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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!

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Moving islands, animal people and gremlins. He studied Teddy. He was too familiar with lies, and these didn't seem like it-- which meant either Teddy was crazy or the island was.

He wondered what Graff would think of that, pictured his face, and laughed a little.

"They are!" Teddy said, mistaking the laugh. "Just avoid them if you see anything small and green and toothy. Bites make people act crazy."

That's okay, he wanted to say, I'm not laughing at them, I'm laughing at something funnier.

Ender stuck his hands in his pockets. "Crazier than they already are?"

"Crazier," Teddy confirmed. "Oh! And there's a radio at the end of every night to let people know what happened during the day."

A beat.

"Uh, try not to listen to it too closely. Sometimes they embellish the facts."

So they'd be following his tracks closely here, then. It was nothing more than the usual; they always followed him, and at least now maybe he'd know a little bit about what they saw.

Ender decided to listen to the radio closely, from now on. To know what the people thought, what they said about things. "They make your head sound big?"

"..huh?"

"On the radio," he clarified. "I was making a joke."

"Oh!" Teddy ducked his head. "Sometimes. They also make things sound worse than they are. Like people are dating when they're not kinda stuff."

Dating? He didn't ask. "How do they know what happens?" he asked instead, because that was far more important. Eros had been small, with no way off except the IF base, and you could only go there with permission. It hadn't been hard to listen in, and he'd always known he was watched.

But the island was big, and it held fresh air. It would have to be bugs, or monitors, and Ender's hand came up of its own accord to reach for the monitor that hadn't been on his neck for years.

"Squirrels."

Oh, Fandom.

"Squirrels," Ender repeated.

"Trust me, it's just one of those things you get used to." A beat. "You might be able to bribe them with rum to not report on you."

Ender could get used to a lot of things. But 'squirrels' almost made him long for the quiet mechanical order of Eros-- where you knew they were listening, but at least they didn't have bushy tails.

"That's a useful tip," he said, "Why squirrels?"

"I have no clue," Teddy replied with a shrug. "Been like that since before I started here."

"Why do you think?" Teddy had been here longer, and Ender needed to know what he was up against.

Dealing with. It wasn't a fight.

"They're small and can get places easily," Teddy suggested. "Because there's magical than would probably fry technology around here."

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