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BWI Airport Portalocity Lounge, Saturday morning [05/04].

"What the ever-loving fuck is a Portalocity Lounge?"

Apparently, it was precisely the place where Wayne was standing, squared shoulders, thumbs in his belt loops, frowning up at the softest, most sparkliest banner he had ever seen...and he'd een to at least a baker's dozen of Dary's traditional soft birthday parties, so he knew a soft fucking banner when he saw one.

"That," he stated, to no one in particular, especially since he seemed to be the first one there (if you're not five minutes early, you're five minutes late, bud), "is fucking 10-ply."

But it was what it was. No going back now, ain't no reason to get excited, he supposed. Pitter-patter. So he turned his head sharply to one side of the lounge, eyed the chairs against the wall, and went to have a seat, one hand on his knee, tohe other around the smallest cup of coffee he could get, and settled in to wait.

[[ and the ocd ~~is incoming~~ has landed! Let's get at 'er. ]]

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Shuri had a large, colorful bag slung over her shoulder, a small bracelet of kimoyo beads on her left wrist and a woman who was watching her from a cafe a careful distance away.

"This is for Fandom?" she asked, checking the sign. Her eyes lit up at Wayne's coffee cup. "Oooh, is that Starbucks? I've always wanted to try Starbucks."

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"It's no Tim Hortons," said Wayne, because Canadian, "but it'll do." He lifted his chin a little, cocking his head in the general direction of the concourse in the station where he'd gotten it. "Just down that waaay's a bit, if you can be quick about it before the bus gets here, but it's not likeleh. Line's about longer than a hawkey player's treasure trail."

He would have added a disparaging fuck at the end of that, but he was talking to a girl, and it was impolite to swear too much in front of girls you didn't yet know.

"Who is Tim Hortons?" Shuri asked politely.

"S'hawkey player," Wayne explained. "And a chain of coffee shops up north in Canada. Forget fucking Starbucks," he added, with a pointed sip of his drink, "get yourself some Timbits, and it'll fucking change your life forever, I can tell you that much."

"And what part of Tim's...bits...would I be eating, exactly?" Shuri asked teasingly.

Wayne may have just quirked a bit of an eyebrow at you for that one, Shuri.

"Oh, well," he said blithely, "that there'd be the hole..."

Make of that what you will.

"I can definitely see how that might change my life," Shuri said, grinning wider. "I am Shuri. Who are you?"

Well, Shuri, with a response like that, you certainly had Wayne convinced. He squinted at her slightly, while a rare grin surfaced for a brief moment.

"Wayne," he said, bolting up out of his chair to offer out his hand. "How are ya now, Shuri?"

"Very well, thank you," she replied. "What made you choose to come to a boarding school?"

"Oh, is there a Starbucks here?" Okuyasu said, his eyes also lighting up at that prospect. "There's not too many of those in Japan yet."

At least, not in 1999.

Okuyasu was in for multiple shocks.

"There are zero in Wakanda," Shuri complained, "though my brother promises that will change. Eventually."

"Geography isn't my strong suit," Okyasu said, rubbing the back of his neck. "Is it okay if I ask where that is?"

He'd ask about the brother who could make Starbucks happen after that.

"Africa," she replied. "Near Uganda."

"Right, right," Okuyasu said, nodding as if he knew exactly where that was (he didn't). "And your brother's an important business man who can make a Starbucks?"

That was pretty impressive.

"Something like that," Shuri said. "He's the king."

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