BWI Airport Portalocity Lounge, Saturday Morning

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The Khan family was not known for doing the minimum for anything. Which is why the entire family drove down in multiple cars the entire way from Jersey City to BWI. Three hours in the car of her mom and dad asking if she had everything. Asking if she needed anything. There's a Target on the way in case she needed or forgot something. Meanwhile Aamir kept texting her complaints about Abbu's driving skills and asking if Kamala needed anything.

"I'm fine," was the common answer to everything. Again, again and again. Then there was hugs and fussing over everything when they got to the airport and reminders and more fuss. To which everything Kamala laughed and said "I'm fine."

And then they got in their car and left.

And Kamala was standing in the Portalocity Lounge taking it all in while holding her stuffed sloth and a pile of luggage next to her.

Deep breath. "I'm fine."

...

"Why is there so much glitter?"

[OCD Incoming]

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Re: Wait for the shuttle

[aroughtempestiwillraise]

Don't worry, Gale was very friendly. Or maybe just desperate to get away from the glitter. He was going to need so many castings of prestidigitation to be free from it's crafty curse.

"Hello there!" The cat in question just shuffled her wings and slept harder.

Re: Wait for the shuttle

[ifwebeworthy]

"Are you headed to Fandom? With your...cat?" Or did it have some fancy name?

Re: Wait for the shuttle

[aroughtempestiwillraise]

"Ah! I must correct you there, she is a tressym," Gale said. "Which is remarkably similar to your common feline, I will grant you. But could not be further for it."

Other than the sleeping in sunbeams. And demanding scritches. And knocking things off of high places. And the wanton murder of pigeons.

Re: Wait for the shuttle

[ifwebeworthy]

"A tressym," Don repeated. "Of course, my mistake. So you and your...tressym are on the way to Fandom?"

Thor remained annoyingly silent on the subject of what the fuck a tressym was, which Don was going to go ahead and guess meant he'd never heard of it and didn't want to admit that.

Also, the pigeons had it coming.

Re: Wait for the shuttle

[aroughtempestiwillraise]

Yeah, gods were kind of like that...

"Gale of Waterdeep," he said, offering a handshake. "Archmage and soon to be instructor of the arcane arts therein, yes."

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[ifwebeworthy]

"Oh, an archmage!" Don exclaimed as he shifted the stick to under his arm so he could hold his coffee with that hand and have one free for shaking. "Do you know Doctor Strange?" Or was he from farther afield than that? (Also, how fast was he going to get tired of that question?)

"Don Blake," he introduced himself as he took Gale's hand. "I'm also starting as an instructor this term."

Re: Wait for the shuttle

[aroughtempestiwillraise]

"You are the second person to ask me that," Gale replied, frowning for a moment as he considered the strange energy lingering on the man. But it wasn't his business unless, well, Mystra commanded it to be. Which would mean his lady speaking to him again. Which... well, moving right along. "What might you be teaching, Don?"

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[ifwebeworthy]

"Well, he's a well known guy back home," Don said, looking around and wondering who else had thought to bring up Stephen Strange.

Oh, yeah, that would be the Odinforce baked into Don's existence, since he was created by an Odinspell. It was a whole thing. A whole thing with Odin- as a prefix.

"I'll be teaching first aid this term. It's...kind of a long story. I'm actually a doctor, but right now I'm working on getting my license reinstated. Not--nothing bad, I mean, I was just dead for a while." These things happened!

Re: Wait for the shuttle

[aroughtempestiwillraise]

Now, was Odin in any way related to Tyr? Or was that more Thor's thing? Perhaps a touch of Lathander in there too.

"Ah! Terribly sorry for that," Gale said like it was a perfectly normal thing to happen from time to time. "Between you and I, I keep an insurance policy should I shuffle the mortal coil whilst going about my travels. Not like a lich or anything so unsavory, of course. But I wish you all the luck in traversing the bureaucracy that I should think is wholly universal."

Re: Wait for the shuttle

[ifwebeworthy]

Yes to all of the above except for the last one, although Tyr more distantly.

"Resurrection insurance?" Don checked. "Why don't we have that? I had to go to the DMV before I could get access to my bank account!"

Re: Wait for the shuttle

[aroughtempestiwillraise]

Strange, that overlap!

"It's certainly better than some cleric happening upon my body and hopefully casting speak dead upon me to learn how best to bring me back," Gale remarked. "Now what might a D-M-V be exactly?"

Yes, tell him all about it, Don. You know you want to.

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[ifwebeworthy]

"The Department of Motor Vehicles? It's--uh, first off, do you have motor vehicles where you're from?"

He had to ask. Asgard, for example, would be a no.

Re: Wait for the shuttle

[aroughtempestiwillraise]

"That is an unfamiliar term, I must admit, but my studies are less in the field of the mechanical," Gale admitted. "I have heard they are making great strides in such matters in Baldur's Gate, however."

No, Gale. They were doin' some shit there with the poor Gondians.

Re: Wait for the shuttle

[ifwebeworthy]

"Okay, well...you know what, I am not the guy to explain it to you. But your driver's license also serves as your identification, which in my world you need to access a lot of services. I'm just lucky I'm from New York. It's easier there." For some reason, most people who came back from the dead in his universe were from New York.