Room 303, Saturday Morning

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Classes had finished. Now there was little for Liara to do but go through the last few books the library had remaining to her.

They didn't hold much draw to her, being fiction-- the human experience held only so much interest for her. Especially considering their odd fascination with... human males with their shirts off. Yes. That was quite odd. After an hour of squinting at the book, she cast it aside, onto her nightstand.

"I need a new hobby," she muttered wryly to herself.

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[solarhippie]

Karolina had no particular fascination for human males with their shirts off. Or males of any other species, for that matter.

Which was only tangentially related to why she was leaning through the doorway to Liara's room right now. "Hi."

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Liara looked up at her; her expression was torn between 'wry' and 'pleased to see you'. "Karolina," she greeted warmly. "Hello. Please, come in."

[solarhippie]

"Hey," Karolina repeated (almost, anyway), as she stepped into the room, brushing her hair back from her face, and smiling. "I thought I should come by before I take off for LA again."

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"I think that is a very wise thought," Liara said. Her face was kept straight, but she was, for once, actually teasing.

She patted a spot on the bed beside her.

[solarhippie]

Karolina chuckled as she crossed the room to take a seat next to her on the bed. "Yeah, I thought so too. I mean, it's a time of year where people disappearing for a while is natural, but it still looks rude."

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"How long will you be gone?" Liara asked, shifting a little until she was practically plastered to Karolina's side. "It is human holiday season-- right?"

[solarhippie]

"Yeah," Karolina replied – after a pause. She liked the closeness but that didn't mean she didn't still want to kind of spaz out about it. "Meaning it's holiday season for this Majesdanian too! And at least one Skrull."

She had no idea whether Xavin was even aware Christmas was a thing.

"I'll be back before New Year's Eve, I think. I won't be gone longer than a week."

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Liara nodded. She paused for a moment, unsure whether or not it was inappropriate to remind Karolina of this, but-- "If you stay longer for whatever reason," she ventured at last, "You will let me know?"

[solarhippie]

Not inappropriate, although Karolina still kind of flushed at the reminder. Still, she also huffed out another sheepish chuckle, glancing down at her hands in her lap.

"I will, I promise."

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"Good."

Liara reached for her hand...

...and then was struck rather painfully in the back by something. Her eyes flew open. "Goddess!"

Stuck between her shoulder blades was a piece of mistletoe. Sigh.

[solarhippie]

Karolina's eyebrows climbed way up, and she leaned back a bit to see what the hell was the matter.

"... That's mistletoe. Did that just... kind of appear, just now?"

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"I don't know!" Liara reached back and gave it a pull. "--Ow."

[solarhippie]

"Is it stuck?"

The 'ow' seemed to suggest that.

"That's weird."

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"It seems to be very insistent on staying where it is!" Liara said, turning around in a (failed) attempt to look at it. "What is this mistletoe? Is it dangerous?!"

[solarhippie]

"No," Karolina said quickly. "No, no no. It's not dangerous." Unless you happened to be a werewolf of a certain persuasion. "It's kind of a Christmas... thing? You're, um, supposed to hang it up in doorways and the ceiling and stuff."

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"Then why is it stuck to my back?" Liara asked, annoyed, giving it another tug.

[solarhippie]

"I really don't know."

Random plant things weren't her area of expertise.

"It, um, might be another one of Fandom's ideas of a Christmas thing."

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"I suppose it would fall into its habit of deciding to 'decorate' us," Liara said. "Goddess. This was not how I intended to spend this conversation."

[solarhippie]

"Did you have something else in mind?" Karolina asked, as she reached for the mistletoe to give it a hopeful little tug of her own.

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Liara winced. "... I was not sure yet," she admitted. "But it did not involve foilage."

[solarhippie]

The mistletoe did not budge.

This was not a surprise, but Karolina still frowned at it.

"You know, these things appearing on the ceiling I would've actually understood."

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That earned her a squint. "Is there something particular about ceilings...?"

[solarhippie]

"Oh." Oh, yeah, that probably needed a little explanation. "You're supposed to hang it up, like I said. And then... Well, you're kinda supposed to kiss underneath it."

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"This is a plant that is supposed to make you kiss."

She sounded as dubious as she did amused in spite of herself.

[solarhippie]

"Well, it's just a silly tradition."

Although Karolina wouldn't put it past the islan to just force kissing on people...