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This is Ginzo's open post. Anything goes.

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[just_displaced]

They're... a small fish? A small, salty fish. My dad likes them. You know what a sardine is?

[hairdu]

No, sorry. I like fish, though! We caught a bunch when we went planet side one time, it was the best thing ever.

[just_displaced]

Okay, well, I mean, you can try it. I can't necessarily recommend it, but I wouldn't try to dissuade you.

[hairdu]

I've never really found anything I don't like yet.

[He is a very unpicky child.]

[just_displaced]

That's good. I can't think of much I don't like either. Well, except anchovies on pizza. And most alcohol.

[hairdu]

I've, uh, never had that before.

[Radu wasn't invited when the cool kids snuck some into the dorms.]

I'd try anchovies, though.

[just_displaced]

You shouldn't bother trying alcohol anyway. It's not that good, no matter what the cool kids say.

I'm gonna have...

[Staring at the pizza long and hard, like there's a secret message in it. Who knows, maybe there is.]

This one. It has pineapple on it. That's fun, right?

[hairdu]

Sure! Pineapple's great.

Never had it with cheese, though.

[just_displaced]

It sounds good. Theoretically. We'll see what happens.

[He's got his slice of pizza, he's just waiting for Radu to pick his.]

[hairdu]

[He goes for anchovies. Because he has to now.

Also he's getting another soda because SUGAR it's exciting, okay.]

[just_displaced]

I'd offer to buy you the pizza, but I don't have a job.

[Hey, at least he's being honest. He'll pay for his own, though, and then go back to the table and sit down.]

[hairdu]

It's fine. They actually pay you for being under 18 in this place.

[He follows with his own pizza and drink. He's debating using cutlery this time, taking his gloves on and off is just annoying.]

[just_displaced]

They what? Dammit, I should have told them I was seventeen. If I'd've shaved, they'd've believed it.

[You can use cutlery, Radu, he just doesn't want to see any reflections in it.]

[hairdu]

Yeah. You get, like, an allowance. I think they kinda just know, though. I mean, I didn't sign up for it or anything when I got here.

[He's using a fork, then, although he's holding it gingerly since it seems flimsy. He is bending the handle a little without meaning to, still.]

[just_displaced]

Damn. I miss the days of getting an allowance.

Actually, I never really got one, but it's the principle of the thing, you know.

[He's... definitely noticing that fork bending, though.]

You, uh, mean to be doing that?

[hairdu]

Oh, dammit.

[Really, he is used to sturdier cutlery than this. He tries to bend the handle back into shape but sort of over-compensates and just bends it the other way.]

I, uh, don't think this is really working.

[just_displaced]

You're, um, really strong.

[Ten points to Ginsberg for pointing out the obvious.]

It might be better to use your hands. I mean, you're going to break the fork if you keep doing that.

[hairdu]

Yeah. It's a real pain, believe me.

[He is going to abandon the fork idea and take his gloves off again.]

Back home stuff isn't this flimsy.

[just_displaced]

Well, sure. Back home they probably know how to make stuff to compensate for your strength. Hey, that'd be a good untapped market here, wouldn't it? I bet we've got all kinds of people who have powers that they have a hard time dealing with in the City.

[hairdu]

Sorta what the gloves are about.

[He's picking up the pizza now and taking a big bite. Mmm, salty!]

For a while at school they were experimenting with energy draining and stuff. I'm the first Andromedan there, didn't really know what to do to stop me, k'know, breaking everything.

[just_displaced]

So what did they end up doing? I mean, obviously the gloves are helping, since you're not actively destroying the table -- although that'd be pretty cool, but I guess you shouldn't really do that in public, since you'd get us both kicked out of here -- but even with the gloves, you're bending forks. That can't be easy.

[hairdu]

I just had to learn to control it better. Everyone's got stuff to work on growing up, right?

[just_displaced]

I guess. Not usually that kind of thing, though. Usually it's stuff like learning how to read, and dating, and whatever else it is kids your age do.

[hairdu]

Not much dating to do on a spaceship with the same eight people every day.

[just_displaced]

You could date one of those eight people. Except then if you broke up, I guess it could be really awkward. It'd be like me dating someone from my office.