#laurendarhallman

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But first, a group photo!

They don't all actually live in this dorm, but here's the whole freshman class.

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"That . . . was weird."

That's right, this year's batch of freshman includes an exchange student! @plumbbobtoggle's lovely sim Lauren Dar Hallman has arrived from another dimension (and . . . the future????) and she'll be joining the Owl Creek co-eds for the next four years! Maybe even for longer than that, if she decides to stick around.

Lauren is a straight A student, an amateur astronomer, and a former spelling bee champ.

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"Oh, that one's new!"

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"How did your paper turn out?"

"Good, I think."

"Mine, too! Splints are actually way more interesting than I thought they would be."

"I would say the same thing about Euripides, but I read The Bacchae for fun in high school."

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"-and, uh. I guess I am a Dar, at the end of the day? It's kind of in the blood."

"What about you? What made you want to study medicine?'

"Oh - well, you know. My dad got sick a lot when I was a kid? Not, like, serious hospital sick, he didn't have anything potentially fatal, but he caught every cold that went around and his stomach is really way too sensitive for a chef."

"And I'm allergic to most animals? And I'm colorblind, which actually would make practicing medicine a little difficult, but I actually want to get into research, so-"

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"Yeah, we can totally talk about magic! Owl Creek's, like, a real haven for that kind of stuff. Lock was the real expert, because he's our mentor's son, and he just graduated, but Dylan's still around - he's Malia's uncle? but he's, like, twenty - and he's a necromancer and a spiritualist, which is so cool-"

"Wow-"

"He actually helped me enchant these glasses? I mean, I'm wearing them mostly for style but they also help me see spectral energy patterns!"

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"Honestly, I totally get why you've got no interest in boys. Boys are impossible. I just don't think I'm any good at dating them?"

"Girls are hard to date sometimes, too."

"Yeah, but girls are so pretty! That has to help make up for it."

" . . . fair enough. I mean, you're not wrong. I'm looking at the evidence right now."

"Evid- Oh, you mean me! *giggle* Thank you."

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"Uh, hi! Is this Mason Hall?"

"Um, yeah? Yeah. Are you-"

"Are you a new transfer? This dorm was actually paid for by our Grandma, Raquel Mason? I'm Chadwick, and that's my cousin Maia."

"Lauren Dar Hallman. So, that makes you Senator Welsh's great-grandkids, right?"

"Guys, we should probably get in out of the rain?"

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"So, I don't know if the included a diagram of the school cheer in the welcome bucket, but it goes like-"

"Vooooo Gerbits!"

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"Lauren? Lauren, are you okay?"

"Wha?"

"Why are sleeping out here? It's not even nine, yet."

"Oh, I don't know. It's nice out, tonight, and this bench is comfier than it looks."

"Really? Maybe I should join you."