Third Floor Common Room, Sunday Afternoon

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There was a cupboard full of Cup Noodle (TM) today when Belle went rummaging around the common room looking for something to eat. Since they had just discussed those in a recent class and there wasn't anyone else around (yet) to share a larger amount of pasta with, Belle grabbed a container at random to heat up for herself.

Chicken flavor was unexceptional, but fine, and she sat down on the couch with her book and her noodles. It wasn't quite the same as curling up with a cup of tea but it wasn't entirely different, either. Perhaps this could be an alternative some days.

She could always make tea after, or more noodles for anyone else who might come in. For now she was content to read for a bit. She'd picked up a book of modern fairytales at the library but hadn't yet had a chance to begin reading it.

[open, having a lazy day]

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"Oh, hey, Belle!" Graham walked into the common room after poking his head through the door and seeing her there. "What are you doing all the way up here?"

He may not have realized that people lived on floors other than the second.

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"It was closer to my room," Belle said, smiling at him as she put her book down beside her. "And there were no delicious smells to lure me down the stairs today."

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"That's fair," Graham allowed. "It's pretty scentless downstairs at the moment, but, in here...it smells like..." He took a moment, drawing in a deep breath and sniffing at the air, and then squinting a little as he tried to determine what exactly it was in the air.

"....soup?" he guessed, looking at Belle hopefully for confirmation.

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"Soup," Belle confirmed. "Well, these noodles," she said, lifting up the container. "There are more in the cupboard if you'd like. We had them in a class the other day and I thought I'd try some out. This one was chicken but there are other flavors."

Maybe even some of the dragon flavored ones were there.

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How very funny that you mentioned that, narrative, because that was the first thing that popped into Graham's mind as his expression lit up and he started toward the cupboard and asked, "Are there dragon-flavored ones? We had a bunch of those at the store the other week; they were only okay, though, kind of disappointing, but Vi liked 'em enough to eat them without even any water, and Charlie took me to go have actual ramen in over in DC! We also had gyoza, they're kind of like empanadas, but also pretty different.

"Ooooh," he said, reaching up to grab a container from the cupboard, and then a second one, one for each hand. "Chicken and shrimp? How could I even choose??"

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"They don't have real dragons here, do they? What did the dragon flavor taste like? Was it spicy?" Belle asked.

Dragon seemed like it might be spicy.

"I don't think I've had empanadas or gyoza yet. Should I? And you could have chicken and shrimp, I suppose. The cups aren't so large as all that."

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"I probably will have both," Graham decided, as he looked between the two cups in his hands. "And it was a little spicy, but not at all what I thought dragon would taste like. I've never actually had dragon before, though, so I could be wrong. And, zouuuuunds, you have got to try empanadas, I think they may be one of my new favorite foods! Guillermo makes them all the time, especially for our game nights. Next time he makes some, I'll see about maybe saving some for you! They're like little mini-pies! With meat!"

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"I've never had dragon either but they are far more likely to eat people than be eaten, I should think. Though where I'm from they can be people when they want, as well."

At least the one dragon on her show with any significant screentime could be a fabulously dressed woman as well.

"If you have so much food at your game nights perhaps I really ought to be attending one of these Fridays!"

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"You keep saying that," Graham all but sang in a somewhat teasing voice, as he grinned at Belle before going to put some water in a kettle for his noodles, "and ye~et, I still haven't seen you come by, Belle.

"I've never heard of dragons being people where I'm from, though," he added, "but Charlie seemed pretty put off by the idea of eating the ones where she's from. If you ask me, though, if something tries to eat you, then it's only fair if you wanted to turn it around and try and eat them, too. It's a delicacy, though, for suuuuure, which is why I was so surprised to see it on a Cup Noodle!"

There was a slight, uncomfortable pause there, that Graham couldn't quite explain, before he hastily added a "^TM" and felt instantly better, for some reason.

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"I've been quite remiss," Belle admitted. "And I have no excuse for it."

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"You should really come by this next session, then," Graham offered, this time sending a smile over to Belle as he set the kettle on the stove. "We're still in the middle of battle, so I can very easily slot you in...as either an ally or an enemy, really! Or you can pretend to be an ally and then double-cross everyone toward the end! Or you could be in need of rescuing! You could be the ghost of the last victim of these bandits or you could even be a dragon if you wanted to! Although I don't think they'd be quite ready to take you on yet, if you were to do that!"

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"I don't have any other plans this week. And I could do some research while at the library on Thursday," Belle mused. "It might be fun to be a dragon or a ghost."

Maybe a ghost of a dragon!

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"I actually have some pretty good ideas," Graham admitted with a little bit of a grin, "for a ghost to help move things along. Or, if you were a dragon, you could be a dragon like you said they are where you're from, where they can be a person sometimes, so no one knnows you're a dragon, and there could be this big dramatic reveal in the future!"

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"Perhaps I could be a ghost for now?" Belle said. "Though I'm not sure how one plays a ghost. I would enjoy trying though."

She grinned.

"And eating snacks."

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"The snacks are a very important part of it," Graham confirmed with a grin. "But that's also the fun of the game! If you can think of it, then you can do it, because it's all just made up, anyway! Sure, there are rules, but I think a lot of the fun of it is trying to bend the rules a little to make anything work! If we can make a vampire work, I'm sure we can do the same with a ghost!"

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"I'm sure the library has some of the rulebooks. Unless you have one I might borrow so I could learn a bit before Friday? It's difficult, you see," Belle said, "to bend unfamiliar rules."