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

Throughout the lawn, tables and chairs had been set up and scattered, some out in the bright, sunny center of everything, and some in the darker, more remote areas.

Eat up, folks! Don't let that food go to waste!

[OCD up! This is the picnic post for general mingling. Roommates, fake siblings and teachers are all here. Since it's outside, the picnic is open to all students, teachers, and townies!]

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Anders still wasn't sure to make of the place, but the people seemed friendly enough and there were no templars thus far, so he'd stay as long as it seemed safe.

Also, the food was much better than what they gave him in the Circle. He heaped his plate happily.

Well, if Andros was going to attempt to talk to people, the guy whose name he'd almost hijacked was as good a place to start as any, right?

"Hi," Andros said tentatively. "I almost wound up with your nametag, sorry."

"You know, I looked at yours too," Anders admitted with a little laugh. "What are the odds there would be two of us with names only one letter apart?"

Not that Anders was exactly his real name, but he had no intention of bringing that up.

"And it's not like it's a large group!" Andros exclaimed. "This could get confusing, if we're in any of the same classes."

"Classes?" Anders repeated, momentarily derailed from the topic of their almost-shared name. "I -- well, I suppose it makes sense. If this is school there should be classes. But I hadn't thought that far."

"I'm just assuming there'll be classes," Andros admitted. "I don't really know how they do things here. It could be all...computers or something. Self-directed learning." He shrugged. He knew practically nothing about this world.

"I guess we'll both find out," Anders said. He had no idea what a computer was, but he'd heard so many words he didn't understand that they were all blending together. "I've got no idea how they do things here either, but it's bound to be better than where I was."

"Is it the war?" Andros asked, sympathetic. "We had to evacuate, at home."

"No, luckily we aren't at war right now," Anders said, in a tone that suggested that was temporary. "I, er, came to a parting of the ways with the Circle of Magi."

"Oh," Andros said. "Is that good?" He didn't know what it was, so he really couldn't say.

"For me, very good," Anders answered. "We'd never see a feast like this in the Circle, not even on Summerday. I've been on plain meat and bread for years, can you imagine?"

"No," Andros admitted, "I'm afraid I can't. At home we have Synthetrons; they can make whatever you want, if you program them right."

Anders squinted at him. "What is that, like a personal chef?"

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Well, here was another cute new guy! Isabelle lived for cute new guys today, so sidle on up to him she did.

"Hello there."

"Hello to you, too," Anders said, smiling at the girl. "I'm Anders, and I'm very very new. Are you?"

"I'm Isabelle, and I'm not new at all." She'd barely been new at her own newbie picnic, thanks to family connections. "But I promise I won't hold being new against you."

"That sounds like a set-up for me to ask what you would hold against me," Anders replied. "Or is it too soon?"

Isabelle smirked at him. Because of course she did. It was in her nature.

"It's not too soon to ask, but it might be too public a place for me to answer."

"I suppose that's a reasonable point," Anders sighed. "We'll have to talk about something else, then. Like ... the weather's very pleasant."

"It's fine, but it could be better," she mused, shrugging one shoulder. "I've only seen just the one shirtless person around."

Thanks, Cade.

"Too bad," Anders said, glancing around until he found Cade and giving him an appreciative once-over once he had. "Are there usually more people walking around half-dressed?"

"Sadly, not more than what's typical for this time period." Even Isabelle's own clothes were pretty modest, for once. "In fact, I should make a note of having a beach party when it gets a little warmer. That seems like it'd encourage people to shed some more fabric."

"The fellow driving the bus -- Skywalker? -- said it would get humid," Anders said absently. "Which I suppose means I'll have to find some coins to buy new clothes with, or turn to stealing. This robe isn't designed with the heat in mind."

"I would recommend buying." Not that she was really morally against stealing. Didn't really bother her when Flick did it, except that one time he almost got killed by a demon for doing it. "And yes, you'll definitely need new clothes."

"Buying's better when you're trying to avoid trouble," Anders admitted. "So that's something for me to do as soon as I find some way to make money."

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