One squishy and eight robots walk into a cafe...

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Megan looks around the room as they enter, her adoptive 'brothers' - in this case the full eight-member set of Alpha Squadron - not far away. It was late afternoon at home, since they didn't want her staying up too late or to be late for school when it started up again. But they had little idea what time it would be here.

But Time and Oil were spending the night, which made it a perfect opportunity for a little 'welcome to the family' evening out with their new little sister.

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[arctic_kawaii]

Well, in that case, there was no reason not to let Frosty stay. The others relax and it's not long before Oil reaches for a slice of pizza. The others soon claim their own slices. Ice carefully picks off a piece of what looks like pepperoni from his own piece to offer to Frostflower. The fire lizard holds it in both foreclaws and gives it a nibble, getting sauce on his snout.

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Logan takes a crumb of cheese and reaches over to give it to his pet rock, then looks at Elec as he accepts a roast dino sandwich from one of the furry waitresses. "Yer the guy 'at was talkin' t' my sister about school?"

[feathers_in_wax]

Guts gives the cheese a puzzled look and holds out the singing rock. "Singing rocks eat cheese?" he asks, putting it carefully down on the table so it can eat - and so he can grab a piece of pizza.

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Elec nods, mouth full at the moment. Once he swallows that bite he says, "Yeah. The rest of us playing hooky our whole lives is one thing. We're robots, so we can download anything we'd really need to know. But Megan's human."

[random_xtras]

"They'll eat pretty well anythin'." He grins at the big boy, then turns back to Elec. "So yer thinkin' 'a havin' 'er go here."

[feathers_in_wax]

"We have to send her somewhere. We wouldn't know where to start on home-schooling. And we live in the Nexus. Sending her back to the universe we originally came from would have a lot of problems. Somewhere where we wouldn't have to come up with fake ID or lie about the living arrangements at home is a bonus. Even more if they won't mind that she's pyrokinetic."

[random_xtras]

Logan nods. "No problems I kin see."

Then he looks at Megan. "Whaddya got so far, darlin'?"

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"What do you mean?" she asks. Right now, she had pizza. Or did he mean with her lessons before or with the fire...

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"Schoolin' wise. How good're ya with readin'... 'n what language?"

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"I'm good at reading. At least, with English and German. I'm not as good at reading Japanese, but Ice said that was ok because Japanese takes longer to learn. Ice has been trying to teach me German and Japanese, and I tried to learn Mother Keri's language but wasn't very good at it."

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"We have her school records," Ice says, "but the way Mother Keri's people handled schooling was a little unusual. The records are all on parchment scrolls from monthly reviews and testing."

[random_xtras]

Logan nods to Ice and grins at Megan. "Sounds like yer doin' good fer somebody yer age. How 'bout math?"

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It may have helped that they didn't have a TV.

"Math, I'm not so good at," she admits.

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"Nothin' wrong with that," he says reassuringly. "They'll give y' a run 'a tests t' see where ya oughtta be, anyway."

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Megan nods at that, taking another bite of pizza.

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"We've never had to deal with that kind of paperwork," Elec says, "but we're going to have to learn."