BWI Airport, Portalocity Port, Saturday Morning

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

Timing had worked in Bruce's favor this morning. After a long overnight flight from Japan, he was really early for the shuttle to Fandom. That was according to plan. This way he'd get to see how people came into the room marked "Fandom High," whether they were nervous, or excited, or annoyed at the very thought of having to go to school.

Those first impressions didn't necessarily mean anything, but Bruce felt they often gave a good insight into how his new classmates would react in a stressful situation. You never knew when that kind of thing might come in handy.

[OOC: OCD is coming up!]

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Re: Waiting for the Shuttle

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"I suppose that makes sense," Bruce said. "I probably would have tested it, too. So that actually is some kind of portal to another place?"

Re: Waiting for the Shuttle

[gorka-wolf.livejournal.com]

"This is not Nokgorka, no?" she clarified, looking around, and there was just the slightest hint of an Chechen accent to her English. "Or anywhere else in the Commonwealth. I'm not sure where 'here' is, but you all sound like Transnats to me."

Re: Waiting for the Shuttle

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"I'm not sure what half of that meant," Bruce admitted. "But 'here' is Baltimore, a city in the United States. On the planet Earth." He decided to add that just in case.

Re: Waiting for the Shuttle

[gorka-wolf.livejournal.com]

Makita let loose with a slew of highly disgruntled-sounding Russian, which involved cursing a great many people, their mothers, an immortal or two, and magic in general.

"I do not know any 'United States,'" she admitted once she ran out of steam. "The Elders just informed me I was going to school, and this was my Gate, and here I am."

Re: Waiting for the Shuttle

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"But the planet Earth part makes sense to you?" Bruce checked. "That's... strange."

Re: Waiting for the Shuttle

[gorka-wolf.livejournal.com]

"Third planet from the sun, Milky Way, lots of people running around?" she clarified. "Yup, right planet."

Re: Waiting for the Shuttle

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

That's right," Bruce said. The options were that either she was lying - not terribly likely, considering the Russian cursing he managed to catch while she was yelling earlier. Or, considering that he had no clue where Nokgorka could possibly be and the presence of what was apparently a magical portal, it was theoretically possible that she was from an alternate world.

Which was odd.

"But you haven't heard of the country that effectively runs the world's economy. Is it possible that this is a different Earth than the one you know?"

Re: Waiting for the Shuttle

[gorka-wolf.livejournal.com]

Makita shook her head. "It's always been a fight for power between the Western Transnationalists and the Commonwealth, for as long as I can remember," she admitted. "Papa says - said - that the East is only now starting to take hold in the economy, mostly because the Reds are crumbling."

"So I'd say that it's more than possible." Makita groaned and let her head bounce back against the seat. "Stupid magic always makes things harder than they need to be. 'You've got orders, Makinoshka,' they said. 'School will be good for you two,' they said. Arg."

Re: Waiting for the Shuttle

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"Well, it could still be good. Just... confusing," Bruce said. "If it helps orient you at all, the United States is in the Western Hemisphere, north of the equator. Right now, we're on the Atlantic Coast."

"And it's an English-speaking country, as you've noticed."

Bruce brought the knowledge.

Re: Waiting for the Shuttle

[gorka-wolf.livejournal.com]

"The Atlantic?" Makita tilted her head to look at him. "I was right, you are all Transnats. Papa would be so disappointed in me; I've been abducted by Capitalists."

"Nokgorka is, ah," she pulled a nubby little pencil out of an inner coat pocket, and quickly sketched out a decent re-creation of the Eastern Hemisphere, sketching in a country to the South of what would be Russia for him. "There. That's Nokgorka."