Day 50: Sun Room (4th Shift)

[ninelivesonce]

The Sun Room was dark when Taura re-entered it; her eyes adjusted quickly, but not quickly enough to avoid one of the 'techs coming over to talk to her.

"Were you going to join us for the movie, Kitty?" she asked, waving a hand at what appeared to be a 2-D projector screen.

"Movie?" This was, apparently, the wrong question to ask, as the woman's face fell into a moue of practiced disappointment.

"You can't keep doing this to yourself, Kitty." Doing what, exactly, was something 'Kitty' was evidently supposed to know. Then the screen flicked on, and some sort of advertisement was playing while a staffer adjusted the volume. Oh. The term was unfamiliar, but entertainment hadn't changed that much.

"I mean, er, what movie is it?" Taura rumbled, keeping her voice low so as not to interrupt. That must have been the right question; the woman brightened back up and started explaining.

"King Kong!" she said, clearly expecting a reply. Then she sighed, and continued. "It's about a giant ape, brought back from an exploration," she began. "It's also a love story -- oh, just trust me. It's a classic."

"The ape falls in love?" That sounded a little outré, at least by Institute standards of entertainment. Not by Jacksonian ones, but those Taura had been just as pleased to leave behind.

"Oh, nothing like that. Well, the ape does fall in love -- but it's just a beast. Why, Fay Wray doesn't even come up to its waist." Taura blinked at her again. What did height have to do with it, anyway? She was leaning, just a little, without even realizing it. Perhaps looming would be a better word. The 'tech blinked back, and then finally the penny dropped. "Oh...oh. Maybe it wouldn't be to your taste, dear." And with that, she scurried off to adjust a chair that was already facing the screen quite adequately. Taura sighed, and slipped through the gathering crowd to the bulletin board.

[Zack]

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[scarletspeedstr.livejournal.com]

"Hey, King Kong's a classic!" Wally said, holding his hands up mock-defensively. "Do I gotta go find a seat next to someone who can get that?"

Grinning just to make extra sure it was clear he was joking, he extended a hand to the girl. "Wally West. So, can I call you Minako or Aino?"

Even though he'd met a lot of people with names from all over the world, and not just in the institute, Wally still stumbled a little over the pronunciation. Not as badly as he did with some names, but still. It'd take a little practice before it rolled off his tongue as easily as other names he knew well.

"So, I guess you're not a fan of the movie then?"

[ai-no-minako.livejournal.com]

And friendly, too. Even better! Minako's grin quirked wider as she reached out to take the hand with only a slight pause. There sure were a lot of Westerners around here, weren't there? Kinda weird, though not really in a bad way. "Minako's just fine with me." Not many people called her "Aino" after all, and they were usually people she didn't want to talk to anyway. So.

"It's a classic, sure, but that doesn't make it interesting." She lifted a shoulder in a slight shrug. "Also the fact that the nurses decided I should watch it." Maybe it was juvenile, but she was just contrary enough to dislike something she was forced to do like that. "Couldn't they show something made, y'know, my lifetime?"

[scarletspeedstr.livejournal.com]

"Hey, giant monkeys are interesting!" Maybe even more so because this one wasn't real. Though Wally had found the whole city of super intelligent, talking gorillas to be pretty amazing as well. Little less so when Grodd was trying to turn everyone into gorillas, but otherwise the rest of the city's inhabitants had seemed pretty cool.

Right, daydreaming about times when the League was around and he didn't have to worry about everything that was happening here was better left to when he didn't have company.

"But I dunno, what would you pick if you could pick anything? Maybe we can even suggest it or something."