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fandomhigh2015-05-01 03:22 pm
sciclone) wrote in fandomhigh2015-05-01 03:22 pm
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BWI Airport, Portalocity Lounge
So ... this was the East coast, huh?
Cosima wasn't sure what she had expected to see, and the bland nothing of an airport lounge wasn't giving her much of an impression of her new home yet. She felt a sudden twist of worry mixed with homesickness. Maybe she shouldn't have obeyed the impulsiveness that had led her to transfer to some tiny boarding school thousands of miles from home. Not that San Francisco was doing anything great for her lately, but at least she knew people there.
If she looked at it logically, she knew not to let her nerves wreck the experience. School would be fine, and if it wasn't, she could go home at the end of the summer -- or even sooner if she wanted. But logic wasn't the easiest thing to have when you were 16 and alone in a strange airport.
She lounged in a hard airport chair, earbuds in, and poked at her phone until she found a new science podcast to listen to. It was comforting.
Cosima wasn't sure what she had expected to see, and the bland nothing of an airport lounge wasn't giving her much of an impression of her new home yet. She felt a sudden twist of worry mixed with homesickness. Maybe she shouldn't have obeyed the impulsiveness that had led her to transfer to some tiny boarding school thousands of miles from home. Not that San Francisco was doing anything great for her lately, but at least she knew people there.
If she looked at it logically, she knew not to let her nerves wreck the experience. School would be fine, and if it wasn't, she could go home at the end of the summer -- or even sooner if she wanted. But logic wasn't the easiest thing to have when you were 16 and alone in a strange airport.
She lounged in a hard airport chair, earbuds in, and poked at her phone until she found a new science podcast to listen to. It was comforting.
Re: The Trip to Fandom!
"I'm ready!" she said, stuffing her suitcase into the luge hold. "Could we walk if we had to? I mean, not that I'm going to because bus, but how far is it?"
Re: The Trip to Fandom!
"Far enough that you really don't want to." She was better at reckoning distances from maps than from driving times. "More than a few leagues."
Re: The Trip to Fandom!
"I thought leagues were archaic," Cosima remarked. "You know, like fortnights or cubits."
Re: The Trip to Fandom!
"Why would anyone use cubits? Unless everyone has the same length arm where you come from."