Room 210- Wednesday afternoon

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Sabine didn't really care about the new year itself, but the timing had synced up nicely with general boredom and just getting sick of her hair color. As of this morning it was now mostly lavender with a little bit of pink underneath that showed up now and then, which she felt better about. She'd needed the change.

But since the boredom was still there, she had laid some tarps down and was spending the afternoon adding to her bright pink desk. She'd made a stamp in the shape of a bird foot a while back, but today was a day for dipping it in black paint and making up a little path for an imaginary bird's tracks all over her desk. Including the sides. Sure, it wasn't realistic, but it was artistic license. It was a callback to a few different things, and one of them hurt a little, but it felt like the thing to do.

And if she didn't like it, she could always paint over it again.


[Open door, open post. I am bored out of my mind.]

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[bookbeltof_love]

"Saaaaaaaaaaaabiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine, I come bearing sugaaaaaaaaaaar!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" she announced, when it looked like Sabine's stamp wasn't, like, touching her desk.

Nina didn't want to ruin whatever Sabine was doing, after all.

Sugar was pastries and hot chocolates.

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"What kind of sugar?" Sabine asked, setting things down so nothing would drip.

[bookbeltof_love]

"Delicious pastries and divine hot chocolate??????????????" she said hopefully.

The hot chocolate was not particularly divine, but it was good, just... Nina.

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"By all means, come in," Sabine smiled, gesturing for her to do just that. "Any certain reason?"

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"Other than your wonderful company???????????????" Nina asked, laughing, as she stepped into the room, offering Sabine one of the drinks. "Yes, actually!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But, like, first::::::::::: would you have denied me entrance if, like, my treats were not good enough????????????"

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"No, but that way was more fun," Sabine admitted, going to take the drink. "Thanks."

[bookbeltof_love]

"I cannot deny the fun," she conceded, still smiling. "And, like, oh my gosh, your hair is lovely!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! New colours for a new year????????????????"

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"New colors because I got bored. It was time for something new," she said.

She was kind of curious if there'd be another question before Nina told her the reason for the visit.

[bookbeltof_love]

Nina liked to take a circuitous approach to things sometimes! She couldn't help it!

"I have to admit that I agree with it being time to do something new," she said and, not wanting to intrude on Sabine or Astrid's beds, settled herself primly on the floor. Chairs? Psh. Chairs. "But I can't imagine changing my hair colour because I was bored!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

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Hey, that worked. Sabine could sit right across from her on the floor and sip her hot chocolate.

"You've never wanted to change your appearance just for something new?"

...Asked the girl who also dyed her eyebrows.

[bookbeltof_love]

"I mean, like, clothes and style, sometimes," Nina said, setting the bag with the pastries and napkins between them companionably. "But once you've got a distinctive look, there's a point where it's better to not change it?????????????????"

Nina considered her hot chocolate.

"Well, like, with my work anyway," she said.

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Sabine tilted her head at her a little. "How so?"

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"It's like this hot chocolate," she decided, grinning a little as she took a sip. "Like, it's good, it's warm, it's always basically the same????????????? Sometimes a little more whipped cream on top or a pump of peppermint syrup or chili powder in it, but still basically the same????????????? People know what they're getting when they buy a hot chocolate, generally speaking?????????????? It's set. But if the hot chocolate was all, like, 'nah, I want to be a coffee today or an apple cider' that's changing up what people who order a hot chocolate get. They're expecting a hot chocolate, you know???????????????? So if they order a hot chocolate and it's like usual then, like, they don't pay much attention when someone orders an apple cider because it's not their hot chocolate????????????????"

... Nina.

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She actually followed that.

"And that relates to work how?"

[bookbeltof_love]

"I mean, like, it doesn't have anything to do with the bookstore," she conceded, since it would be weird if it did. "But, like, that's not my main job at all??????????? I'm, ah, in the information gathering business??????????"

So. Spy.

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Sabine's (purple) eyebrows went up, because she did get what that meant.

"Okay, I get the hot chocolate analogy now," she said. "Really?"

[bookbeltof_love]

"I had to put this pretty face to some use, right?????????????????????" she said, all big, amused eyes.

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"Can you talk about it in detail at all?" Sabine wondered.

[bookbeltof_love]

"That, like, depends on what you want to know??????????"

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"What sorts of things are you doing when you're... information gathering?"

As a once and future revel, she was curious.

[bookbeltof_love]

"That depends on the world," Nina said honestly. "In my world, like, it's a lot of legwork because our fastest method of transmitting news is by bird and, well, there's a lot of ways to tamper with that??????????? A lot of my work for other worlds, here, is more remote?????????????? If it's in a database, if someone has mentioned it electronically, I can usually track it down??????????"

Which was pretty impressive for a girl who, a year and a half ago, didn't know what a camera was.

"Mostly, though, what I 'do' is everything??????????????"

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The longer Sabine listened, the more impressed she looked. Which was how her reaction ended up being, "Good for you."

[bookbeltof_love]

Nina laughed.

"That's the first time I've gotten that as a response!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

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"That's all awesome," Sabine told her. "Especially for someone our age. And it sounds like that's stuff that would come in handy in a lot of situations."

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Nina shrugged a little.

"I'm not good at working with a team," she admitted. "I've never learned to work with a team, not really?????????????? My brother gets mad at me for it."

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"Teams aren't for everyone," Sabine told her. She herself was... somewhere in the middle there at the moment. "You have a brother?"

[bookbeltof_love]

"Prompto," she said, smiling softly.

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"Wait," Sabine said, frowning. "Did I know about this?"

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Nina giggled, picking at her dress.

"We haven't, like, made any big production out of it?????????????" she said. looking down. "It seemed, like, weird to be all 'oh, I'm adopted now' to everyone.............."

So... no.

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"I'm glad you told me," Sabine said. "Congratulations."

And she could even get over her own weird family stuff to mean that.

[bookbeltof_love]

Nina flushed, looking a bit embarrassed.

“It’s, like, no big deal, really,” though it was, “but thank you!!!!!!!!!!!! You..... you’re the first peer I’ve told..........”

Vette had been... already hardly around then, which made her anxious if she thought too long about it.

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"Really?" She didn't hate that. "So how's that been going since it happened?"

[bookbeltof_love]

"I think, like, I........... think it's been going okay??????????" she said. "It's been weird, but not a bad weird, if that makes sense???????????"

[seriesofbaddecisions]

"Takes some getting used to?" she guessed. "And then one day it'll seem totally normal."