Subject: "Hey, what d'you have there, Penny?"
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Posted on: 2015-02-03 03:22:00 UTC

The Chinese woman looked at Angus from across the Cafeteria table they shared. "It's a PPC travel brochure that I managed to find under some mouldy paperwork in Personnel," she said as she handed the document to her coworker. "I think it's supposed to convince the newbies that maybe, just maybe this place isn't a total pit of despair."

Beside her, Nasir sighed and rolled his eyes. "Given the fact that you found this by digging under some abandoned crud... well, I don't think this thing lasted very long."

Penny shrugged. "Iunno, but it's still pretty to look at."

Meanwhile, Angus was examining the brochure. "Well, let's see... oh, the Hogwarts one looks nice. If the trip also included Hogsmeade I'd take Sophie to Honeydukes and buy her some candy..."

"Ooh, sounds lovely," said Penny. "There's nothing on this list that really grabs my attention-- I'm not part of any of these fandoms-- but I wouldn't mind a trip to Middle-earth. Shire, here I come!"

Nasir pointed at the brochure. "Hey Angus, may I have a look at that?"

The blond man passed the travel guide to his Arabic coworker. "Yeah, no problem man. Actually," he turned to Penny, "a trip to Gallifrey wouldn't be so bad."

"It's got to get unstuck from that pocket dimension first, though," sighed Penny. "Hah! To think that ten-ish years ago we could actually go there. It's funny how things change, eh?"

Both of her coworkers muttered sounds of agreement. Nasir looked up from the brochure and asked: "Where is Panem? It looks like some American city but... I don't know."

"Uh, I think it's a nation in the Hunger Games 'verse if I remember correctly," said Angus, scratching his chin. "Y'know, the young-adult-dystopian-future-kill-people-for-sport novel?"

Penny arched an eyebrow. "Another Battle Royale copycat? What is it with all of these authors and shoving teens into an arena to fight to the death? Did they never grow out of their gladiator phase or something?"

"That's a thing?" said Nasir.

The Chinese agent made a vague waving gesture with her hand. "Whatever. You know what I mean. So! Where do you want to go?"

Nasir looked at the brochure again. "Hm... I've always had a thing for floating islands and stuff. I'll take Pandora: those airborne landmasses are like a poor man's Sanctaphrax but oh well."

Angus checked his watch. "Fifteen minutes of break time left, guys. Shall we?"

Penny and Nasir gathered their trays of food and stood up. "Let's roll," said Penny. "I can't wait to go and read some more badfic while surrounded by a bunch of weeping, sleep-deprived adults!"

"If only I shared your enthusiasm," said Nasir as the group left the table.

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