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!]

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Re: Wait for the shuttle

[snowdroplace]

"If it's a competition, though, we're both losing," she said, amused. "My grandmother would be disappointed in me!"

Re: Wait for the shuttle

[nicedragonsfinishlast]

"So would my mother," Julius said wryly, his smile fading.

For vastly different reasons, though. His mother felt that being polite to humans was both pointless and also a kind of aberrant behavior.

Re: Wait for the shuttle

[snowdroplace]

Oh. Well, she hadn't meant to have him frown...

"Your mother?" she said. "Is everything okay? Did I say something wrong?"

Re: Wait for the shuttle

[nicedragonsfinishlast]

"Oh! No! Not at all!" Julius said, quickly shaking his head. "You're fine. Absolutely fine. I just, uh. Mother and I...didn't part on the best terms. Is all."

Which was a really nice way of saying, 'She sealed his true form away then kicked him out and sent him into a city that hunted their kind to die.'

Re: Wait for the shuttle

[snowdroplace]

That was an impressively nice way of saying that.

"Oh, I'm sorry," she said, all understanding sympathy. "It's terrible to fight with family, isn't it?"

Re: Wait for the shuttle

[nicedragonsfinishlast]

Julius was very nice! It was his besetting sin if you asked his family.

"Very," Julius said fervently. He was lucky that fighting with most of his family wasn't lethal - Bethesda kept the privilege of murder for herself and Chelsea, her enforcer among the clutches - but you'd be surprised what a dragon could live through. "I'm not a big fan of fighting much at all, really."

Another besetting sin.

Re: Wait for the shuttle

[snowdroplace]

"Neither am I." Though, admittedly, no one ever expected her to either. "In fact, I'm planning to study medicine and become a nurse."

Re: Wait for the shuttle

[nicedragonsfinishlast]

"Really? My sister Jessica is planning to go to school to be a doctor," Julius said. "And I, uhhh, play a healer in my favorite video game. Best healer in the guild."

Which, when stacked against 'actual concrete plans to go to school for medical training' was actually rather pathetic, yes.

Re: Wait for the shuttle

[snowdroplace]

Just a little, though Elli was distracted by...

"What's a video game?" she asked.

Re: Wait for the shuttle

[nicedragonsfinishlast]

It was like everyone in this group was doing their best to make him flail. "Uhh, you know. Games you play on a computer or console?" he said, aware that was a terrible explanation, but how did you explain video games?

Re: Wait for the shuttle

[snowdroplace]

"A computer?" Elli frowned a little, honestly confused. "The Doctor has one, but it's only for work...?"

They could play games?

Re: Wait for the shuttle

[nicedragonsfinishlast]

"I mean, technically you can play them on any device with enough processing power," Julius admitted. "I haven't had a chance to download any onto my phone yet, but you can play games on those, too."

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[snowdroplace]

"There's only one phone in my entire town," she admitted, completely baffled by this. "And I don't think you can play games on it..."

Given that it was a rotary phone... then no. No, you couldn't.

Re: Wait for the shuttle

[nicedragonsfinishlast]

"One phone for the entire town?"

Much like Alexis, Julius was stumped. It was possible there were more phones than people in Heartstriker Mountain.

There were definitely more phones than humans.