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

[bigdamnprincipal]

Yes, there were more tables and chairs here. No, they were not allowed to be used for making a bonfire. Eat something hot if you're still weirdly cold.

[OCD is up! This is the SECOND post for general mingling. Use this post if your browser can't handle the comment load of the first mingling post. Roommates, fake siblings and teachers are here.]

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Re: More General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[notyourpawn.livejournal.com]

Alice noticed the girl's clothing -- more similar to her own era than most of what she had seen, and more what she was used to than what she herself was wearing, for that matter. She walked over and dropped a very proper curtsy, which was somewhat difficult while wearing jeans.

"Hello," Alice said. "Are you a new student here?"

Re: More General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[not-that-gentle.livejournal.com]

Susan ducked her own head before looking up, smiling. "I am. My name is Susan. A pleasure to meet you, lady."

Re: More General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[notyourpawn.livejournal.com]

"I'm afraid I'm not a Lady," Alice said, misunderstanding the connotation and flushing slightly. "Just Alice. I'm pleased to make your acquaintance, as well. Forgive me, but ... has anyone asked you yet what ... year believe it to be?"

Re: More General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[not-that-gentle.livejournal.com]

"It's 2008," Susan supplied easily, smiling slightly. "My brother just graduated from this school. I've been warned."

Re: More General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[notyourpawn.livejournal.com]

"Oh, I see," Alice nodded, smiling in relief. "My Fandom-assigned sibling had to inform me that it wasn't 1873, and I'm afraid I didn't quite believe him, at first. Though it explained the strange garb."

She gestured slightly to her not-terribly-Victorian outfit. "I've adapted," she explained. "Might I ask who your brother is?"

Re: More General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[not-that-gentle.livejournal.com]

"Peter Pevensie," she replied, "though my younger brother Edmund is here as well. To be honest, I was born in 1928, but we traveled to a world not much like this one at all -- Narnia. So a convergence of worlds like this is not unusual to me at all."

Re: More General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[notyourpawn.livejournal.com]

"I don't believe I've met either, I'm afraid," she admitted.

From the past, travelling to a far different world ... Perhaps Alice could be forgiven her unusual question.

"Did you by chance fall down a rabbit-hole?"

Re: More General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[not-that-gentle.livejournal.com]

Susan, to her credit, did not stare overmuch. "Not that I'm aware," she replied carefully. "...should I have? We came via the woods."

Re: More General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[notyourpawn.livejournal.com]

"I mean to get to Narnia," she explained. "I found Wonderland when I chased a rabbit into a hole. I thought perhaps this was a standard way of finding new and unusual worlds, ones that are hiding just out of plain sight."

Re: More General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[not-that-gentle.livejournal.com]

"Actually," Susan admitted, flushing slightly, "we climbed through a wardrobe. I'm not sure which one sounds more mad when admitted aloud."

Re: More General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[notyourpawn.livejournal.com]

"A wardrobe," Alice said, considering it. "It makes one wonder if there are all sorts of worlds waiting just behind every tree and rock."

She waved the rest of it off blithely. "Oh, I'm not quite so concerned about that. I'm not mad any longer."

Thoroughly reassuring statement, right there.