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[Vriska Serket stuck out like a sore thumb in crowds everywhere she went. It was a strange feeling, one that helped fuel the alienation she felt in this world. What with her gray skin, bright yellow eyes, candy-corn colored horns, and strange left eye (complete with seven pupils, totaling up to eight) there really was no mistaking her for anyone else... anyone else human, that is. Not that she would ever try to pass off as a human- she liked being a troll. It was just hard. It was hard and no one here understood what she felt (not that she'd ever talk about it).

Yet after being here for a sweep (two years) most people who lived at the Gardens were used to seeing her and so the staring was minimal. Better for her, thankfully. As she walked through the lobby, pack slung over her shoulder and long, black hair tied back into a braid, she was not in the mood to deal with gawkers. Stupid, pink wrigglers. Don't know how to mind their own business.]

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[Everyone had to come through the lobby when they entered the Gardens, so Nepeta had been stationing herself every single day by the entrance, knowing that any day now Vriska would come waltzing through those doors.

Unless she was sent back home.

Or had been killed.

In which case, she would probably had perched herself near the entrance for the rest of her life--or however long this place entrapped her. Still, somehow Vriska had ended up entering without her noticing, but at the very least her persistence meant that she was they were in the lobby at the same time. Nepeta smelled her before she saw her. A sweep hadn't changed that spidery scent and it stood out amongst all the others.

She spun around when she got whiff of it and stared through the crowd and--there. She stood out so starkly, and Nepeta wasted no time in jumping down from where she was surveying the area and running on all fours through the crowd. Some people shouted as she slipped in and out of their legs but she paid them no heed. When she was close---]

FRISKA!

[and she sailed through the air to greet her in a tacklepounce]

[She was already envisioning herself shedding this damn uniform and climbing under hot water so the sounds of people shouting in surprise passed right by her until said surprise hit her straightforward.

And sent her skidding back at least a foot.] Oof--!

[Uttering a few choice (curse) words Vriska hissed, ready to go off on the asshole that jumped her, but opening her eyes and seeing who it was...

Those words died on her lips.] Leijon?!

[She opened her mouth, and ordinarily a torrent of words would be coming out of her mouth but right now they all seemed to fail her. It really was Vriska, it really was her. She was older, as Matt had told her she would be but it was her.]

[There was so much she wanted to say, so much she wanted to ask but it was as if her throat had closed up. Her face scrunched up and she felt a knot form in her throat and she just nodded.]

Y-yea. It's me.

Ugh... [She moved to push Nepeta off, the back of her head aching from where she hit the ground. While she'd never say it out loud... seeing another troll, even if it was Nepeta, was... a small comfort. She wasn't sure how to feel beyond that- just that she wasn't completely alone in this sea of pink.

Sitting up, Vriska crinkled her nose.] Did you have to jump me?

Eheh, I'm sorry. I guess I just got excited. I've been waiting fur you!

Waiting? [She furrowed her eyebrows.] For how long-

No. I'm done sitting here. Let's go. [She stood up,shifting her pack again and moved to head back to her room. Nepeta would do best to hurry after her.]

[And that she did, Nepeta wasted no time in scampering after her]

Um. Fur about eight days! [there's a strange irony in that]

Eight. [She sniffs.] And you enrolled here. Is anyone else with you? [That she would know.]

[Nepeta shook her head] The Matt human told me about you, but I haven't seen or heard of any others being here.

Tch! [Small comforts aside...] Did he tell you how long I've been here?

...he told me you've been here fur a sweep. [and looking at her, Nepeta could see the differences. if the situation had been different she may have been a little weirded out by it, but as things stood she didn't care. She was just glad to see a fellow troll]

Really? Wow, I didn't realize. [Sarcasm, obviously. Walking quickly they eventually get to her room where she lives alone. Once inside she throws her pack off to the side. It's pretty decent, if not bare in some areas. On the kitchen counter is a potted Venus fly trap and an empty mug.]

You asked. [She slowly pokes her head in the room, looking around first before cautiously entering. This room was different than hers, and something seemed to be missing]

Where is your hivemate?

Yeah well, you should know how long you'll probably be here. [No sense in sugar coating it for her.]

I don't have one. I live alone because I'm not a cadet, like you.

What are you then?

A SeeD. [Moves to fill the half the mug up with water and pours it into the Venus's pot.]

Those are the..special team or something right? That you join when you finish all your classes? [Well it made sense if she had been here for a sweep]

And pass the exam. But yeah, that's me. Part of a special team.

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