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

The good weather seemed to last throughout the day, but the bonfire was there to help with all your s'more needs all the same, much like all the other offerings of the food and drink tables.

Or maybe you just wanted to sit under a tree and judge people from afar. That was cool, too.

[OCD 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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Bob shrugged dismissively. "Don't look at me. I haven't eaten anything in over a thousand years." Which wasn't strictly true, if you counted that time he'd possessed Hannibal Lecter, but near enough.

"Are you a teacher here?"

Alright, that was weird. But not the first person she'd met that was over a thousand years old.

"Oh, no," she said. "I work in town, but it looked like the picnic was for everybody so I figured why not?"

"As far as I know, it is." Bob shrugged again. "If not, feel free to have mine. Have you been here long?"

"No, I only arrived this week," she said. "I'm Wanda, I work over at the magic shop."

"Ah." Bob nodded. "I worked there myself for a time. Who's running it these days?"

"I'll be honest with you, I have no idea," she said. "It seems like I'm the only person that works there."

"Hm. Oh, well."

Was that enough small talk? Could Bob ask the real questions now?

"What sort of magic do you do?"

"Oh, um." Not a question she expected, but she figured she had invited it by saying where she worked. "Chaos magic is what it's called, I guess."

Not that she knew that a few weeks ago.

"Ah. That would explain the whole..." He gestured back and forth in front of her. "...thing that your aura is doing."

Then, because that might have been presumptuous and because she was pretty, he grinned and bowed. "Hrothbert of Bainbridge at your service. Sorcerer, teacher, former magic shop employee. My friends call me Bob."

"Nice to meet you, Bob," she said with a smile. "I'm honestly not surprised I have a weird aura, though this is the first time someone said it to me out loud."

"I suppose it can be more difficult to truly see your own," he noted. "Yours is quite striking, Wanda."

In the back of his head, he could hear Harry's voice telling him to knock it off. He firmly ignored it. There was nothing wrong with being friendly!

"Thank you?" She had no idea if that was a compliment or not.

It was definitely a compliment...in a Bob sort of way.

"I do adore meeting interesting people," he said. "They lend a bit of color to everything. The world can be so dull sometimes."

Well, his usual world was "Harry's apartment", which sort of explained that.

"I appreciate dull sometimes." That was why she came here, after all. Joke was on her, there. "Interesting can be good or bad."

More so bad, in her case.

"Mm...True, I suppose," Bob conceded. "The interesting around here isn't generally bad, though. At least not in the long run." People tended to get over the dying and such.

"That's what I've been told," she said. "But I have heard about some things I'd rather avoid."

Seeing dead husbands, for one.

"Such as?" Bob asked. "I've heard of quite a few, although most of them pass me by for the obvious reason."

“Oh, you know, dead family members made of mud,” she said. “That sort of thing.”

"Huh. I haven't seen that one, I must say," Bob said. "Did turn into a woman once. Very odd. Hot, but odd."

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