fandomhigh | Fandom High Welcome Picnic, Front Lawn of the School, All Day: Part I

When the planning for the new semester had started, no one had really noticed that the welcome picnic would coincide with Cinco de Mayo. When the food arrived and all of it, including the desserts, had somehow ended up as a variety of Mexican food, well, it was a little too late to change anything.

Hopefully, the wandering mariachi band that had shown up wouldn't throw anyone either. It was a festive day of new arrivals, after all.

The blue and gold tables and chairs had been set out, along with nametags and the lists of Big and Little Siblings, and rooms and roommates for the new students. Assuming the shuttle arrived with all of the students and teachers in one piece, everything was set for the picnic to begin!

[OCD is up, have at it! This is part one of the picnic, specifically for meeting siblings, roommates, and teachers. The rest of the picnic is happening here and here, in an effort to keep browsers from breaking for as long as possible. Since it's outside, the picnic is open to all students, teachers, and townies!]

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Sholeh's sisters would be apologizing for her right now if they could talk to you Simon. They really would. They were kind of used doing that.

"A monkey? How long were you a monkey for? Was it fun? What did you eat? I've read about monkeys before, but I've never seen one! How did you--"

=Relax, kiddo,= Zeela said. =Let him do some of the talking.=

::But--so many questions--::

*We'll be here long enough to answer some of them,* Zhahar chided, leaving off the 'I hope.' *Breathe. Stop haranguing this new brother of...ours.*

=Who wants to tell Morragen she's related to a one-face now?= Zeela snickered.

Sholeh hunched a little at the rebuke, gentle as it was. "I think I'm talking too much," she mumbled at him. "Sorry. I do that."

"It's okay," Simon assured her with another quick, wry smile. "It's... Curiosity happens a lot, here. And there's a lot I can't really explain. Fandom is..."

He had to search for a way to put it, for a moment.

"It –– it's something you have to experience to believe."

"Is it okay that I don't entirely believe you?" Sholeh checked. "I mean...I've never heard of people turning into animals before."

Simon seemed sincere enough. And Sholeh would certainly admit she didn't know everything. But it was kind of outlandish.

On the other hand, this was a whole new landscape where they didn't even know what Ephemera was. Maybe that was normal for this landscape? Or something?

"What else do you think I should know?"

Sorry again, Simon. Even when she was trying not to ask questions, Sholeh ended up asking questions.

Simon was fine with individual questions, honest. It was just the barrage thing that made him a little dizzy.

"Well, not believing me is natural," he said, because it was. He would've found it more unsettling if she'd just taken everything at face value. "Uh, the... technology might differ from what you're used to. Culture, too. Although there are many different ones present, because Fandom is an, a nexus between different dimensions and worlds."

"Heh, nothing here is like what I'm used to," Sholeh said with a small, self-conscious chuckle. "But I expected that."

To some extent, anyway. She'd barely gotten here and it was already far exceeding the amount of adjustment she'd expected to have to make. Please see Ephemera, ignorance of and Animals, transforming into.

"Just one more question?" Ha! Best of luck with that, Simon. "What are different dimensions?"

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