5th Floor Common Room, Friday Evening

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After last year, Kathy wasn't going to try trick-or-treating around the dorms again, but that didn't mean she couldn't celebrate the holiday anyway. She'd splurged on a really awesome angel costume and had even gotten Minako into the spirit of things. (She'd also gotten a little kitty costume for Artemis, but he'd seen her come into the room and

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Anders had no idea it was a holiday -- or, to be more accurate, he'd heard it mentioned but ignored it because he didn't see what it had to do with him. So it was with a faintly bewildered air that he stumbled into the common room.

"Is it someone's birthday again?" he asked, poking at the candy bowls for anything with peanut butter.

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He would find plenty of peanut butter cups in there!

"Nope, it's Halloween!" Kathy said from where she was tossing puppy treats to Minako. "It's a night for dressing up in fun costumes and eating candy!" Beat. "And, okay, there's historical precedent for the night being about the souls of the departed and stuff, but these days it's mostly spooky stories and sugar highs."

From the way she was bouncing a little as she spoke, the sugar high might already have been kicking in, yes.

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Anders took a few peanut butter cups, looked at the handful, and then snuck a few more into his pocket for safekeeping.

"Your holidays are weird," he informed her, good-naturedly. "Our day of the dead at home was months ago. We're onto the one about masks and fools now." A pause. "Though I suppose the costumes and the treats are the same..."

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"Masks and fools?" Kathy asked, holding up a hand for him to toss her another candy as well. She wasn't going to admit which number this made for her, no. "What's that one about? I mean, we say 'Trick or Treat' when we go door to door in costume, so it doesn't sound too terribly different from what yours might be."