BWI Airport Portalocity Lounge, Saturday Morning

[thegreatmanfredo]

Saturday morning, an elderly teal and white RV pulled into the dropoff lane outside the airport and disgorged a lanky teenaged boy and his bags onto the pavement, the driver asking him as he went if he had his laptop, migraine medication, and assorted other essentials. "Now get going and make some friends," she told him. "I've got a consult to get to in Virginia."

"I love you, Grandma," he said, and closed the door of the RV. As Xylda peeled out on her way to, he assumed, her next mark, Manfred headed into the airport, stopping off at Starbucks for a caffeine infusion before following airport employees' instructions until he found the right room. He was apparently the first one here, but he knew it was the right place because of the incredibly glittery banner.

High school, here he came.

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Re: Trip to Fandom

[uncertain_dume]

"Uh, yeah," Kanan said, giving the... meepy kid a little grin as he honked the horn of the bus twice. Meep meep, see? "You're here for Fandom?"

Re: Trip to Fandom

[meepmeepmeep]

Beaker gave an extensive reply to that--all in meeps.

Sorry, Kanan. The nodding that accompanied it probably meant yes?

Beaker held up his duffel bag questioningly. Did Kanan want a bag leaking purple bubbles and smelling like feet inside the bus or underneath?

Re: Trip to Fandom

[uncertain_dume]

"Uh," Kanan replied, and then he gestured to the luggage compartment under the bus. Most students were welcome to bring their things aboard; there weren't that many of them, after all. But between the smell and the bubbles.... "Yeah, you can put that underneath. Last thing anybody needs are bubbles getting in my face while I'm trying to drive."

He probably wouldn't blow this bus up! But bubbles wouldn't help that any.

Re: Trip to Fandom

[meepmeepmeep]

Beaker nodded, meeping sympathetetically. Now to figure out how to climb allll the way up into the bus...

Re: Trip to Fandom

[uncertain_dume]

Kanan watched him for a long moment. And then kind of grimaced.

"You, uh, want a hand there?"

This would probably be much easier if there were convenient walls covering Beaker's lower half, huh?

Re: Trip to Fandom

[meepmeepmeep]

So much easier! But instead, weird, short, Muppet legs. Woe.

Beaker nodded, meeping to himself.

Re: Trip to Fandom

[uncertain_dume]

Kanan hesitated for a moment, and then shrugged and got out of his seat, stepping down the few steps in order to pick the kid up under the armpits to lift him to the top of the stairs.

Not what he'd expected he'd be doing today, but hey. What could you do about it, right?

Re: Trip to Fandom

[meepmeepmeep]

It was far from the worst thing to happen to Beaker even that day, sadly.

He meeped in thanks and made his way to a seat.

Re: Trip to Fandom

[uncertain_dume]

And Kanan watched him go, not entirely sure if he wanted to be amused here, or entirely baffled.

Maybe a healthy mix of the two. 'Kids that spoke in weird binary' hadn't even been on his radar this morning before he'd gotten on the bus.