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

Behold! More tables and chairs, away from all the informational stuff! Enjoy the food!

[OCD is up! This is the FIRST post for general mingling. Please use this post first, if your browser can handle the comment load. Roommates, fake siblings and teachers are here and there is more room for mingling here.]

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Hannibal resisted asking this kid if he had any Grey Poupon.

Barely.

"Hey." He leaned over and looked around. "You new too?"

"Ho." His reply almost felt automatic; the interruption felt like a disturbance. But Ender was new, and he might as well make an effort to learn faces, to undermine the sense of unease he felt at this crowd of people he didn't know by face, let alone by name. "What gave you that idea?"

"The radar implanted in my head," Hannibal said and tapped his temple. "It goes off at girls, new people, and dogs. It's kind of tetchy."

"Must not leave a lot of space in the rest of your head."

It was a little like the banter back at Battle School, except the slang was a little different. He studied Hannibal, categorizing him quietly.

"Girls, food, sleep, beer, guns," Hannibal ticked off. "That's all I need in my head."

Pause.

"And the occasional movie musical but if you tell anyone that, then we just can't be friends or buddies or amigos."

Guns. He wasn't surprised. It didn't matter where you went or what you did: people would always be most interested in ways to hurt each other.

Ender didn't say anything about it. Hannibal talked a lot-- it must make contact easier for him. Play as if you're everybody's friend. Buddy. Amigo. "I think your secret's safe," he said, "I've never seen any."

"Never seen any?" Hannibal mock gasped, hand to his heart. "You're not a fan of those foreign movies with the dippy subtitles, are you? Where you can't watch the actual damn movie because you're too busy reading the stupid things at the bottom of the screen?"

"I haven't seen any of those, either," Ender said. He was calm, but the other boy talked a lot. He guessed it was supposed to be funny, but he couldn't make out what he was talking about, and he found it a little bit annoying. "I was wrong. It's all the talking that takes up the space in your head."

"Not a fan of talking, are we?" Hannibal hmm'ed a little as if he was thinking up some diagnosis. "I could mime?"

"That won't help."

"You ain't never seen me mime," Hannibal pointed out. "I got an A in miming at my last school. Honors, even."

"You must have gone to a very special school," Ender observed. He wondered if the other boy found himself funny. It sounded like he did. "You could try standing on your head."

"You're not very talkative, are you?" Hannibal asked. "And I only stand on my head for extra special people."

"I talk as much as I have to," he commented, and with the quiet of the past few years, it hadn't been important. Ideas and strategy. "And you talk enough for the both of us."

"It's a gift," he said, buffing his nails on his shirt. "Hannibal King, at your service."

"Ender Wiggin," he conceded, filing the name away with the face, and the chattering voice. "Do you ever stop?"

"Talking?" Hannibal shrugged. "When I want to. I can't do much just sitting and staring at people. And that gives me the willies when people do that to me."

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