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

[st_alksthroughwalls]

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: Liz - OTA

[st_rangepalette]

"I do not know of high school or diner. What are these things please?" Curiosity was one of Lillith's most besetting sins. She had learned not to indulge it when her life depended on it, but when it did not, she almost could not help herself.

"Come, why do not find somewhere to sit down and perhaps something to drink."

Re: Liz - OTA

[st_hotflashes]

"Oh. Um. Right." She felt bad for forgetting, but nodded to her question about the drink and then started walking a bit though hoped Lilith would take the lead as she wasn't quite familiar with the place yet. "So, um. High school is a place where people my age go to learn things. Actually we go to school when we're like, 4 or 5 and up until we're 18 and then if we want to we go to more school called university which has more, um, specialized classes." It was actually strange to say out loud, she realized, and she wondered if anyone else ever really thought about such a social construct.

"And a diner is a restaurant where you buy food. Hamburgers and fries and breakfast stuff... that sort of thing."

Re: Liz - OTA

[st_rangepalette]

Lillith nodded as though she understood. She had grown good at such pretenses, although in this case, they did not protect her but the girl. Finding oneself in a new place, it was difficult enough without having to explain everything one already knew as though it were false or unreal.

"Food," Lillith replied as though struck by the idea. "Do you know I have not eaten since yesterday now? I wonder if you are also hungry?"

Re: Liz - OTA

[st_hotflashes]

"Actually, I am sort of. When I came here it was really late at night." Liz was also a little tired, but the adrenaline from being pulled away from your own reality hit her hard. "There's a restaurant here, right? Someone mentioned there were places to get food here."

Re: Liz - OTA

[st_rangepalette]

"Coby said it was so, yes." Had he or had she decided it must be? Lillith no longer recalled. She too was tired and a trifle overwrought. But she was well-used to putting such things aside to see to Beatrycze. "Come. Let us find a meal. Often it helps to make things less strange."