Huh.

[xp_spectrum]

It's so weird, I never noticed it before, but did you know that on TUBI there's exactly 18 minutes between commercials? And then you get 2 commercials? Except when it's 13 minutes of program to three commercials. I never pay attention to this sort of thing normally, but now I can't help counting things.

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[xp_echo]

I didn’t know you drank.

[xp_spectrum]

I don't! I haven't! Nothing but water and this morning's coffee all day!

[xp_echo]

You haven’t eaten anything weird from the vending machine, have you?

[xp_emplate]

I have not. What I have noticed, however, is that the whorls in the arabesque gold-polished marble tiles in my en suite washroom are not all aligned in the same direction. Three in particular brush to a roughly 90 degree angle relative to the flow of the others. This is due not to the orientation to which the tiles were placed, but how the marble itself was cut.

In Kyle's washroom there are five.

[xp_echo]

Are you sure Kyle just didn’t drop you on your head?

[xp_emplate]

It would make no difference. I keep nothing important up there.

[xp_echo]

I’m making note of this for X-men training. I feel like it should count.

Marius, head full of clouds

[xp_wildchild]

impoli de ta part, je partage mon facteur de guérison quand je fais ça

[xp_echo]

What?

[xp_wildchild]

What what? If I dropped him on his head, it'd be rude AF to not share my healing factor? That's not 'what" that's like, basic politeness.

[xp_echo]

If I didn’t know you can’t do drugs, I’d be sure you were on drugs right now.

[xp_wildchild]

I can do drugs, it just takes a lot of them.

[xp_echo]

Why are you doing drugs in the middle of the day, Kyle?

[xp_wildchild]

Today, I'm not.

In general, because I have 14 mid-terms to grade and once you've done that getting spectacularly high is justified. I just have to eat the entire bag of edibles.

[xp_echo]

I can’t believe you never shared. Et Tu Kyle?

[xp_wildchild]

Pourquoi étais-tu dans ma salle de bain, mec

[xp_emplate]

À vérifier les tuiles, évidemment.

I have a more important question. Since when do you speak French?

[xp_wildchild]

I don't, I barely speak a SECOND language much less a third.

[xp_emplate]

. . . Right.

An idea begins to form, but it makes no sense. I shall return shortly.

[xp_cypher]

Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?

[xp_emplate]

You've read my mind.

Or possibly my washroom tiles.

[xp_longshot]

I only learned French that one time through an object reading. Would not recommend.

[xp_wildchild]

Also dude, you noticed the fucky tiles in your bathroom and so your response was "well, I'll go into kyle's and see if his are also fucky."?

Actually that's the least weird thing about the last hour of today, so lets go with it.

[xp_emplate]

I merely wanted to know what they were doing in there.

[xp_echo]

I’m assuming stopping water from soaking into the dry wall

[xp_emplate]

Not the way these were oriented. Quite suspicious if you ask me.

[xp_echo]

Kyle must be sending you secret tile based messages.

[xp_cypher]

...double huh.

[xp_echo]

I think someone’s been eating vending machine snacks.

[xp_cypher]

Pretty sure that's not the case.

[xp_cypher]

...huh.

[xp_longshot]

Ja no hey.

[xp_cypher]

I may need to request permission to revise and extend my previous remarks. :P

[xp_longshot]

Lucky us.

If you can, I'm in my room.

[xp_cypher]

Funny how that works.

As soon as I can figure out how to scientifically test my hypothesis.