Third Floor Common Room; Monday Morning [08/31].

[howareyanow]

Wayne didn't get a chance to chat with many of the newbies on picnic day, meaning he didn't have many chances to let them know about Monday Morning Breakfast, but, hopefulleh, the breakfast would take care of letting them know itself through the power that was cooking aromas working its way through this school's odd kind of ventilation system. Or word would get around somehow. Or he'd just have a lot of leftovers for the week, and that was okay, too, though not exactly optimal.

Honestly, though, by Monday morning (though a bit of a later start than usual since he wound up with a class first period; that was hardly going to stop breakfast, though!), he was mostleh just feeling glad that, when he came into the common room, all the stuff he'd gotten for it was there and just the way he'd left them, there wasn't anything weird going on with any of the equipments or cupboards or dishes, no abundance of weird ingredients, no lurking gremlins, no nothing out of the ordinary....which was a little out of the ordinary, but Wayne, who was about 95% sure this island was going to try and fuck up the first Monday Morning Breakfast of a new semester, was not going to complain!


...not about that, anywhey!

[[ open breakfast is open! ]]

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[howareyanow]

Wayne would absolutely not mind Elli showin' up at all. Matter of fact, it was real good to see her.

"Elli!" He gave her the brusqueness of a Wayne-style cheerful greeting. "How are ya now?"

[snowdroplace]

"I'm doing well, thank you," she said, smiling. "And yourself?"

[howareyanow]

Then there was the slight twitching of his squint, a small shake of his head, as if to clear it from a response that just didn't quite hit the landing right, but was still good enough, and better'n he'd get more often than not.

"Oh, not so bad!" He marched on with determination. "Fix you up a plate?"

[snowdroplace]

She was... unaware of anything she had to be sorry there, for messing up the script, alas.

"Yes, please," she said, with a glance around at the common room. "I see you've been successful in getting the new students to come to you."

[howareyanow]

Wayne really should be used to it by now. Alas.

"All thanks to the dormitory ventilation system, no doubt!" Wayne said, with a glance up toward said vents before loading up a plate and handing it over to Elli with a nod. "Didn't get the chance to tell a lot of 'em about breakfast at the picnic, so I'm glad the power of a home cooked meal managed to get most of the heavy lifting done fer me. You get a chance to meet many of 'em yet?"

[snowdroplace]

She shook her head.

"No," she said, smiling her thanks. "I went to the picnic but I wound up just people watching instead of talking."

[howareyanow]

Wayne nodded. "Same here!" he admitted. "With the exception of checkin' in on my little sibling, anyway. If you see a blonde with some I thiiiink pink in her hair and a British accent, that's Maeve, that's my little sibling, so be sure'n say hi."

[snowdroplace]

"I'll keep an eye out for her," Elli promised earnestly. "What's she like? Was she expecting to come here?"

[howareyanow]

"Seems a bit shellshocked," Wayne decided, after a moment, "but takin' it pretty well, all things considered. She knew she was coming, but not quite what she was in fer. Then she got Mae fer a roommate..."

And that's do a number on jus' about anyone real quick...and not even necessarily on account of the cat thing, either...

[snowdroplace]

"Ooooh," Elli said, in a knowing sort of voice. She didn't know Mae but, at the same time, anyone with eyes knew Mae was a bit... much.

"She's a bit over-enthusiastic," Elli allowed. "But there's far worse things, in a roommate!"

Even ignoring the cat thing.

[howareyanow]

Wayne squinted, making a quiet but sustained grumbling noise that might suggest that, sure, there were a few things that could be worse, but not a whole lot, and saying so would be impolite, sooooo....

"How're yet classes lookin', Elli?"

[snowdroplace]

Somewhere far, far away a blonde girl was punctuating at Wayne now. Just because.

"I think they'll be interesting," she said, a bit nervous about them, really. "I don't really know much about the world, so I'm trying to expand my horizons... I'm taking the Art of Ma and French Language and Culture."

She was expanding her horizons in a safe, sane, and normal way!