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[ninjaprincess]

Maxwell! I almost didn't recognize you with that beard. You look so grown-up. It's wonderful to have you with us again. You were certainly missed.

The campus is always so beautiful when it's covered in snow, though it's a shame the days have to get shorter. It's dark so early now. I hope everyone is staying warm and healthy. Are there any residents without sufficient winter clothes? It must be the first winter for at least some of you. Perhaps a shopping trip is in order if enough people are lacking in warm clothing or snow boots.

There's still so much to do before the break. Is anyone interested in helping me decorate the dorms for the winter holidays? I plan to travel home to Hyrule for a short time, but seeing as we don't celebrate Christmas, I'll be sure to return here by then. In the meantime, please remember my open door policy! As your Resident Assistant, I'm here to help, so don't hesitate to seek me out for anything you might need, even if it's just to chat.

[OOC: Office log! Feel free to swing by Zelda's room/the common room any time between now and the start of winter break on December 14th. She's pretty much up with the sun and out and about most of the day, but she returns to her room in the late afternoon/early evening when Vashta wakes up. For the purposes of this log, she'll be around the dorms (common room cutting out paper snowflakes and untangling lights, kitchen baking a million cookies, outside shoveling snow from the walkways, anywhere around the dorm complex, location is up to you) from about 9 AM to 6 or 7 PM and in her room until 10 or 11 PM, when she goes to sleep. This entry can be responded to like any normal journal, but if you opt for the office log route, please use paragraph format, and fill out this template!]

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[notstevejobs.livejournal.com]

Apple Kid's mouse kept looking at her, making sure she didn't run away or anything.

She was tricky, this one.

But the nameless mouse was clever.

"(Yes,)" answered the mouse. "(I would like a cookie. And then a glass of milk. And then a mirror to see my milk mustache in. And then a comb to comb my hair...)"

[rulebywisdom.livejournal.com]

She took a plate from the cabinet and set a cookie on it for the mouse.

Then she stared right back.

[notstevejobs.livejournal.com]

As the no-name mouse was eating the cookie and staring at Zelda, alternately, Apple Kid came walking back, with a pair of opera glasses in his hands.

"I'm back," he said, as he raised them up to his face and peered through the glasses.

He then lowered them and looked at Zelda, then raised them again, lowered, looked, raised, lowered, and looked. He seemed confused, somehow, by what he saw, as if his brain were trying to process two bits of conflicting information.

[rulebywisdom.livejournal.com]

Their staring contest was cut short as Apple Kid made a triumphant return, and she looked up, pretending like absolutely nothing had happened.

Were those...opera glasses? "Is something wrong?" She said, in reference to his curious expression.

[notstevejobs.livejournal.com]

"Do you have a twin?" Apple Kid asked cryptically.

[rulebywisdom.livejournal.com]

"A twin?" She knew that answering the question would probably back her into a corner, but so would not answering it. Zelda opted for the more clueless route. "No. I'm an only child."

[notstevejobs.livejournal.com]

"Are you a good jumper?"

[rulebywisdom.livejournal.com]

What an odd question. Zelda really...did not know how to answer it at all. "No better or worse than most people, I suppose."

[notstevejobs.livejournal.com]

"I'm about 98.7% certain of something. But first I would like you to look through these glasses at me and tell me what you see," said Apple Kid, holding the opera glasses out to Zelda.

[rulebywisdom.livejournal.com]

Oh boy. She took the glasses and peered through them cautiously, taking a quick glance around.

...Everything was labled. All the ingredients, the kitchen appliances, even the cookies. Finally she settled on the student in front of her. "It says 'Apple Childs'. Above you."

[notstevejobs.livejournal.com]

"So that's my last name," said the rotund inventor. "No wonder why people started calling me Apple Kid."

"May I have them back, please?" he asked, and held out his chubby little hand.

[rulebywisdom.livejournal.com]

Apple Kid not knowing his own last name aside, Zelda was certainly baffled by the strange contraption. Still, she handed them back to their owner. What else could she do?

[notstevejobs.livejournal.com]

Apple Kid took the glasses back and then put them in his front pocket of holding. He then looked at Zelda earnestly.

