BWI Airport, Portalocity Lounge

[sciclone]

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.

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Re: Wait for the Shuttle

[sciclone]

So, Cosima could kind of make sense of the outfit as a religious thing, but then you threw in the facemask and the missing digits and ... there was really only one thing she could say.

"Hey, are you headed to the school? And that's about the best cosplay I have ever seen."

It wasn't a look Cosima would go for, and she couldn't quite place the fandom, but who was she to judge other people's hobbies? Besides, the brochure had said Fandom was supposed to be for weird smart kids; it made sense to her there'd be at least one person dorky enough to fly in dressed for Comic-con.

Re: Wait for the Shuttle

[goforthe_optics]

"I am. You're waiting for the shuttle too?"

Her translator program was a little stuck on the word 'cosplay,' and Tali was taking it as a compliment on her outfit in general. "Thanks," she said, nodding over at Cosima. "Wait. Does that mean you've met other quarians before?"

[OOC: Must go AFK for the next couple of hours, I'm afraid! Will pick up when I get home.]

Re: Wait for the Shuttle

[sciclone]

"A couple, sure," Cosima lied through her teeth, because she didn't want to admit she didn't know what a quarian was. She could always Google it later. "From that Galaxy Quest revival, right?"

Re: Wait for the Shuttle

[goforthe_optics]

"I'm not familiar with that vid," Tali said, wondering if she'd guessed wrong. "Fleet and Flotilla, though, have you seen that one? Do they even get that here?"

Wow, she hoped so. She'd better be able to get her soap opera fix somehow.

Re: Wait for the Shuttle

[sciclone]

"I haven't heard of it," Cosima admitted. "What's it about?"

Re: Wait for the Shuttle

[goforthe_optics]

Oh, Cosima, don't open that can of worms.

"It's my favorite vid ever," Tali said enthusiastically. "My friends and I used to watch it at slumber parties all the time when we were kids. Bellicus is in love with Shalei, but he's an officer in the turian military, and she has her obligations to the Fleet, and they think it means they can't ever really be together . . ."

It was even cheesier than that made it sound.

Re: Wait for the Shuttle

[sciclone]

Okay, wow, this girl was really into the show. Like really into it. Cosima wasn't about to wreck that by saying it sounded cheesy.

"Do they end up together in the end?" she asked. "I mean, they kind of have to.It'snot a good story if they don't."