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

The nice thing about the fall welcome picnics was that, well, they didn't typically happen in the fall. It was definitely still summer in Fandom, with sunny skies and a light breeze blowing through the front lawn of the school. Folks had gotten up bright and early to make sure there were plenty of tables, chairs, and blue and gold streamers to decorate the picnic area.

And glitter. So much glitter for the new folks to learn to love.

Getting the food out was the finishing touch, and then everything was ready for the new (and not-so-new) arrivals!

[This is part one of the picnic, specifically for meeting siblings, roommates and teachers. The rest of the picnic is happening here! Since it's outside, the picnic is open to all students, teachers, and townies!]

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Face would definitely use the word backwards when he found out about the wheels. Who used wheels any more?

"I'm sure it's not that boring," Face said. "I mean, Lorrd's pretty out of the way. Quiet." Very few Imperials.

"How'd you end up all the way here?" Travis asked curiously. "I didn't realize schools were stretching their recruiting muscles that far."

"You know how it is, tool around on the holonet, see an advert." Figure it'd be a good place to lie even lower while faking your death. "The usual thing. How about you?"

"Needed a change of surroundings." Somewhere no one knew him or what his scar was and where no one was sending him incredibly uncomfortable fan mail. "If I have to go to school, might as well be somewhere nice."

Face had found that being dead had drastically reduced the weird fanmail he got...meddages from his folks suggested they weren't so lucky.

"Well it is a nice school," he said. "...is it normal for schools on this planet to be castles?"

"Pretty sure...no, it's not normal," he said, squinting up at the castle. "I mean, some boarding schools have some big buildings but I've never seen anything like this. Someone's gotta be loaded around here."

"Even loaded people where I'm from don't live in castles," Face said. "Very nice houses and apartments, but not castles. Unless they're royal or something."

"Maybe that's the reason?" Travis honestly didn't know. He shrugged. "Maybe there's a prince or a princess or a duchess or something around here? I don't know what sense that makes for someone like that to be here but not much about this is making sense to me."

Well, there was a former child-actor, but Face didn't think that rated a castle, healthy self-esteem or no. "There's nothing for it, we'll have to find them," he declared. "If they exist."

"And do what with them?" Travis wondered, snickering a bit. "Ask them to adopt us into their presumably rich and royal family?"

"It'd be a start," Face said. "I'm sure we could find a good use for that money."

"You're not wrong," Travis said, stroking his chin. "My family's got some debt we could afford to pay off. Of course, I'm sure they'd be a little angry if, to do that, I was adopted into another family but trade offs."

"Just frame it as them gaining a...whoever instead of losing a son," Face suggested. "They'll come around."

"Maybe." Travis doubted it though, not after everything that had happened. "Or I'd make my mother cry and feel awful for the rest of my life."

"Well, that is a downside, yes," Face said. "I never claimed my plan was flawless."

"Still not a bad plan," Travis said assuredly. Not that he think said plan would ever come to fruition but still. "Maybe this hypothetical royal would just us and hand us a stack of money."

"We could just charm it out of them?" Face could be pretty charming if you asked him and a legion of teenage girls.

Travis thought about that for a second before he snickered and crossed his arms.

"Well, one out of every sixteen million people would describe me as charming," Travis said, making a joke at his own expense. "Of course, that one person is probably my friend Hatton and the other sixteen million people are probably actually right."

"You just need someone to show you the way," Face said, going to clap a hand on Travis's shoulder. "And I know just the person to do so."

Spoiler. He meant him.

"And you know someone who would help a hapless person like me?"

Travis had a guess who Face meant. He'd probably bet a million dollars that he didn't have that he knew the answer.

"I do," Face told him confidently. "He's witty, charming, handsome...modest."

"Oh yeah?" Travis made a show of looking around the lawn. "Point him or her out to me?"

You wounded him, Travis, wounded. For that you didn't get any autographed holos.

"That's what I like about you, Travis," Face said. "Your sense of humour."

"It is one of my better qualities," Travis said, shrugging. "Thanks for noticing, Face."

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