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

There was the bonfire for everyone who thought Maryland in January was a little too cool for their taste, as well as the ~~moddable~~ warm food and drinks, and chairs and tables in the school colors of blue and gold. Some tables were also set a little further away from the crowds.

Because there were always people who preferred the fringes.

[OCD up! This is the FIRST post for general mingling. Please use this post first, if your browser can handle the comment load. Roommates, fake siblings and teachers are all here and there's more room for mingling here. Since it's outside, the picnic is open to all students, teachers, and townies!]

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"It sounds beautiful," Arietty said. "I've only been to a few places in London and here."

"I love it," Mercy said honestly. "But I can't ever go back."

Arietty frowned. "Are you stuck here, too?"

Mercy shook her head. "No. I was just... I got," kicked out "sent away and pretty much told I couldn't come back. My 'home' is with my mom and her new family now, but it's really different."

"Oh." Arietty tilted her head. "Something like that happened to my dad once. Well, he kicked himself out, really, but that's why I grew up under a clock. Where does your mom live now?"

"Portland, Oregon," Mercy said. "Wetter and not as cold. And it's a city, so there's not as much open or wild space. It's, well, it's technically where I live now, but it's not really home."

"I know what you mean," Arietty said. "This place is where I am now, but home'll always be under the clock with Mum and Dad."

Mercy nodded. "This feels more like home than my mom's, but I kind of have the feeling that I'll end up making my own home somewhere. A place that's more mine."

"With lots of big spaces to run around in," Arietty guessed. "And snow."

Mercy nodded grinning at the idea. "Yeah, exactly. But also somewhere that gets hot. I like that too. And somewhere I can just be who I am without anyone else's expectations pushing at me too much."

She was a teenager, she didn't quite realize yet that she'd always be dealing with that in one way or another.

"I wish I could show you the Underground," Arietty said. "I mean, it's not wide open, especially not for someone as big as you, but no one looks at me too funny there at all. Everyone's really nice."

It helped that her father had managed to save the entire community, yes.

"I'd love to see it," Mercy said. "You must miss being with people your own size who are all really nice to you."

"Mostly I miss Mum and Dad," Arietty said. "It was hard not getting to go home for Borrowing Season."

"I understand," Mercy said. "I still really miss my foster mom and dad. What's Borrowing Season?"

"Beans usually call it Christmas. You all get together and sing and there's usually lots of leftover food and things for us Borrowers."

"Oh, yeah, that makes sense, I guess," Mercy said. "There's always more than anyone can eat around the holidays. I'm sorry you couldn't get home for that."

"I'll figure it out eventually. There was a weird hole that dumped me here, there must be one that goes the other way, somewhere."

"Portalocity doesn't work for you?" Mercy asked. "Or is it that you don't know the destination? But yeah, there must be another one that will take you home somewhere."

"What's Portalocity?"

"It's an agency that arranges, well, portals to different worlds and times. It's how a lot of the people here get back and forth to their homes," Mercy explained.

Arietty's eyes went wide and she shook her head. "You beans think of everything!"

"Well, there's an awful lot of us," Mercy said with a grin, "so..."

"I never really thought of it, that way.'

"The more people you've got, the more ideas they come up with it seems," Mercy said with a smile.

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