The Roof, Friday Afternoon

[nicedragonsfinishlast]

Surprisingly (and probably more to the Sushi Station's generosity than anything else), Julius had ended his date with Alexis with more money than he'd anticipated. So after leaving Ethics, he'd put in a call for Thai takeout (and had ended up with far more of that than he'd anticipated, too, and--okay, where did the enchiladas come from?) and then headed up to the roof to offer...a lot of food to go with talking?

Maybe someone had heard his thoughts about gluttony in Ethics today. After being a lizard for three months, he wasn't putting anything past this island.

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[toottootmagicflute]

Wei Wuxian flew up to the roof, his arms stretched wide, a stack of small yellow papers in one hand and his flute in his belt. He landed gracefully and waved when he spotted Julius. "Hi! What are you doing up here?"

[nicedragonsfinishlast]

Being the worst at remembering his debilitating fear of heights?

"Just having lunch," he said, gesturing towards the whole spread of food he'd laid out. "There's plenty if you want some? And...I dunno. I've never really experienced autumn before, so I figured I should spend some time outside in it, you know?"

[toottootmagicflute]

"Oh, thank you!" Wei Wuxian put the papers inside his robe and sat down to look at the food options. Nothing looked familiar, so he picked a red dish in hopes it was hot. "This is good," he said of the Pad Prik King. "Could use some more chili." Of course, he said that of most foods. "Yeah, the weather's great and so is the view. The height doesn't bother you?"

[nicedragonsfinishlast]

Julius had to agree. His usual spice profile was slightly different, being from the Southwest, but he was still in the 'hotter is better' school.

"Uhh." Right right right. "I'm hoping that sitting out here will help," he said quickly. "Where I'm up high but still on solid ground."

[toottootmagicflute]

"You're really working on getting over that phobia, aren't you?" Wei Wuxian asked. "Good for you. I came up here to test some talismans, but I think there's room for us both."

[nicedragonsfinishlast]

"Err, yeah," Julius said, somehow proud and guilty about lying to Wei Wuxian. "Trying to. You all seemed to have a lot of fun flying around..." He gave a weak laugh.

And then leapt on that topic change like Camden with a hamburger. "Talismans?"

[toottootmagicflute]

"Yes!" Wei Wuxian set down his food and jumped up. "There's something called glitter, have you seen it? I think it would be very fun to- Well, you'll see." He jogged a safe distance away from Julius and the food, then drew a piece of yellow paper covered in red writing. He held it between two fingers and flicked it forward. The paper traveled about ten feet - ignoring wind resistance - then exploded. Loudly. With a blast of blue fire, about three feet in radius.

But it did produce a burst of blue and purple glitter, which rained down around them.

"Ah," Wei Wuxian said, resting his hands on his hips. He turned to Julius. "It wasn't supposed to do that. I need to make some adjustments." He walked back to Julius and pulled out some blank pieces of yellow paper.

[bookbeltof_love]

Nina had sort drifted up to the roof after checking on Foomy--who'd just wanted to know when the first episode of season four was coming out--and Miss Dozy, who'd purred comfortingly and gone back to bed.

It was nice she could do that. Nina envied that, just a bit.

Then, she took a blanket, more because it was soft than because she really needed it to sit on, and her diary, and poked her head around the roof door to see what she was walking into.

[nicedragonsfinishlast]

A feast of Thai with random Mexican thrown in for good measure?

This island was very weird sometimes. "Nina!" he said, waving. "Please tell me you're hungry? And like Thai? Because it's possible I might explode if I eat it all."

Stupid lack of draconic appetite. Even in his human form, he should be able to eat twice this without qualm.

[bookbeltof_love]

"I do like Thai," she admitted, smiling a bit. "Though if you got anything extra-spicy, I'll leave that to you, okay????????"

Nina was fine with some spice, some heat, but living with Vette had meant things were frequently spicier than she was good with. It was better to cover her bases!

"I have a blanket and myself," she continued, wandering over to him. "Where would you like both of these things???????"

