BWI Airport | Portalocity Lounge | Saturday Morning

[wasthecuteone]

Petra was so relieved to find the Portalocity lounge and a banner proclaiming 'Fandom High.' She was pretty sure that meant she was in the right place, even if she did seem to be the first one here, and it meant she could sit down and stop dragging her luggage (two large, new-looking suitcases and an extremely battered green leather overnight case with an Audrey Hepburn decal on top) all over the airport.

She picked out a chair with a good view of the door so she could see new arrivals and sat down with Holly Go-Overnightly in her lap, then pulled her phone out. All her friends were still asleep, no doubt, so texting was out, but surfing the web seemed like a good way to kill some time while she waited for other people to show up. She hoped she wasn't the only new student. That would be awkward.

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Re: Wait for the Shuttle!

[perilless.livejournal.com]

Any pretense Rosella was trying to hold of being proper fell away exquisitely with a snort; a question like that was not only ridiculous, but it also helped ease any suspicion that Valanice had sent this girl as a spy. Valanice did not have that good of a sense of humor.

"Heavens, no!" said Rosella. "Alexander a member of a church! I can't even fathom it, though he does have a good enough soul for it. No, I do not recall a Cesare among his small list of friends, and if your brother has not attended the school, then there is little chance Alexander would know of him, but I would not."

This news pleased her. If she hadn't heard of this Cesare before and he'd never been on the island, then this girl has probably never even crossed her mother's path. Which meant that an introduction was overdue.

"Oh," she gave a short sigh as if to officially shuck off her formality, "but who cares about our brothers? They are not here, but we are, so we should concern ourselves with that. My name is Rosella, of Daventry. What's yours?"

Re: Wait for the Shuttle!

[holy-daughter.livejournal.com]

"Lucrezia Borgia, of Rome," she said brightly. "I'm unfamiliar with Daventry, I'm afraid, but I don't know all of the city-states. My brother married the Duchess of Squillace, so Squillace must be somewhere in Naples, but he confessed to me before his wedding that he didn't know exactly where it was, either."

Lucrezia was unsure if Sancha herself knew. Sancha did not seem concerned with trivialities like that.

Re: Wait for the Shuttle!

[perilless.livejournal.com]

Rosella was fighting desperately not to giggle at Squillace, but it was proving to be quite difficult. "I will certainly not hold your unfamiliarity with Daventry against you," she vowed once she managed to get her face under control, "so long as you don't hold it against me that I am unfamiliar with Rome. But I have discovered recently that the world is far larger than we could ever comprehend, so I'm not astounded at all to learn of such new places. As a matter of fact, my brother married the princess of the Land of the Green Isles, and he couldn't even find that place until just about a week ago!"

Re: Wait for the Shuttle!

[holy-daughter.livejournal.com]

Lucrezia didn't mean to stare at her new friend, but she couldn't help it.

"Unfamiliar with Rome?" she asked. "But it is the center of the Empire, and the seat of our Holy Mother Church."

If Rosella hadn't heard of Rome, then ... must she not know of those, either? The papacy itself? How could one have never heard of either?

She cleared her throat and hoped to recover herself.

"Daventry must be further even than I had imagined," she said, shaking her head quickly. "Forgive my lack of composure. They're still discovering new continents on this world. We shall be neighbors from afar, that is all."

Re: Wait for the Shuttle!

[perilless.livejournal.com]

Really, Rosella wasn't too terribly surprised about the reaction from her friend, and she smiled lightly, impassively, to show that she wasn't at all offended and she was even being good about not bragging about her exposure to the concepts of multiverses and different worlds and all that fun stuff.

Not yet, anyway.

"Not at all," she assured Lucrezia. "I imagine it's quite far, indeed! It practically seems as though it's in a whole 'nother world from this one!"

Re: Wait for the Shuttle!

[holy-daughter.livejournal.com]

"Tell me more of this Daventry," she implored. "How do you live, what are your cities like, how do you worship?"

She seemed fair to be Moorish. There were isolated pockets of older pagan faiths, were there not?

Re: Wait for the Shuttle!

[perilless.livejournal.com]

"Oh, Daventry is a very quiet little country," Rosella said with a fond smile, "much smaller than anything you'll see here. But it is fair and beautiful, and I shall be proud to rule it one day and make it even better. Despite all my complaints, there really is no lack of adventure there, either in Daventry proper or any of our many surrounding neighbors."

The worship question, Rosella realized she didn't quite know how to answer, and so she just politely passed over it. "And what of Rome? Do you suppose you shall miss it?"