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Finding (More) New Hobbies, Thursday 8/14 Period 2

Stark still, after years of associating with Summer, had no social media. He hadn’t been flooded with notifications about a new album coming. Today’s activity was completely coincidental! Really.

Sure, maybe ‘friendship bracelets’ had been higher in the search results than they might have been otherwise when Stark looked up ‘fun easy hobbies’ but he wasn’t doing this on purpose.

“Today,” Stark said, “jewelry. But nothing fancy. Beaded friendship bracelets. Sometimes these are given away or traded. Easy to do, but fun, I hope. And then you have something at the end to show for your efforts and maybe something you could give to someone. If you like.”

He smiled a little uncertainly. “I have elastic cord. You’ll want to make sure there’s enough of it so you can tie it and have it still fit on a wrist. Yours or someone else’s. I’ve plenty of beads and plenty of cord and there are scissors. Not much else you need for this.”

“I have beads with letters and numbers, if you’d like to put messages. Or something meaningful to you, or whoever you might be giving one of these too. I have star beads and ones with glitter and ones that glow in the dark and metallic ones and ones that are just plain colors. And there are some other shapes as well. I’m not sure why these,” he pointed, “look like gummi bears but they’re amusing.”

“So…let’s make some things. And if you like this you can take more supplies with you to make more another time.”

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Friendly. Or like you're living the life of a showgirl.

Luma Zarrin

Steven Grant

Anakin Skywalker

Jonathan Sims

There are so many moddable beads here. So many. Like someone went on a spree in the craft section of T&C. Because...someone did.

Usually, Luma might have been excited for an activity like this, but she was just feeling a little down that morning. It didn't help in realizing that she didn't really have friends to make bracelets for.

Just her sister, her all-but-comatose cousin, a wayward missing love, and a little seamster lost to the multiverse...

Eleanor's was mostly orange and blue, for Rhys she did red and black, grey and black for Arthur, and browns and greens for Boc.

It was nice to have something to focus on, though, instead of her own thoughts.

Steven gave Luma a little wave when he thought she might be glancing in his direction. Nothing much. He wasn't trying to bother her. His intent was to show he'd paid attention during their conversation at the party, and that he remembered she'd said it was all right to say hello. Anything further was entirely up to her.

And Luma, with her headspace being distracted and distant as it was that morning, caught the wave and at first only blinked dully in response. Then enough of human manners seemed to push through the fog enough that she lifted her hand back.

And then enough of the fog had cleared to maybe remember her last sessions class about small talk, and she tried a little more.

"Hi."

And, a moment later: "Are you making your bracelets with anyone in particular in mind?"

Sometimes, it just took her a moment to get going with this kind of socialization thing.

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That was all right. Steven knew all about being physically present but not entirely mentally so. And struggling to socialize. So he simply smiled back in return, unbothered by the slowness of her reaction.

"Llewellyn for one," Steven said, pointing to the pile with the sun shaped beads and letters that spelled 'husband' in it. He then pointed to a more eclectic seeming pile of flowers and assorted green and purple beads and letters, "Those are for some friends? Still brainstorming them."

Steven then pointed to the pile with the moons. "And that's for Marc. Er - do you know him? Of him?"

Luma winced, just slightly, at how obvious at least one of those answers would have been if she'd just thought about it for two more seconds or actually paid attention to what Steven was making. A little flash of that frustration over how bad she could be at this, but at least she didn't feel too bad about her answer to his question, with a small shake of her head.

"No," she said. "I don't think so. Should I?"

The moons, at least, caught her attention. Sure, for her, werewolves being linked to the moon was pure nonsense, but she knew enough about the popular folklore to be intrigued.

"He's a bit shy," Steven said to reassure her it was fine she didn't know him. And perhaps, as a sibling herself, she might recognize the bemused energy that came with Steven purposefully using a description for Marc he knew Marc would eyeroll at. "He and I - er - share a body?"

Steven realized it'd been a while since he'd had to explain this to anyone. He pointed to his chest in case he hadn't been clear enough. "This one."

Luma was half a second away from asking what other body he could have meant,but realized that there could be a multitude of answers to that. Her head tilted as she pulled it over further, the thoughts of bodies and minds in them, how she was one person with two bodies, how Rhys was barely a person in his own body anymore, about what happened to the bodies Eleanor ate but never spit back out again.

"Oh," she said, and then had to wonder: "Where does he go, then, when you're using it?"

It was Fandom, Steven was not going to rule out the idea that there might be people with spare bodies in their closets they could pop into whenever they liked.

"Sort of - " Steven made a vague gesture in the air beside his head, like pushing something backwards " - in the back? Bit like sleeping. Same for me when it's him taking over."

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