fandomhighdorms | Fourth Floor Common Room, Monday Afternoon

"Yes, Mom, I promise that I'm eating breakfast. Most important meal of the day, I know." Simon propped his phone against his shoulder and shifted his pizza boxes to one hand, leaving his other free to open the common room door. "And lunch, and supper. The food's actually pretty okay, and there's a bunch of places in town, too."

... Not that Simon had explored much yet, but he forgave himself for taking a week of mostly only leaving the room for classes while processing the fact that the island was... what it was. He still didn't have answers, but he was pretty sure he could face the weirdness at this point.

"I'm totally making friends! My roommate's awesome. Tip's really had some great advice for getting my feet under me here. And the school assigns 'big siblings', too, to show us the ropes."

He dropped the pizzas onto the coffee table and flopped onto the couch, reaching for the TV remote. "Love you, too, Mom. Look, I've gotta run, okay? I promise, I'll call again later this week. Uh huh, uh huh. Tell Dad and Nora I love them. Bye, Mom." ... "... Bye, Mom." ... ... "... BYE, MOM."

Simon chuckled to himself as he ended the call and slid his phone into his pocket before lifting the lid of the first box of pizza and grabbing a slice.

There was plenty for everyone, because Simon figured: what better way to make friends than with food?

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"And what were you going to do with the bus?" Sabine wondered.

Vette shrugged.

"Drive it?"

She paused a moment, and then relented and added, "I think Nina wanted us to just take it to the school anyway. I was kind of just going with the flow. As far as I knew, I was having some kind of horrible bad-ait-in-the-crypt hallucination at the time."

"Okay, I can understand that." Actually, with that reasoning, it was amazing it hadn't happened before. "Must have been a weird drive in then."

Mostly she was imagining Kanan on the bus.

Kanan had been so irritated.

It was great!

"Everything about it was weird," Vette confirmed. "Showing up there, almost stealing the bus. Realizing the bus has wheels. The cranky guy driving it. Showing up at the picnic and being handed all the information I'm going to need except for a way to read all the information... It was like a bad fever dream. At this point mostly I'd just be happy if I could get in touch with the gang back on Nar Shaddaa to tell them I'm fine."

"Keep trying on that part," Sabine advised her. "I hear sometimes getting stranded is just temporary. One of these times you might be able to get something through."

"I tried combining my comm with the phone tech they have here," Vette said with a sigh. "To see if I can get a signal out by bouncing off of the local infrastructure. Which, in hindsight, maybe wasn't the most useful strategy, what with how there's apparently nothing else out there."

"Yeah, even if there's anything else out there, they're nowhere on getting to it," Sabine said dismissively. Get it together, Earth. "Maybe see how Portalocity gets stuff out, crib off of them?"

...

...

...

"See how what does what now."

So many people were going to get a piece of Vette's mind for not telling her about portals.

"Portalocity," she said slowly. "You can book portals between different places? It's how I got here. They have an office in town."

"You got here with a portal."

Deep breath. Exhale. Vette was going to take a sip of her Coke.

"... Sooooo where in town might this office be, exactly?"

"Griffin Way. Like you're going towards the causeway, the bar is at the end of the street," she said, helpfully.

"And that's going on the to-do list once I get my first pay for taking apart phones while I'm bored," Vette sighed. "Really, I've been here for over a week now, and you're the first one to tell me there might be a way home that doesn't involve stealing the bus driver's ship."

Not that she wasn't still considering it.

"I would really not steal the bus driver's ship," Sabine said quickly. "Just... try Portalocity first. I'm sure people just assumed you knew?"

"On my first day?" Vette shook her head hard enough that her lekku flopped around behind her. "There's no way. I can't even read the writing here. It took me forever before I realized the days of the week are even named differently here."

She grumbled into her can of Coke.

"Would've been nice of someone to check."

"Maybe not the first day, but after that. But you know now!" And it had only been a week!

...Yeah.

Vette was making such an annoyed scrunchyface, now. Honestly, Earth. Honestly.

"Well, I know now," she agreed. "... I wonder if you can hijack portals, too."

Look, she'd come from raiding ancient tombs and bypassing security in the homes of rich sleemos who stole Twi'lek artifacts. Earth tech was so boring by comparison.

"Given how much they bounced me around when I first got here, I'd say don't try it unless you're really sure of what you're doing."

Or, maybe that was why Sabine had gotten bounced around so much to begin with.

"I mean... what's the worst that could happen?"

Vette, it was this attitude that got you thrown into jail on the regular.

"Ending up in entirely the wrong place, or... I'm not sure how exactly the portals work, but possibly having your atoms spliced apart, depending on the tech?"

She was going to have to look this up now.

"... I'm already in the wrong place," Vette pointed out. "But, uh, the atoms argument definitely has some merits."

She was also going to have to look this up now.

"Just, make sure you do the homework first." And then have at it.

"What if I try it on someone I really don't like first?"

Because that could be murder, Vette.

Sabine stared at her.

"Ooooooooor not."

Vette shrugged and returned to her pizza.

"Everyone here's been pretty pleasant anyway. A little weird if it's their first time seeing a Twi'lek, and let me tell you that's annoying. But probably not 'scramble their atoms' annoying."

"And that part's not entirely their fault if they come from somewhere that's only been humans," Sabine allowed, "but from what I understand Hera's been here a while so the excuse only lasts so long."

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