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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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Teddy smiled at the weird 'ho'. "Are you new?"

"I'm new," Ender confirmed, studying the newcomer carefully. It was the first question on everyone's minds, it seemed. There would be no slipping into the crowds here, either, but for different reasons. "I take it you're not."

"Been here a while now," Teddy replied. "Has anyone talked to you about the, um, weirdness?"

Weirdness. Somehow, it seemed like a funny word, considering everything. But dutifully, he asked regardless-- duty was the wrong word. He was curious. "'Weirdness'?"

"Like, um, people turning into animals or how the island seems to be moving."

"The island is moving?"

That seemed more relevant than the animals.

"It's supposed to be in Virginia normally," Teddy replied. "But we're in Antarctica and you probably don't know where those places are so that wasn't helpful."

"I know where Virginia is," Ender offered. Antarctica. That would explain the cold.

"Oh!" Teddy grinned again. "Good. We get a lot of people whore aren't from Earth here."

"I was born in North Carolina, actually." It was a careful detail. Simple, and it didn't say much. But the people he'd spoken to here seemed to have an interest in the lives people had before-- and he'd rather beat them to the punch.

"From this time too?"

"This time?"

Teddy rubbed the back of his head nervously. "Well, some people are from the past and some are from the future."

The future. The past. It made him think of relative time, and he wondered if, when the island moved, time did, too. "Then what time is it?" Ender asked. He needed to know not just where, but when he was; was this part of a game, too?

"It's 2008 here," Teddy said, gesturing around. "Some people show up from way in the future..."

A beat. "I'm from 2008, though."

2008 was ancient history; so far away it was barely even a bleep in the history books they'd made them read. What had happened in 2008? It hadn't been important to remember: the game had come first. "So I'm in the past," he said, "It's more crowded than I thought."

"It might not be the same past as yours," Teddy added quickly. "I'm from a place where there are superheroes and most people only know about them from comics."

"I don't know the slang," Ender said, truthfully, "Superheroes?"

"Um, like people with abilities people don't have normally." He paused or a moment before turning his hand green. "Like that."

Heroes. It wasn't a good word. Heroes were stories. The realities were always different: hero was the first lie. He knew that well enough, but the reminder stung a little.

It didn't matter. He was fixated on Teddy's hand with abject curiosity. "You're changing the pigment."

Teddy would just say that heroes helped people. Or were supposed to, anyway...

"I can do other things with it too, but, um... It's a new outfit."

Ender looked away from Teddy's hand. Making yourself go green, like a frog. It was almost funny. "So what else can you do?"

"Look like other people," Teddy replied, looking away and shifting. "I'm also pretty strong."

'Pretty strong'. It didn't seem like that was all there was to it-- and it seemed to make the other boy uncomfortable.

So he dropped the subject. He didn't want to be the one who pressed and squeezed out the information; if it was up to him, he wouldn't need it. "I'm Ender," he said instead, offering a hand. "I'm not as strong, so don't break my hand."

Teddy laughed and shifted back, taking his hand. "Teddy. I can control it pretty well so you shouldn't worry too much."

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