Third Floor Common Room; Monday Morning [10/19].

[howareyanow]

Wayne had, very briefly, considered an attempt to incorperate all the candy that was just sitting around into his breakfast for that morning, and the fact that he'd even thought about it for a second bothered him a bit, that it was his natural impulse to just see what the island had given them and think about using it first and foremost before considering that candy didn't belong in breakfast!

There was definitely a disconsolate growl. This place was starting to make him 10-ply. Or at the very least, three.

So it was breakfast as normal, without any candy, although if anyone wanted to be spare parts enough to incorperate the candy into their breakfast themselves, they were more than welcome, though Wayne may personally, privately wish upon them that every piece they plucked out of those bowls would be black licorice, and they'd learn their lesson.

The pancakes may have taken on a certain mouse-eared shape, though. Whether or not that was done intentionally or by influence of the island, though, Wayne would never tell.

[[ open breakfast is open! ]]

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[snowdroplace]

Most of the trip had been rather wonderful, truly, but there was something lovely about getting to settle back in and relax, wasn't there?

"Good morning!" Elli said cheerfully, as she wandered in. "Quiet day today, is it?"

[howareyanow]

"Seems to be!" Wayne remarked, before giving Elli the requisite nod as he reached for a plate.

"Elli. How are ya now?"

[snowdroplace]

"Finally caught up on my rest," she said, with a bit of a laugh. "And how are you?"

[howareyanow]

"Ohhh," drawled Wayne, with a slightly disparaging sigh that was just automatic by now whenever someone didn't get it right, "not so bad..."

The disappointment there was gone, though, by the time he steadily moved onto the next part.

"Fix you up a plate?"

The plate was pretty much already fixed.

That wasn't the point.

[snowdroplace]

It really wasn't the point.

"Yes, please," Elli said. "And I'll help you with the dishes after."

[howareyanow]

Wayne handed over the plate with a nod, half-wondering if dish washing around here was something that he might have to start making a chart for, but he had to admit, it was nice to see so many people so willing to lend a hand.

"Have a good trip?" he then asked.

[snowdroplace]

A chart might make everyone involved feel much more comfortable!

… Elli was only offering because neither Miles nor Nina were in the room today. She did not want to be involved in any argument about the matter.

"I did," she said, sounding a bit surprised at herself. "Except for the middle bit, where everything was..."

Doom? Despair? Abandoned?

[howareyanow]

"...spare parts?" Wayne offered helpfully, and that was him being nice, although he was mostly just still a bit raw about not managing to get any of those go-karts up and running by the end of it all.

[snowdroplace]

"And worse," she agreed, grateful that he'd such a wonderfully simple way of putting it that made total sense. "I've never been so grateful to leave a place before, I must admit."

[howareyanow]

"At least it coulda been worse," Wayne offered, in a way that he thought was being very helpful. "At least it was just the one park, instead of all of 'em, fer the whole week."

[snowdroplace]

Elli shivered.

"I don't know that I would've survived," she admitted.

She would have. She'd just have been a sad, wet-tissue sort of Elli for a week.

[howareyanow]

"Oh, I'm sure you would've," Wayne said encouragingly. "And, if you didn't...well...there's prob'ly worse places to be stuck as a ghost."

Not that he really believed in all that stuff.

Despite, you know, the very recent stay at a haunted theme park.

[snowdroplace]

"Oh!" she said, almost a huff of a laugh. "Why, Wayne, that's not funny at all!"

It was, a little!

[howareyanow]

Wayne's brow furrowed a little in confusion, as he wasn't really even trying fer funny. Just...practical.

So he thought it best to shift the conversation a little. "So's we can pretty much guess which park was yer least favorite," he noted. "So which would you say was your actual favorite?"

[snowdroplace]

It was probably for the best that she thought he was joking.

"Disneyland, for myself," she said, beaming. "It was so fun and there was so much to do it was honestly quite dizzying! But I also really, really loved getting to see Legoland and how the children took to it."

[howareyanow]

"Good bookeneds, then!" Wayne remarked. "Strong beginnning, solid end!"

With a particular low point smack in the middle, but never mind that!

[snowdroplace]

Never mind that indeed!

"And you?" Elli asked. "What was your favourite?"

[howareyanow]

"Seems a bit expected, perhaps," said Wayne, after a moment of thinking about it, "but I'd have to lean in toward Disneyland myself. If only fer the chance to really put my French to practical use."

The Parisians had loved it.

...really...