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

The last picnic for new arrivals had involved a bonfire, but there was no need for artificial warmth today. The weather outside was sunny, and just breezy enough that no one would roast, hopefully. There were tables and chairs arranged around the lawn, along with a long table of food, drinks, and desserts for anyone who stopped by.

There were stacks of nametags for people to label themselves with, and lists to help folks find their siblings and roommates. With everything in order, it was time to welcome some new people!

[OCD is up! 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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"There's so many people here," she agreed, though it was hard to tell exactly what she was agreeing to. Alluka was like that sometimes. "I think I have classes, Jono said something about that."

But Jono had also been bleeding and mumbling about first aid, so Alluka hadn't really gotten everything he'd said.

"Is it hard to get used to school?"

"I'm not sure," Anders said honestly. "For me the bigger change was the technology. We don't have anything like it at home. I'd been in classes before."

He mulled it over, offered, "The first time I was ... away from home, I was so homesick and angry I didn't talk for weeks. You're already doing better than I was."

Oh. Oh, that sounded sad.

"Did you want to hug my bunny?"

Maybe that would make him feel better, even though he was clearly talking now.

"... yes." Anders hadn't expected the offer, but he'd accept it. He reached for the stuffed animal. "This was ages ago, though. I'd just gone 12. Missed my mum more than anything."

Out of curiosity, he asked Alluka, "How old are you?" The way she looked and the way she acted didn't quite match up.

Alluka tried to imagine missing her mother and didn't really know how to feel about that. Mother was complicated. So she ignored that thought and gave Anders her bunny instead, so he wouldn't be sad anymore.

She bounced on her toes. "I'm fourteen!"

"Oh, I thought you might be younger," Anders admitted. "Fourteen is an excellent age to be."

Not that he could map his kind of fourteen -- which had mainly been about yearning for this or that thing that he couldn't have -- onto anything with stuffed animals and tea parties. But people were different, and if Alluka was a young fourteen, it just meant she'd need a big sibling more.

"I'll be seventeen next month."

"You're old," she said happily. "So I have another big brother now!"

She had a collection, you see. Though so far he was much nicer than either Milluki or Illumi was.

"Positively ancient," Anders said, eyes crinkling as he smiled. "You have brothers at home, too? How many?"

He squeezed the stuffed bunny as he spoke, a little awkwardly, and found it did make him feel better. He offered it back to Alluka once he was done.

She took her bunny back and squished it up in a hug tightly before answering his question.

"I have four!" Alluka said, and rattled their names off. "Illumi, Milluki, Killua, and Kalluto."

Her parents had really, really liked the double 'L'.

"Only Kalluto's littler than me," she added. "The rest are older."

"Big family," Anders said, raising his eyebrows. "I'm an only child, so I can't really imagine it. Unless it's the same as having roommates."

She looked down at her bunny, before smiling up at him.

"I've never had a roommate," she admitted. "So I don't know! I don't see them very often either."

"Oh, I thought siblings were always up in each other's business," Anders said,waving a hand vaguely. "It doesn't matter. So -- not to completely change the subject, but does your world have magic or people with powers or ...anything along those lines?"

She didn't really want to talk about her siblings anyway! Except Killua. She did love Killua lots.

"Yes!" she cheered, okay with the subject change. "Lots of people do! They do all sorts of exciting sounding things! It's not magic though. Magic's only in books."

A beat.

"And here! Jono said magic was here too."

"It's here," Anders confirmed. "I use it, as a matter of fact. Anyhow, the point is -- whatever people say they can do, even if it seems completely impossible and ridiculous, they're probably telling the truth. There are people here from all kinds of worlds where all kinds of strange things happen."

Alluka wondered if Nanika was considered strange here and didn't ask.

Besides, there was a more important question to be asked.

"You do magic?! Can I see some?"

That was so exciting!

"It's not a toy," Anders said automatically, and then softened. "... but yes. Catch."

He held up a hand, concentrated as a small vortex of ice formed above it, and tossed the resulting snowball at Alluka. It was nothing compared to what Elsa could do, but he figured it made for a nice, gentle introduction to people with powers.

That was so not going to convince her it wasn't a toy.

She squealed with delight as she clumsily caught the snowball. "It's really real!" Alluka announced. "And cold!"

It was awesome!

Yeah, that maybe wasn't Anders' best thought out plan ever. He just couldn't totally resist the chance to show off.

"It's real," he agreed, a trace of smugness in his voice. "I can do fire and electricity, too, but those aren't as safe for showing off."

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