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BWI Airport Portalocity Lounge- Saturday morning

As much as Maeve didn't want to admit that she was nervous, she really was. This was big. It was a new school, a new country, a second chance that she really didn't want to screw up.

She seemed to be the first one here- at least the glittery sign told her she was in the right place, and she was a little annoyed by it on principle- so she found a seat, piled her bags around her, and pulled out a book to read while she waited.

While she looked pretty engrossed in it, anytime she saw someone pass by her eyes flicked up like she was expecting them to come sit nearby.

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The last thing he remembered was was falling from the cliff, his brother and his... his friend above him, Jiang Cheng scowling furiously and Lan Zhan watching in horror as he fell. He didn't feel an impact, but he was no longer falling. He was no longer anything. He didn't know how long he was there.

Then the nothingness dropped away and he was falling again. He braced himself for a terrible landing on the rocks below, but instead he landed on his back with no more force than if he'd fallen off his chair.

Chenqing landed next to him. The black flute bounced once before settling near his hand, its red tassel splayed out on the floor.

Wei Wuxian lay there for a moment, to see if the floor would drop away and send him falling again, but when it did not, he picked up his flute and pulled himself to his feet. He brushed off his black and red robes and looked around at the scene where he'd landed.

[OOC: He just dropped out of thin air.]

All right, this was going to be how this started?

Maeve looked up from her book, to him, and then up at the ceiling, and wondered if maybe this was like some TikTok prank thing?

"Hey," she said, and flipped a page.

"Hi." All right. This didn't feel like any reincarnation that he'd heard of, but it also didn't feel like any hell he'd heard of. He'd read a book at Cloud Recesses about doorways to other worlds, but it had been entirely theoretical. "Ah, I'm sorry to bother you, but where are we?"

"Baltimore?" Maeve answered, and nodded towards the sign. "We're all going to somewhere called Fandom?"

Still not convinced she wasn't being recorded.

"Of course," he nodded. He tapped his flute against his chin. "How far is it to Yiling, do you think?" He had a suspicion it was pretty far, but it was best to get as much information as he could.

"I'm not positive where that is, but I'm going to guess you're far," Maeve told him.

Wei Wuxian nodded knowledgeably. He linked his hands together behind his back, flute still in his left hand. "And how far have you come?"

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Well, someone was a show-off. Teleportation was risky as all hell, and to do it just to make an entrance and then boff the landing? Arabella gave Wei Wuxian judgy eyes over the top of her phone as she tapped out a play-by-play to Catalina of what had just happened.

She wondered how he'd kept his clothes, though.

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Well, fine. Have a judgey look right back. Followed by a curious one, as he tries to figure out what that device in her hand might be.

You'd think he'd never seen a definitely-not-the-latest-model iPhone in a pink sparkly case before.

Well. Probably he hadn't.

"Is it all natural fibers?" Arabella asked. "Is that the secret?"

Wei Wuxian had no idea what she's talking about. He made a guess and lifted his flute. "It's bamboo." Infused with resentful energy, but he didn't need to share that part.

Arabella nodded sagely, like this made perfect sense.

Well, it sort of did. Bamboo had carbon in it, didn't it? Probably?

"My sister teleported once and the only thing she got to keep was a piece of chalk."

"Why chalk?" he asked. Wait. "The only thing?" He gestured at his clothes.

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Miles waved at the guy with a long hair. "Hi! I'm Miles," he said cheerfully. "Going to this school too, huh?"

Which was totally obvious but hey, Miles was just trying to make conversation.

Wei Wuxian really didn't like not knowing things. "School, yes," he said, nodding his head, then suddenly he was stricken with a horrible thought. What if this was his hell - a school like Cloud Recesses but with no friends and no fun. "Ah, do you know if alcohol's permitted at this school?" The sudden horror was visible on his face.

"Uhhhhh... I don't know?" Miles replied which was more of a question than a response. "Maybe. I mean there's probably a rule about it but I've seen kids sneak in worse stuff into school."

Wei Wuxian waved a hand. "I can sneak things in. But do you know if they're strict? How many rules do they have? More or less than 3000?"

"I have noooooo idea," Miles said holding up his hands. "My guess is that alcohol is a no-go. Probably no fighting or bullying? It's my first time coming to this school but that girl over there said it was non-traditional. So who knows?"

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Okay, yeah, it was sort of hard to play it entirely cool when someone just fell out of the nowhere.

"Okay, someone please tell me someone else saw that," he demanded, after a moment of staring, because subtly was not usually his strong suit, but no one seemed hurt, so now he was just worried about his brain.

"It's just a teleport," Arabella scoffed, like they happened all the time and were not, in fact, something she'd only previously seen in person once in her entire life.

Which meant that Troy, who was totally not embarrassed, like, at all about his reaction now, laughed totally not nervously at that, and shrugged it off and could stop grinning to compensate for his chagrin at any moment.

"Well, yeah," he said, obviously the epitome of smooth, "obviously, a teleport." He had a scoff of his own now. "I mean, I knew that, I was just....you know, confirming."

They had teleports here? What, and why, and most importantly, how did he get one?? Did it hurt? Did it do weird things to your butt?

"What, people don't travel like that where you come from?" Wei Wuxian asked, He spun his flute in his fingers, pretending like he didn't really want to know the answer.

Oh, man, Troy was apparenly way behind on this whole teleport thing, and he was starting to feel a little ticked off that no one told him about it before.

"I mean," he scoffed a little, ignoring that it was definitely way too warm and uncomfortable in this room right now for his letter jacket, yeah, of...course they do, they just...do it...in...visibly, so, that's...why I was...so suprrised, you know, because you were so...visible..."

Yeah, even Troy had given up on that about halfway through it, and he thought about admitting as much and just asking the guy how he did it, but there were cute girls in the room, so it was clearly not the time or place.

Wei Wuxian was starting to suspect this guy didn't know what he was talking about. "Of course, if you want to waste the spiritual energy anyone can travel invisibly," he improvised. "I suppose your sect must be very powerful. Perhaps I can learn from you."

Now where in the world would he have gotten that idea?

"Oh," Troy assured him, leaning back in his chair now that the initial shock and the subsequent embarrassment had subsided enough for him to do so with some modicum of dignity and confidence restored, with a casual glance around to see if anyone might happen to hear this next part, "it's true. My sex is very powerful. And no offense," he laughed as he held out a hand, "but I don't you're my type."

He was probably one of the prettiest dudes Troy had ever seen before, though, so, mad respect.