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Boy, bar, several pieces of lined paper and a scowl.

He needs to figure out who to write notes to, and how to say what he needs to say.

Judging by the collection of balled-up papers nearby? It's not going well.

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"Oh. Right." That's true. The only people 'like him' that he's met have been generally unpleasant.

X looks a little awkward.

Again.

"Okay."

Beat.

"You have found someone to teach you magic?"

"I did but. I've been waiting until after I go home to speak with him again."

"Oh."

Silence falls.

And then--

"Why?"

"Because I don't want to waste his time if I won't be back."

X tilts her head.

"You will stay gone?"

"I don't know. There's kind of a war out there."

X shrugs.

"It is like that a lot."

X's view may be a little skewed.

"Not for me."

"Oh."

X absorbs that.

Then--

"I am sorry."

But whether she means for the war, or the fact that he is not used to it--

That may be unclear.

"Shit happens." He shrugs.

"Okay."

X does not know what else to say.

Except--

"You are hungry?"

It works with Stitch.

And Billy is a teenage boy, which is a species not far removed from Stitch.

"I could eat."

"The sandwiches are good."

Beat.

"And the root beer floats."

And X will order some if Billy does not object.

"I don't like rootbeer," He says, amicably. "But a sandwich would be nice. Did you know there's a children's fund?"

"Oh. It is too sweet?"

She pauses, frowning slightly.

"No."

Beat.

"It is relevant?"

"I thought I was going to go into debt paying for a room here." So very relevant.

He loves sweets, but rootbeer. Bleh.

"Oh."

Beat.

"You cannot get a job?"

"...haven't really thought about it."

"There are stables," X says.

"And the kitchens. You have bartended before?"

"Uh-huh. Just the once. And animals don't usually like me much."

"Oh."

X looks just this side of startled.

"I did not know."

Beat.

"Why?"

"Because." He shrugs uncomfortably. "It's mostly cats."

"Oh."

X looks a little uncomfortable now, too.

"Liz has cats. I like them."

This is clearly relevant.

He's only met Liz once, and doesn't really remember her.

"That's good. They tend to attack me, except black ones."