Day Two - Swimming

[yes_miss_potts]

Who: Pepper Potts, Heather Lisinski
Where: Beach
When: Early morning
Rating: PG thus far
Status: Finished
Invasion: Sure!  Come on in!
Summary: Unable to sleep late into the day, Pepper gets up early to take a swim in the ocean, where she runs into Heather out for a walk.  They exchange pleasantries, and find that they actually have a great deal in

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[rosy_intellect]

Heather couldn't sleep. Try as she might, when the Sun rose, so did she. It was probably due to the fact that she had no electricity at her house back home, and if she wanted to keep working when the Sun went down, she needed to light candles. They were fine, but the flickering flames weren't great if you wanted to get a lot of work done. So, she'd gotten accustomed to getting up when the Sun did, to make the most of the day. It seemed like her body followed that, even in this new locale.

She decided to do a little exploring. She hadn't gotten up to much the night before, preferring to stay close to "home" after she and Sirius parted ways. So, early on her first morning in the strange place called DauphinMare, she found herself walking on the warm sand of the beach. She gazed at the horizon, watching the waves reach up and fall back. She noticed a woman standing at the water's edge, peering out to shore. Heather waved, a smile on her face. "Hi!" She called out to the stranger.

[yes_miss_potts]

"Food," Pepper stated, suddenly famished. It seemed that her swim that morning had worked up quite a hunger.

She grabbed a tray and stood in line behind some creature with limbs that were ever so slightly too long. Ogling a little, she turned to exchange a look with Heather.

[rosy_intellect]

Heather shrugged, not having any explanation for the creature in front of Pepper. "Different strokes for different folks?" She murmured to Pepper.

Grabbing a tray as well as a plate nearby, she surveyed the food in front of her. It strangely did remind her of college dorm food: trays of different foods were strewn out in front of them, made either as bland as possible or as spicy as possible, but never anywhere in the middle of that continuum. "Yum," she muttered. But, looking on the bright side, all of it did look fairly tasty, and her stomach was hungry enough that even bland tasting food would do.

[yes_miss_potts]

Having gathered a rather nondescript breakfast of fruit and coffee, Pepper waited for Heather before finding a table.

"I don't think I'm ever getting used to that," she said of the locals, eyeballing one behind Heather that looked slightly like a chimp only not quite.

[rosy_intellect]

Heather followed Pepper's glance and, turning away from the chimp-like creature, shook her head. "Me either," she said to her companion, leading them to a table in a far corner of the dining hall. "Is this one okay?"

[yes_miss_potts]

"Perfect," she smiled at her new companion.

Remembering the last time she'd sat in the cafeteria, she grinned maniacally.

"So, have you run into Laurel yet?" she asked, chuckling, "She's a hoot. Last time I was here, she just plain sat down with us like she owned the place - which, I guess, she sort of does - and started talking to us. It was unreal."

[rosy_intellect]

"Laurel?" Heather echoed, confused. "No, I guess I haven't. What is she like?" She asked, curious.

[yes_miss_potts]

"Well you read the letter, right?" Pepper asked, hoping she had, "She's a lot like that. Only....crazier, somehow."

Oh, and she has horns, Pepper thought idly, choosing not to mention this particular point.

[rosy_intellect]

"Yeah, I did," Heather replied, suddenly understanding. "Gotcha. So she just came and sat down with you? That's pretty...interesting..."

[yes_miss_potts]

"It was," Pepper agreed between mouthfuls, "But she's kinda hard to talk to on account of she turns around everything you say, somehow. Very frustrating."

Pepper chewed thoughtfully, picking the grapefruit out of her fruit bowl. She detested grapefruit.

"So what are you going to do after breakfast?" she inquired, genuinely curious, "I was just going to lounge around in my room a bit, I think. Stay out of trouble for a bit. Yesterday was a bit too exciting for my liking."

[rosy_intellect]

"I hadn't really thought that far," Heather responded, taking a bite of the breakfast in front of her. "I guess I'll do more exploring, maybe see if I can meet some more people like us--people that got transported here, I mean."

[yes_miss_potts]

"Good idea," Pepper smiled, "We seem to be a pretty motley bunch so far. I don't see any cohesion to any of the people I've met so far. But likely the so-called Powers That Be have a better idea of what they're doing than I do."

Fruit finished, she picked up her coffee and began to sip, savouring more than she had her last cup, which she'd gulped down as soon as she'd gotten her hot little hands on it.

"If you happen to run into Jake Chambers and Oy, tell them I said hi," Pepper said, somewhat wistfully, thoughts lingering on the rather uncomfortable exchange between Jake and her sometime companion Chase the day before.

[rosy_intellect]

"Duly noted," Heather responded. "Do they live here in the dorms, or in a house somewhere?" She asked, taking another bite of her pancakes, washing it down with a swig of orange juice.

[yes_miss_potts]

Pepper frowned, realizing she didn't know.

"I'm not certain," she admitted, "I ran into them in the dorm common room though, so perhaps the dorms? They'll be together, though, that much I know. Oy is Jake's companion; he looks kind of like a cross between a dog and....I dunno, a lemur maybe? A little off-putting at first, but fine once you get used to him."