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

[howareyanow]

"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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Re: Trip to Fandom - [05/4].

[solarhippie]

Karolina shrugged a little. "If you have a really good sense of direction, which I don't --" Though she could always cheat and fly above buildings to get a better sense of the big picture, but that was neither here nor there. "-- then maybe not. But it's an old island with buildings packed tightly together, so I've found a map can help before you get familiar with it."

Re: Trip to Fandom - [05/4].

[sir_zapsalot]

Guess who else was going to cheat and get the aerial view? And possibly make people wonder if there was a storm coming in, but anyway.

"That's a really good point," Billy conceded. "I just don't get how I've never heard of this island before."

Re: Trip to Fandom - [05/4].

[solarhippie]

"Did you come from somewhere close-by?" Karolina wondered. "Because, I hadn't heard of this place either, before I came here as a student, but I think that's because I came from across the country, and it's a really small island."

Unremarkable, even. If not for all the weirdness.

Re: Trip to Fandom - [05/4].

[sir_zapsalot]

"Well, I was born in --" and his face fell, a little bit, just for a moment when he thought about his birth parents -- "Michigan, apparently, but I've spent most of my life in Pennsylvania. I'm basically from Philadelphia." The years he'd spent doing the grand tour of the Pittsburgh foster system didn't really count as far as where he felt like he came from.

Billy shook his head.

"It's not that far away, you'd think I'd have heard something about it before. I don't even think I've seen it before flying along the coast." Not in a plane, but shh.

Re: Trip to Fandom - [05/4].

[solarhippie]

You know, Karolina wasn't even making an assumption about whether it was in a plane or otherwise?

Funny, that.

"It's kind of a weird place," she said, in an understatement fit for a newbie's ears, her head tilting to the side as she realized she should maybe have thought up some strategies for talking to the new kids about the island. "... Okay, really weird. In a way that makes it more likely you haven't heard of it before."

Re: Trip to Fandom - [05/4].

[sir_zapsalot]

"I kind of got the impression I wasn't in my own world any more," admitted Billy, and on a meta level of which he might probably never be aware this conversation would prove that pretty definitively. "And I sort of heard some stuff before I got here about how it might be kind of weird?"

Not the part where it could be useful for a teenage superhero in training. That part wasn't weird at all.

". . . I just didn't really get a whole lot of specifics on how."

Re: Trip to Fandom - [05/4].

[solarhippie]

"Your school-assigned sibling is probably going to fill you in on the specifics." That was kind of the fake sibs' job, after all, and so she was counting on that. "But thinking of it in terms of a new, different world is a good start! Because, it is kind of like that."