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The nicest thing about graduation, Bea thinks, is that in the brief window after breakfast and before the flames burn through, most of the mals are migrating down to the graduation hall. So it's possible to let one's guard down slightly more than usual and not feel too bad about it. And if you go two to a room instead of separately to wait for the cleansing to finish... it's not like curfew's being enforced.
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Though their own team has more celebrating to do. A snack bar run, for instance.
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They get three tokens a week, and Shinta spent basically none of hers in freshman year - and she's been saving the majority most weeks since, keeping her freshman tokens in reserve for special occasions or acquiring things for trade given that the school will give better results on older tokens. Saving up hasn't always been pleasant - but her luck in the cafeteria line isn't terrible, and she likes having things for trade more than she likes eating, and she can endure hunger.
They've gotten a bit over four hundred fifty tokens each since induction; it's rare to have more than single digit numbers on hand, given how useful the extra calories are (and with Luthien's appetite, she and El end up spending their weekly tokens and then trading for more food). Shinta spent a big chunk on their last alliance celebration, and she's still got roughly two hundred left, sorted meticulously in a coin binder by age. She doesn't have the best luck with the machine - that's Dani - but she can give Dani tokens to feed in for some very good results.
There's of course the standard little pile of off brand, stale, and/ or squished chips and peanut butter crackers and candy bars and the like, but they also score: a few two packs of poptarts; a good variety of gum including a few packs with caffeine in them (valuable for trade; Shinta squirls most of those away for later); a handful of gumballs that come clattering out of the machine in a rush; a packet of stale chocolate pocky (also better for trade than eating, Shinta insists); a fresh salmon onigiri, dated that very morning; some room temperature soda; a bottled tea that's only making a vague gesture at being chilled; an actually cold bottled coffee; a pouch of Bon Curry; a lemon soda...
Which is on top of the bottomless lukewarm urns of unsweetened coffee and tea, which Shinta saves old bottles to fill up from (she hates water, and the unsweetened drinks will keep for a few days, and she runs on coffee) (there's also extremely suspicious packets of sugar with the urns, but they're almost never worth the risk, even for enclavers).
It's a veritable feast, even better than what Dani's used to with the weekly snack bar runs with her enclave. And it's more food than what even Luthien can immediately pack away; they'll have some left over to store for bad days, and some to trade.
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She and El have a lot more room for storage than they used to, with the combined room meaning they can save on bed and desk space. Filling up empty bottles with coffee for the next few mornings isn't a bad idea.
