fandomhigh | Cultural Appreciation, Week X [Wednesday, Periods 4 & 5]

The portal today would spit the students out somewhere warm and sunny: the Magic Kingdom. "If the radio is to be believed, a day away from campus and the chance to run-off some energy is exactly what you all need," Ghanima announced. "I've got sunscreen and waterbottles for all of you, and if park security catches you causing trouble, I will be most displeased. Do not try to disassemble the animatronic creatures."

With this group, sometimes it needed to be said.

"The Walt Disney World Resort, sometimes shortened to Walt Disney World or Disney World, is the world's largest and most visited recreational resort, covering a 30,080-acre (47.00 sq mi; 121.7 km2) area just southwest of Orlando, Florida, USA and encompassing four theme parks, two water parks, 23 on-site themed resort hotels (excluding 8 that are on-site, but not owned by the Walt Disney Company), including a campground, two health spas and fitness centers, and other recreational venues and entertainment. It opened on October 1, 1971 with only the Magic Kingdom theme park and has since added Epcot, Disney's Hollywood Studios and Disney's Animal Kingdom theme park. This world famous resort was inspired by the dreams of Walt Disney and his creation of Disneyland in California. Its original theme park, Magic Kingdom, is designed similarly to Disneyland. Walt Disney created "Disney World" in order to have a vacation resort that was much different from Disneyland's one-day visit; this includes a much wider variety of sports, recreation, uniquely-themed resort hotels and entertainment."

"There are several anecdotes relating to reasons for some of the features of Walt Disney World, and Magic Kingdom specifically. According to one story, Walt Disney once saw a Frontierland cowboy walking through Tomorrowland at Disneyland. He disliked how the cowboy intruded on the futuristic setting of Tomorrowland and wanted to avoid situations like this in the new park. Therefore, Magic Kingdom was built over a series of tunnels called utilidors, a blend of utility and corridor. These tunnels allow employees to move through the park out of sight from guests, maintaining the illusion of the show. Because of Florida's high water table, the tunnels could not be put underground, so they were built at the existing grade. This means that the park is actually built on the second story, giving Magic Kingdom an elevation of 107 feet, or 33 m. The area around the utilidors was filled in with dirt removed from the Seven Seas Lagoon, which was being constructed at the same time. The utilidors were built in the initial construction and were not extended as the park expanded. The tunnels were only used in Magic Kingdom because of financial constraints, but they were meant to be employed in all subsequent Walt Disney World parks. Epcot's Future World and Pleasure Island each have a smaller network of utilidors."

"Now go run around and have some fun. Your homework is to watch a movie sometime this week done by Disney, to understand the impact one man's dream has had on the culture of a nation."

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Nails? Oh, nails she could do.

"Well, for one thing, I'm not supposed to have my Virgin Night until I'm twenty," Karla bitched, spreading her fingers a bit. "I've pretty much decided I'm not going to wait that long--" Darkness, she was starting to think she'd be lucky if she lasted past this week "--but it's a big change, going from thinking about sixteen as being too young for almost anything to being ready for everything."

She shrugged a bit. "Some other factors, too. I had a 'funny uncle.' He wasn't a circus clown." And on that note, Karla snapped her mouth shut so fast she nearly bit her tongue.

Effy slid a glance at the other girl's sudden clam up, and only briefly paused before, "I was fourteen. Could be more fucked up from that." Not much more, but... "Times you're glad you don't remember things." Too much honesty. Far too much honesty.

There was a moment where she twisted her lips, mild irritation at her inability to filter making her tense a little.

"Sixteen's fine."

"There's more to it than just age."

Suddenly, it felt like there were four other hands, rubbing the lotion into Effy's back. They were there only for a few seconds before they were gone again. "I'm a witch. If my Virgin Night doesn't go well, I can break my own inner web; sever my connection to my magic. I need an experienced male, one I can trust to can guide me through. Make it good. Keep me safe."

She huffed a breath of wry amusement. Yeah, that sure hadn't been her experience. Managed to keep herself from spouting tales of the two days she'd spend in hospital after that night, at least.

Concentrating on the... (multiple?) hands on her back actually helped in keeping her mouth shut, funnily enough. Or at least made her have to think about her words more carefully.

"Sounds nice." Actually, it did. "In a really fucking bizarre sort of way." Because it was that too. "They do classifieds for that?"

"Back home, my parents or my mother's Steward would chose for me. If any of them were still alive."

Awesome. Compulsive truth-teller and a downer. This conversation would suck if it didn't come with the added benefit of her hands all over Effy's back.

Thank the Darkness she didn't say that out loud.

"Now it would be up to my adopted uncle. If I wasn't going to make a choice here. Except my boyfriend's a virgin and that makes things difficult."

"Virgin, doesn't exactly scream capable and good, does it?" Usually didn't, from what she'd seen. That sort of hassle almost-- okay, no it didn't make her appreciate her getting it out the way early. But it was the sort of thing she might say to brush it off.

"That's... going to be a shitty conversation sometime." Unless she chose to risk it with the guy she was actually into.

Couple of moments and she turned without really bothering to warn Karla. Probably left her hands on her. When something so small could feel like this, it was worth not caring that she had a girl she didn't really know that well's hands all over her. "Your turn?"

"Already sorta has been," she remarked. "And that was when we were just talking in hypotheticals."

Karla was good with the few moments of quiet; at least she wasn't embarrassing herself by babbling more. But she was taken by surprise when Effy moved,her hands sliding along, leaving streaks of lotion onto her belly.

"Sounds good," she said, unbuttoning her shirt to reveal the tank top below. Hopefully Effy wouldn't mind how creepy-thin she was beneath her shirt.

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