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BWI Airport Portalocity Lounge- Saturday morning

It was't so much that Alexis wanted to go back to school, it was just that her options to bounce around a bit had dried up for the moment, and she should probably at least check this place out? She hadn't gotten to see much of it aside from the volcano and all, and very little of the area outside, so why not hang out for a while?

She'd amassed a lot of bags around her: on the floor, the seats next to her. A throne of luggage, of sorts. She was already a little bored waiting, wondering who else would show up, and how much glitter had gone into the giant "FANDOM HIGH" sign that was hanging.

...and how that glitter had already gotten on her designer luggage, which she was now trying to pick off with an, "Ew."

[OCD up. Go! Go! Go!]

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Alexis tilted her head and squinted a little, and finally said, "Yeah, I don't think I know that."

"..."

Julius was at an absolute loss for words. How did someone not know the DFZ? The night Algonquin raised the Great Lakes and flooded Detroit and all the surrounding cities was probably the most historically important moment in the last fifty years. Only the comet that had brought magic back could fight it for most influential moment of the century.

He pulled out his phone, pulling the up the AR features until he could find the Wikipedia app, just to make sure he wasn't crazy.

"Uhhh...where are you from?" he asked. Maybe...maybe it just hadn't gotten as much press in foreign countries?

..And hadn't in the past fifty-plus years, even with Algonquin's relaxed views on immigration...

"New York..." Alexis said slowly. "But like, I travel a lot so maybe I just missed it."

A more forceful dragon than Julius - so, literally, any dragon, ever, in the world - would probably have ended up sputtering and confused, at the idea of anyone 'missing' the Great Spirit of The Lakes declaring Detroit and its environs a sovereign nation almost sixty years ago.

Julius however, gave Alexis a weak smile and a sort of laugh. "Ah...yeah. Maybe. New York is pretty busy, I hear..."

"Oh. Totally. And then sometimes you leave and end up in Estonia and who even knows how that happened," she said, and frowned as another thought occurred to her. "Soooo are you going to school, then?"

"To school?" Julius asked, confused. "I..."

He trailed off as he remembered the post-script from his brother's message. "Excuse me a moment?" he said, not wanting to be rude. "I need to check something."

He pulled up the letter again, the 3D menu flashing in the air around his face via the phone's AR-interface system and reread it.

I almost forgot to give you your advice for the day. An education is invaluable. If you see the chance for a learning opportunity, take it!

Education. A school. Bob. "I. Uh. Think I might be," he said.

Alexis' mouth was slightly open, pointing to anything 3D that in her opinion, shouldn't be.

"Uhhhh what's that."

Julius frowned. "My phone?" he said, holding it up. In case she couldn't see. "I mean, it's an older model, but it's still pretty decent."

"And it has a special effect function?"

Alexis was going to have her ancient phone replaced by Sunday. But for now, it was not that.

"Special effects function?" Julius asked, now utterly lost.

Even his old phone had AR capabilities, but they'd been slow enough that he'd generally bypassed them because they were battery drains and sometimes ended up bricking his phone.

"It's just a standard phone. Um. Isn't it?"

Now he was having a complex about his telephone.

Alexis pulled out her little flip phone, which had been all the rage when she was now.

"I wouldn't call this one standard but it's popular," said Alexis, who was wrong for this time, anyway.

Julius had literally never seen a phone like that. If her designer luggage was all antiques, they had nothing on this phone which had been obsolete nearly a hundred years before he'd been hatched.

"Err, is that what they called a rotary phone?" he asked. "Is this a fashion thing?"

Where they made modern phones look like ancient ones, just for the cache?

"Rotary? Ew, no," she said. "No, ew. This is the latest."

"Like...like a retro design?" Julius tried again.

It had buttons. That were built in.

"The only retro I do is vintage and that's completely different," Alexis told him.

"Like your luggage," Julius said quickly, feeling like he was being insulting and trying to find something to compliment quickly. "Either those are amazing reproductions or you managed to get some excellent antiques."

Just keep digging that hole, Julius.

"Wait. What is your luggage like?"

Wasn't luggage just luggage?

"Mine specifically?" Julius asked. "Current non-existent," he admitted. "I didn't really have a chance to prepare before my flight."

Understatement.

"That actually happens to me more than you'd think," Alexis said, sympathetic. "The trick is to just buy new stuff when you get there."

"That's pretty much my plan, yeah," he admitted.

Though with less than a hundred bucks in his account, it was going to take awhile to replace everything. His gaming rig alone had cost well over ten times that.

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