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

[bigdamnprincipal]

Yes, there were even more tents on the other side of the lawn.

Yes, the tables and chairs that had been set up there were still close to the ice cream.

Priorities are very important here at Fandom High.

[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 2009-2]

[endsthegame]

"Having fun yet?"

Ah, the dulcet tones of someone being utterly laconic about something.

Re: More General Mingling [Summer 2009-2]

[a-demosthenes.livejournal.com]

It was music to Valentine's ears, and she gave her little brother a small smile.

"I might be," she said, keeping up with her trend today of being vague. "There's ice cream. You? Chatting it up, I'm sure?"

Re: More General Mingling [Summer 2009-2]

[endsthegame]

"Sure," Ender agreed, neutrally, and glanced across the crowds. "Have you met Layla?"

Re: More General Mingling [Summer 2009-2]

[a-demosthenes.livejournal.com]

"I haven't really met any of the new kids," Valentine admitted, and tilted her head at Ender.

"Should I meet Layla?"

Re: More General Mingling [Summer 2009-2]

[endsthegame]

"I don't know," he said, equally laconically, and glanced back at Valentine. "She 'knows stuff'," his tone was light, like it was a joke, "Thought the two of you might have a fun time arguing about who knows more."

Re: More General Mingling [Summer 2009-2]

[a-demosthenes.livejournal.com]

Despite herself, Valentine grinned vaguely. "Me?" she asked. "I don't know what you're talking about; I don't know anything more than what your other average seventeen year old would."

Really.

Re: More General Mingling [Summer 2009-2]

[endsthegame]

He could've gone the straightforward path and asked her to evaluate the girl, but he wouldn't be Ender if he did. Not if he felt that wouldn't net him better results.

"Yes. My sister, the mental midget."

Re: More General Mingling [Summer 2009-2]

[a-demosthenes.livejournal.com]

As if he even needed to. As if at least fifty plans for finding out exactly what 'stuff' this Layla Miller knew weren't already hatching in Valentine's head from the moment Ender mentioned her.

"Be fair," she said. "Not a mental midget. Just a mental average height person."

Re: More General Mingling [Summer 2009-2]

[endsthegame]

Which meant his tactics were succesful as per usual. Not that she was that unpredictable, in this. "Average height, average weight, average grades," he said, "I see."