Third Floor Common Room; Monday Morning [05/18].

[howareyanow]

Wayne wasn't quite sure if he was really in the clear for continuing his tradiational Monday Morning Breakfasts without interferance from a Sunday Morning Usurper, considerin' said potential Sunday Morning Usurper had gone home fer the weekend, so he wasn't about to let his guard down, but it had been nice to not have to worry about it Sunday Morning.

Although he wouldn't have been at all surprised if Nina'd hop a portal back just to make breakfast and then hop right back to whatever fuck all she was doing elsewhere.

But she hadn't, or, if she had, she'd done it without anyone noticing, which wasn't Nina's style at all, so Wayne just set to gettin' breakfast ready as per usual, politely ignoring the fact that the eggs and the ham were, in fact, green.

And there was a little gremlin in the corner makin' a show about how he refused to eat them, as if he was even going to be gettin' some in the first place.

"Just so long as you don't go tryin' to eat anyone tryin' to mind their own business and have their own breakfast instead, there, super cheif."

[[ open breakfast is open with hopefully less chance of brainkill like last week! ]]

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[snowdroplace]

Mountain lions aside, last week had been quite a pleasant time for breakfast. Elli had dithered a bit over the fact that the lion might show up again but, she had to concede, he hadn't eaten anyone last time...

Elli was still going to peer into the common room cautiously before she, smiling softly, came on in.

"Good morning!"

[howareyanow]

"Elli!" said Wayne, in that vaguely cheerful brusqueness of his that would become quite familiar to her if she kept showing up fer these things. "How are ya now?"

He nodded with the greeting, and then nodded to the gremlin. "Mind the gremlin," he added, since she was new and it was helpful if you were new, he figgured.

[snowdroplace]

"I'm... fine?"

Don't mind the sudden attack of doubt in her response, Wayne. It was just. Gremlin.

"Um..."

[howareyanow]

"He doesn't seem too keen on the green eggs'n'ham," Wayne explained, before that brusqueness turned a bit sharp and directed at the gremlin, "which is pretty rich, comin' from somethin' that's taken a likin' to bitin' people."

His voice softened a bit when he turned back to Elli. "Jus' keep pitta his way, though, and you'll likeleh be fine. 'Specialleh if I've got any say in it. I'll be more'n happy fer a good gremlin fightin' donnybrook, if that's what he's after."

Meantime, though, he'd start fixing Elli a plate.

[white_oleander]

And there was another reason Astrid should get out more: she had a little sibling that she should probably be checking in with.

"Good morning, Elli," she offered with a faint smile. "Good to see you survived the first week."

It had been, as far as Fandom experiences went, an incredible soft ball of a week, but still!

[snowdroplace]

Elli, though she did not know it, was incredibly grateful that it had been a soft, easy sort of week comparatively.

"Oh, hello, Astrid!" she said, smiling at her big sibling. "Have... have there been cases where people haven't survived their first week?"

[white_oleander]

Astrid hesitated in her answer, which was probably not very reassuring, but she was just thinking about how to frame it.

"Not that I know of," she said, "but last semester, the shuttle bus got kidnapped by a goat demon and so not many people stuck around. I think I was the only one, actually, and I don't think that even counts because I was coming back..."

And, you know, she didn't have a choice in the matter, but Elli didnt need to know that detail.

[nicedragonsfinishlast]

"Elli, hi!" Julius hadn't seen Elli since the shuttle and offered a quick wave while waiting for his plate. "How're you settling in?"

[snowdroplace]

"Julius! Good morning!"

She smiled warmly at him from her seat. (Which was, totally coincidentally really, as far from the gremlin as it was possible to be.)

"It's... it's very different here," she settled on. "How have you been doing?"

[nicedragonsfinishlast]

"Not bad," he said, with a quick, concerned glance down at the very green vittles Wayne was serving up. But they smelled fine, so...? Maybe it was just how things were around here. "Still getting the hang of how things work around here. But everyone here is really nice, so that's helping."

When it wasn't catching him completely flat-footed because surprising?!?!?

