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[lvpd_sidle]

And there is Sara, who is sunburned from her promised day out of doors. She's currently curled up on a couch, flipping through a magazine. Anyone who touches her shoulders will be risking both her pained wrath and becoming covered in aloe gel.

Bother if you like.

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[argyle_princess]

"That looks totally painful. You okay?"

[lvpd_sidle]

"It's a bit sore, but I've had worse." Sara gives her a friendly smile. "I'm Sara."

[argyle_princess]

"Hannah. Hannah Griffith. Nice to meet you."

She offers Sara her hand.

[lvpd_sidle]

She shakes her hand. "You too."

[argyle_princess]

"So you're not from, like, a hundred years ago or anything are you?"

'cause that whole concept is still bizarre.

[lvpd_sidle]

She chuckles. "Depends on the time you're from, I'd guess. Las Vegas, Nevada, 2006. You?"

[argyle_princess]

"Neptune, California, but currently Vermont, and 2006, too."

She grins.

"So roughly the same time, then. Cool."

[lvpd_sidle]

"Does get to be complicated here. I've been coming here over a year now and I still can't keep track of my friends."

[argyle_princess]

"Over a year? Wow. I just wandered in a few weeks ago -- it turned up in my boarding school, and bars just don't belong in boarding schools, so that was pretty weird."

[lvpd_sidle]

"Turned up in the storage closet of my workplace. I think it surprised the heck out of both of us." She chuckles again. "But I'm not complaining. Most of the people I know here are great."

[argyle_princess]

"Yeah, I'm getting that feeling. At least, the people I've met here have all been really nice."

One of the people she knew before she got here kinda broke her heart here, but it doesn't seem fair to hold that against the bar.

[lvpd_sidle]

"Are you in school?"

[argyle_princess]

"Sophomore," she says, nodding. "In high school. I go to a boarding school in Vermont and I hate it, but, hey, the school year's almost over, right?"

[lvpd_sidle]

"A silver lining to be found, yeah. High school will suck for the most part, but it does eventually end."

[argyle_princess]

"It didn't suck nearly as much when I was in Neptune," says Hannah.

[lvpd_sidle]

"More friends there?"

[argyle_princess]

"Yeah. And my life. Track. And, you know, boys."

[lvpd_sidle]

Sara's high school experience consisted mostly of her hiding in the library working on physics and leaving a year early. Popularity, boyfriends, even friends themselves weren't priorities for her.

"Must be tough," she says with no little sympathy.

[argyle_princess]

"A little."

She shrugs.

"It's probably a pretty boring story if it's not, you know, your life. What do you do?"

[lvpd_sidle]

"I'm a crime scene investigator, and work with the Las Vegas crime lab."

[argyle_princess]

"That sounds really cool," says Hannah. "So you're like one of those people who solves crimes because you find like a q-tip and a 100 yen coin at the scene of the come and then piece the whole thing together?"