for him.

"Where are you from anyway?"

[crimson_sister]

"England in 1888," Lucille replied, truthfully this time. "And yourself?"

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"So, really in the past?" Rhys ventured slowly. "You wouldn't have heard of Pandora, I guess."

Elpis, though...

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"I assume you don't mean the lady with the famous box," Lucille replied with a light shrug.

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"No, it's a planet. It's a planet where everything wants to murder you." So maybe she'd feel at home!

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Lucille preferred it when she did the murdering. She took a sip of her tea. "Why do they want to murder you."

Yes, the misinterpretation was deliberate.

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"Because they're all psychos," Rhys muttered. "It was a prison planet at first. And the local wildlife is... well, dangerous is sort of an understatement."

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"I assume you find this island more pleasant then," Lucille replied.

Despite the weirdness.

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"My roommate is Kuzco." If that meant anything to her. Because it meant so much annoyance for him.

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It didn't.

"I haven't met Cuzco."

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"He's loud and awful and thinks he's an emperor." And Rhys was clearly better than that.

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"How annoying," Lucille replied insincerely. "Are you sure he isn't an emperor?"

Considering the people here that was quite possible.

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"Well, if he is, he's not the emperor of anyone here." And Rhys would hurt himself punching Kuzco over it.

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"I suppose." Lucille reached for another sandwich.

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"You say that because you don't have to live with him."

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"We can't always have what we want."

Which was a little unfair, since Lucille had a wonderful roommate.

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Very unfair, thank you!

"Or anything that we want. At all. Ever."

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Now, that was whiny.

"I'm sorry your life is so miserable," Lucille said with insincerity.

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Rhys rolled his eyes. "I'm not staying here any longer than I have to with this."