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

The good weather continued throughout the day, making it very comfortable to be out on the lawn. Who would want to miss such a nice picnic?

[OCD is up! This is the picnic post for general mingling. Roommates, fake siblings and teachers are all here. Since it's outside, the picnic is open to all students, teachers, and townies!]

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Make new friends or catch up with the old ones!

*does a little shimmy*

Liam wasn't teaching this summer, but the picnics were always good for getting a bead on the new arrivals.

Assuming they, you know, arrived. Unlike last time.

Which, speaking of... the number of texts he was sending Verity 'just to check in' were uh, a little higher than usual? Yeah, yeah, lightning never striking twice and all that but look, his wife ended up kidnapped kind of a lot, hopefully she'd forgive him for being a tad paranoid.

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Wayne had himself some food. He had himself a seat. And then he was going to have himself a good squint at the crowd in an activity most people would call 'people watching' or at least scoping out new faces.

Assumin' there'd even be any this session...

It hadn't even been a week since Tisarwat moved out of the dorms and in with Breq, but already she missed that feeling of having so many people around. So she was definitely not missing the picnic, even if it was guaranteed that people would be eating with their bare hands.

S'mores were almost worse than pizza, you guys!

But she had her tea, so it was fine, it just meant she'd be clinging to it while her lilac eyes scanned the crowd for new people that might come from places that already appreciated the propriety of a fine pair of gloves.

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And after Astrid had met her little sibling and got to know her and hopefully gave her a good run-down on this place without sounding like the absolute lunatic she thought everyone else was on her first day at Fandom, she spent the rest of the picnic like she tended to spend most of these events: by finding a nice tree just a little bit away from the crowd and settling underneath it with her sketchbook, lifting her head just enough to scan the crowd and pick out some interesting subjects (old favorites, of course, but also, hopefully, plenty of new ones, too), before disappearing behind a curtain of blonde hair to get to work.

And avoiding literally anything even remotely box-shaped if she could help it.

Thankfully, by now, Freya knew that disappointment was evident, but she still couldn't help herself from scanning the crowd with a bit of hope that she might see the familiar face of her beloved Sir Fratley somewhere in the crowd. Hers was an ember of hope that would not so easily fade! She also found herself trying to seek out any sign of someone clearly not human besides Alara and herself, realizing as she glanced around just how odd it felt to be somewhere that seemed to be habitated by almost entirely humans. In her travels, even the most backwater villages weren't nearly so homogeneous, and she found it very strange.

But she'd also found the food tables. And she kind of hated herself for it, but she'd also found the cheese.

Finding new sibling was a success! And it, like, turned out that she was Prompto's sibling from last semester that never properly arrived!

Which meant she'd texted that news to her brother and then grabbed herself a plateful of foods--mostly healthier ones: apple slices, grapes, celery, carrot sticks--and found a place to avidly watch everyone.

Her blindingly pink bedazzled megaphone was beside her, a mute testament that she may be temporarily quiet but that she was not liable to stay quiet!

"Oh my Goddess," Elli said, a bit faintly, when she took in all the people at the picnic.

Alexis had talked about this being a small town but there was nothing small about it to Elli.

She braved the food tables for a plate and a bottle of juice and then she found a spot under a tree, near the sidelines, to settle down in and just... absorb. There were so many people!

Octavia had taken a slight detour before coming to the picnic, but now she was there and it was business as usual: she was piling her plate high, while slipping things that would keep into her bag.

She was feeling pretty pleased with herself, not that you could probably tell unless you knew her well enough to spot the lack of tension in how she carried herself.

"Hey."

Octavia had mostly gotten over her urge to yell at Liam over Danny arresting Duke, though there was still something a little extra dry about her greeting.

But she also figured actually talking to him might help her over the remnants of that urge, so. Here she was.

“Hey,” Liam replied, matching that dryness with a raised eyebrow of his own.

"New guy make any more pointless arrests yet?"

Well. At least she was willing to go right to it.

"Hey, why are you putting food in your bag?" Didn't they already have a discussion about pocket bacon?

Ah, yes, there it was.

“No. Just the one, so far,” he informed her.

"Because that's what I always do?" Octavia offered with a shrug. Though usually she didn't have a bag. That just happened to work out happily for her since she'd needed it for something else earlier.

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Magnus hummed, clearly working hard on that perception check. "Mmmokay. As it at least a nice bag? Oh! Is it a bag of holding?"

Somehow they'd never gotten one back home. Somehow.

"So Duke's just special, huh?" Octavia drawled.

"It's... a bag?"

It was a nondescript thing of canvas. So for once, it wasn't just Octavia failing to see anything special in it.

"It does what it's supposed to."

"But, like, a Mary Poppins bag, you know?" With all your vast pop culture knowledge, Octavia.

“Danny certainly seemed to think so,” Liam said, slight emphasis on the name of the person who had, you know, done the arresting.

"I don't know who that is, Magnus."

Yeah.

"She's like a nanny, but magical," Magnus explained. In his super helpful way. "You'd like her."

Which Octavia knew! At least on the rational level. And that Liam had apparently already given him a talking to about it.

Coupled with Haven, though, this had dragged up some issues.

But, anyway: "If he ever tries that again, I'm punching him."

"Sure," Octavia decided, after a beat. "How are you, Magnus? Anything new?"

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