BWI Airport Portalocity Lounge- Saturday morning

[lovethatjourney]

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!]

Comments

Re: Wait for the shuttle

[lovethatjourney]

"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?"

Re: Wait for the shuttle

[nicedragonsfinishlast]

"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.

Re: Wait for the shuttle

[lovethatjourney]

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

"Uhhhh what's that."

Re: Wait for the shuttle

[nicedragonsfinishlast]

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."

Re: Wait for the shuttle

[lovethatjourney]

"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.

Re: Wait for the shuttle

[nicedragonsfinishlast]

"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.

Re: Wait for the shuttle

[lovethatjourney]

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.

Re: Wait for the shuttle

[nicedragonsfinishlast]

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?

Re: Wait for the shuttle

[lovethatjourney]

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

Re: Wait for the shuttle

[nicedragonsfinishlast]

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

It had buttons. That were built in.

Re: Wait for the shuttle

[lovethatjourney]

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

Re: Wait for the shuttle

[nicedragonsfinishlast]

"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.

Re: Wait for the shuttle

[lovethatjourney]

"Wait. What is your luggage like?"

Wasn't luggage just luggage?

Re: Wait for the shuttle

[nicedragonsfinishlast]

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

Understatement.

Re: Wait for the shuttle

[lovethatjourney]

"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."

Re: Wait for the shuttle

[nicedragonsfinishlast]

"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.