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Third Floor Common Room; Monday Morning [05/11].

Wayne was still mebbe a little bit sore about what felt a little like an attempt at a breakfast coupe to him, what with Nina going and making breakfast yesterday morning, but he s'posed she could have also just been doing what she thought was nice for the new students and didn't want them to have to wait until Monday to get a good meal in their stomachs, and so he supposed he'd just have to wait it out and see if she decided to go ahead and do it every Sunday, just like he did every Monday, and if that were the case, well, then...

She could have at least picked literally any other day of the week that wasn't the one right before his breakfast day, if that were the case.

But again, it was something he wouldn't be able to determine until next week, so there was no point in fussin' about it now, especially not when he had a traditional Monday morning breakfast to start putting together, all the usual trappings and fixing, from yer pancakes and eggs to your bacon and sausage, fruit for the grease-averse, juice, coffee, so on and so forth.

He figgured, what with some people needing to be up for classes and the particular aroma ventilating structure of the dorms itself, there should be at least a few people, if not the good ol' regulars, wandering in to see what's up and to get a little fuel.

It was, after all, the most important meal of the day.

Even if the Internet might tell you that was all just marketing, Nina.

[[ open breakfast is open, come get some food! ]]

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Elli had spent yesterday just unpacking and, after some tentative exploration of the grounds around the dorms, had simply taken the day to decompress and try to pretend to be used to this place.

She... was not used to this place.

The siren call of breakfast lured her up one floor though she hesitated, looking in, to find that it was just one boy making a mountain of food. Now, Elli knew that boys tended to eat more than girls but, even so, she rather thought... no, she couldn't assume... perhaps he could eat all of that?

Elli dithered.

Oh, and Wayne could spot a ditherer from several kilometers away with his eyes closed. So he turned his head toward the girl, gave her a nod.

"How are ya now?" he asked, but since she was new, he elaborated on the usual greeting. "Breakfasts on Monday are communal. Come on in and help yerself, if you want, or I can fix you up a plate.

"Name's Wayne, by the way," he added, because he was a bit more comfortable and in his element than yesterday, so the social bits came just a little easier.

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Eventually she was going to wear off the shiny-newness but for now it was almost a blessing.

A little embarrassing but mostly a blessing.

"Hello, Wayne," she said smiling, slipping into the common room, a slim girl with a simple blue dress and short hair. "It's nice to meet you. I'm Elli."

She paused, looking at all of the options.

"If it's truly okay, a plate sounds delightful. How are you?"

She was feeling a little unfairly judged by the narrative, Wayne. Rude!

"Goooooooooooooooooooooood moooooooooooooooooorning!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Nina proclaimed as she swanned on in, ready for breakfast.

The narrative couldn't help it if Wayne felt as though there was a pretty good precedent to support the idea that Nina might be tryin' to one-up him!

"Nina," he met her usual cheer with the expected nod. "How are ya now?"

"Faaaaaaaaaaaaaaantaaaaaaaaaaaaastic and excited for my classes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" she said, beaming at him. "It's creative writing today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And how are you????????????????????""

Elli hid a flinch at the other girl's incredibly exuberant greeting. She hadn't expected it, that was all, and the other girl was obviously in a good mood.

And she didn't want to rain on anyone's parade.

"Good morning," she echoed, not even trying to get anywhere near that enthusiastic. "You sound like you're having a good day."

A good enough day for all of them, really.

Nina laughed, tossing the new girl a smile.

"It's the first day of classes," she said brightly. "What's not to be excited about??????????????????? I'm Nina Argentum--------you're one of the new girls, huh?????????????"

Elli had to take a moment to blink at all that… just. All that energy.

"Yes," she admitted, since it was true, no denying that. "It's nice to meet you, Nina. I'm Elli."

Then, feeling like that wasn't good enough, she added, almost apologetically, "I don't have any classes today?"

It had been a while since Juillenne had been to one of Wayne's breakfast mornings ~~except possibly handwavily bc the player kept MEANING to ping and then flaked~~, but it was the first official day of the new semester, so she and Cam were making it a bit of a point to be here.

"Good morning, Wayne," she greeted. Camden... well, Camden was just going to pad over and wait expectantly for a sausage or five. She was a hungry mountain cat, here!

There was a mountain lion in the dorms. A mountain lion.

Elli's fork dropped with a clatter as she stared in absolute terror at the enormous cat.

"Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek!!"

The rest of her plate went flying as she fled behind a couch—as if that would save her—but it was the best she could do in terror and when they were nearest the door.

Oh Goddess, we're going to die!

It's not that Juillenne (or Camden, for that matter) had wanted this reaction from anyone, it's just that they'd been here among non-naturalists for a year, and people's reactions had run the gamut from dangerously casual, to curious, to somewhat cautious.

This, right here, was really how one should react to a seemingly wild animal just wandering about.

"It's all right," Jules said. "She's with me."

"You tame mountain lions?!" Elli's voice rose several octaves.

Was that better or worse than just a random mountain lion having gotten in? She wasn't sure.

Yeah, no, Elli was perfectly content to keep cowering behind the couch, thanks.

Oh, no. Bears (and other wildlife), she tamed. Camden... Camden had chosen her. It was different.

Jules shook her head. "I'm a naturalist," she explained. "Camden is my familiar."

People around her didn't know what the first thing was, but enough seemed to understand the second to some degree, at least.

...

The only naturalist Elli knew was Basil and he studied plants.

