The Perk: Evening

[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

She comes in for a latte and one of those fantastic sandwiches and sits down at a table with her laptop. Not that she's nervous about classes tomorrow or anything. She's a professional.

Alternately eating, typing, and drinking, and in no way intruding on the sweetest date ever she downloads images for her 401 students to dissect.



[[open to any and all, I just didn't want to intrude on Jerod and Rose and the omg!cuteness of their date.]]

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[chasingangela]

Angela is explaining the effects cafeteria food had last term to Lyta as they walk in.

"Seriously, it was all-ABBA for a day. This is better."

She points to the menu. "I usually get a latte and a muffin, but the scones are pretty good. And some people really like the mocha."

[psi16.livejournal.com]

Lyta doesn't know who "ABBA" is but, by the tone in Angela's voice, she thinks it wasn't a welcome effect. She then looks up at the menu. "I found the white chocolate mocha, I think it was," she says. "So the muffins are good?"

[chasingangela]

"The white chocolate mocha is nice. A little sweet for me sometimes, but yummy. And the muffins are very good. I like lemon poppyseed best, I guess, but I'll take whatever."

[psi16.livejournal.com]

Lyta nods, standing back and reading the menu. She lets Angela step up first, ordering her drink and snack, and then follows suit.

[chasingangela]

Once she gets her latte and chocolate chip muffin (because variety is nice), Angela takes a seat in one of the cushy chairs by the window.

"Which class are you in, Lyta?"

[psi16.livejournal.com]

Lyta seats herself opposite Angela. "Class?"

[chasingangela]

Angela scrunches her forehead. "Confusing question, sorry. Year? Grade? Freshman, sophomore, junior, senior..."

She hopes one of these will ring a bell.

[psi16.livejournal.com]

"Oh!" Lyta nods, understanding now. "Freshman." The again is unvoiced.

[chasingangela]

"I'm a junior. Wouldn't want to be the youngest here, though at least almost everyone else in your grade is new with you. The only freshman we had first semester was DEATH, and he's sort of ... interesting."

[psi16.livejournal.com]

Her throat suddenly goes dry, and the bite of scone she had been working on takes some effort to swallow. When she finally does work it down, she chases it with a sip of her white mocha.

"Death?" she manages after a moment. She had been there and done that...and didn't want to do it again soon.

[chasingangela]

Angela can tell Lyta has been frightened. "He doesn't kill people," she reassures. "I'm pretty sure it's probably just a name. He's ... well, I can't see him, but the people who can say he's a very tall skeleton. A little strange, but he's always been friendly to me." She shrugs. "He has a nice horse."

[psi16.livejournal.com]

Riiiiight. She doesn't have to voice that, as it's clear across her expression. Everytime she thinks she has a bead on this place, it all shifts, and something else strange happens. What is this place?

Shaking her head, she turns her attention back to her mocha and her scone.

[chasingangela]

"It's not all scary stuff," Angela says, a little desperate. "I mean, most of the people are incredible. I have friends here from all kinds of different backgrounds. I mean, I'm from ten years in the past, and nobody's even blinked about that, probably because some of them are a couple thousand years away from their time."

"You just have to kind of take it as it goes." She shoots a rueful smile. "I fail as Big Sister, don't I?"

[psi16.livejournal.com]

Lyta shakes her head. She is relieved to know that she is not the only one falling victim to time warps and interdimensional portals. "Not at all. You're a big help, actually...lots of things I wouldn't know otherwise." She gives her own rueful smile. "What you've told me lets me know to expect the unexpected."

[chasingangela]

"Exactly," Angela says, relieved. "Remember that whatever happens, it's probably not even the weirdest thing to happen that day, let alone since school started. And most of it is just weird, not dangerous or anything."

"Anything else you're curious about?"

[psi16.livejournal.com]

"Not at the moment." Lyta sips her white mocha. "But I'm sure there will be twenty more questions once everything gets started."

[chasingangela]

"You know where to find me," Angela says, glancing at her watch. "The junior class is doing a meeting about elections and I should probably go. Let me know if you need help finding classes or anything tomorrow."

[psi16.livejournal.com]

Lyta nods. "I do. Thank you. And hopefully, all will go well -- for both of us tomorrow." She smiles. "See you later."