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[felon_spice]

It's much easier the second time for Zoe to convince SARAH that they should take a trip to Milliways without her father.

Now there's a teenage girl sitting at the bar, watching all the people around her and trying to figure out if she can scam anyone into getting her a beer.

[open for tags with Zoe only; SARAH modded with permission, but her

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[sorryimatwat]

She might just have some luck with the thin young man sitting further down the bar, T-shirt proudly proclaiming the logo of some long-forgotten rock band.

(Owen buys his T-shirts from charity shops, frequently.)

[felon_spice]

Zoe spots him and decides he looks like someone she can easily con.

She hops off her bar stool and walks down the bar.

"Hey, I'm Zoe," she says. "Pretty new here."

[sorryimatwat]

He turns his head to size her up, the corners of his mouth quirking into a grin.

"Owen. S'pose I am too - been around for a few months, but not regular."

[felon_spice]

Oooh, an accent.

"Where are you from, Owen?" Zoe asks.

[cutting_edgex23]

X, who has just come in from the lake and is consquently slightly damp, shifts her angle of approach in order to head in Zoe's direction.

She only looks a little awkward when she stops and says, "Hello."

[felon_spice]

"Oh, hi," Zoe says, recognizing the girl. "Um... it's X, right?"

What kind of weird name is that anyway?

[cutting_edgex23]

"Yes," X says, still looking a little wary.

Regular teenagers are like an alien species. Or maybe X is the alien species.

"X-23 is my designation."

Beat.

"You can call me Laura."

It comes out closer to a question than anything else.

[felon_spice]

"Okay, Laura," Zoe says. "Why do you have a designation?"

[imthegoodguy]

There's a Ben at the bar, ordering a cup of Darjeeling tea.

Good luck conning him into getting her a beer!

[felon_spice]

Zoe's perceptive enough to realize that would be a bad plan.

She does smile though. Making friends doesn't hurt. "Hi."

[imthegoodguy]

More teenage girls. Ben grins back.

"Hello."

[felon_spice]

"I'm Zoe," she says. "Relatively new visitor to Milliways."