I2DT: "Yes. One of those would be just the thing."

by **Basil Benson** » Tue Nov 03, 2015 3:16 am

Friday Morning was not the morning to be Basil Oliver Benson. Not as far as he was concerned anyways.

Normally he'd make a perfectly good dining partner, but this morning he was in a rough mood, which for him meant he was going to be an Eeyore of a human being... mutant... Invisible donkey man?

He stared at the food items he'd placed on his plate, reorganizing his bubble and squeak into separate piles of potatoes and Brussels sprouts, and then leaning into his palm with a sigh to stare at them.

((Open)).

by **Amy Myers** » Tue Nov 03, 2015 6:07 pm

Amy had a rough night. Still kind of jet-lagged and in an unfamiliar place full of shark-people and god knows what else she's not exactly feeling at ease. Which in turn makes it hard to reign in the droning hum of energy inside her. So really, who can blame her for missing the invisible kid as she sits down at the table. Turns out that skimming the room for heads to find an empty table doesn't work at a Mutant school, so she freezes up a little upon looking up and seeing the empty set of clothes across the table.

"Oh..."

by **Basil Benson** » Tue Nov 03, 2015 6:25 pm

Basil looked up from his plate of vegetables to notice a girl had sat down and immediately straighted his posture.

"Ah. Hello." He said, not altogether impolite but lacking in it's usual enthusiasm.

by **Amy Myers** » Tue Nov 03, 2015 6:29 pm

"I... uh, I'm sorry, I didn't realize someone was sitting here..." she says, eyes kind of going all over the place as she tries to figure out what to focus on when talking to an apparently invisible person. She finally settles on Basil's collar. "You're invisible." she adds, stating the obvious out of sheer awkwardness.

by **Basil Benson** » Tue Nov 03, 2015 9:13 pm

"That I am." He replied, again lacking in his usual zest for life. To someone like Amy, someone who wasn't really used to him usually being peppy, he sounded like a very chill and 'cool guy' individual. Not at all like Basil really, but she wouldn't know that just yet.

Basil pulled his vanity glasses out of his pocket and slipped them onto his face to give her a frame of reference as to where to look.

"And you are not."

by **Amy Myers** » Tue Nov 03, 2015 9:35 pm

"What? Oh! Yeah, no, I'm not. Sorry, I just got here and this is all really freaky. Not in a bad way or anything!" she quickly adds when she realizes how that must sound. "Just... yeah."

by **Basil Benson** » Tue Nov 03, 2015 11:20 pm

"Yes. Well, despite the statistics of the student body being hellbent on making me look like an idiot, it seems mathematically improbable for us all to be impossibly attractive bisexual females. Somebody gets to be lobster boy, and the universe picked me."

He didn't sound angry. More like resigned.

"Name's Basil."

by **Amy Myers** » Tue Nov 03, 2015 11:35 pm

"Amy. And at least you don't turn into a hideous shark monster, yeah? I mean... you're not actually a lobster boy, right?" she asks, suddenly realizing that she doesn't really know that. For all she knows Basil could be all kinds of strange and she'd never know.

by **Basil Benson** » Tue Nov 03, 2015 11:46 pm

"Well, I'm operating a fork. That's usually indicative that I have at least three functioning, relatively slender digits."

The fork if question was floating disembodied like in what must have been his left hand.

by **Amy Myers** » Wed Nov 04, 2015 12:05 am

"Right, yeah." she chuckles awkwardly. "I guess I just don't really know what to expect in a place like this."

by **Basil Benson** » Wed Nov 04, 2015 12:12 am

"In my limited time here, I have come to learn it's best to expect the worst you can imagine. That way you can be pleasantly surprised when things 'aren't all that terrible really.' "

by **Amy Myers** » Wed Nov 04, 2015 2:58 am

"Great..." she mumbles, poking at her scrambled eggs. "So far it's been as weird as I'd feared. No offense."

by **Basil Benson** » Wed Nov 04, 2015 3:01 am

"How long have you been here exactly?" Basil asked, remembering she said she just got here.

by **Amy Myers** » Wed Nov 04, 2015 5:07 am

"Yesterday. I had a lot of trouble with my passport."

by **Basil Benson** » Wed Nov 04, 2015 12:44 pm

"Oh love, you've barely even popped your head into the rabbit hole."

by **Amy Myers** » Wed Nov 04, 2015 3:22 pm

"That doesn't sound very encouraging..."

by **Basil Benson** » Wed Nov 04, 2015 4:29 pm

"I'd rather not lie to you by telling you the invisible man is the worst thing you'll experience. It would at best cause you to think I am mad, and at worst cause you to resent me."

by **Amy Myers** » Wed Nov 04, 2015 6:36 pm

"Don't worry, I'm not gonna get mad at the messenger."

by **Basil Benson** » Wed Nov 04, 2015 7:14 pm

"Well no you don't seem irrational." He let off a single chuckle.

