Third Floor Common Room; Monday Morning [08/02].

[white_oleander]

A part of Astrid was starting to wonder if, after last week, she was just sort of doing this for radio, but, at the same time, Astrid knew she was also still doing this because she was sometimes just a creature of habit and she honestly had nothing better to do. She was up, so she might as well just head upstairs, do a little bit of cooking, have a nice breakfast by herself if no one else showed up, and have a nice breakfast with her schoolmates if anyone did.

And it turned out that the fridge decided to provide a lot of eggs (not just eggs, this time, there were other things, but there were also a lot of eggs), so she figured that was a good sign for her to just sort of practice her skills with eggs in particular, trying to get the perfect sunny-side-up and the perfect over-easy, and getting quite a lot of scrambled eggs in the process.

So, hopefully, if anyone did join her that morning, they liked eggs.

[[ and it's breakfast! So it's totes open! ]]

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[canlendanear]

Alara didn’t have classes til later in the week but she had started to get in the habit of handwavily going to the gym early in the morning and so was up at a reasonable time most days.

For a change, she decided to see if anything was happening on the other floors this early and stopped by the third floor common room when she was noticed activity happening, “hey,” she said, albeit a bit awkwardly from the doorway as she glanced in .

[white_oleander]

"Hey." Astrid smiled back a little when she looked up, tossing some of her hair (a it futilely) out of her face when she did, then nodded toward the slowly building food. "You like eggs? We've got other stuff, too, if you don't, but there are a lot of eggs this morning if you do."

[canlendanear]

"I don't mind eggs," Alara said, interested, stepping into the common room, “I haven’t had them for a while,”

[white_oleander]

"Well, there's plenty," Astrid noted, "so you can definitely make up for lost time there. Help yourself. There's coffee and tea, too, and juice in the fridge if you want."

She moved aside just a little although there was plenty of room and tilted her head thoughtfully at Alara.

"I'm Astrid, by the way," she offered. "I'm not sure we've actually really met."

She'd seen the other girl around a lot, of course; she noticed things like that. But if they'd ever said more than five words to each other, Astrid certainly didn't remember it.

[canlendanear]

“Thank you,” Alara smiled as she went to get a plate and started filling it up, mostly with scrambled eggs, “I’m Alara,” she introduced herself in response, pausing as she tried to remember if they’d met.

“I don’t think we’ve officially met,” she said at last.

[white_oleander]

"You've been here a while, though, right?" asked Astrid, taking a break from breaking eggs to pour herself some tea and socialize a little, trying to jog her memory.

Not as long as she herself had been, probably, but sometimes it felt like she was one of the oldest students here. Not by age, of course, but just experience. Longevity.

"I've seen you around, anyway. I think."

[canlendanear]

Alara nodded, putting down her plate to get some juice out of the fridge, "I've been here a bit over a year," she explained, "I'll be going into my sophomore year in the fall,"

[white_oleander]

"I'll be a senior," Astrid said, with a tone of realization, although it had been forefront of her mind for a while now. Her smile went a little wan. Conflicted. "Last year."

Assuming she survived.

[canlendanear]

"Oh, wow,” Alara said, pausing as she took a quick mouthful of egg, swallowing before she asked “how long have you been at Fandom for?”

[white_oleander]

"Since I was fourteen." This conversation did nothing to keep Astrid's smile from getting more and more rueful. "I started the summer before my freshman year, so I was kind of in it for the long haul."

She paused, to sip her tea.

"Except for a half-year where I went back home for a while. It..." Another pause, this time to figure how best to put it. "Didn't really work out.

"It's definitely been an interesting three years," she added, as if to venture away from that a little bit. "I'm sure the last one's going to be no different."