[white_oleander]

Astrid never really bothered with breakfast on Mondays because, well, she didn't really know Wayne and she'd been distancing herself, but since she'd met with her case worker yesterday, and it didn't sound like they were planning on a new placement anytime soon, and she had early classes...she figured she might as well grab a quick bite.

Although the gremlin in the corner made her second guess that.

"Maybe I should go elsewhere," she noted mildly, nodding at the ranting critter. "Seems this place gets some pretty bad reviews."

[nicedragonsfinishlast]

"Uhh, what is that?" Julius asked, since she seemed unsurprised to see...it. "Is that another, umm, student?"

[white_oleander]

"I don't think so," Astrid offered with a faintly amused smile, though it never stopped feeling weird to her that she should be the one with the answers to questions like that. "I think it's just your standard, Fandom-variety gremlin, but I haven't thought to ask. Typically, it's advised to stay away from one when you see on. They bite, and when they bite, they make you think you're someone else for a while."

Been there, done that! Maybe she was a good source for questions like that after all.

She tilted her head thoughtfully at the vaguely familiar face.

"I'm Astrid, by the way," she offered. "You're in my class later, right? The one about not dying?"

[nicedragonsfinishlast]

"A...gremlin?" Julius asked, confused. "...Like the movie from a hundred years ago?" Wait, no, it was 2020 now. "I mean, like...fifty years ago? Maybe?"

He liked old-fashioned genre movies from the turn of the century. He just sometimes had trouble remembering when any of them were filmed.

[bookbeltof_love]

Nina had not wanted to come back at all.

Tomorrow she'd be fine, especially since teaching was great good fun but today? Ugh. Uuuuugh. She wanted to be back with her brother and her room and Iris and the boyos.

"Gooooooooooood mooooooooooooorning!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Had Nina timed her portal to get her back for breakfast? Yes, yes she had.

[howareyanow]

Wayne would have been disappointed, though, if she hadn't.

"Nina!" he greeted her, as expected, reaching for a plate. "How are ya now?"

[bookbeltof_love]

Bleh, Wayne. She was bleh.

"I'm great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Nina said brightly, in defiance of her own narrative. "How about yourself????????????"

[howareyanow]

"Ohhhh," said Wayne, taking a moment to enjoy actually getting to give a proper response to a proper greeting exchange, "....not so bad. How was your weekend?"

That salt was not fer yer ham, Nina, but fer yer wounds, apparentleh.

[nicedragonsfinishlast]

Julius was still not over how people were just so willing to cook and share with everybody in the dorm. The scent of breakfast practically dragged him out of his dorm and down the hall, still tugging his t-shirt down as he popped his head into the common room. "Do I smell...ham?" he asked.

Dragonic sense of smell said 'yes,' and gave plenty more details beside, but he was being polite.

[bookbeltof_love]

Knowing good and well that Wayne would give a proper answer, Nina went with the less useful (but more fun) one.

"Nope," she said cheerfully, popping the 'p' just because she could. "It's your imagination!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

[nicedragonsfinishlast]

There was never any doubt when Nina was in a room, was there? Her cheer was pretty infectious and Julius found himself grinning at her. "Guess no one will mind if I eat all the imaginary ham, then, right?"

[bookbeltof_love]

"Well, I certainly won't," Nina declared, laughing. "Though I could be biased, since I already ate mine..........."

And now was mostly nibbling on a bunch of berries.

[howareyanow]

"That you do!" Wayne confirmed stoutly. "Only...it's green." He sounded particularleh put out by that fact. "So there's that..."

But he seemed to put all that aside son's he could get to the proper greeting.

"Julius." He nodded. "How are ya now?"

[nicedragonsfinishlast]

"Good thanks," Julius said. "How are you?"

He peered over at the food Wayne was making. "Uh. Do you know why it's all green?" When Wayne had said 'green,' Julius, the fool, had assumed he'd meant vegetables.

[howareyanow]

"Oh," said Wayne, more pleased than he should be that someone'd gone and properleh asked so he could answer right, "...not so bad. And it's just green 'cause it's green. Does that sometimes 'round here."

With that, he reached for a dish. "Fix you up a plate?"