Fifth Floor Common Room, Saturday morning

[willbethenight]

Bruce was just going to walk past the common room and back to his dorm after his morning run, but a glance into the room meant that he saw one of the more bizarre sights he'd seen recently. There was a disembodied hand holding the remote control. It was channel surfing. Occasionally it would use the on-screen guide and scroll quickly through that

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[exspeedydotcom]

Roy came to the common room after his morning run in search of water and, possibly, breakfast. He headed for the sink without a word to anyone beyond maybe a grunt, and was halfway through refilling his water bottle when he noticed something...waving at him from the counter. "Huh," he said. "Hands." Very observant, Roy, yes. "Hey," he called to the room at large, "When did we get hands?"

[willbethenight]

"This morning. Watch your belongings, just in case," Bruce said.

[exspeedydotcom]

"Eh," Roy said with a shrug. "Anything I'd care about them stealing is locked up anyway." Then he looked down at the hand on the counter and said, "Don't steal my stuff," just in case it could understand him. But how could it understand him? It was a hand! It didn't have ears!

[willbethenight]

"Cara had to be a little more forceful with them than that," Bruce said. "Personally, they seem okay to me. They're just people without the rest of their bodies."

[exspeedydotcom]

"They're kind of cute," Roy decided. "In a creepy kind of way. How do they know what they're doing?"

[willbethenight]

"It's been suggested that they have sensors or feelers in their fingers," Bruce said. "Or it could just be some kind of magic. You can't rule that out around here."

[exspeedydotcom]

"Yeah," Roy agreed. "Could go either way. I guess it doesn't really matter, as long as they don't steal my stuff." He was practical like that.

[willbethenight]

"Oh, it matters. We just probably won't get an answer," Bruce said.

[exspeedydotcom]

"That's very accepting of you."

[willbethenight]

"Don't sound so surprised," Bruce said.

[exspeedydotcom]

"You just don't seem like the sort to accept stuff you don't understand, to me," Roy said, striving for 'casual' here.

[willbethenight]

"Fandom gives more than enough things for us to figure out. You can't win them all," Bruce said.

In actuality it always drove him a little crazy, but he was learning to push the frustration down. He didn't have the resources to know everything yet. But someday....