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

Picnic-ing in January - still not the best idea ever! But there were tables and chairs set up in the sun, and a nice bonfire going, and plenty of warm food for everyone to encourage socializing for as long as possible.

[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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Aha, her first ~~victim~~ surprisee. It'd been ages since Raven last got to tease one of the pre-moderns. She lifted her hand in a wave, and since the new girl seemed determined not to look at her, called out. "Hi! I'm Raven. What's your name?"

Oh no, the blue girl was speaking to her. Lucille considered for a moment to pretend she wasn't hearing, but if the girl was persistent that was only going to prove embarrassing. So she drew a breath, arranged her face is some kind of smile and raised her gaze.

"Hello, miss Raven, my name is Lucille Sharpe."

Ignore the blue, she told herself. Ignore the blue.

That attempt at a smile was adorable. "A pleasure to meet you, Lucille." Raven offered her hand, her 1950s manners deployed in full (her outfit notwithstanding). "What brings you to Fandom?"

Lucille looked at the blue hand in front of her and hesitated. Would she be contagious in some way? But bravery seemed to be the best course of action and she shook Raven's hand lightly.

"I am to attend school here. And yourself?"

Not contagious. But a little bit scaly. "The same," Raven said, smiling. "It's my last semester, actually. I can't quite decide if I'm excited to graduate or sorry to eventually leave."

There weren't a whole lot of other places around where she felt comfortable teasing people with her blue-ness, after all.

"So, is it... a good school, in your opinion?"

Lucille could at least offer an attempt at conversation, even with a blue girl with scaly hands. Thomas would think she was joking when she wrote to him about this.

Joking was a better assumption than demon, at least.

"It's definitely non-traditional," Raven said. "But it's been very good to me. If you're hoping to learn a lot about, like, math, you might be disappointed."

"So... what do they teach here?"

If she would close her eyes - which obviously she didn't - Lucille suspected that she wouldn't actually mind Raven so much. The scaly, blue skin was a pity. Perhaps it was an affliction of some kind?

The affliction of being an experiment in evolution.

"All sorts of things," Raven assured her. "History, world cultures, self-defense. . . . I think it's mostly up to the teachers themselves. They're like us students, come from all over time and space."

Lucille was going to ignore the 'all over time and space comment ~~so as to not joss the thread with the big sib~~.

"How... interesting." Raven's description made little sense. "And is there perhaps a library? And a music room?" If so, she would be able to keep herself busy.

"What kind of school would we be without a library?" Raven asked. "Not sure about the music room, but there's a music store on the island that can probably help you out. What do you play?"

"The piano," Lucille replied. She would have to find the library, and that would surely keep her occupied. "Do you play?"

Did blue girls who sounded like they had had a proper upbringing been taught to play the piano?

[In my head I had replied to this...]

[I have been there]

"Not well," Raven said cheerfully. "My foster mom tried to make me take lessons once, because 'a proper society lady should have hobbies', but I scared the teacher away and she stopped trying."

The two weren't entirely connected. Charles made his mom forget Raven had scared the teacher off, and Mrs. Xavier managed to forget the whole idea of piano lessons completely. She also often managed to forget Raven, so it wasn't surprising.

At least that was something Lucille could understand. While she herself enjoyed playing, there were other accomplishments expected of a young lady that she cared less about.

"I assume you have other pastimes, then," she said. "I will look for the library, though, and see what the collection is like."

Raven nodded. "Let me know if you need help finding anything," she offered. "And watch out for the librarian. He's a little rough around the edges."

He wasn't blue, but his dialog could be.

"I... will keep that in mind," Lucille said, wondering what 'rough around the edges' would mean in a place like this.

Despite her unfortunate disfiguring illness, Raven did seem like a nice, well-mannered girl, and one useful to know, so Lucille decided she could overlook the blue skin.

"Good," Raven said, then sat up straight as she realized the trouble with offering assistance while wearing her natural form. "Um, just so you know, though, I don't always look like this. In case you go looking and can't find the blue girl, sometimes --" she shifted, keeping the dramatics to a minimum -- not that that changed the fact of 'blue girl changing shape' at all. "Sometimes I'm a blonde."

Of all the things she had seen today that was the strangest and most disturbing. Lucille was better prepared now at least, but her eyes widened and she just fell silent.

Raven was pretty sure she'd seen that expression before. There might've been a bit of adrenaline kicking into gear in her system, though she kept her expression neutral. "Just, you know," she said. "So you know."

"I appreciate..." the warning "...that you let me know."

She wasn't going to ask how that was possible, at least not today.

"I find it helps cut down on confusion." Or the pitchforks, at least. "I'll see you around, Lucille."

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