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

There were plenty of chairs and tables by the bonfire, and some further out on the lawn for anyone who might want to enjoy their food alone, or just gaze at the new folks and try to figure them out. All of these potential activities were valid!

[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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Well. This had been quite the morning. Time travel and a cantankerous roommate who happened to be male was no doubt just the top of this strange place.

Enola found a table, a cup of tea and some small finger sandwiches and sat down to take nourishment and take stock of her current situation.

Strange did not even cover it.

"Hi!!!!!!!!!!!" Nina chirped, honing in on one of the new girls with a beaming smile. "Hope you're having fun here!!!!!!!!!! How was your trip????????"

There was a moment of alarm at the rather loud but very friendly girl but that went away pretty quickly. “Oh. Yes! Hello there! My trip was fine up until the end where I traveled over 100 years to the future and then rode here on an invisible bus,” Enola replied. “Which seems very strange to me but that seems to be the level of normalcy around here. How do you do? I am Enola Holmes.”

"I'm Nina Argentum," she said, delighted at that matter-of-fact summation of weirdness. Nina was wearing a purple flower crown and had a heart-topped magic wand to match.

Mostly because her dad had just given them to her.

"I'm well, thanks!!!!!!! It's great to meet you as well!!!!!!! Did you like the bus????????" she asked eagerly. "I did that!!!!!!!!!"

“You made the bus invisible?” Enola asked looking amazed. “That was quite a trick. Quite frankly this island is full of surprises. I only hope this is all true and I haven’t gone mad.”

"You'll feel like you've gone mad a lot in the next few weeks," Nina said, which was maybe not reassuring. "But, like, it's all real, even the gremlins and teal deer???????"

She was going to start basic and work her way up with this one.

“I haven’t heard about those,” Enola said as she put down her tea cup. Clearly her curiosity was roused. “Do tell me about them!”

"Teal deer are, like, deer that are a lovely shade of teal," Nina said, smiling. "There's a preserve on island and they tend to hang out there, along with the alots, which are these furry beasts that tend to show up whenever someone is doing 'a lot' of something in their vicinity??????? Like, if you went into the preserve and read a book there, you'd probably wind up with an alot nosing all up in your business to check in on you???????? They're friendly, just curious, and super soft!!!!!!!!"

Please don't hurt the alots, Enola.

"Gremlins, on the other hand, avoid if you can," she advised, rather seriously. "They're small, like to hide in spaces like vents, and their bite is hallucinogenic!!!!!!!!!"

Enola would never hurt anything cute and fuzzy! After all she was known for saving baby lambs and foolish viscounts.

“This place is unbelievable!” She exclaimed. “I find it rather strange that I of all people would be sent here.”

Then again...

“In this time and age do the women have the right to vote in this country?”

"Yes," Nina said brightly. "In fact, six years ago Saudi Arabia granted that women have the right to vote as well, which means in every country in the world that has elections, women have the right to vote!!!!!!!!"

Suddenly the reason why her mother sent her here was quite apparent.

“Ah! Yes. I believe my mother is continuing her quest for me to live in a better world. Though why here on an island with such dangers seems unlikely.”

Nina hesitated.

"Well," she said tentatively, "going off-island is honestly more dangerous than staying on it, these days, unless you universe-shift slightly to the right or left of things???????"

“I’m unsure of your meaning,” Enola said raising an eyebrow in confusion. “But I will take your advice to heart and ensure to use caution until I know more of this environment.”

"There's a pandemic going on," Nina sighed. "It can't cross our border, since we're divided by magic, so we're safe here, but but it's really not safe to leave the island to explore more of this time, here and now."

“Well. That’s certainly unfortunate,” Enola said looking concerned. “Very well. I shall stay on the island unless warranted by others and ensured safety.”

"I'm glad," Nina said, smiling. "And most everything you'd need will be on the island or someone can get it to you."

She grinned, then.

"You've got a school-assigned sibling, but anything you want to bring to the Student Council's attention would go to me, as I'm head of it," because no one had dared fight her for her crown, "and I also co-own the in town bookshop, called The Bookbelt!!!!!!!!!!!"

So Nina was really well situated to ask questions of, should people need help.

She was even better situated to learn all the things.

"There's also the guidance counselor, Miss Karolina Dean, if you need more confidential help, and if something so serious that you don't think either StuCo or the counselor can help, it should go to Anakin Skywalker, as he's the Dean of Students," she advised. "You've met him already, as you've taken the shuttle-----his bark his worse than his bite!!!!!!! I call him Bus Dean!!!!!!!!!"

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“Yes,” Enola said with her face slightly flushed. “We met. I tipped him for helping me with my luggage.”

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