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: Wait for the Shuttle - [05/04].

[sir_zapsalot]

"What, this? It's just my phone," Billy replied, both eyebrows going up in confusion. Eugene had said something about the place he was going to being some kind of interdimensional nexus, but he hadn't quite processed everything that term would entail.

Re: Wait for the Shuttle - [05/04].

[handystand]

"Wow, must have a pretty wealthy family to have a cell phone," Okuyasu said. Clearly he'd need to buddy up with the rich kid. "You can't even really get reception for those in my hometown."

Re: Wait for the Shuttle - [05/04].

[sir_zapsalot]

Billy just snorted with laughter at that description. Victor and Rosa were awesome, but wealthy? Not even close.

"They're pretty common where I'm from," he said, and remembered something he'd heard -- maybe it was in class, maybe Mary had said it at dinner once, he wasn't sure -- about how cell phones used to be much less affordable for ordinary people years ago. "Or . . . when, I guess. That's going to have to be a thing I'll have to remember now, huh?"

Re: Wait for the Shuttle - [05/04].

[handystand]

Okuyasu blinked and stared at that last comment.

"Eh?" he said, making a confused noise. "What do you mean, when you're from?"

Re: Wait for the Shuttle - [05/04].

[sir_zapsalot]

"What year is it where you're from?" Billy asked. "It's 2019 here, same as it is for me at home."

Re: Wait for the Shuttle - [05/04].

[handystand]

"It's 1999," Okuyasu said, eyeing Billy suspiciously. "It's not really the future, is it? That seems like a weird joke to make."

Re: Wait for the Shuttle - [05/04].

[sir_zapsalot]

"Dude, 1999 is way in the past, for me," Billy replied. "I'm years from even being born yet!"

That was kind of blowing his mind a little bit.

Re: Wait for the Shuttle - [05/04].

[handystand]

"This is hurting my head," Okuyasu said, grimacing. "Is this school something weird?"

Yes, Okuyasu. That's literally what you were being sent to find out.

Re: Wait for the Shuttle - [05/04].

[sir_zapsalot]

"That's the impression I've gotten so far," Billy said carefully, not wanting to have to dance around the whole superhero-training reason. "You didn't get any warning at all about that?"

Re: Wait for the Shuttle - [05/04].

[handystand]

Okuyasu continued to make a face.

"Not exactly," he said. "But I did know it wasn't going to be exactly normal."