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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[runwithscissorz]

"Which is something we never thought we'd be doing," Cut says.

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"It's very good," Bomb replies about the pizza. There are a few nods from the others.

[random_xtras]

"There's books on it." Logan chuckles, meaning child rearing. But then he sobers. "Well, y' look like yer startin' out on the right foot, anyhow."

[feathers_in_wax]

"Books can tell you a lot," Elec admits, "but they can't tell you everything."

[random_xtras]

"Naw, but there's lots 'a folk that can help y' out."

[runwithscissorz]

"I think we're gonna need all the help we can get," Cut says.

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Megan's blushing a bit behind her slice of pizza.

[random_xtras]

"My sister knows alot." He nods toward the bar, then gives the little girl a reassuring grin. "'N yer proly gonna meet more iffin' ya come here anymore."

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Megan smiles back, and after a moment asks, "Are there a lot of children that go to school here?"

[random_xtras]

"Few hundred," says Logan, adjusting the lay of the pickle and sour kraut in his sandwich. "Proly be about ten 're so in yer class."

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"That's a lot," Megan says. Or at least it's more than she's used to.

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"There weren't very many children where we used to live. Mother Keri said her people didn't have kids very often. There was really just me and Megan."

[random_xtras]

"Ah," he says, brows lifting slightly. "Fair Folk?"

[arctic_kawaii]

Ice nods. "She said they'd been called that in some universes, but that they weren't the only kind."

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"Nah, there's a lotta different races. Most I know 've left the mortal worlds." Logan has a bite of sandwich, frowning slightly.

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Megan nods. "That's what happened. And Mother Keri said I could go with her or go with Ice, because he was going to move in with his brothers."