School Assembly, Wednesday Afternoon, September 22, 2020

[sith_happened]

The chairs were in place, the auditorium was clean, bright, and entirely unarmed, and it was time for yet another exciting installment of "Things the Moose Thought Were Good For Human Children to Learn About."

Anakin climbed up to the rostrum, note card in hand. "Today we have another of our local businesspeople here to talk with you," he began. "Alluka Zoldyck, who is the owner of Pixie Dust, one of the clothing shops in town. She is also an alumnae of this school, and still lives here!"

Which was either a good thing or very odd, depending. Anakin thought it was fine, but he'd been here for 15 years, so his judgment was seriously suspect.

"She will be doing a talk on," he looked down and read from the card, "Street Fashion - Literally!"

So that sounded vaguely ominous.

"I'm sure we'll all learn a lot," he added.

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Re: Arrive and Mingle

[bookbeltof_love]

Nina eyed him for a moment--long enough for him to recognize that she didn't buy it at all if he was as smart as he seemed to be.

"I hope you sleep better tonight," she finally said, allowing the lie since she didn't know him well enough to pry.

At least to his face.

"I'm, like, okay????? Kind of wondering what we'll be doing today--this is the first one I've managed to show up to......"

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[toottootmagicflute]

"The one where they ran over stuffed bears with a trolley was very thought-provoking," he said.

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[bookbeltof_love]

...

"I see," she said, after turning that over in her mind and deciding that was almost definitely a gentlemanly sort of go away rather than an actual attempt at conversation.

"Cool," she said, giving up. Fine. He wanted to brood in peace. It was strange to brood in public but, like, maybe that was how they did it in his world. "Assembly's starting soon so I'll talk to you some other time."

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[toottootmagicflute]

"No, it was!" Wei Wuxian said quickly. "You had to decide what bears lived and which died. But this one'll probably be more normal."

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[bookbeltof_love]

Alright, maybe she'd read him wrong.

"That sounds like a pretty interesting assembly," Nina admitted. "Do you think this one being more normal would be better or worse??????"

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[toottootmagicflute]

"I don't know what 'normal' is here," he confessed.

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[bookbeltof_love]

"That's a complicated thing to define," she said, having to agree that normal here was definitely different from normal at home. "I suppose, like, the best way to help you figure that out would be to give you sort of a base-line for this place and time????? Fandom isn't quite like the rest of this world but a lot of the normal here is basically the same....."

She wasn't going to suggest a trip to the mainland, though, since Nina actually paid attention to the news off the island and... no, thanks. Rather not.