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

There were tables and chairs set up all around the lawn. Some were in the sun, where folks could work on their tan while they ate, and some were in the shade where folks could stay cool and non-crispy.

All of the tables had some blue and gold glitter scattered across them, because there was always enough to go around. This school certainly was blesesed in all the right ways.

[OCD is up! This is the picnic post for general mingling. Roommates, fake siblings and teachers are all here. Since it's outside, the picnic is open to all students, teachers, and townies!]

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The fanciest of hermits. Royals were allowed to be reclusive and weird. It was almost expected of them.

"I remain here despite my best efforts to return home. Though I have been introduced to the wonders called nachos."

"Nachos!" And now Elsa sounded... A sort of subdued kind of delighted. "One of the foods from here that I've missed back in Arendelle. I didn't even think about that sort of thing when I left this summer. They're good. Though... Probably not good enough to want to stay here for, I'm guessing."

"Sadly no." Because he was a tragic, Tolkien king. He had to do stupid shit for his people and die with some long monologue about morality.

Thorin probably should have stuck with the nachos.

"Sadly, no," Elsa echoed in understanding. "I hope you manage to find your way soon, then. We'll send you along with plenty of nachos."

Priorities.

They had them. And he could include the nachos in his morality speech!

Win-win.

"As do I. Until then, I have learned far more about men than I had ever expected to."

"And now I'm wondering if that's a good thing or not," Elsa teased. "We aren't all bad, are we?"

"Not allbad. Merely different. Your courtships for one are so much more common."

BECAUSE YOU ALL DIED AT, LIKE, THIRTY. THAT WAS A THING, RIGHT?

IT WAS IF YOU WERE A DISNEY PARENT.

"I wouldn't know," Elsa replied, with a faint smile. "Courtships back home are somewhat more elaborate than the ones here, too. Do you mind if I ask how they differ from what you're used to?"

WELL.

"Dwarves only once," he replied. "And some not at all. Too absorbed in our crafts."

Elsa took a moment to ponder that. As somebody who had been courted, such as it was, all of once in her life, and who had only ever known a handful of people right up until coming to the island, she was probably going to have to take Thorin's word for it.

"I suppose if it's a system that works for you..." She considered that a moment more, and then nodded. "I have to confess, I don't have much experience with any of it. Beyond Barry, I mean, and even he's well aware that he's got to be second priority to Arendelle."

There had been a whole messy thing about it, at one point. That had been fun.

Look, Tolkien never thought about how that whole thing would sustain an entire race. Because his focus was on elves.

"You'll be queen," he replied, like that made perfect sense. "Of course."

Maybe dwarven women actually gave birth to litters.

"I'll be queen," Elsa agreed. "And that's... less than a year away, now. Whatever else happens here, Arendelle is always going to come first. Just as I imagine returning to your own people is to you."

One can only hope. And, at the same time, wince.

"It is our lot in life," Thorin agreed. "Hopefully the way home for me will open soon."

"I'll continue hoping for the best for you," Elsa decided. "And I'll keep an eye open for some way to help you return, myself. I can't promise having any luck, but the more people who are trying, the better?"

Just as long as it didn't end with a dragon, yes.

"Then you have my thanks."

"It's the least I can do," Elsa replied, smiling and nodding her head a little.

Hopefully it wouldn't end with a dragon, anyway. Smaug probably wouldn't do well on the island, and the best that Elsa could dredge up was a giant snowman, or maybe some trolls.

As long as they weren't Tolkien trolls. They were the worst.

Thorin nodded, looking out at the crowd of people. "I must wonder how this place attracts so many."

"For some, I imagine it's the promise of something different, more accepting than the place they came from before," Elsa mused, looking out over the people as well. "I've known a few people who viewed the island as a sort of sanctuary."

A pause.

"And several who had no idea what they were doing here in the first place. And some who simply didn't know what they were getting themselves into when they arrived here."

That earned her a laugh. Wasn't she proud? "Ah, the last one seems the most likely."

She actually was, a little. Elsa didn't often make people laugh.

"I don't think I ever have met somebody who knew what they were getting themselves into when they came here," she noted, a bit impishly. "If nothing else, watching their faces is always interesting the first day it rains something odd, or we all get hats we can't quite be rid of."

"I have yet to get a hat," Thorin admitted. "Though the weekend I was female wasn't exactly the best."

"And I'd care not to spend another several days as a boy," Elsa replied. "Even though the mayhem is often temporary, sometimes it's somewhat more unsettling than others, I'll give you that."

"I suppose we can only hope for the best with these things." Like that would help. HA.

"Hope for the best, and take whatever we can with a grain of salt," Elsa agreed. "There's not much else to do when it comes to the whims of the island."

"Other than attempt an escape," he replied, tone teasing.

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