Room 218, Friday Afternoon

[glacial_queen]

Now that she and Jason had embarrassed themselves thoroughly for Monday's class, Karla had a little time to spare to before her portal was ready to take her to Camelot for the weekend. It was good to get away from Fandom for awhile. Really good. The whole island just felt...stifling right now and Karla wanted to get away. Away from everything and everyone and the constant reminder that she'd messed up and...yeah. Just leave and forget everything for a few days.

So, in far better spirits that she would have ever assumed from a trip to go visit Arthur of all people, Karla was packing her things and even humming a little to herself. Hello, first good mood in something like three weeks.

Let's see how long it would last.

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[glacial_queen]

Karla had to smile at that. "You can start by having a honey-pear, if you like?" she offered, tugging a small fruit off the tree in corner next to her bed. "They're quite good."

She plucked another for herself and nibbled it to buy herself some time while she decided what to answer. "There's...nothing that can really be done to help," she said a moment later. "It was a stupid and ugly situation made stupid and uglier in some ways by...stuff." There that was nice and vague. "For me, anyway. Raven, Tara, and Dolf all have their own ideas about what happened and what's going on and may differ from mine."

She took another bite and then asked, "But...if you wouldn't mind maybe talking about something else? I could use a bit of a distraction and that would be nice. Just talking about something unrelated to everything."

[didntchewgrass.livejournal.com]

Elphaba took the fruit happily and took a small bite while she listened to what Karla said.

"I recently discovered that not all television is horrible," she said. "And Kate showed me a videogame that used the television for something that actually challenged the mind. I'm starting to almost think this world isn't entirely backwards about everything."

[glacial_queen]

Karla had to chuckle a little at that. "What show changed your mind?" she asked. "And what videogame? Tony has promised to teach me about them sometime."

[didntchewgrass.livejournal.com]

"It was a show, with a bald old man whom they called Mister Wizard," Elphaba said. "He was quite kind and intelligent, and he showed such interesting and intriguing things."

She pulled a tiny face of embarassment. "I do not know the name, I admit."

[glacial_queen]

"Oooh," Karla said, intrigued. "What kind of things? Like Craft?"

What? She'd said he was a wizard.

[didntchewgrass.livejournal.com]

Elphaba shook her head. "It was more aimed towards sciences, he didn't actually do any magic. Which made me a little frustrated, I think people named Wizard should at least do a little magic, don't you think?"

[glacial_queen]

"I agree," Karla assured her. "Magic and science may be related--" and it had only taken a year and a half for that grudging admonition "--but not enough where science can go around appropriating our titles!"

[didntchewgrass.livejournal.com]

Elphaba chuckled. "You obviously are a bit more impassioned about it than I am. I... I still haven't made myself visit with Tara to try and explore my own possible abilities."

[glacial_queen]

Karla huffed out a small laugh of her own. "I was raised my entire life thinking Craft is the most important thing in the world. It made me everything I was. It's how I define myself. Pretty big part of what shapes my view of everything I guess."

Tilting her head, she regarded Elphaba. "Why haven't you?" she asked. "Still afraid of it?"

[didntchewgrass.livejournal.com]

"It seemed as if I should wait until Tara is in a better mood," Elphaba said. "She probably would not say anything, but I would not want to impose upon her until things were... better for everyone."

[glacial_queen]

"She might have appreciated the distraction, actually," Karla said thoughtfully. "I would have. But then, that's her not me, and a moot point anyhow. Still...sometimes I do worry that you always see yourself as an imposition, Elphaba. After all, we talked back when...October?"