"Where in the US are you from?" He asked abruptly as it seemed a polite topic.

by **Amy Myers** » Wed Nov 04, 2015 7:24 pm

"Seattle, so at least the weather's kind of familiar, I guess." she chuckles weakly.

by **Basil Benson** » Wed Nov 04, 2015 9:12 pm

" So rainy then ey?"

by **Amy Myers** » Wed Nov 04, 2015 9:23 pm

"Rainy, kinda dreary sometimes, yeah." This was good. Almost normal enough to make her forget she's talking to a floating pair of glasses.

by **Basil Benson** » Thu Nov 05, 2015 12:47 am

Basil bobbed his head back and forth a bit, some kind of social cue it seemed, but hard to interpret.

"It's actually not as bad here as people make it out to be, especially not here in the south. In the whole of the UK the average rain days are somewhere around 133 days. Most of that is up north though. You also have to factor in that it doesn't really get cold enough to snow very often, so our winter storms are usually rain ones instead of snow storms.

But I know we Brits love to complain about how depressing it is here so I assume everyone who lives in a country that also speaks English gets to hear us whinging on about it whether directly through conversation or indirectly through our pop culture."

by **Amy Myers** » Thu Nov 05, 2015 2:13 am

"Sorry, didn't mean to sound like an ignorant American..." she says awkwardly and takes a bite of her food as an excuse to not have to talk for a moment. At least there's something that felt familiar, awkward smalltalk that she wasn't really sure how to navigate.

by **Basil Benson** » Thu Nov 05, 2015 2:16 am

"You don't. Like I said, we perpetuate that ourselves, so you can only believe what we claim is true.

Well, unless you come here of course and find out we're all full of slanderous weather lies." He chuckled again, and stabbed a Brussels sprout.

" What do you do in Seattle for fun?"

by **Amy Myers** » Thu Nov 05, 2015 3:11 am

"You're asking the wrong person... I don't really go out much. Lots of music though, concerts and such or smaller stuff."

by **Basil Benson** » Thu Nov 05, 2015 3:13 am

"Inside activities are just as good as outdoor ones. Perhaps more so.

I should know."

by **Amy Myers** » Thu Nov 05, 2015 3:18 am

"Yeah, I'd much rather read a book or draw stuff than get dragged to see some band."

by **Basil Benson** » Thu Nov 05, 2015 3:20 am

"Then I suspect I will be seeing a lot of you."

by **Amy Myers** » Thu Nov 05, 2015 3:57 am

"Oh? Why's that?"

by **Basil Benson** » Thu Nov 05, 2015 4:00 am

"Well, I work in the library. So unless you're a Kindle person, you'll probably bump into me.

Perhaps literally,"

by **Amy Myers** » Thu Nov 05, 2015 4:03 am

"Oh! Well I do have a Kindle, but that's not really the same as browsing a library."

by **Basil Benson** » Thu Nov 05, 2015 4:04 am

"Our library isn't vast, but it has some interesting things.

And some very weird things."

by **Amy Myers** » Thu Nov 05, 2015 4:41 am

"Weird things?"

by **Basil Benson** » Thu Nov 05, 2015 4:50 am

"Well for one, we have more trashy romance novels from the 80s and 90s than any valid university should."

by **Amy Myers** » Thu Nov 05, 2015 3:00 pm

"That's... strange. Maybe someone on staff is a fan?"

by **Basil Benson** » Thu Nov 05, 2015 7:03 pm

"Some of the books are from the personal collection of the Braddock family..." He trailed off in an amused tone.

by **Amy Myers** » Thu Nov 05, 2015 7:07 pm

"Guess it gets lonely in a big mansion?"

by **Basil Benson** » Thu Nov 05, 2015 7:20 pm

" Or being a magic powered badass doesn't attract as many lady friends as one would think."

by **Amy Myers** » Thu Nov 05, 2015 7:30 pm

"Right, the brochure said this place used to belong to a family of superheroes or something."

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