"A mountain lion!" she protested.

Oh, Jules was also fantastic with plants! Did you need a tomato plant cleared of blight, or a tulip to bloom mid-December? If so, Juillenne Milone was absolutely your girl.

"She'll not harm you," Jules said, trying to be reassuring. "She knows better."

"She knows better?!"

Elli didn't believe that! She also couldn't believe that they allowed this because this was such a danger to everyone and Elli did the only thing she could do in these circumstances.

She burst into tears.

She was going to die before her first class!

Juillenne just sighed, rubbing at the bridge of her nose. And mentally nudged Camden to maybe go sprawl somewhere in the common room that was as far away from Elli as possible.

She couldn't exactly blame her for her reaction, because Camden was very intimidating-looking, but also...

"The two of us have been here a year now," she said, still trying to be reassuring. "If she were a danger to anyone in the dorms, surely we would've been asked to leave?"

Fear was still a perfectly normal and totally reasonable reaction to mountain lion in the common room! Elli refused to feel bad for it, even as she tried to calm down.

"M-Maybe it ate them," she sniffled.

“I promise you she did not,” Jules said. “Look, I’ve asked her to stay as far away from you as possible, see? So you needn’t worry.”

Not that it looked like Elli was going to stop worrying anytime soon, but maybe it would help just a bit?

"Mooooooooorning!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Nina chirped from where she was sitting primly on a couch, cup of tea and glass of orange juice on the table in front of her as she worked her way through the plate of breakfast resting on her lap. "Happy new semester!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Nina liked classes, okay.

"Is that a traditional greeting?" Jules teased. She was pretty new to formal schooling, still, but was almost certain that wasn't the case.

"Definitely not!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Nina said, giggling. "But, like, it's one I'm going to share!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"Well then," Jules laughed. "A happy new semester to you as well, Nina."

"Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Nina grinned.

"What are you taking this semester????????????????? Anything you're looking forward to???????????????"

"'Try Not To Die' and," and her grimace was only very slight, and just for a moment, really, "'Magical Theory and Practice'. The first one sounds like a very good way to get to see more of this world."

The second... well, the second might come in handy, which is why she was taking it, but she didn't have to like it.

"The first one's fun if sometimes.................... like, well, it's a challenge," Nina admitted, giggling. "What's wrong with learning about magical theory and practice?????????????????????????"

Nina would've loved that!

"Magic's a bit, ummmm..." Jules wrinkled her nose. "People don't like it much, where I'm from?"

Gifts, like hers, were different, of course.

Nina was eyeing you, Jules. Eyeing you.

"What's wrong with magic?????????????????????????"

Jules shrugged. “It’s too wild and unpredictable. Too many things can go wrong. And,” she sighed, because she knew it was very much not the case with most people here: “It just isn’t natural.”

Alara had her first class later that morning and she was trying not to feel too anxious about it, still she thought she might wander a bit beforehand and had ended up at the third floor common room.

She debated for a few moments but curiosity got the better of her and she spotted the different foods that were being made.

“Hey,” she said quietly, finally deciding to stop hovering at the doorway and enter the room.

"Come on in," Juillenne said, even as the other girl started to make her way into the room. "Wayne usually makes enough to feed an army."

“Thank you,” Alara said, still a little hesitant, “are these typical Earth foods?” she was still getting used to how different everything was.

"From what I'm given to understand, they're typical to this part of this world," Jules confirmed. "But they're also typical to where I'm from, which is very much not this world, so," a shrug.

"I'm Juillenne, by the way. And this is Camden," a gesture at the large mountain cat who was currently placidly working her way through a plate piled with sausages.

“I’m from a planet called Xeyala,” she explained, “I’d never been to Earth before I came here,”

She paused, “I’m Alara,” she introduced herself, “it’s nice to meet both of you,”

"Can't say I've heard of it," Jules admitted. "I'm still pretty new to the idea of other worlds, honestly."

“I haven’t met anyone who has heard of it or the Planetary Union,” she told her and paused, “I didn’t realise how far in the past Fandom was,”

"We must all seem so quaint and old-fashioned to you, then," Jules mused. "It was the opposite for me, really, the technology is far beyond anything we have on Fennbirn."

"Alara!" Elli sounded relieved that this was someone that a) she knew and b) did not have a mountain lion. "Good morning!"

Sure, Alara was her roomie but it was important to say that anyway.

“Hi Elli,” Alara said with a smile when she saw her roommate, “good morning, how is everything going?”

Other than the fact she'd thrown her breakfast off her lap and had cried behind the couch over a mountain lion...

"Wayne's a delightful cook," she said instead, because she'd rather just pretend none of that had happened. "And I'm thinking of heading into town later today! It's going well, I think." Just... she wasn't going to look at the mountain lion. "Did you want me to pick up anything for you while I'm in town?"

“I think I should be right for the moment,” Alara told her, “thanks for asking though,”

Yes! Another new girl!

"Moooooooooooooorning!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" she chirped. "Having fun on the island so far?????????????????????"

“Morning,” Alara said, still feeling a bit awkward , “I think so?” she stammered, “I mean it’s quite a bit different to what I was expecting but so far it’s going well,”

"I'm Nina," she said cheerfully, smiling. "What were you expecting????????????????????"

“I’m Alara,” she replied, “I thought this would be a really strict boarding school based on what my parents told me,” she admitted and paused, “and that I would still be in the 25th century,”

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