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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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"Everything was pretty weird to me when I got here," Kaylin admitted. "Like the electricity and all. But mostly it's things like fish falling from the sky and boys turning into girls or waking up thinking you're someone entirely different."

Poor Evie, this was not going to convince her at all that it wasn't an asylum for crazy people.

"But unlimited hot water? That's pretty amazing!"

Evie wasn't as thrown by Kaylin's admission about electricity and running water as others might have been. She might have grown up wealthy, but the plantation workers that had been hired every year for the sugarcane had all been from the Basin, the Cajun parish next to Sterling. Many of their homes lacked electricity and running water, too.

But the rest of it...

"Oh," Evie said, putting on her best 'humoring the crazy' smile. "Right. Because those things absolutely happen. Sure. And what dosage of meds have they prescribed for you?"

Look, Evie wasn't going to point fingers at other people having delusions. But at least she wasn't going around trying to convince other people they were real.

"Dosage of meds?" Kaylin asked. "I... have no idea what that means."

Evie looked amused, though.

"Oh, some kind of joke? I'm not always good with jokes here. No cultural references, you know? I probably should have said that I'm not from around here. Or even from this world, actually. A lot of people here aren't."

"Oooookay," Evie said, smiling and nodding. "That explains it. You're not from this world. I should have picked up on that from the beginning, you know?"

No, seriously, Dr. Tanner had said this was like a halfway house, for people who were almost ready to be reintegrated into society. This girl? So not ready for reintegration.

"Is there where the bruises came from? Are there fights between the Earth-people and the not-Earth-people? Aliens against Earthlings? That kind of thing?"

Kaylin blinked at her. "No... Nobody here fights anybody else. Not unless there's like an invasion or something and then everyone works together to stop it. I got these bruises back home. My sergeant felt I'd been slacking off all summer so he tried to fit a whole summer's training into the week I was there."

There was something odd here. The girl seemed just fine with the strangeness Kaylin mentioned, but at the same time she seemed to be - well, not quite rolling her eyes, but...

No, no., you were right! There was definitely some eye rolling going on. It was just all internal. What Kaylin was seeing was Evie 'humoring the crazy.'

Don't worry, Kaylin. Vengeance would be sweet once Evie realized what the island was really like.

"Oh? Who invades?" Why was she still asking questions? It was like poking at a scab: bad for you but compelling all the same. "More aliens? Angry foreign soldiers? Giant monsters from another dimension? I need to be prepared, you know?"

"I'm not sure you can be prepared," Kaylin said thoughtfully. "It always seems to be different. This last time it was some sort of insane carnival thing. Which was stopped by hugging people."

Yes, that was guaranteed to make Evie believe on you. Oh yes.

No, actually, Evie could interpret that into something normal. Well, normal for clinics and whatnot.

"You mean the school had some kind of carnival to introduce hug therapy?" She didn't understand the correlation, but it sounded something New Agey enough to be almost plausible. "That's not a thing here, is it? Hugging during group or whatever?"

"Hugging? No. I've only been hugged a few times that I can remember," Kaylin admitted, "And generally I'm happier if people don't randomly touch me."

Less likely that someone would get kicked in a sensitive place, that way.

"I knew a couple of people like that back in the ward," Evie said with a nod. "Look, can we get past the part where you try to hoax me and get to the actual information about the school? You can go back to your friends and laugh about the good hazing you gave the new girl, but come on. I'm crazy, not stupid."

"The ward?" Kaylin said blankly. "I don't know -"

She shook her head. "I am giving you information about the school, even if you choose not to believe me. You can ask any of the others. But it is a very different place. Are there questions you would like to ask me?"

Right. Because there has never been a group of students who worked together to have incoming kids before. Suuuuure, Kaylin.

"Okay, who are the hardest teachers to have?" Evie asked. "How's our school sports record? Is there a cheerleading team? Who's the head coach? How good is the wifi here--ugh, we have wifi, right? How's the cafeteria food?"

You know, the important questions about school.

Kaylin considered. "Professor Hannibal is a very strict teacher, but fair. Professor Skywalker can be rather grumpy, but he lets us do fun stuff. I've only been here this summer, so I haven't taken classes with a lot of them, but most of them seem all right as far as teachers go."

The next part she had to think harder about. "I'm not sure what a sports record is or what a cheerleader is, so I can't help you there. Wifi? Is that the internets thing? We have that. And the food? Is probably the best part of this place. There's so much and most of it I'd never had before and it's all good - though not as good as Professor Hannibal's food. Just wait till you try the stuff at the picnic!"

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