Check-In: Not-Mother Hen

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Kitty sat at the bar with a cup of coffee and her notebook, watching the 'welcoming committee' make themselves busy. Liz was here, as she'd promised Kitty she would be and Kitty gave her a quick smile of encouragement.

One of the worst things about Check-In Days was that you never knew whether it'd be a whole long day of no one arriving, one spectacular fall from the ceiling and dropping dead after another, or anything in between. It made it hard to know what to do with yourself. After awhile, you got used to it and just kept on with whatever you'd do otherwise, and know that if you didn't step up for a new arrival, someone else would. But for someone not used to treating it like a responsibility to be here, especially someone with Liz's anxious need to be perfect at it, Check-In Day could be emotionally exhausting.

So Kitty made sure to have milk warmed for hot cocoa and her plans for the obstacle course handy in case Liz needed something to do with herself. Otherwise, she was working on a modification of Cerebro to see if she could start detecting new arrivals.


[ooc: Regular check-in day gathering post. If you want Kitty, ping me.]

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[st_abby]

"You never know what might be useful again later." Vax didn't know from computers at all, but he'd had them explained to him. He still wasn't sure he really understood them, but it wasn't a whole lot stranger than magic he supposed.

"We get to travel to other places once in a while - we call them 'Otherworlds.' None of them has been home to any of us yet, and it's only for a few weeks. But I'm sure some of them have got computers."

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[st_randedinwinter]

"That's not what I meant about unlearn..." Brad said, but smiled. He nodded. "I think computers is sort of like riding a bike. You always remember how to use one... I've basically been around them all my life."

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[st_abby]

Bikes? ...Bikes.

"You mean like riding a horse?"

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[st_randedinwinter]

Bradley blinked. He didn't understand for a second. Vax's slightly pointed ears reminded him that his world and Vax's world were different.

"Yeah, I guess so." He replied. "Bikes are... like horses except not alive. They're machines with wheels that you peddle to move."

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[st_abby]

It was a fair description, but Vax couldn't help chuckling. "Oh, I've seen them since I've been here, on the teevees and in pictures," he explained. "It's just I've never ridden one, so I don't rightly know what that's like."

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[st_randedinwinter]

"Oh," he replied, looking embarrassed for a minute. Smooth, Bradley... "well, if it helps... It's not that hard. I mean, most people learn when they're like 5 I guess. I bet you could learn quickly."