Can your friends do this? Can your friends do that?

[talkyourwayout]

Lexi pinned her hair back - it was growing out pretty nicely at this point, she thought; about as long as Webby's had been when they'd first met. Normally, she just let it do whatever - laziness beat out vanity - but having her hair get in her eyes while she was practicing magic wouldn't do.

She was excited about this. Magic training with Unca Scrooge - as much as she looked up to him - was such hard work, but showing Gobo her magic? That was bound to be a great time - especially since telling Gobo about her magic, her Dark magic, didn't feel awkward to the teen. He wouldn't hear Dark and hear "bad", she figured. She could just show off what she'd been learning over the past few weeks in the Other Duckburg.

An exchange of letters and postcards - always postcards from Gobo - had lead to a meet-up being set for that afternoon, at the first Fraggle Hole they'd found in Lexi's own Duckburg. They'd both been pretty busy for just over a month, so it would just be good to see her pal again, really, in the first place. She rounded a corner, and soon after, the Fraggle Hole was in sight.

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[gobetween]

"The trap your Unca Scrooge set." He snickered some, strumming a little quicker on the guitar. "Your traps, I all foiled."

[talkyourwayout]

Lexi chuckled as she lightly thumped the back of Gobo's head. "Seriously, man, you're just the worst," she pointed out, in a tone that suggested she was anything but serious.

[gobetween]

A note skipped at that but he laughed, lightly bopping her with the tail.

"Hey, I give what I get!"

[talkyourwayout]

Lexi snickered. "Yuh-huh, if that's the excuse you're sticking to," she snorted. "So, how are the other guys doing lately?"

[gobetween]

"It totally is." He grinned, then looked down toward the guitar while playing.

"Everyone's been pretty alright! A few more Fraggles showed up at our little place near Duckburg, which was pretty cool. 'Course, nothing beats the Rock if you want Fraggles, but we all still have plenty of fun on our own, too."

[talkyourwayout]

"Good to hear! It's cool that more have joined you guys." She reached into her hair to remove and pocket the hairclip, letting her hair fall a bit into her face. Just as Louie had pointed out once, Lena's sense of style was very close to Lexi's, and even though Lexi's own look had evolved, the influence was still there. She let the arm around his shoulders fall back to her side as the telltale tingling of it starting to fall asleep hit.

"Anyway," she laughed, "are you hungry? Because I'm starving."

[gobetween]

He watched her idly, smiling some at the fall of her hair. It really did look nice on her, and he was glad she was comfortable with who she was, even if he'd been a little confused at first- not because he thought it was "wrong," but just that that sort of identity thing wasn't even an issue with Fraggles. You were who you were, that was all there was to it.

"Yeah, I could definitely eat something. Whatcha got?"

[talkyourwayout]

She pulled a small plastic baggie of pretzels out from her hoodie pocket. "I would've brought the dip Huey made last night, but it was gone this morning - pretty sure he snuck back down after the rest of us were asleep to finish it up." She giggled a bit; she and Dewey had been teasing Huey about it that morning - how he was going to get fat if he kept making such good snacks. Honestly, though, it went for all three of them. "I'll get him to make some for you soon, though, it's really good! Even though it looks like mashed peas." A beat. "You'd probably like those, too, though, huh?"

[gobetween]

He listened to the story, snickering some. Sneaking down for more sounded like something they might catch Wembley doing. (Or himself.)

"I probably would! Peas are pretty good, though I think after the obvious radishes, I'm most partial to rutabagas." He paused, and snorted some. "Though that caused Mokey to go a little overboard once, making bowl after bowl of rutabaga soup for me after I broke my leg out in the Gorg's garden."

[talkyourwayout]

"Lots of soup, huh?" Lexi chuckled. She knew Mokey adored Gobo, and could easily imagine her good intentions leading to endless portions of rutabaga soup. "Well, this was with beans and avocados, but I'll have to ask if Chef Hubert knows any recipes with rutabagas."

[gobetween]

"Lots of soup. Any more and I would've become as fat as the Gorg that thumped me." Another soft snicker. "But I bet Huey would know plenty of recipes, it sounds like something he'd have about three books for."

[talkyourwayout]

Lexi laughed along, before sighing. "Oh, dude - he has at least four now. Plus he's always writing down new ones on notecards; he keeps them in this little box like we live in the Stone Age."

Because clearly, anyone normal would just type them up.

[gobetween]

"He should give some of them to Boober, I bet he'd be happy for some new recipes. Because him making them up off the top of his head is... rarely all that good."

He shook his head, pulling a bit of a face at that, that would make the intent perfectly clear.

[talkyourwayout]

"I'll pass that along, I'm sure Huey'll be happy to share. And you're not kidding, sometimes I can still taste that souffle he had me try once," Lexi laughed.

[gobetween]

"The one we had to chase?" He laughed, too. "Alright, but you should totally ask Boober about his 'Doomsday Soup' someday."

[talkyourwayout]

An amused snort. "That- Boober's the only person I know who would call a soup that."

[gobetween]

"Well to be fair, it caused an earthquake. That sorta name wasn't far off."

[talkyourwayout]

"...How did soup cause an earthquake? I mean, even for a soup Boober made, I can't make that connection."

[gobetween]

"Magic?" Soft snort. "It was a weird concoction of a few different things, mostly when Boober dumped it into trash that already had somethin' in it. The first effect was invisibility, then later a whole lot of shaking 'til we managed to get rid of it."

He snickered some. "I'm tellin' ya, you gotta ask Boober. He tells the story best."

[talkyourwayout]

Honestly, after their conversation earlier, that answer did check out. Lexi nodded. "Gotcha, well... I'll definitely ask him next time I stop by."

[gobetween]

"You should come by when you can. I know the others miss you, but I get being busy."

[talkyourwayout]

She scooched around to face Gobo fully, then nodded. "That'd be nice. I miss them, too - hopefully I can stop by soon. Training takes up a lot of time, is all."

[gobetween]

"If it's all training to do stuff like what you did a minute ago, then yeah I could see why it takes a while. Still, it sounds important!"

[talkyourwayout]

"Yeah, it's really important," Lexi confirmed, though she wasn't too keen on discussing the details of all that with Gobo, not just now. "Mostly it's training to do that sort of thing, though, yeah."

[gobetween]

"Well, training can be boring, but it'll do you plenty of good down the line, I know. It's nowhere near the same sorta level, but I deal with plenty of that with my rock hockey team. It's difficult, but the effort is worth it."