Second Floor Common Room, Wednesday Evening

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Tony had his popcorn and pop and was settled into the couch in the second floor common room. Tonight's episode had Raymond Dark facing off with a mummy he'd defeated but not destroyed in 1938. It seems the Nazis had put the mummy in storage under protective glyphs, but it had been sold to a collector who, of course, had to go and pop the coffin

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Viki wandered in, tilting her head at the screen.

"I think," she said, "that that mummy is far too clean."

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Tony waved. "Have a lot of mummy experience?" He wasn't entirely joking; after all, he'd seen a mummy that had come back to life. Fortunately, the one on screen looked nothing like the one Vicki and Henry had battled in Toronto.

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She made a face. "They live in mines, back home," Viki explained, "and I've had to deal with them before. None of them have ever been so..."

Viki waved one hand. "Pristine."

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"Well," Tony said, "it's TV."

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"No excuse," she said, grinning a bit. "Clearly, they didn't want to think too hard about what a mummy ought to look like and went with what was immediately recognizable."

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"They're trying to appeal to the mummy demographic," Tony suggested.

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Viki blurted a laugh.

"Anything is possible, I suppose!" she had to admit that. "Though I feel sorry for any mummy's who dream of a sweetheart that looks like that one. A long difficult search is ahead of them."

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"Maybe true love doesn't mind bandages and a bit of dust," Tony said.

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"And ill-smelling as well," she laughed. "Perhaps it doesn't. They do say that love is blind--maybe it is also scent-blind as well."

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"I hope so," Tony said, looking at the screen. "This is one of the times it's really good that TVs don't have smells."

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"...I would say so," she said, looking mildly disturbed. "Or else, I feel, you'd have no one watching as we'd all fled the room, holding our noses."

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"Yeah, it wouldn't be a big sell," Tony said.

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Dinah looked up, then grinned. "Hey, Viki. Yeah, I think they forgot to roll it around in dirt, or tear it, or do anything to make it look like anything but a guy wrapped up in Ace bandages. How was your weekend?"

[blinkandsneeze]

"Hello, Dinah! I successfully avoided all small children," she said cheerfully. "And avoided turning into one myself which I think might cause more headaches than it was worth."

Time travel was a bit of a pain that way. Ow.

"At the very least," she said, "the bandages ought to be more yellowish."

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"Oh, you were still a teenager? So was Tony," Dinah said, smiling. "He was a pretty good babysitter, but I don't blame you for avoiding all of us little sugar-crazed maniacs. It's a wonder the Island was still standing after that." She tilted her head at the screen. "More skeletony, too. He looks pretty well-fed for a thousands-year-old corpse."

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"Well," she amended, "teenager in physical form at least."

Could she really be called a teenager still? Viki somehow doubted it.

"And he does!" Viki laughed, glancing at the screen again. "Especially around the middle!"