Fandom High Welcome Picnic, Front Lawn of the School, All Day: Part I

[bigdamnprincipal]

The weather was thankfully behaving, so it was fairly warm outside as everything was set up for the picnic. Tables and chairs had been set up, and there was plenty of food and drinks, along with nametags, and two signs: one listing the Big Sibling/Little Sibling pairings, and another listing rooms and roommates for the new students.

[WAIT FOR THE OCD PLEASE. OCD IS UP, HAVE AT IT. This is part one of the picnic, for specifically meeting siblings, roommates, and teachers. The rest of the picnic is happening here and here, in an effort to keep browsers from breaking for as long as possible. *g*]

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Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling (Spring 2008)

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

That got a bird-like quirk of the head.

"Why would you put a horse in someone's office? Where would you get a horse? It's not as if they grow on trees? Wouldn't that be something of a present, though? Or was it a dead horse and--"

For a mind fresh to use, that kind of a comment was just teeming with possibilities. He couldn't help but try and think enough thoughts to make up for all the ones he'd skipped when he'd been content to just be a lesser-liked, hairless Chistery to the Witch.

Or so it seemed sometimes.

"Though--"

There was the issue of figuring out what he liked. Other than flying, he didn't really know.

But he didn't say that. It might sound pathetic.

Finally he said: "There are a lot of things here I'm unfamiliar with."

There. He sounded the least hopeless. Only mildly pathetic. Unknowledgeable as opposed to unteachable; he wouldn't want people getting that impression, no matter how hard it turned out to be to teach him.

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling (Spring 2008)

[vkandis-son.livejournal.com]

"Then you have something in common with absolutely every person who has ever come to this school." He rubbed his temple with one finger. "I have a horse. And a dislike of a certain teacher. Add alcohol into the mix, and, well," he shrugged, blushing a little, "you get a horse in an office. Not my best moment at all."

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling (Spring 2008)

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

He'd never seen it on his own face, but the expression that graced his features at the moment was the picture of his mother's: an exacting, measuring sort of look with just a hint of disapproval.

"I should hope you don't usually do anything so ridiculous."

A beat.

"If only for the horse's sake."

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling (Spring 2008)

[vkandis-son.livejournal.com]

"No, it was just that once," he sighed. "Trenor actually seemed to quite enjoy it."

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling (Spring 2008)

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

"Is he a Horse then or a horse?"

With people from other places and other worlds, they might not know the difference. Dorothy certainly hadn't.

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling (Spring 2008)

[vkandis-son.livejournal.com]

Karal's sensitive ears picked up the difference between the two. "If you mean is he a person in a horse's body, no, he isn't. He is simply a horse, but a good friend for all of that. My friend Aravis comes from a world where there are free Talking Horses. Does yours have the same?"

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling (Spring 2008)

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

A quick nod.

"We have animals and Animals."

Though the state of Animals at this point was rather abysmal. Not that any of them were pleased with him. He'd 'turned' on the Witch (as if they had any right to say that, as if any of them had fetched her tea or gotten her an extra blanket from the linen closet when she was screeching the keep down for one and keeping Nanny up with her work).

"Aravis?"

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling (Spring 2008)

[vkandis-son.livejournal.com]

"My world has a number of non-human people, so it's something I'm familiar with."

Now, how to explain Aravis. "Aravis is my roommate, and one of my dearest friends. I'd be pleased to introduce you to her - I'm in room 413, and you are welcome whenever you like. But she can be...standoffish at times. If she is, please, do not take it personally."

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling (Spring 2008)

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

"I'm used to standoffish. Actually, I'm used to 'push-offish'. I can be unobtrusive."

He looked down at his paperwork.

"I'm one floor down, I'd figure. I haven't met my roomate yet, though."

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling (Spring 2008)

[vkandis-son.livejournal.com]

"Do you know who your roommate is, yet?" he asked. "And what's your room number?"

Not that Karal would be coming by to check on him, and possibly to leave some clothes anonymously. Not at all.

Except he most definitely would be.

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling (Spring 2008)

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

"316, it says. And my roomate is to be an Evey Hammond," he read, pointing to the paper and the words that said just that. "Do you think that will be a boy or a girl?"

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling (Spring 2008)

[vkandis-son.livejournal.com]

"Evey is most likely a girl's name," he said after a moment's thought. "That's something I found very odd, that they place girls and boys together, but, like all else that is strange here, it feels normal after awhile."

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling (Spring 2008)

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

He shrugged.

"I used to sleep in whatever room would have me. And usually that meant Nor. It's not that odd."

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling (Spring 2008)

[vkandis-son.livejournal.com]

"Nor?"

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling (Spring 2008)

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

"My--"

Sister.

"Friend. A childhood friend."

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling (Spring 2008)

[vkandis-son.livejournal.com]

Something in the way he said it made Karal reluctant to ask further. "That's good. It's one more thing you won't have to get used to."

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling (Spring 2008)

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

"I guess I had to have something that was normal to me."