Orion has jazzed up his knife from Shop and he's putting it through its paces, channeling a spell through it with a shout and killing something that lurked under the mashed potatoes, and getting, in the process, mashed potato and mal bits in the adjacent trays of macaroni and chicken thighs. Everyone behind him in line groans.
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the goddess of the hunt
nhs hits on orion
Orion Lake
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Nie Huaisang
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Except the boy directly behind him in line, who is very interested in people this good at murdering things that lurk distressingly near to where he is!
"Hello," he says, with a trace of a Chinese accent that lands on 'sexily exotic.' "I'm Nie Huaisang."
Orion Lake
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Orion assumes he is talking to someone else. He peels the splattered skin off a chicken thigh and puts the inside on his plate.
Nie Huaisang
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"You like chicken?" he says.
(Well, that's a stupid opener. Hopefully first impressions don't count for that much.)
Orion Lake
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"- who, me? Yeah."
Nie Huaisang
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"Me too," he says, carefully removing the skin from a chicken thigh. "What's your name?"
Orion Lake
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"Orion Lake."
Nie Huaisang
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"You were really impressive with that mal."
Orion Lake
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"Thanks!" The tray next to the chicken barely got gotten at all. Orion liberates an ear of corn.
Nie Huaisang
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He will follow Orion's example. Being more similar to people makes them like you, he read somewhere.
"I definitely couldn't kill a mal like that."
Orion Lake
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"Well, uh, probably there'll be more spells for it in classes eventually?"
Nie Huaisang
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If they talked more that would be an opening to ask him to tutor him. "I hope so! But my affinity's visual art, I'm not sure how useful I'll be unless I can convince the mal to sit still so I can paint it."
Orion Lake
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"...would that work?"
Nie Huaisang
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"Probably not but if you see a mal who wants me to paint them like one of my French girls maybe pass it along before you explode it."
Orion Lake
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"...French girls?"
Nie Huaisang
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"Uh, Titanic?"
Oh, come on, it's an American movie. It's one of the most popular movies of all time.
Orion Lake
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"Titans were Greek." He is taking Greek mythology, so he knows this.
Nie Huaisang
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"It's... a movie? About a ship that was unsinkable and then it sunk?" It was very romantic. He cried.
Orion Lake
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"Oh. I haven't seen it."
Nie Huaisang
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"Sorry. I guess I assumed."
Orion Lake
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"I've seen all of Star Wars?" They are at the end of the line now. The banana cream pie is all gone but there are jam tarts. Orion takes two jam tarts.
Nie Huaisang
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He will take a jam tart.
"Star Wars is really good!" He almost makes his Will save but then says: "Only the original original trilogy though, the CGI is crap. You really can't get the same level of badassery with CGI that you can with practical effects."
Orion Lake
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"...okay." Orion drifts over to the New York table.
Nie Huaisang
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Goddammit.
He shouldn't have infodumped.
"Maybe we can hang out sometime?"
Orion Lake
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"Uh..." What does he say to that. "I don't know that I'll have time."
Nie Huaisang
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Goddammit. "Well, see you around!"
Orion Lake
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"Yeah, sure." He sits down with New York.