Room 218, Friday Afternoon

[glacial_witch]

Now that she and Jason had embarrassed themselves thoroughly for Monday's class, Karla had a little time to spare to before her portal was ready to take her to Camelot for the weekend. It was good to get away from Fandom for awhile. Really good. The whole island just felt...stifling right now and Karla wanted to get away. Away from everything and

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[didntchewgrass]

Elphaba herself had been meaning to stop by, and given the odd mood at this week's reserve meeting, she'd resolved to actually visit Karla.

Which would be why she appeared at the door to room 218 and knocked that afternoon, hoping to catch her friend.

[glacial_witch]

"Come in," Karla called, offering her frogs a bit of jello. She worried about them when she was away. "It's open."

[didntchewgrass]

Elphaba pushed the door open and stepped inside. "Do you want me to shut the door behind me?" she asked. "I don't know how much privacy you want right now."

[glacial_witch]

Karla shrugged a little, giving Elphaba a wan smile. "Depends on what you wanted to talk about, I guess. Squirrels hear everything anyway."

[didntchewgrass]

"I wished to discuss you, actually," Elphaba said. "We'd not talked in a while, and I... I'll fully admit I'm not exactly an expert on this, but it seemed like the leaders were not at their best this week, at the meeting."

She gave a sympathetic smile.

[glacial_witch]

Karla laughed weakly for a bit. "That obvious huh?" she asked, running her fingers through her hair. "The whole thing with Raven is just...intense."

[didntchewgrass]

Elphaba nodded. "The whole business about communication hit rather closely for me, too," she said. "I remember very clearly telling Raven she need not share everything with people before she... well, before things."

She sighed a little. "This place certainly does not make things uncomplicated."

[glacial_witch]

Karla sat down on her bed with a sigh, waving to Elphaba to make herself comfortable wherever she liked. "I guess it depends on what you're communicating," she said. "You had no way to know that she was hiding the presence of something evil." Saying 'her demonic father' was a little more information than Karla was comfortable sharing, since she didn't know what Elphaba had been told. "It's one thing to choose to keep personal things hidden...but it's another entirely if its something that can or will endanger others."

[didntchewgrass]

"Well, she said it was something dire, but that it would only needlessly worry people that couldn't help," Elphaba said, sitting down. "It seems she was right about that, or... I can't really say, I don't know what all happened. But I didn't come to fret about what I said. I think it was still the right thing to say, at the time."

[glacial_witch]

Karla...disagreed with that entirely, but Elphaba had just said she wasn't here to discuss it, so there was no reason to keep arguing it. "What's up?" she asked instead. "Did you have a specific question?"

[didntchewgrass]

"Not really," Elphaba said. "I know that I am far from your close circle of friends, but I just wanted to see if there was anything I could offer in ways of help. If you wished to share anything, or... I'm honestly not sure what I'm supposed to be doing here, really."

[glacial_witch]

Karla had to smile at that. "You can start by having a honey-pear, if you like?" she offered, tugging a small fruit off the tree in corner next to her bed. "They're quite good."

She plucked another for herself and nibbled it to buy herself some time while she decided what to answer. "There's...nothing that can really be done to help," she said a moment later. "It was a stupid and ugly situation made stupid and uglier in some ways by...stuff." There that was nice and vague. "For me, anyway. Raven, Tara, and Dolf all have their own ideas about what happened and what's going on and may differ from mine."

She took another bite and then asked, "But...if you wouldn't mind maybe talking about something else? I could use a bit of a distraction and that would be nice. Just talking about something unrelated to everything."

[didntchewgrass]

Elphaba took the fruit happily and took a small bite while she listened to what Karla said.

"I recently discovered that not all television is horrible," she said. "And Kate showed me a videogame that used the television for something that actually challenged the mind. I'm starting to almost think this world isn't entirely backwards about everything."

[glacial_witch]

Karla had to chuckle a little at that. "What show changed your mind?" she asked. "And what videogame? Tony has promised to teach me about them sometime."

[didntchewgrass]

"It was a show, with a bald old man whom they called Mister Wizard," Elphaba said. "He was quite kind and intelligent, and he showed such interesting and intriguing things."

She pulled a tiny face of embarassment. "I do not know the name, I admit."

[glacial_witch]

"Oooh," Karla said, intrigued. "What kind of things? Like Craft?"

What? She'd said he was a wizard.