[GP] Check-In Day: What a nice surprise; bring your alibis

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Every check-in day conjured memories of her first, and all of the others, which inevitably meant she spent the day with Lara on her mind, and Petey, Illyana, and Wyatt. She'd been blessed with dear friends and loves arriving, and yet she never stopped hoping she'd figure out the mess that was this pocket universe and get home.

It was starting to become complicated, though, almost a year later. It would hurt to lose the people she'd grown fond of here, almost as much as it would be good to get home. She didn't know what to do with that feeling, but it was what it was. All she could do was tend the bar with patience and understanding, and keep an eye on the readings her crude energy measuring devices out on the road sent to her.

For all the people that came in and out, it was a quiet day. So between drinks, she spent most of it bent over a notebook with a cup of coffee in her hand, trying to design better instruments to dismantle Yana's shackles. Maybe Percy could help her build them.

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Re: Emma: assigned threads

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Kitty blinked. She couldn't think the last time she'd heard anything of Mikhail. "No, Piotr. Colossus. I ask, because he's here." The village, though, that made her think of someone else. "Hey, do you know a girl named Laynia?"

Re: Emma: assigned threads

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She'd been vaguely aware there was another brother, but Emma didn't remember much more about him than that. "Layn- There's a Laynia here?" Kitty was proof enough Emma couldn't assume it would be the same Laynia she knew. But if it was, Nate wouldn't stop searching worlds until he found her, and it was hard not letting hope grow.

Re: Emma: assigned threads

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"Yeah. She's from...well, she's probably Russian, but she was living in Moira MacTaggart's castle in Scotland." Kitty tried to think what else Laynia had said about her life before she got here. She didn't talk much at all, for as nice as she was. "I don't think she'd been there very long. She didn't have very much training with using her abilities."

Re: Emma: assigned threads

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"I've been living in the castle for," Emma paused to think, but she didn't really need to, "almost two years. The Laynia I know had been there a lot longer than that. I think she was one of the first of us to end up there, maybe, and one of the first members of Excalibur too."

Re: Emma: assigned threads

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"Hm, yeah. She probably won't know you, unless it's a divergent timeline. But I'm sure she'd be glad to talk to someone from home. She's pretty lonely." And Kitty had tried to break through, but she hadn't gotten there yet.

Re: Emma: assigned threads

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Emma wondered if the loneliness was tied to missing certain people in particular, or if she hadn't bloomed into the friendly bartender with a smile for everybody and as universally adored that Emma remembered. "I'd like that. Maybe once I get more settled, I'll go looking for her. Is she tending bar here?"

Re: Emma: assigned threads

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"Sometimes, yeah. And baking. She keeps to herself a lot." Which now that she said it made Kitty feel pretty guilty. She really should be trying harder with Laynia. They were friends, but she couldn't quite get her to open up to the other people in the inn.

Re: Emma: assigned threads

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"The Laynia I know is a very good baker." Baking was also something Laynia did when she was upset or needed a distraction. Emma remembered lots and lots of cookies during one of the tough times. If not baking, then making soup; that was something Nate had learned from Laynia.

"That makes five of us. Any others that you know of?"