[nicedragonsfinishlast]

Julius coughed, ever so slightly at that question. Clearly from his most recent bite of Pad Thai and nothing else. "Uh, wherever you're most comfortable," he said, gesturing around. "I mean, it'll be hard to talk and pass you food if you sit all the way on the other side, but we could probably make it work if you really wanted to."

[bookbeltof_love]

Nina cast a glance over at the other side of the roof. It... probably shouldn't be a consideration but she thought about it a moment anyway.

If she realized how her question had been taken she gave no sign.

(She actually hadn't. She was out of sorts today.)

"Oh no," Nina sighed, unfolding her blanket and spreading it out on the roof by him. "Sitting next to someone who brought food. Tragic!!!!!"

Then she smiled as she folded herself down, neatly and primly.

[nicedragonsfinishlast]

THAT WAS FINE! SHE DIDN'T HAVE TO NOTICE! JULIUS WAS STUDIOUSLY PRETENDING HE HAD NOT NOTICED EITHER!

"You generosity is legendary, Majesty," he teased as he switched some of the food around, placing the less spicy foods closer to Nina so she could have her pick.

[bookbeltof_love]

"It's good to be a generous ruler," she said loftily, surveying her options before reaching for the Kuay Teow Ruea. Noodles were about her speed today. "It means people are generous to you in return!!!!!!!"

Her smile took on a faintly abashed, shy sort of cast. "And thank you for this," Nina added, not meaning just the food.

[mother_forker]

Eleanor did not come to the roof for food. (The fact that she could still move after the mountain of shrimp she ate yesterday was pretty amazing really.) Really she needed the air because she was still holding back some belches caused by the mountain of shrimp.

Still she made an entrance in her ragged jeans, flannel shirt and a large plastic cup that had a twizzler for a straw.

"Wait. People come up here to eat?" she asked. That might put a damper on her shrimp belches.

[nicedragonsfinishlast]

"Uhh...I did?" Julius said, giving Eleanor an awkward wave. "It's just a nice day, you know? Thought it might be better to eat out here than in a common room. Uh. Hi? I'm Julius."

[mother_forker]

"All right. I'm-"

There was moment there where Eleanor tried to stifle a belch but it came out anyone. It was a silent one but Eleanor tried to play it off as a yawn. Badly.

"Eleanor. I take it you're new around here?"

[nicedragonsfinishlast]

Julius was happy to play along. Because spirits knew he appreciated it when people just went along with his weird stuff.

"Kinda-sorta?" he said, seesawing his hand. "I arrived at the beginning of the summer and then turned into a lizard for about three months."

Totally normal thing. Coulda happened to anyone.

[mother_forker]

"Oh. That bullshirt is real?" Eleanor asked in amazement. "Eh. Well that makes sense considering how forking nuts this island is. So what did you do as a lizard? Anything cool?"

[nicedragonsfinishlast]

"I mostly skittered around my room," Julius admitted. So, not a great deal unlike being back home, if he were honest. "I don't remember a whole lot of it. Either because tiny lizard brain or it was all just monotony."

[legionqueen]

Juillenne hadn't been up to check on the rooftop garden since- well. Before she'd made her unexpected trip home last month. So it was high time she did so.

"Julius," she nodded, as she spotted him. "Somehow I'm not surprised you'd be up here."

[nicedragonsfinishlast]

Julius darted a nervous glance over at Wei Wuxian if he was still here and then gave Jules a nervous grin. "Well, um. You know. Just out enjoying the autumn air!"

[legionqueen]

That nervous glance got a puzzled one in return.

"Well, same here," she said, after a moment. "And I thought I'd come and make sure the plants were doing okay."

[nicedragonsfinishlast]

HEH HEH NO REASON! CERTAINLY NOT MORE LIES!

"You hungry?" he asked, trying to distract her from puzzling over anything. "I got, like, a ton of Thai. More than I ordered. And some Mexican? That I didn't order at all."

[legionqueen]

"I could definitely eat," Jules nodded. "That happens a lot around here too, by the way. Though people are generally more pleased with that than they are about being suddenly signed up for something they hadn't planned on," she told him, recalling their conversation earlier in the week.