The Holoscene, Friday

[thishouseishaunted]

Mae's "civilized" class on Fridays was kind of fun, in that it was entertaining to see what sorts of faces the teacher would make at Mae's attempts to wear gloves. But it was also kind of frustrating and irritating because she was not a Victorian dandy so why did she have to wear gloves?

Why did she have to be civilized, for that matter?

So she was taking her frustrations today out in the Holoscene, beating up holographic trashcans and trash-mans and trash-ladies and trash-non-of-the-aboves with her holographic baseball bat, all while shrieking like a banshee.

It was very theraputic. Mae was thinking she should make start a class. Nina had a class, so she could, too, right? A "How to be beating up holographic things with a baseball bat and screaming like a banshee" class. . . .

[open! No OCD, just let me know if you wanna mod a holosuite and not interact]

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[thishouseishaunted]

"Cars are kind of extraneous," Mae agreed. She ran everywhere, herself. "But they do look like a lot of fun, if you get to drive them where there aren't any other cars and you can't accidentally hurt anyone. "

[white_oleander]

"L.A.'s so spread out," Astrid noted, "that you pretty much need a car if you ever want to get anywhere..."

Or a van. How many vans had she been stuffed into and carted around in in the last two years? Too many to want to count.

[thishouseishaunted]

"Gross," Mae decided. "Don't they have, like, buses and things?"

[white_oleander]

"They do," Astrid had to smile faintly at the question, "but 'gross' would be a pretty good way to describe them, too.

"A car's great, though," she added, "for driving up and down the coast, you know? Long stretches of high way...nothing but sun and sand and water and wind..."

[thishouseishaunted]

"I've never really been on a coast," Mae mused. "I mean, I've been here, but I don't think that really counts. I like riding on the back of my friend Gregg's bike, though, we get some good wind going then!" 

[white_oleander]

"If we're ever in California together," said Astrid, despite that heavy feeling that she might never see California again, or, if she did, it wouldn't be under very good circumstances, "we'll have to get a convertible and go, maybe up to Oregon, or down south to Mexico."

And she didn't want to disparage Mae's friend or his bike, but she was pretty sure she could give them a pretty good run for their money, in that case.

"I guess you could just program something like it here," she realized, "but I don't think it'd really be the same."

[thishouseishaunted]

Mae looked around and shrugged. "I guess not." She totally thought it probably would, but didn't want Astrid to feel bad. "It sounds fun, though. We should totally do that some day."

[white_oleander]

"Yeah," said Astrid, who was starting to wish she hadn't said anything about it at all, "maybe."

Her eyes dropped away for a moment, as she felt like every inch of her awkwardness was being slowly magnified with each second that passed without her saying anything else.

"Are you going to sit in on the lesson?" she eventually asked. "It's probably not going to be very interesting, though."

Said the girl who had yet to hear about the underwater in space with monsters and flattening planet parts yet.

[thishouseishaunted]

Mae, for her part, was wondering what she'd said wrong. Maybe it was just her memory being weird, but she could swear it had been easier to hang out with Astrid before she went home for awhile.

"Do you want me to? I don't want to be in the way or anything."

[white_oleander]

"I don't see how you would be," said Astrid, especially since she'd been thinking it would be nice to just sort of have her there, but now she wasn't so sure. After all, at the Holoscene, Mae could do whatever she wanted, pretty much; why would she want to just hang out in the back seat of a fake car while Astrid gave driving lessons?

[thishouseishaunted]

"It'd be fun to hang out, maybe," Mae said. "And I could learn about driving, too!"