BWI Airport Portalocity Lounge, Saturday Morning

[midichlorianfail]

The glittery welcome banner had been hauled out from storage, by now looking decidedly worse for wear, which made it a good match for now fairly battered Jedi robes Theron was wearing as he sat under it, trying to meditate.

Master Till'in hadn't quite kicked him out of the enclave with nothing but the (donated) clothes on his back, but the whole detachment and lack of worldly possessions gig meant they hadn't had much to spare either. Especially for random strays without connections to the Order like they were still selling Theron as, and among the practical skills Master Zho had taught him was enough financial sense not to waste his limited creds on replacing perfectly serviceable clothing just because he wasn't actually entitled to it.

At least no one where he was headed was going to recognise them for what they were.

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Re: Wait for the Shuttle

[always_someone]

"Well, someone must have heard of it," Norman pointed out. And then he held up the paper in his hand and smiled faintly. "There are brochures."

Re: Wait for the Shuttle

[squidpiddge]

"Right, but until you had that brochure, had you any idea about it?" Molly said. "Back home, it was like... an portal opened, and suddenly there was a whole new world on the other side."

Re: Wait for the Shuttle

[always_someone]

Norman kind of blinked.

And blinked again.

"I mean, there are tens of thousands of high schools in the United States," he pointed out. "I kind of just figured this was one of them."

It wasn't even in his home state. He barely knew the names of the schools the next county over. Wouldn't know them, in fact, if it wasn't for his sister being a cheerleader back in her own high school days.

"... A portal?"

That part was weird, though.

Re: Wait for the Shuttle

[squidpiddge]

"Metaphor," Molly said quickly. "Just... out of nowhere, boarding school. Like a portal."

A totally normal metaphor.

Re: Wait for the Shuttle

[always_someone]

"That's... a strange metaphor," Norman hedged, after another moment's pause. "I don't think I get it."

Re: Wait for the Shuttle

[squidpiddge]

"It's a New Jersey thing," Molly said quickly. "Sorry, guess that hasn't made it to Massachusetts yet."

She shrugged nonchalantly. "Portal jokes. Just a thing you do."

Re: Wait for the Shuttle

[always_someone]

"Right. Ha..."

Okay, Norman was making a dubious note to himself, now: Jersey was weird.

Which, really, anybody probably could have told him already anyway.