Tuesday Afternoon: Dreamwalks, Doorways, and Dip: Finding an Old Friend

[the_merriest]

Rikku set Caladbolg carefully on the carpeting, placing the symbol and the sketch over it. It wasn't much, but it was the best she could do. Now she just had to hope it was enough

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Coming to Room 308 (Anybody and Everybody Else)

[the_merriest]

Wander by because of the commotion. Meet the star player of the Zanarkand Abes.

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[behindeyesonly]

Tidus still had no idea what vampires had to do with coming back from the Farplane. Maybe it was best not to think about it for now.

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[cantgetnorelief]

. . . yeah, the ruckus on the third floor was pretty hard to overlook. Anders, on his way back upstairs from a workout with his Pyramid ball under his arm, followed the noise to its source and knocked on the door. "Uh . . . everything okay in there?"

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[the_merriest]

Rikku hopped to the door and pulled it open. "Oh! Yeah! Fine! Uh, we were just ..."

She turned slightly and took in the crowd of people, some covered in onion dip. "Oh. Uh. We were kinda ..." She couldn't think of a good lie in time. "We brought my friend back from an alternate dream dimension thing. Want some chips?"

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[cantgetnorelief]

All things considered, Anders took that news, and the onion dip everywhere, pretty well. "Alternate dream dimension . . . of party snacks, by any chance?" he asked, scratching his head with his free hand.

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[behindeyesonly]

"No, the snacks were my shock absorbers upon landing," Tidus said, somewhat ruefully.

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[cantgetnorelief]

. . .

Anders snuck a surreptitious look at the ceiling. Nope, no hole that he could see. Okay then!

"I might have to rethink my entire concept of junk food then. You must be dream dimension guy?"

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[behindeyesonly]

"That's me," he agreed, grinning. "I'm Tidus. Are you a friend of Rikku's?"

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[cantgetnorelief]

"Not so much," Anders replied. "Which is not to say -- I mean, we're not not friends. I just sort of know her from class and stuff."

There was something about the way the guy carried himself that was familiar. "You look like an athlete, dude. Just sayin'. Are you?"

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[behindeyesonly]

"Yeah, I am," Tidus said, grin widening slightly. "I was the star player for the Zanarkand Abes - the blitzball team - back where I came from."

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[cantgetnorelief]

"Blitzball?" echoed Anders, his interest level suddenly piqued. "That's one I haven't heard of before. Is it rough?"

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[behindeyesonly]

"It can be," Tidus said, looking a little wary suddenly. "You've never heard of blitzball?"

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[the_merriest]

Rikku shook her head sadly. "They don't have it here. Can you believe it?! The best sport ever and no one's even heard of it. They all play stupid games with balls and padding that take forever and are so boring."

Loyalty to the boyfriend made her add, "Except for hockey, which has people smacking each other with big sticks and beating the crap out of each other and totally doesn't suck."

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[cantgetnorelief]

"Never heard of a lot of sports before I got here," Anders said with a casual shrug. "Only thing I knew was Pyramid."