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Malia had never been out of California before. Or Beacon County, for that matter. She'd barely been out of Beacon Hills proper, and that was mostly as a coyote hunting for food.

So this was new and exciting! Or, you know, new at least. She was going to school. One that didn't, as far as she could tell, require her to learn math. So right there it had one up over BHHS. It also didn't have Scott or Stiles, which was not a point in its favor, but in the end, she'd decided that not having to struggle through eleventh grade math beat out getting to have the few people she knew around, especially when Scott agreed he could try to teach her control over the internet.

So here she was. Her ears still felt stuffed full of cotton from the plane, and the whole airport smelled like cleaning fluid and anxiety, and she was managing to claw tiny holes in the upholstery with claws that didn't want to stay hidden away like they were supposed to, but hey. At least she was having an adventure?

[IT'S NEWBIE SHUTTLE TIME! Up early-ish because work has been dumb this week and I might be slow.]

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Sakaki's head turned slowly from the owl to the sound of a voice, and then she jumped with a small sound of surprise because there was a boy there, too!

Instantly embarrassed by her reaction, Sakaki wanted to just curl up somewhere and die perhaps, but instead, she managed a staggered, "He--hello" and a nod that seems like it was trying to be more polite than it managed to be.

"That's Hedwig," Harry told her, since it seemed like he was secondary here. That was fine. It was kind of a nice change.

"Hedwig," Sakaki repeated, and you were about to be completely invisible again, Harry, because her wide, bright shining eyes were entirely on the owl again, and, oh, that was perfect, of course, and her grip had tightened on the sides of her open phrase book so tightly they might tear, just to keep her hands from moving up to bury her face, the heat of a blush already rising terribly with the urge to die in a completely different way than a moment ago, and she needed a moment over here.

Harry gave her a moment.

And then felt the need to ask, "What's your name?"

Okay. So maybe a moment was not exactly enough.

"Hm?" Distractedly, Sakaki's head turned back to Harry well before her eyes did, and, even after she looked at him again and blinked, they returned to the owl.

Then back to Harry, with a bewilderment that spoke volumes to how she could be expected to talk to a boy when there was Hedwig.

But she realized that she was probably coming across as rude and would try her best to focus on people.

"Oh," she said. "S-sakaki..."

There was was a beat, almost as if nudge herself to say more and to not look back at the owl.

"What's yours?"

"Harry," he said. "..Do you just want to hang out with Hedwig?"

Harry.

Harry.

"Can I?" asked Sakaki, eyes widening to their very limit, but then she stopped, shook her head a little,corrected herself.

"May I?"

Stopped again, shook her head again, but not to correct herself this time, just to marvel at the fact that this was even happening, unless she misunderstood, but, no, 'hang out' was a pretty common phrase, she was pretty sure she had it right!

"Do you think she'd want to?"

"Sure. I can't take her out of the cage in case she gets startled, but why not," he said.

"That's fine!" said Sakaki, maybe a little quickly, lest Harry even get even a second to think that it wouldn't be.

She was literally just going to sit there next to Hedwig the whole time with a distant, dazed look on her face, and that would probably be it, anyway.

That would be enough.

BWI Airport Portalocity Lounge, Saturday morning

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