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Dite's Decadent Delights

It was good to be back in Fandom again, even though Karla's vacation to Gotham had been delightful. It had mostly involved her sitting in the kitchen with a book while Alfred plied her with food.

The gym and excursions were for other people. Karla's job had been to relax and eat as much as she could. She'd been so up for that.

But now she was back and getting Dite's ready for the holidays.

Yay for holiday-themed window displays! And (in)appropriate gift bags.

Karla couldn't help but laugh as she imagined Warren opening something like this for Christmas.

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There's an entire box of holiday items she's not even going to look at.

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With no Jedi to bother him... verbally, Ender decided to take his lunch break somewhere else.

Of course, how it all worked out was this: Ender Wiggin, with a bag of sandwiches and a cat riding on his shoulder, walking into a sex toy shop. At least he looked aware of the picture he was making.

"Karla," he said, a little dryly.

Karla glanced up at Ender and tried--very hard--not to smile. "Ender," she said, not quite as dryly as he. "You're looking very...well."

Ben-the-cat scrabbled at Ender's shoulder in an attempt to stay put as he moved in closer, dropping the bag of sandwiches on the counter. "I think Ben might have some deeply repressed wish to be a parrot," he said.

"Or maybe a monkey," Karla suggested. "I could see Ben secretly longing to be a monkey. Though if you're in the mood to indulge him, I think we have some pirate costumes in the back."

Well, 'costumes.'

"I could get you and eyepatch at the very least."

Don't ask about the peg leg, Ender. Just don't.

"Now that would be something to see him turning back in," Ender said, amused. "But no, thanks."

He pried the cat off his shoulder and gently set him down on the counter. "So how are you?"

Which of course meant that Ben had to wander over and begin butting Karla's hand for petting. Karla was happy enough to oblige, especially since it was that or let him examine the bag of sandwiches.

"In a much better mood than the other night," she said with a smile. "I had a good holiday with Dinah in Gotham. Lots of delicious foods were eaten. Some by other people, even!"

Ender watched the cat ingratiate himself for a few seconds before he replied. "I'm not sure whether that's a good thing or a bad thing," he said, "Though that might just be because I'm used seeing you surrounded by armies of men shoving food at your mouth."

"It was mostly females this time?" Karla offered. Though, really, Alfred had kind of spear-headed the 'Feed Karla' program, while Barbara and Helena observed. "I'm finally gaining back most of the weight I lost in Agio, so it's only a good thing from where I'm standing."

"Well, keep it up," Ender said, nodding at the bag, "Because I have some bonus sandwiches, and I'm not going to feed them all to Ben just so he can swell another size or two."

Well, with permission granted, Karla was going to happily dig into the bag and pull out a few sandwiches, handing the first one over to Ender. "Thanks!" she said, deciding that if Ben was still a cat next week, it would be her turn to bring lunch to Ender. "Did you get a lot of work done over the holiday?"

It was like asking if he'd had fun.

He took the sandwich. "Quite a bit," Ender said, in roughly the same tone someone would've used had they said 'yes, I had fun over the holiday'. "I've been talking to the current colony government and they're finally starting to solve some of the problems they've been having with the local wildlife."

"Local wildlife?" Karla asked, a third of her sandwich already gone. "I'm assuming this is a bigger problem than unruly predators or the like?"

Karla figured Ender's people could take care of something that simple.

"Bugs," Ender said, with a quick smile. "Very small ones. They'd perforate the tissue of the settlers. They developed a rudimentary vaccin a while ago, but it wasn't fool-proof yet."

"Oooh," Karla said, not trying to be insensitive, but intrigued none the less. The bugs themselves weren't exactly something that fell under a Healer's purview, but still... "Do you know how they perfected it?"

"Tweaking the DNA of the code, among other things," he said. "I've got a whole slew of emails on the topic, if you want me to forward them to you."

It wasn't like Karla had any contacts back home anyway, and it was a nice, constructive little way to give the IF the finger.

"I'd love them!" Karla said, blissfully ignorant of any finger saluting Ender was doing by offering them to her. "I'll probably pester you with a million questions about how everything worked, but it all sounds fascinating."

"It is," Ender agreed, readily. "You do have your school email set up, right?"

Karla nodded. "Dinah helped me with it last year. Supposedly for school stuff, but I've mostly used it to set up parties and whatnot."

Another exciting thought came to her. "Is there any background reading I should do?"

He blinked, then laughed. "I'm sure there's a lot of exo-biology you could be catching up on," he granted. "I could have a poke around my personal library of ebooks as well, if you find it interesting."

"Exo-biology?" Karla asked, doing a bit of blinking of her own. "Outer biology?"

Because of course Kaeleer used the same linguistic roots for their prefixes, even though they didn't actually have those languages or cultures. Duh.

"Anything you send my way, I'll read. I make no promises about understanding, but I'll read them," she promised, reaching for another sandwich.

Like she was going to pass up another reason to drop by and visit. Honestly, now.

"Or xenobiology," he said, smoothly. "They haven't settled on a term yet. The study of creatures not indiginous to our world." Ender gave her a wry smile. "Technically, that would include you."

Karla returned that smile. "Anyone interested in studying my biology had better be content with just asking me about it," she said. She glanced down at her hand, extending her snake-tooth for a moment to study. "Sometimes I wonder if I'd even be considered human in this world," she murmured. "Lucivar probably wouldn't, but that's how we classify him. If I were a different person, that question might bother me."

Technically it did, but more out of concern why someone would need to ask that rather than any fear of the answer.

Yay for the holidays

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