I13DT: What a weird couple of days

[Will Stanton]

Will sat in the dining hall, chewing a breakfast muffin, with a spiral-bound notebook in front of him.

He was pondering the events of the past few days. All of them.

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[Kaliyah Shah]

Callie sat down across from Will, "Hey, Stanton."

She started peeling an orange.

[Will Stanton]

"Hey, Callie. What's up?"

[Kaliyah Shah]

"A whole lot of nuthin'," Callie says. "What's up with you? Anything exciting?"

[Will Stanton]

Will paused, and thought.

"Yes. Yes, it's been quite a few days."

[Kaliyah Shah]

"Doing alright?"

[Will Stanton]

Will paused, chewing on his muffin thoughtfully.

"I am. You know, despite all the weirdness, I think I am."

[Kaliyah Shah]

"Well, that's good," Callie says, smiling. "Weirdness ain't bad, long as you can handle it, right?"

[Will Stanton]

"Well, I dunno. YOU be the judge," Will said, and began to go into the story of Mira's magical bakery.

"...and I don't even know WHO ended up with them all."

[Kaliyah Shah]

"You have the weirdest adventures," Callie says, looking suspiciously at Will's muffin.

[Will Stanton]

"Hrm? Oh! No. No, this is a regular muffin.


....I assume," he said, looking at it.

After a moment, he set it down.

[Kaliyah Shah]

"Yeah, I think I'm gonna lay off the baked goods for a while," Callie says.

[Will Stanton]

"That seems to be the common theme from people I've spoken to.

At least I don't have to smell like chocolate 100% of the time. I think that just made Sara angrier."

[Kaliyah Shah]

"She's not a fan of chocolate?" Callie teases.

[Will Stanton]

"I am going to have to plead the fifth on that one," Will joked back. "But not when she's already in 'punch-a-goddess' mode. I'm just lucky she wasn't poofed into another dimension or something."

[Kaliyah Shah]

"Yeah, that sort of long-distance thing is hard on a relationship," Callie says.

[Will Stanton]

"No mailing address to the Plane of Infinite Sadness."

[Kaliyah Shah]

"They probably have a fax machine though."

[Will Stanton]

"Now, THAT'S a trick I haven't figured out."

[Kaliyah Shah]

"How to use a fax machine?" Callie asks.

[Will Stanton]

"How to use a fax machine...for transport.

But also the former, as I'm not living in the 1980s."

[Kaliyah Shah]

"Would that even work? I mean, it's not like the paper gets transported."

[Will Stanton]

"So far, the answer is no. So yeah. Probably a bust."

[Kaliyah Shah]

"Unless you could turn yourself into energy somehow," Callie says, eating a slice of orange.

[Will Stanton]

"Don't think that's possible," Will shook his head. "Energy's not really a thing."

[Kaliyah Shah]

"It's not?" Callie asks.

[Will Stanton]

"Well, no. It's all intangible and sparkly and whatnot. It's not, like, matter."

[Kaliyah Shah]

"But isn't there energy in atoms and stuff?" Callie asks.

[Will Stanton]

"Are there? I thought they were empty space.

Well, I THOUGHT they looked like the pictures, but apparently, that's wrong."

[Kaliyah Shah]

"I think that there's this whole thing where matter is energy and energy is matter," Callie says. "It's all quantum foam or something."

[Will Stanton]

Will blinked, dumbly. "How can energy be matter? It's energy."

[Kaliyah Shah]

"It doesn't matter," Callie says.

[Ryan Gabriel]

"Oh my god, that was weird," Ryan grunted, stretching his arm as he walked in, his wings evaporating into motes of golden energy as he passed through the two-small-for-them doorway. "What's going on, guys?"

[Will Stanton]

Will groaned at Callie's joke before seeing Ryan.

"OK, see, that doesn't count," Will said, "because angels basically have divine magic juju, and I can't do mutations, anyway."

"And hi, Ryan."

[Ryan Gabriel]

"Hey, Will," Ryan said, flopping into a seat and rubbing at his head. "And I don't know what good 'divine juju' is if it won't take care of a damned headache. So what's new today?"

[Will Stanton]

Will glanced at Callie for a moment.

"Some good muffins in the breakfast line," he casually said.

[Ryan Gabriel]

"Anything to get the taste of ocean-monster-thing out of my mouth," he mused, getting up to get one of the highly recommended muffins.