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Jamie ought to be getting back to the Bounds soon - but it's been a long year, and he thinks he's entitled to a day or two of taking it easy somewhere familiar before he plunges himself back into trying to learn a new world and new customs.

Fortunately, he's got a standing offer of a place to stay. He's never taken Laini up on it before - it's easy enough to get his own room - but now he's broke(r than usual), and tired, and it seems the easiest option.

He gives a perfunctory knock, and then pushes the door open.

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"No, but it seemed apt, considering what we were talking about. I don't think I'd sleep here if they really did."

He picks up his controller and immediately heads off to the Yellow Switch Palace for an easy extra life or two.

"I'm guessing you heard that the way you were supposed to."

"I heard it in Japanese, all right," Jamie says, and taps his head. "I reckon it's because we were trying. It's the same way when I use Russian with Piotr - you know, the big Russian bloke."

He eyes the screen narrowly, until Luigi pops back up again.

"All right, you're not getting me dead so easily again!"

"Maybe if I talk in Spanish it would distract you more?" Duo offers cheerily as he hits the little 'P' switch and picks up a pile of coins.

"I'm onto you," Jamie retorts, and attempts to jump on Luigi's head. (It does not work so well, as the game is not designed to be fratricidal.)

"Oh, you'll like this next one," Duo says as he finishes his level and handy yellow blocks shoot all over the map. "It's got cliffs."

He tosses his controller down and climbs up off the couch as Mario reappears for his turn. "Want anything to drink?"

"Ummm. What are you offering that won't corrupt the youth?"

Jamie wants his reflexes top-notch for videogaming!

Duo snorts. "I'd say you stay here long enough, you're pretty much guaranteed to get corrupted before your time." He rummages through the mini-fridge.

"Iced coffee, water, soda, toxically colored sports drink?"

"Toxically colored sports drink please!" Jamie says promptly.

What? It's a challenge.

Duo passes him one. It's...green. If you're being generous. Don't bother to ask the flavor. It's green. But fortified with electrolytes and vitamins!

He gets himself a can of coffee and sits back down.

Jamie takes a gulp, and then pauses, to consider his drink.

"- full sensory experience, all right. I'd reckon those mushrooms don't taste too far off this."

"D'you think he eats them?" Duo asks, nose wrinkling. "Or snorts them up his mustache? Or maybe just absorbs them. In some kind of weird osmosis."

"Maybe he's actually destroying them," Jamie suggests, as Mario leaps for some shiny gold coins.

"Maybe he's getting moral points."

"Nah, he grows, after. They obviously have some kind of effect on him." It's logic!

"Moral growth!"

Your 'logic' cannot defeat Jamie!

Duo almost chokes on his coffee.

Jamie, considering this a victory, serenely bounces Mario over a fleet of tiny enemy turtles.

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