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Second floor common room- Wednesday evening

Sabine didn't really veg. Usually she had something to do instead of just sitting in front of the TV, but every once in a while she just felt like it. The plan for tonight was to sit back, make some popcorn, and find something dumb to watch, like a normal teenager.

Step two was where things got iffy. She knew she put popcorn in the microwave, but when she opened the door again, what she got was a little plate of mini cupcakes.

At this point she figured she'd get the same result but decided to try again just in case, and this time got a bowl (that she had not put in there) of caramel (which was not correct) popcorn (yes good).

"I don't get it," she said, and took both... desserts? to put on the table for people to take while channel surfing.

[Idk what's with me this week. Open!]

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Lana wandered in and waved. "Hello. How are you today?" She went to check out the refrigerator.

"Confused, otherwise good," Sabine said, picking up the plate. "Accidental cupcake?"

"Accidental?" Lana asked.

"The microwave decided it's cute. This was supposed to be popcorn," she explained.

"I would ask how that happened, but that seems rather pointless on this island." Lana reached to take one. "Thank you. How have you been?"

"Not bad," Sabine shrugged. "Aside from Wednesday's insanity and my roommate being a lamb for a weekend there hasn't been much new lately."

That was... not a normal thing to be able to say that casually.

"How about you?"

"Well enough." Lana shrugged. "Apart from Wednesday, not much has been going on. I've been wondering if there's something else to do. Maybe another trip to the mainland?"

"That's an idea." Sabine had been to space more than the mainland lately. "Were you thinking anything specific?"

"Maybe more museums?" Lana said. "Or...I don't even know. What entertainments do you think they have?"

Sabine had to think about it, since the last time she'd really thought about it had probably been the last time they went out. "Movies, theater... I know there's a lot of historical sites in the area..."

"That might be interesting," Lana said. "We could look up a few of those."

"There are a lot," Sabine said. "So when are you actually free these days?"

Lana shrugged. "I have no classes on Wednesday or Saturday. Only one class apiece on the other days. What about you?"

"Monday and Fridays are free, plus weekends."

This weeekend should probably be a no.

"Thursdays are the only day I really can't get away."

"What about a Friday, then?" She could totally skip Skywalker's class if she had to.

"I can do a Friday. We have some time before prom stuff starts."

Whatever that was.

"Have you figured out this prom thing yet?" Lana asked.

"It's another dance. I don't know what makes it different from the other dances," Sabine shrugged.

"Hm. I'll look it up on my next library shift," Lana said. "It seems to be important somehow."

"Oh hi, Sabine," Keyleth said with a little wave; she had decided to do a little socializing tonight, partly as practice and partly just because she was bored. "Is there a special occasion or is the common room just being weird again?"

"I was trying for popcorn. I have no idea how this happened," Sabine explained. "If you want some, go for it."

"Aww, thanks! The cupcakes are cute," Keyleth said, already making a beeline for said cupcakes. "Definitely not popcorn, though."

"There is popcorn, too, it's just... different," Sabine said, reaching for a handful. "I don't know where this dose of weird came from."

"So wait." Keyleth paused long enough to nibble a little bit off the edge of the cupcake. "How exactly is all of this happening?"

"I put popcorn in, cupcakes came out. I'd be tempted to take it apart and figure it out but I know by now that some things here don't make sense," Sabine told her.

"Is the microwave transmuting it somehow?" Keyleth was just going to be over there peering into the microwave now. "All by itself? But I don't think you can just do that at random, you have to at least have some idea what you're transmuting something into, so I don't think it makes sense magically, either. Maybe. Arcane magic doesn't really work the same way as what I know."

She was a nerd sometimes. Sorry, Sabine.

"Fandom has its own set of rules. And I'm not really informed about magic enough to be helpful," Sabine said apologetically. "...Or informed at all."

"That's okay. You know more about technology than I probably ever will, so it sort of balances out," Keyleth told her. "Fandom just being itself is as good an explanation as we're probably ever going to get. But with snacks!"

"I feel like you've really acclimated to this place once you're saying stuff like that," Sabine smiles.

"Well, there's a point when you realize it's either that, or just rock back and forth in a corner and whimper for possibly the rest of your life," Keyleth said with a chuckle. "And that's not really productive, is it?"

"Exactly. I figured out pretty early when I really shouldn't roll with it." That would be the fish! "Otherwise, it ends soon enough."

At least until she'd been really embarrassed or said something she shouldn't.

"I'm still not incredibly comfortable with the island subjecting us to all its whims like this all the time," Keyleth admitted, "but . . . it all seems pretty harmless, for the most part, and not like it's being manipulative at all."

There was a long pause.

"Yeah, I'm sure it wouldn't do anything like that."

Yes it would.

Just wait until the week before prom, Kiki. Just wait.

". . . I really don't like that long moment of silence there." Keyleth . . . maybe facepalmed. Lightly, but still. "I'm trying to give it the benefit of the doubt here, but I'm suddenly not so sure."

"I mean, I've never had anything like that."

Yet, Sabine. Yet.

"That's a little bit more reassuring, thank you," Keyleth told her. "But at least, if I don't rule it out, it won't really catch me totally by surprise."

"Which really can be said about most things in Gamdom." See, totally not bad!

"Hello, Keyleth." Lana waved at her.

"Hi, Lana." Keyleth nodded back at her, and while she was trying to keep a mental separation between Lana and Jatila from class, there might have been a small visible touch of annoyance in her otherwise cordial expression. "How are you tonight?"

"I'm well, and you?" Lana frowned a little, thrown off by the annoyance.

Sorry, Lana! Keyleth was trying, really she was, but the hypothetical scenario they'd been going through in Fjord's class was eating at her more than she wanted to admit.

If it was any consolation, this was nothing on the grudge she was going to hold against Raishan in a few years.

"Oh, you know," she said, a little high-pitched like she was trying just a touch too hard to stay nonchalant. "Fine, really. Nothing out of the ordinary, at least for this place. Have you tried the cupcakes yet?"

"I did," Lana said. "They're surprisingly good for popcorn."

She hesitated. "Are you okay?"

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