Room 316: Wednesday After Classes

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Charles Baudelaire once said that genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.

Which is why Barry picked the lock to Elsa's room in order to switch out her bed with one he made yesterday in class.

Specifically a trampoline bed.

Hey, there's totally a method to his madness.

And while Elsa was at work he was being mad in her room. Or something.

Whatever. He was switching Elsa's bed out with a trampoline bed.

[Elsa's room modded with permission. If you wish to see what Barry is doing, ping in. Elsa's thread comes in last.]

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Kaylin struggled up out of sleep to try and discover what the noise was.

"Barry? What are you doing?"

He could be forgiven for not realizing she was there as she'd come in late last night and just curled up at the top of the bed and pulled her long coat over her.

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Shit.

"Um. Your roommate's bed is broken so I'm putting in a new one for as a favor. Problem with the mattress."

Like that's believable.

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"... right..."

Not like she really was all that concerned.

"It's not going to blow up or anything is it?

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"No. It's not fucking going to blow up," Barry said rolling his eyes. "Why would I do that? Honestly it's just a joke. She's never jumped on her bed before so I thought I'd encourage her. By making it a trampoline."

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"How should I know what people here would do?" Kaylin asked. "But pretty much I figured that unless you were going to make it blow up I wouldn't worry."

And then after a moment. "What's a trampoline?"

And another moment. "Jumping on the bed?"

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Barry stopped in the process of dismantling Elsa's bed to give Kaylin a curious look.

Really, Kaylin? REALLY?

"What. The. Fuck? Did everyone around here have a repressed childhood?" Barry said rolling his eyes/ranting. "I mean really. You did have beds, right?"

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She hesitated, torn between embarrassment and defensiveness. "We had... well, we had a place on the floor with a blanket where we slept. That was our bed. Until I became a Hawk. Then the place they found for me to stay had one, but it took me a while to get used to sleeping on it."

"What? Not like we all grew up outside the fiefs, you know?"

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Barry took a moment to let that sink in before he nodded. "I keep forgetting there aren't always common cultural backgrounds threads between our fucking mish-mash of interdimensional societies. In mine and apparently in Elsa's, jumping on the bed as a kid was the fucking shit."

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Kaylin blinked at him for a minute, trying to parse out whatever it was that he'd said.

"Um... does that mean it was a good thing or a bad thing?"

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"It's good," Barry said pulling Elsa's mattress off the bed. "When I'm done here you can try it out if you want."

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"The fucking shit," Kaylin mused, more laid back than you'd pretty much ever see her. "I'll have to remember that for things I like."

"DO you think she'd mind if I try it?"

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"Beats the shit out of me," Barry replied. "Does she let you use her crap?"

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Kaylin loved swearing. (Where it wouldn't get her in too much trouble.) Even more she loved learning new swear words in other languages. And while whatever they spoke here was much like Elantran, she'd never heard these words and these combinations.

"I've never asked to use anything," Kaylin admitted. "So it beats the shit out of me, too."

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"Eh. I'm sure she'd be okay with it," Barry said moving the mattress to the hallway. "She seems pretty nice."

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"She is really nice," Kaylin agreed. "Kind of nervous about stuff, but really nice."

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"Any idea what makes her so nervous?" Barry asked. "Because she seems to be pretty wound up."

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"I don't know," Kaylin admitted, "But she does seem to be a worrier, that's for sure. I think stuff must have happened that really shook her up, you know?"