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by **TheSeer** » Tue Jun 23, 2009 6:44 am

"No, actually. Why, were you about to blame me for twenty-first century culture? I promise, Okki, it's not my fault." Riley's voice was still cheerful. This was, he reminded himself, the sort of thing that happened when you made friends from a different time.

by **Kiru** » Tue Jun 23, 2009 6:47 am

"No, it was more me blaming 'human instincts.' How it is that I have to adapt completely to everyone else's. Of course, I forgot for a few seconds that I'm in a high school." He got out some plates and trays. "Come over here and show me how much you want."

by **TheSeer** » Tue Jun 23, 2009 6:52 am

"Actually, you and I always split the difference. Didn't I say that?" He traced out a square with his finger in the air over the pan. "Like that, please."

by **Kiru** » Tue Jun 23, 2009 6:55 am

Okki did as instructed, shoveling what seemed a fairly large amount of food onto Riley's plate. "You must really like my cooking."

by **TheSeer** » Tue Jun 23, 2009 6:59 am

"No - well, I mean, yes, duh, but actually I'm just hungry. I think I'm starting a growth spurt or something."

by **Kiru** » Tue Jun 23, 2009 7:01 am

"I-..." Okki made a face without thinking. "Is that...time traveller humor?"

by **TheSeer** » Tue Jun 23, 2009 7:04 am

Riley hesitated, confused. "Huh? What did I say? Is my dialect in the wrong decade again?"

by **Kiru** » Tue Jun 23, 2009 7:07 am

Okki made a few attempts at starting a sentence. "My...my brain reminds me that you said you were really old, and...you're just now hitting puberty?"

by **TheSeer** » Tue Jun 23, 2009 7:14 am

"OH!" Riley cracked up laughing. "Okki! Time traveler! I said I was born in 1831. That doesn't mean I've been alive a hundred seventy whatever years. I'm only fifteen. Why did you... well, okay, this is Chambers, there are students that old here. But I'm just vanilla human teenager, except for being superimposed with my own nonexistence. Hah! No wonder you thought I'd want to look older!"

by **Kiru** » Tue Jun 23, 2009 7:18 am

The skunk gave Riley a look somewhere between relieved and annoyed. "You need to prioritize your facts a bit better. Now eat." With that, Okki started digging into his own plate. "It never tastes the same twice..."

by **TheSeer** » Tue Jun 23, 2009 7:23 am

"It's not my fault English is designed for hard linear causality." Riley dug into the lasagna. "Umm! Thanks, Okki, it's great." And then, "At least, I hope it's not my fault. That would be very mean of me."

by **Kiru** » Tue Jun 23, 2009 7:27 am

Okki chewed slowly as he ran Riley's last few sentences through his head about three times, before getting that that was the time-traveller humor.

"You're a little twit, you know that? Now I know why we became friends."

by **TheSeer** » Tue Jun 23, 2009 7:31 am

Riley smiled. "You know, I think you do. Which is a neat trick since it's an event without a direct cause. You wouldn't be too bad at time travel yourself."

by **Kiru** » Tue Jun 23, 2009 7:35 am

Okki nearly snorted riccota. "Yeah, I can see it now. I go back more than seventy years in the past and end up in local folklore, maybe even become some obscure god or something, if I can keep from being skinned alive."

by **TheSeer** » Tue Jun 23, 2009 7:41 am

"Ah, well, yes, except for that part. Though it's not like you wouldn't have to worry about anachronism anyway. It's kind of a pain."

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