4th Floor Common Room, Saturday Morning

[justice_undone]

Breq had heard the voices of children this morning. It definitely wasn't the strangest thing she had experienced here, and as she was anyway spending the morning in the common room watching music videos on the TV, she decided to put some extra breakfast food on the table. If any children should show up they could help themselves. For herself, Breq made tea, and then made herself comfortable on the couch.

Music videos were an interesting combination of songs and entertainments. They were easy to watch, and a perfect combination with breakfast. Hopefully the sound wouldn't wake up any students who were trying to sleep in.

[Open! Children also welcome, of course.]

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[in_sidon_we_trust]

Sidon, alas, was his normal age and size this time . In fact, judging by how nearly he hit the top of the door frame this morning, he suspected he might have gained an inch over the week. And a growing young Zora needed breakfast, so, yawning and stretching and ducking slightly through the door, he went to find some.

"Oh," he remarked with a chuckle, when he saw the spread on the table, "someone's beaten me to it!"

He was still heading for the freezer, though. He'd recently discovered fish sticks and was mildly obsessed with them at the moment.

[justice_undone]

"Good morning," Breq greeted him. "There is tea if you like, but perhaps that's not to your taste. Have you seen any children around?"

[in_sidon_we_trust]

"Ah, Breq!" Sidon smiled when he saw her. "Hello! Good morning! And thank you! Perhaps I shall try some to help wash these," he held up one of the frozen fishsticks straight out of the bag, "down!"

And he took a bite. Somewhere in the back of his mind, he knew that wasn't how they were supposed to be eaten, but they were just so darned tasty like this!

Once he swallowed that first delectable bite, he smiled again and shook his head. "And I can't say that I have, though I have just woken up. Why do you ask? Have some gone missing?"

[justice_undone]

Breq had no opinion on Sidon's choice of how to eat his food. She would have expected something stranger, actually. Gesturing towards the teapot, she said:

"I heard children's voices, or I thought I did. Students here are teenagers."

She realized that Sidon's species might have a different concept of childhood.

[misshapen_spark]

"You're TALL!" Yang's eyes were wide with delight. "Do you ever hit your head on doors?"

Uncle Qrow did, sometimes, and Yang was sure this Fanus-boy was taller than him.

[in_sidon_we_trust]

"I am tall!" Sidon agreed, laughing and beaming down a the little one suddenly there at his feet. "And, as a matter of fact, I just so happened to hit my head on my bedroom door this morning! You're so smart to have realized that such a thing was quite a common occurrence with me! What's your name, little one?"

[misshapen_spark]

"Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaang," she said, bouncing on her toes excitedly. "How did you get that big? Dad says I have to drink milk and eat a lot of healthy stuff but I don't want to drink milk I just want to be tall. Tall so I can reach everything."

[somethingwithturquoise]

Aaaand there was a child. A redheaded one in a pink sweater poking her head in through the doorframe, taking a look around, lingering her gaze on the food on the table before asking, all in one big long breath, "Hey, you guys got any Froot Loops in here, because I live downstairs but I didn't see any there and it looks like you guys got food but is there any cereal??"

There were Froot Loops downstairs, Summer, they were all just in the cabinets you couldn't reach and you were too lazy to figure out how to get up there and check those.

[justice_undone]

"Hello there." Breq looked up. "You will find breakfast on the table, including cereal."

Possibly not Froot Loops though.

[somethingwithturquoise]

"Oh, cool!"

But Summer stopped halfway between the table and the door, freezing in motion with one leg still up as she looked back at Breq with a quirked eyebrow. "Err, and I can...have some, right?"

Hey, this wasn't her floor! She just wanted to make sure! She didn't want to be known as That Girl Who'll Eat All Your Food or something!

[justice_undone]

"Of course." Breq looked at her, expressionless as usual. "I did mean it as an invitation."

[misshapen_spark]

"Wazza Froot Loop?" If it had sugar, Yang was in. So, so in.

[somethingwithturquoise]

"A Froot Loop is a cereal!" Summer was more than happy to sound all smart and knowledgeable if she had the chance. "They're small and rounds and come in a lot of different colors. I like the purple ones best."

No one tell her that they were all the same flavor. She'll be devastated.

[intotheout]

Tip came right on in, climbed up on the counter, and started sorting through the upper cabinets. She pulled out a bowl and a glass, then hopped back down and grabbed a spoon out of a drawer, then headed for the pantry.

"Ugh. Why's the cereal always on the top shelf?"

She went over and grabbed a chair to drag over so she could reach.

[justice_undone]

That child looked familiar.

"There is cereal on the table," Breq said, looking up. "And other things. I wasn't sure what children here like for breakfast."

[intotheout]

"Oh," Tip said, feeling a little silly. "Cool. I didn't see it there." She put the chair back and brought her bowl and spoon over to where the cereal was. "Cereal's good. Sometimes if it's a really fancy occasion I like a sausage-egg Mcbiscuit." Fast food breakfast definitely counted as fancy breakfast, yes. "Do you want some? I can get another bowl."

[justice_undone]

"I've already eaten," Breq said, "but thank you. And I'm not sure if there is any sausage-egg... food."

She looked a little closer at the girl. "What's your name?"

[somethingwithturquoise]

Summer was just watching the (probably) older girl climbing on the shelves, her eyes wide, occassionally passing over to Breq and the big fish guy to see what would come first: she'd get yelled at for climbing on the counters or she'd fall off and break open her skull.

Honestly, she was really disappointed that neither of them happened, like, at all.

[intotheout]

"Do you want some?" Tip offered, when she noticed the kid staring. "I can get another bowl."

[somethingwithturquoise]

"No, thanks," Summer shrugged, "I already had some."

She gestured to a bowl that was still pretty full, because she'd taken probably four bites and then decided she was finished. Despite having practically overfilled the bowl.

"I'm kind of bummed they didn't have any Froot Loops, but these were good, too. What kind did you get?"

[in_sidon_we_trust]

"Perhaps it is there," Sidon offered with a chuckle at the little girl, "so that you can practice your climbing skills! But I can see you are already quite excellent at the task already!"

Because it never occurred to him that someone should be discouraged from climbing things.

[intotheout]

“My mom forgets and puts stuff up high a lot. I’ve gotten good at it. I bet you never have to climb on ANYTHING.”

[misshapen_spark]

You were going to get children galore, Breq, especially when they could smell food and get distracted from their exploring.

Yang came skidding into the common room, as she'd been running and sliding down all the stairs and banisters for a few hours this morning. Which meant she was starving.

"Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!" She sang, immediately grabbing a chair and climbing on it so she could reach all across the table and see what smelled so good. Sure, she was tall for seven, but she was still seven. "Are there cartoons?"

[justice_undone]

"Cartoons?" Breq asked. By now she had concluded that her decision to put cereals on the table had been a good one.

[misshapen_spark]

Cereal! No boxes of Pumpkin Pete's that she could see, but that was fine, Yang could cope. She poured a bunch of different kinds all into one big bowl.

"Yeah, cartoons," she said, gleefully shaking one box. "On the TV."