Dite's Suite, Arms Hotel, Monday Afternoon

[glacial_queen]

Anytime there was an overnight trip to the island these days, it was traditional for people who'd been given a key stayed over in Dite's Suite. During reunion weekend, there were several such people--and all their friends--but while that meant that sleeping quarters were a bit cramped, it reminded Karla of the giant slumber parties she used to throw in the dorms, roughly a million years ago. And it was good to be able to look around and see so many people she loved in one place.

Other than her meeting with Ino later, Karla had no plans for the day. She'd probably go out and make one last round of the island, though she was loathe to disturb Kayla from where she was playing quietly in her playpen. Hmm, maybe she could just see how many people she could get to visit the room instead. The Arms had excellent room service, after all, and food plus friends equaled a party.

[For anyone who thinks they stayed in Dite's Suite and anyone else who is inclined to visit and/or thinks they'd get an invite from Karla. Soo...basically anybody, good job me. SP is loved and late pings welcomed! I DON'T WANT TO SAY GOODBYE TO ANYONE YET]

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[trigons_child]

Raven was there, of course, current lounging on pillows that were scattered all over the floor in an attempt to make some sort of sleeping nest for everyone who was staying there. It had been a good weekend so far, and she had been pleased to see so many familiar faces. Still, there were a few she wished she'd seen.

[glacial_queen]

There were those, of course, but Karla's sorrow at not seeing them was overwhelmed by her joy at seing faces she hadn't expected to ever see again. Triela. Drake. Some few others.

"Laaaazy," Karla said, pointing at Raven and laughing. Not that she could talk. She hadn't even put real clothes on yet.

Room service did not require real clothes. Room service loved her in her pjs.

[trigons_child]

Raven made a contented sigh and stretched out on the pillows. "Yes, I am," she agreed. "Deliciously so."

[furnaceface]

There was one face that hadn't seen her in a while, who had just come through the door, and who... well. He didn't know where he stood with much of anybody, these days, but he imagined she knew exactly how that felt.

//You know,//he said, idly and maybe a little tentatively as he nodded at the pillows, //I think there are actual Ravens who could probably take lessons from you, luv.//

Hi, Raven.

[trigons_child]

Raven had sensed him at the door, so she'd had about thirty seconds to prepare herself for a moment she'd been both hoping for and dreading. Her shields were wound tightly as she pushed herself up so she was sitting.

"Hello, Jonothon," she said. "It is nice to see you. I hope you have been well."

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"So I hear you're feeling better?" Dinah said, flopping down next to her. "As in, feeling yourself?"

[trigons_child]

Raven gave Dinah a blank look. "I am sorry, who are you?" she said, keeping a straight face. Barely.

[sorella-vecchia.livejournal.com]

Triela didn't have a key, of course, but she did have an invite. She knocked firmly on the door, the stepped back, waiting in a sort of at-attention stance for someone to let her in.

She rather suspected that she wouldn't get much more time, and despite her uncaring attitude, she did want to spend it with her friends.

[glacial_queen]

Karla opened the door and gave Triela a messy salute. Then laughed and gave her a hug instead. "Get in here," she said. "Raven stole my spot on the cushions, I need help getting it back."

[sorella-vecchia.livejournal.com]

That hug got returned, and when Triela let go she was smiling slightly. "Somehow I suspect that you were hogging space for three people."

[anarchist-queen.livejournal.com]

"Stupid Zombie invasion." Leda grumbled. "Never got to have that water war."

[sorella-vecchia.livejournal.com]

Triela laughed. "That's Fandom for you, though, right?"

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"Triela." Dinah got up to say hi, and hovered just out of reach, badly wanting to hug her. "Hi."

[sorella-vecchia.livejournal.com]

Triela turned, smiling. "Dinah." Her smile broadened just a bit. "Just going to stand there?"

[trigons_child]

Warning, warning, incoming Raven hug.

"Triela!" she exclaimed.

[anarchist-queen.livejournal.com]

The brief vacation was almost over, and Leda was already feeling somewhat nostalgic for High School. Odd how one could gloss over the bad parts of their past.

But she wanted one last hang out with old friends, so naturally she was here.

With coffee ice-cream. Because of course.

[glacial_queen]

Karla had started the weekend off being nostalgic for high school. By the end of the weekend, she was probably going to be sobbing her eyes out with all the goodbyes.

"Still haven't imported milkshakes into Faerie yet?" Karla asked, shaking her head. "You've had--what? Forty years to do so?"

[furnaceface]

So, Jono had known that Karla was on the island. And Jono had spent... a large chunk of the weekend well aware that there was a baby on the island, too. And if he hadn't spent yesterday worried that one of his friends was slowly wasting away due to radiation poisoning and hadn't worked the day before, he might have come looking sooner.

As it stood, he had his class out of the way for the day, and had been sending Kayla little warm-fuzzy thoughts for a good portion of the morning, since getting back to the island afterwards. Because, shockingly, watching a cataclysmic volcanic eruption that had killed tens of thousands of people kind of required a pick-me-up to follow.

Better life choices next time. Better ones, please.

Anyway...

He was knocking on the door. And sending more tickly thoughts Kayla's way. Because that was about his speed, right then.

[glacial_queen]

Please. Jono had decided to substitute 'terrible life choices' for 'oxygen' as his method of survival as soon as he realized he no longer needed to breathe.

The door opened under her knuckles, because Karla was eating chicken wings and that absolutely took precedence over answering the door like a normal person. But there was a link tapping on his shields to share them if he wanted, so, really, could he complain?

As for Kayla, she was standing up in her playpen as soon as Jono entered the suite and yelling, "MAMA!"

"That had better not be what she's calling you now," Karla warned, "or I'll be sending Hannibal a box of apology-slash-sympathy chocolates."

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

Dinah was flopped over a couch, looking tired but smug.

Look, you TK evil gremlins through a window to protect a baby, you'll be smug too.

"Are you guys staying tonight as well?"

[glacial_queen]

"It depends on whether I get the all-clear from the Healers," Karla said, grinning at Dinah's smugness. She deserved every inch of it, even if she hadn't let Karla just roast all the gremlins alive. "I can't bring her home until Cora and Nyles are no longer contagious. Why, are you?"

[exspeedydotcom]

"Hey, I heard there might be food in here?" Roy asked.

"CANARY!"

"And Lian heard there might be a Canary in here, and then we definitely couldn't stay away," he continued without missing a beat.

[glacial_queen]

"I see where I rate!" Karla said with a laugh, waving them both in. "Hurtful, Roy, so hurtful. And after all we shared together!"

OOC

[sharp_as_knives]

I...totally missed this post somehow. *sigh* Too late to ping in?

Re: OOC

[glacial_queen]

Sure, if you don't mind yet more SP? after radio I am falling face-first into a pillow.