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[orderfromchaos]

[Public, video]

So, uh. Some of you who frequent the eighth floor common room might have noticed. An extremely geometrical tree where your coffee table used to be.

I can fix that. I mean, I'm going to. Fix that. Unless you guys like it? I mean. Whatever. It's not my floor. Let me know.



[Private to Vin]

[There's a long period of silence. Okay, it's only like ten seconds, but that feels like a lot.]

So. That. Happened.



[Private to Elsa]

...have fun?



[Private to Rogue]

A while back you offered to help people work with their powers. Is that still a thing?



[Private to Helena]

You, uh. Don't have to respond to this at all if you aren't comfortable, or anything. But if there's anything you want to ask me, I'll try my best to answer. And I won't be mad or anything.

Comments

[notdreaming]

It was a team effort. We don't really need a coffee table anyway. I mean, nobody uses it that I can tell.

[orderfromchaos]

Maybe I should do a little bench around the trunk. You could have indoor picnics and stuff.

[notdreaming]

Isn't that just called lunch?

[orderfromchaos]

Nah, You carry the food around in a basket first. That's the defining element of a picnic.

[notdreaming]

Right, of course. How could I forget about the basket.

[orderfromchaos]

I'm serious! We did indoor picnics all the time when I was growing up, it was basically too hot to breathe outside all summer, so you'd get blankets and baskets and bring sandwiches to the church rec room, and somebody would put a movie on the big projector, and someone would bring Flavor Ices. It was pretty great.

[notdreaming]

Really? [ She's genuinely interested, now. ] The way the weather is monitored it never gets that hot in the cities on Krypton. That sounds like a lot of fun.

[orderfromchaos]

It was.

You guys controlled the weather all over the planet? That's crazy.

[But, like, in the cool way.]

[notdreaming]

Not the whole planet. Just the places where all the people are, and some tourist destinations. The Fire Falls wouldn't be much fun if they were cooled down, you know?