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[anunluckypenny]

[It's dark inside Penny's room above the Welcome Center. The dim light from the network device is enough to illuminate Penny, who looks even more frazzled than she usually does when the Centers are understaffed. In fact, she looks outright panicked.]

Hey, City? I know I'm not the only seeing things in the mirrors, but is it getting worse for anyone else? Like, are the images getting more... I don't know, vivid? Like they're getting ready to crawl right out? Or am I going crazy?

I mean, if I'm going crazy, I'd really like to know about it. And I'm not totally ruling it out, either. I've just been freaking out all month and nothing's even happened.

[She pauses, turning to her right as if there's something there. Whatever it is encourages her to turn her attention back to the device.]

Okay--um. If... I don't mean to sound totally needy, but is anyone free? I get that it's Saturday and you all probably have plans, I just... you know, if you don't--

[Penny interrupts herself with a terrified squeak. She glances off to the right again, and... off goes the device.]

Comments

[skintoskin]

Bad ass is good,

[He smiles and accepts the plate of chicken, which won't be on the plate for long.]

You can't eat chicken, Pens? How 'bout cupcakes? I mean, I could eat them all, but I'm supposed to share.

[anunluckypenny]

[She waves off Lucy's concern.] It's totally okay. Just an excuse to eat more cupcakes, right?

[Penny drags her bean bag chair closer (and makes a mental note to, someday, consider investing in real furniture).]

I'm all for cupcakes. No one had to die to make them. Oh--not that I'm judging people who eat meat! It's healthy, and the real problem is the way that the animals're treated before-- [Ah, movie and food. This is not a good time to get a soap box. She shrugs and smiles.] Well, you know. It's just a personal choice.

[mightbeconcussed]

[ Beanbag furniture is so cool though! ]

No. I mean, I kind of agree. I don't eat veal 'cause they never get to grow up. Or lamb. It's sad. Basically, I don't eat babies.

[ Which isn't really the same thing, but Lucy is just kind of babbling. ]

[skintoskin]

[Lucy gets a look from Neil that silently asks 'Babies?']

Uh, yeah, Pens. A choice, just like I choose to live mostly on 'junk food', but I don't call it that. I'm a carnivore.

But I... don't eat 'babies', either...

[anunluckypenny]

Hey, there is no judgment in this room about diet choices. Judgment-free zone.

[Because a part of her really wants to launch into a WHY YOU SHOULD BE A VEGETARIAN TOO rant and she's trying to suppress it.]

Fun, cupcakes, and movies. No baby-eating talk allowed, right?

[mightbeconcussed]

[ Okay, Lucy should probably think about her words before she says them. Penny's comment makes her giggle though. ]

Definitely fun, cupcakes and movies.

[skintoskin]

Okay.

[Neil picks up a piece of chicken and takes a big bite.]

Let's watch this Alice kick some ass.

[Though it sounds less coherent than that, because he has a mouth full of chicken. Then he smiles, mouth closed.]