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Fandom High Welcome Picnic, Front Lawn of the School, All Day: Part I

The island was still thankfully, blissfully normal, so fingers were crossed that the picnic would go off without a hitch.

The weather was pleasant enough - sunny, but not so hot that people would melt outside - and all the decorations had been safely pulled out of storage. There were tables and chairs set up with blue and yellow balloons, a table for all the information the new students would need, and enough food to probably feed two islands. It was time to welcome some new folks, everyone!

[OCD is up! This is part one of the picnic, specifically for meeting siblings, roommates, and teachers. The rest of the picnic is happening here. Since it's outside, the picnic is open to all students, teachers, and townies!]

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Tisarwat blinked.

"I don't think that sounds all that unbelieveable."

Having your entire brain overridden by the most powerful entity in your known universe could do that.

But she smiled as though she were mostly joking, gesturing a little with her hand as she said, "Try another."

Vette blinked, and then squinted for a moment.

"Okay... How about spending a weekend as a little kid version of yourself all over again?"

That had to be weird!

Yeah. Anaander had a real problem with that one, too. Tisarwat herself was a shining example, by some standards.

Even if infusing your consciousness into a child's body wasn't exactly what Vette was talking about.

But Tisarwat could tell that these probably were pretty weird for most people here, and she'd have to admit that it was pretty weird for most people in general.

"As a little kid?" she asked, sounding a little incredulous.

And Vette was cheerfully oblivious to any of that shining example, so she was just grinning a little and saying, "No, I'm serious! I spent a whole weekend just... tiny, and I couldn't even speak the language. It was the worst."

... It had been the worst for several reasons above and beyond that, admittedly.

"And then there's the really random stuff, like clothes that just appear and refuse to go away, or food falling from the sky, or turning into animals."

Or just randomly appearing in an unresponsive Station with a fish in her hands on a world you've never heard of where no one even wears gloves?

But Tisarwat had to admit, all of that was starting to sound a little strange, and it was making her head hurt a little, but she tried to latch onto Vette's energy and gave a little bit of a disbeleiving laugh. "Animals? What kind of animals?"

"I was a bird once," Vette offered. "The tiniest, angriest little bluebird in the galaxy."

And then she had stopped being the tiniest, angriest little bluebird in the galaxy, and hadn't that been awkward.

For about three minutes.

"And my roommate turned into a snake, too!" A beat. "It's no fair she got the cute animal."

Rude.

Tisarwat didn't see why both a bird and a snake couldn't be considered cute in their own ways. And even though it did seem weird at first, was it really that much different from being in the body of a different human? How many different bodies had she been in? They'd just all been human.

So far.

"Does it hurt?" she asked.

Being ripped from Anaander and all her hundreds of bodies had been one of the singularly most painful experiences in Tisarwat's short life, and in almost all of Anaander's very long ones, even more so than anything done to her on the Sword of Gurat. It couldn't be nearly as bad as that, but she couldn't help feel a small thrill of panic about the possibility.

"Hurt?" Vette shook her head. "Nah. Being a bird is actually pretty neat, and turning back is painless." A pause. "If maybe a little awkward."

Another pause.

"Birds don't wear clothes," she explained.

Tisarwat's shoulders loosened a little in relief, and she gave a faint grin.

"Or gloves, for that matter," she noted, since a lack of clothes didn't actually bother her as much as...that.

"Or gloves," Vette agreed with a soft laugh. "Or anything. It made for an interesting change of pace while I was sitting on a friend's head."

Said friend was never ever ever allowed to mention it had happened or she'd punch his shoulder. Hard.

"....you were on your friend's head," Tisarwat asked, just to make sure she was getting this story right, "while you were a bird? Until you...weren't?"

"And then there was a whole lot of me just kind of falling in a display of the most awkward streak of blue to ever exist on this stupid island," Vette agreed. "It was dumb."

"Dumb does seem like one word for it," Tisarwat noted. "I'll have to keep it in mind to avoid being on any friends' heads if I'm ever a bird. Or probably a snake, too, for that matter."

"Or a puppy," Vette offered. "Prompto turned into a puppy once." A beat. "I hear he was a very good boy."

So. Floppy.

"Or a puppy," Tisarwat noted, and looked down at her fish.

"Anyone you know of turn into one of these?" she asked, lifting the bowl a little for Vette to see her better.

Vette leaned forward to peer into the bowl.

"Aw, hey there, little buddy," she said, grinning a bit. "Nobody I know has turned into a fish so far, but maybe they're just not fessing up to it."

Or they dried out and went crunchy behind a bed somewhere and were never heard from again, but Vette wasn't sure even the island would pull a stunt like that.

The fish, for her part, burbled slightly. It was probably more coincidence than anything else, though.

"It's probably be more difficult turning into a fish rather than a bird or a snake or a puppy," Tisarwat noted, "unless you happened to be near a glass of water."

"And then conveniently end up in that glass of water," Vette agreed. "It's probably for the best that most people end up turning into stuff that breathes air."

"Definitely for the best," Tisarwat agreed with levety, and then she had to laugh a little at the fact that this was even a conversation she was having at the moment. It wasn't a bad thing, though; not at all. It was actually kind of nice, even if she still wasn't sure just how much she actually believed Vette about it.

Vette gave a little grin at that laugh.

"I think you'll do great here," she decided. "But if you need any help finding anything at all, I'll hook you up with my phone number and room number. And I can be found at the scrapyard on Thursdays and selling guns at the Wellspring Arms on Fridays, and hey, maybe we'll even have a class together sometime."

As if she was organized enough to think to check her class schedule before today. She'd had a late night of decorating, after all.

Tisarwat's expression went a little serious again as she listened to Vette, because she had no doubt that her questions were only going to increase as she moved forward from here. She nodded, repeating some of it back, even if some of it was a little unfamiliar and already raised questions all their own. "Phone number, room number. Scrapyard on Thursdays, and Wellspring Arms on Friday. Maybe even a class together...

"What's...a phone number?" she ventured. "And what are the classes like here, anyway?"

So many questions, Vette. And each answer just seemed to spawn a half a dozen more.

"Oh! A phone is a two-way audio transmitter," Vette explained. "A comm, basically. So the number is the connection code you use to contact another particular device. I'm guessing you're going to need a phone, huh? I can hook you up. I have a bunch I put together from spare parts I keep in my room for when I feel like tinkering."

She always felt like tinkering.

"And the classes... really depend on what you're taking and who's teaching," she added. "Like, I took a whole class about cooking using bananas last term. That... was weird. But there are a lot of classes about self-defence that are useful, too."

That all sounded like a clunky and inefficient way to communicate, but, already, Tisarwat felt pretty desperate for any sort of comm device at all.

"That does sound like something I'll need," she agreed with a grateful smile. "If you don't mind, that is. I'd really appreciate it, Vette. And...it sounds like the classes here are probably just as varied as the students themselves."

And nothing at all like re-education. Her thoughts had started swaying away from that possibility by now, but it still lurked there in the deepest depths of her fears.

If re-education involved bananas, Vette had some serious questions about the Radch. Really, really serious ones.

... Coming from Nar Shaddaa wouldn't make the existence of re-education weird for her at all, though. Scary, sure. Weird? Nah.

"Great! Then I'll set you up with a phone as soon as I can. Maybe I'll just leave it gift-wrapped outside your door if I don't manage to catch you in your room," Vette decided. "And hey, maybe you'll even like the classes. They aren't all a waste of time, anyway."

Vette would forever treasure the time she got to spend beating on the Dean with a large padded Q-Tip.

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