The Hall, Dhemlan, Kaeleer, Monday Evening (Fandom Time)

[glacial_queen]

The Coach arrived on the landing web with a slight thump. Lucivar frowned a moment and then sighed. "So, I'm not a professional Coachman."

Karla looked up innocently. "I didn't say anything."

"But you were thinking it, witchling. I could tell." He hopped out of the Coach and opened the door for them, helping Karla out first. "Ready for your first view of SaDiablo Hall?" he rumbled at Warren.

From the landing web, only a side of the Hall could be seen, towering over acres of thick, lush lawns, gardens in a riot of colors, and even the hint of some not-so-distant woods.

"Show-off," Karla muttered, though she couldn't deny a bit of pride, either. "Let's go inside. They're probably waiting on us, I'm sure."

[Up late, but for SP goodness! Still for one, and nfb. Karla and Warren will be back on the island tonight.]

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[glacial_queen]

Karla was just going to sink down into her chair. Maybe try to hide behind a napkin.

If that didn't work, she'd try drinking a lot of wine very, very quickly.

[glacial-warlord.livejournal.com]

Morton grinned over the table at her. "It could be worse," he offered. "Khary could be here to help!"

[wwiii]

And it was sheer force of will that kept Warren from just tucking his head under his wings and never coming out again.

"I shouldn't want to ask, but, help with what?"

Besides the whole awkward dinner, let's grill the new kid... thing.

[glacial-warlord.livejournal.com]

"Making dinner even more awkward," Morton said, switching his grin over to Warren.

He was so very, very bad at this whole 'aloof, tough guy' thing, he really was.

"Khary and Karla don't always get along--"

"That's because he thinks he's funny!" Karla interrupted.

"--and once she dropped a wall on his head," Morton continued easily. "Having him here would just be that much more fun."

[glacial_queen]

"Because that's exactly what this dinner is missing," Karla said, pursing her lips. "Khary's jokes."

[changeable-eyes.livejournal.com]

"Well, better than Chaosti, he'd just glare the entire dinner while Sceron picked a fight," Jaenelle said. "What this dinner needs is more members of the coven. Morghann, Gabrielle, me, and Karla. That would be fun!"

She flashed them all a smile and the males shuddered.

[wwiii]

All the males except for Warren, who was so very, very lost.

"... How many walls," he ventured, "would come down if that happened?"

[offers-choices.livejournal.com]

"Karla's here, so she's good for at least three, wouldn't you say?" Lucivar suggested.

[glacial-warlord.livejournal.com]

"And I've heard Morghann when she gets going, that's another two at least!"

[changeable-eyes.livejournal.com]

"Gabrielle and I can handle at least as many walls and Karla and Morghann," Jaenelle added, eyes sparkling. "So we're up to...ten, now?"

[hells-highlord.livejournal.com]

"Speaking as the owner of this Hall and a father to almost half the people at this table, I'm just going to have to forbid any and all destruction to the walls of this house." He winked at Karla. "Sorry to ruin all your fun," he teased.

[glacial_queen]

"I don't actually go around toppling walls on people's head all willy-nilly, you know," Karla protested. And then turned to fling her napkin at Warren. "Look what you started!"

[wwiii]

The napkin bounced off of a hastily lifted wing, and then Warren, eyes sparkling and a grin on his face, peered out from over the top of it.

"I never did say anything about willy-nilly," he pointed out. "But if it was willy-nilly, I think I'd have to be sorry that I couldn't help out."

Yes. With the wall-toppling.

[glacial-warlord.livejournal.com]

"Great," Morton complained. "Now they're both going to go back to the island and randomly drop walls on people's heads."

[hells-highlord.livejournal.com]

"Not my house, not my staff I'll have to answer to," Saetan replied, grinning. "Have fun, children."

[glacial_queen]

"But it is our heavily-armed principal you'll be dealing with," Karla pointed out. "I think she might be less cavalier in her response to willy-nilly wall-toppling."

[wwiii]

"And the vice-principal," Warren added, just as pointedly. "He might actually appreciate the wall-toppling, though. It's always difficult to tell, with him."

Him and his tights and his weird allusions to the color blue.

[glacial_queen]

"Yeah, but first you'd have to understand him," Karla said with a grin. "I mean, the individual words he uses make sense, but the way he strings them together sure as Hell doesn't. It's like our reality and his are crazy Venn diagrams that only barely overlap."

Deadpool hadn't helped with the 'Mother Night, I'm in the Twisted Kingdom' thing Karla'd had at the beginning of her Fandom tenure.

[wwiii]

"He said something about me turning blue," Warren shared, raising an eyebrow. "I still haven't figured that one out."

And he probably never would.

... It was for the best.

[glacial_queen]

"It's probably best not to try," Karla said. "It's like being delirious with fever. The only way it's going to make sense is if you're feverish, too."

[wwiii]

"One of these days, it's all going to become suddenly, painfully clear," mused Warren. "We'll all wake up and blink at the ceilings with some sort of creeping realization that, wow, Deadpool was right."

He doubted it.

[glacial_queen]

"And that's how you know the world is doomed," Karla said philosophically. "That or it's another weird opposite day, where I'm painfully meek and shy and all of Deadpool's ramblings make sense."

Of the two, Karla was betting on it being a harbinger of the Apocalypse.

"Don't worry," she added with a laugh. "If it is the first one, I'll let you come stay in Kaeleer."

[wwiii]

"Well, just so long as the end of the world doesn't follow us here, I'm all for that," Warren decided, laughing a little as well. "Will there be more awkward dinners?"

[offers-choices.livejournal.com]

"I'll have you know, boyo, this is a perfectly normal dinner," Lucivar drawled. "Actually, we're being fairly polite."

[hells-highlord.livejournal.com]

"I hate to admit it, but he's correct," Saetan said, shaking his head. "Jaenelle hasn't had to threaten her brother even once this evening."