Third Floor Common Room; Monday Morning [05/10].

[howareyanow]

If anything particularly different was going on outside right now, Wayne didn't know about it yet and he'd mostly convinced himself that he didn't care, because it was probably weird and he was just better off going about his day as normally as he could.

And that included the traditional Monday morning breakfast. This would be his third week in a row; he felt that made it an official tradition, and he had no intention of fucking with tradition. Since Vette missed it last week, crepes were back on the menu, with all the fixins, as well as the eggs and sausage and bacon and all that other good stuff as one might expect out of a nice breakfast like this.

Sure, there'd been that brunch yesterday and all, but who ever really got sick of breakfast food in the morning, anyway? Not anyone Wayne would likeleh want to know, that was for sure.

[[ he is a creature of habit, through and through. Open! Breakfast is seeerved! ]]

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[chirpchirpchirp]

Vette frowned a tiny bit.

"So... if we found out the why... maybe... we could do something about it?"

Nina!

[bookbeltof_love]

What?!

"It's a possibility!"

It wasn't that she hadn't thought about it before, either, but...

"I just figured it would be easier to get there and beg forgiveness later. It's easier to do that than ask permission..."

[chirpchirpchirp]

Vette sighed, and then reached up a hand and knocked lightly on Nina's forehead with one knuckle.

"Silly. If there's a reason they're keeping me out, I want to know. Maybe I can grab Sidon and he can help with whatever it is, too. Get our muscle in there, you know?"

To confuse the gnomes with being huge and polite to a fault.

[bookbeltof_love]

Nina giggled, despite herself, one hand reaching up to touch her forehead.

"It worked for me! I got through!"

And she had, was the thing. Nina's methods had worked as far as she'd gone!

"But Sidon would definitely confuse them..."

[chirpchirpchirp]

"Well, get me through, then!" Vette stuck out her tongue. "I wanna go home, get a change of clothes and like a lifetime supply of lekku wax."

It was basic hygiene, dammit.

[bookbeltof_love]

Nina stuck her tongue right back out at Vette. Nyah, Vette!

"Like, I could get the wax for you at this point," she noted.

[chirpchirpchirp]

Vette scrunched up her nose a little.

"No way. I'd have to at least send you to Taunt to get her to help you shop for it. And then... I mean, you'd be hanging out with Taunt, and I wouldn't and that's not even a little bit fair."

[bookbeltof_love]

"I'd still like you better," Nina said, nudging Vette a little. "But point taken, we'll just figure out how to get you back home then."

[chirpchirpchirp]

Vette smiled and swayed a tiny bit at that.

"The gang would love you," she decided, switching back to Basic. English. Whatever. "I mean, you're not a Twi'lek, but you're a friend of mine, they wouldn't even hold that against you."

She grinned, mostly teasing.

[bookbeltof_love]

"I told you, in my next life, I'll do my best to not be human!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" she said, taking her cue from Vette and reverting to English. "With a promise like that, how could they hold anything against me????????????"

[chirpchirpchirp]

"They basically can't! But also, you'll be with me, and they happen to think I'm pretty okay, so that'll help."

Vette, honey, they adored you. Like a bippy kid sister.

[bookbeltof_love]

"They love you," Nina said, despite not knowing any of them. "And, like, I'll make sure they love me. So it'll all work out!!!!!!!!"

[chirpchirpchirp]

"Sounds like we've got game plans, then," Vette mused, smiling. "Save Prompto's face from Prompto," and make sure he lived a happy life, dammit. "Figure out why the heck the gnomes don't want people doing travel to my reality right now. Get you to meet the gang... I wonder if the guys would like to, too..."

She was picturing Sidon on Nar Shaddaa.

... She was going to need a moment to just kind of mentally short out.

[bookbeltof_love]

"I mean, like, they'd feel hurt if we left them out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Nina considered Vette's list.

"I don't know about, like, saving Prompto's face from himself, but I'm looking into the... other stuff????????? I asked one of his boys back home how to go about getting access to their libraries, so now I can do all the research we might think of."

Ignis had been very nice about it, actually! Very, very wordy and slightly frightening about it, but nice.

[chirpchirpchirp]

"Oooo," Vette said, going a little wide-eyed. "I want in on that."

... Mostly just because.

"I'm picturing his gang meeting my gang, and then two entire realities just kind of exploding, now," she noted.

[bookbeltof_love]

"That just makes me wish I had a gang," Nina said, rather wistfully. Honestly, she was a little frightened by the idea of the two gangs meeting and her just... being left out. "But, like, yeah, I'll hook you up with a library account too!!!!!!!!!!! I need to go into town to find a tablet for myself, though, because I'm not reading history books on my phone."

No. Just... no.

Also having more tech opened more doors for her slow, careful exploration into the world of hacking all the things.

[chirpchirpchirp]

Really, she could join Vette and probably also Prompto in that fear. What a merry little band of low self-esteem and abandonment issues.

"You do have a gang," Vette pointed out. And then knocked that knuckle against Nina's forehead again. "Duh."

[bookbeltof_love]

"Stop that!!!!!!!!!!!" Nina protested. "And, like, I know!!!!!!!!!!!! But what if you guys like your other gangs more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!??????????"

[chirpchirpchirp]

Vette blinked.

"And here I was worried my gang would like you guys more."

[bookbeltof_love]

Nina stared at her, completely baffled.

"Like, why would they?????????? They already love you guys????????????"

[chirpchirpchirp]

"Uh, I don't know," Vette replied, "maybe because you're all smarter and cuter and stronger and more outgoing than I am?"

Duh.

[bookbeltof_love]

"You're plenty cute and smart and strong and outgoing is only a sham anyway," Nina said, frowning at Vette. "Honestly, really??????????????"

[chirpchirpchirp]

"... Really. If you guys had lekku I'd be done for. I mean, Sidon's head-tail is almost close enough I'm reasonably certain Taunt is going to try to run off with him the minute they meet anyway."

[bookbeltof_love]

"Nooooooooooo," Nina said slowly. "Like, at worst, they'd adopt us into the gang too, Vette??????????????????? You wouldn't be kicked to the curb???????????"

[chirpchirpchirp]

Vette squinted a little.

"I guess I do still fit in small places they don't."

See! She had value!