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Seren was walking down the hall of the dorms, lost in thought, a small bag of left over cookies from what she'd made for Rhys. She'd brought basically all of them to him, but there were a few that didn't fit on the plate, so she was bringing them back to nosh on herself. She was feeling WAY better now that she'd seen Rhys and been convinced her friend was going to be ok, in the long run.

She stopped, however, in surprise when she heard a half cut off yelp. She looked around, trying to see if she could see some one nearby, and was confused at first, because no one was visible. She frowned and started to move, then spotted the open door.

She walked up to it, and peered in, cautiously, and was quite baffled by what she saw inside. However, she DID see another young woman, and decided to ask if she was ok. "Um... hello? You ok? I heard a yelp-sounding noise, just... checking..."

Seren blinked, and relaxed, glad to hear the other girl was ok. "Oh yeah, pin sticks suck SO BAD." She wasn't much of a sewer but she could at least fix clothing, something she'd always needed to do to make sure she had things for school.

"Yeah, I'm kind of new. I'm Seren, Seren Yong..." She paused, surprised by the comments regarding her outfit, but also flattered because she could hear the admiration in the other young woman's voice. She leaned on the frame of the door, considering the stuttered questions.

"Um, I bought them premade, honestly? I don't sew very well, so I never really paid attention to fabric stuff. I'm pretty sure you could find cloth like this online, though? It's pretty popular, I think, right now. I've seen a number of ladies here on the island with starscape themed pants and stuff."

Seren blushed a little, but laughed at the description. "Fair enough... All right." She waited, however, for stuff to be moved, not wanting to trample the other girls fabric, or her patterns. "It's cool that you make stuff like that, though, seriously. I wish I had skills like that."

Diwata whispered into her head "You cook, and you're good at fitness... I think that's a good thing... I wish I could eat your food, I am soooo hungry..."

Seren blushed more, at her weapon's words, and brushed her fingers along the star pin that was her totem, in a thank you gesture, as she moved into the room, and settled down.

Kim's name had her tilting her head, a half frown of puzzlement and curiosity on her face at first. Then when Terry was mentioned, her expression immediately lighted into recognition and pleasure. "Oh! You're Terry's girlfriend Kim! He mentioned you to me! I met him the other day at the sparring field, we had a battle and then chatted after."

"Yeah! Not well, but he seems like a nice dude, and he was teaching me about video games and otaku and that sort of thing, which to me is like... A whole new, fascinating world. I am SUPER interested, it's not something I was ever given a chance to be exposed to before."

She arches a brow, and snickers. "Well um. Yeah, we sparred, and I felt a little bad, to be honest. Apparently I'm a Sun by nature, because I kinda kicked his a** for him." She scratched her head, embarrassed. "First spar I've ever done and I kicked his a**. Like, I'm proud of myself, but I feel bad too. It's gotta be kinda humiliating, having some one who's never sparred before, been out of pods for like... a month or so, and has less experience beat you." She scuffed a toe, a bit, on the floor. "But you should do it. It's fun, sparring. I never would have thought I'd LIKE fighting before." She sounded amazed by that.

The mention of the 'whole water thing' made Seren blink, then remember the meeting and Kim's confession. Seren sighed, then reached over and patted the other girl in a comforting way on her knee. "Girl, you made a mistake. Everyone does. Blaming you and making you miserable ongoing seems silly to me. We'll get this fixed somehow, and I bet you'll be important to the solution, ok?"

Seren sighed and patted the other girl's knee again. "Humans make mistakes. What's important is that you want to fix it. If you didn't, then I'd have problems, man."

Seren grinned at Kim. "I might have to spar with you sometime, then, get some practice against some one with a good drive for battle. It'll be a proper challenge. Heh. I tried to get him to come be a work out partner, but that was a failure. I'm glad to say I met Rhys, who has been helping me with that instead." She noticed the reaction of the other woman to the words 'trust,' and gave her a very empathetic grin. "Yeah, it's hard to trust some one that much, I know. Terrifying as ********, right? What if they suddenly proved otherwise or something? But if we don't... we'd be lonely for ********' ever." She sighed, deeply.

She blinked, and shuddered at that. "I uh... I got lucky? My room is on the ground floor, so I use those showers. I had only come down here, really, to check on something. That sounds utterly ******** horrifying. You should use the ones on my floor, ******** the fact that you're down here!"

"It is very hard, in ways I can't even begin to consider. Or probably want to." She shrugged it off as well, and closed her eyes for a moment, feeling an odd kinship with the other woman.

Her description made Seren's eyes pop back open, to stare in appalled shock at her. "Oh good lord. But if you're home from sparring, wouldn't it be easier to run by the upper level showers on the way down to avoid that issue?" She shuddered and made a disgusted face. "WHY can't they fix that, though? Aren't we supposed to be here to like... deal with the bad s**t that causes that sort of insane bullcrap to happen?"

She looked on, fascinated, then said "Can you... make them out of old shirts and stuff? I have a shirt that got... Well, let's call it stretched out, shall we?... during Dares night."

"It was a week or two ago... I technically first saw Terry there, but like... I had no interaction with him, and because of some of the s**t that went down, I sort of had a little melt down. No idea what all he was up to." She assumed everything was fine, since he was in a relationship, and had told her about Kim pretty much up front. "It was mostly fun but yeah. There was a homophobic a*****e and some dares that didn't go over well." Her eyes were hooded, and despite Melvin having made it clear he didn't blame her, she still felt sad it went badly for him.

She took a deep breath, hearing Di scold her for feeling that over something she really had no responsibility for.

"Awesome. I'll bring you a shirt, then, you can use. I dared that giant dude Lysander, if you've seen him, to swap clothes with one of the ladies and had to do it myself because he 'didn't want to stretch anyone's clothes out.' So I volunteered, because LAME EXCUSE, seriously. If you haven't seen him, he's at least 6'5" I'd say, and got decent shoulders on him. Pretty cute, but ******** is he a total Self Involved Rich b***h." The capitol letters on the last four words were definitively pronounced, too. "I'll show you Diwata whenever you want, though it's probably better done in a less crowded space. Di is not a small weapon."