"Several months ago I observed a strange figure on top of the roof here, while I gazed at the stars with my mouse. It was a slender man wrapped in curious clothing, strips of cloth, and what can only be described as as tights with a stylized eye on them. We conversed for several minutes about my latest invention, which was a larger model of these," and here, gentle reader, he gestured towards his pocket where his naming lenses were currently stored. "When I began to read his name, a curious thing happened. As I read his name it began, 'Zelda, Princess of Hyrule, Duchess Lake Hylia, Marchioness Death Mountain, Countess Lost Woods, Viscountess Kakoriko, Baroness Lon Lon Ranch, followed by a number of orders I never bothered to commit to memory. When I started reading all of this to him, he kicked the lenses out of my hands, where they hit the ground and broke. Thankfully, I had the prototype, these, in my pocket, and I continued until I'd read most of the name, down to the non-hereditary titles, anyway. He insisted his name was Sheik. "

He paused for a moment. "Today you introduced yourself to me as Zelda. An uncommon name, but not wholly unheard of. But I became curious, the chances of two Zeldas at this school seemed unlikely. And you did, indeed, confirm that you were a princess. So I decided to test it."

"I had come up with two possible outcomes - the first being the two of you were switched at birth, Sheik being the true daughter of the whoever the King of Hyrule is, and masquarading as a man for unexplained reasons, while you had been set up in her place, being born of someone else."

"My second thought was there had been no royal baby replacement, but simply that you were the mysterious person I met on the roof. My seeing your name for myself confirms this second suspicion - and you telling me my own name confirms that my lenses are indeed working properly."

"Ergo, I am 98.7% certain that you and this mysterious man are one and the same person."

[rulebywisdom.livejournal.com]

Zelda pretended to look very intrigued, surprised, and somewhat clueless, disguising the fact that she did, indeed, understand everything Apple Kid was talking about.

Of course, the princess understood every word, and felt her heart skip a beat at having someone put the pieces of the puzzle together. Baroness of Lon Lon Ranch? Since when did that happen?

She tilted her head ever-so-slightly in a rather inquisitive fashion. "I've never met anyone named Sheik."

[notstevejobs.livejournal.com]

"Yes, well, if you're pretending to be someone it would make the most sense for you to say you had no idea what I was talking about. It would also make sense for you to say you had no idea what I was talking about if I were wrong. Ergo, claims that you don't know what I'm talking about are sadly meaningless."

"Further testing of my hypothesis is, of course, needed. I'd like to achieve at least a 99.5% certainty. Without the other subject, however, I can't do any further tests to either prove my hypothesis correct or prove your claims to be true."

"Do you have any suggestions for how we might go about getting the two of you in the same place?" he asked, his Apple Kid eyes staring into her very soul.

[rulebywisdom.livejournal.com]

Curses. Apple Kid was rather astute, wasn't he. She shrugged. "I suppose you'll just have to trust me, Apple Kid. I can honestly assure you I have never met, nor have I ever heard of someone by the name of Sheik."

Obviously, the two of them would never be found in the same place. "Perhaps if you sought out this Sheik person?"

[notstevejobs.livejournal.com]

"Yes. To solve this I will have to find him. And put a tracer on him And see what can be done about confronting him with this information."

Sadly, Zelda, he trusts his precious science more than he trusts you.

[rulebywisdom.livejournal.com]

And that was fine with Zelda, especially if it meant removal from this very very awkward conversation.

She coughed. "Well...good luck?"

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[notstevejobs.livejournal.com]

<&Light|Hungry> man, I'm hungry
<&Light|Hungry> i want a burger
<&Light|Hungry> i could go to mcdonalds, but
<&Light|Hungry> that would force me to take a right turn on university blvd
<&Light|Hungry> whereas burger king is on the left
<&Light|Hungry> and if i take a right turn
<&Light|Hungry> then L might realize that i 'm predisposed to the right side
<&Light|Hungry> meaning i m right handed
<&Light|Hungry> which would mean i might be kira
<&Light|Hungry> since kira is also right handed
<&Light|Hungry> on the other hand
<&Light|Hungry> if i go to burger king
<&Light|Hungry> he might suspect that i prefer charbroiled burgers
<&Light|Hungry> and kira is evil, and evil is associated with fire
<&Light|Hungry> and therefore burger king is associated with kira
<&Light|Hungry> unless, i go to burger king, and get their whopper junior
<&Light|Hungry> instead of their regular whopper
<&Light|Hungry> because then, it would indicate that i don't really like that much fire
<&Light|Hungry> but then l might realize that i'm only going to burger king and getting the whopper jr
<&Light|Hungry> to throw him off my track
<&Light|Hungry> and that i really am kira, intentionally trying to hide the fact that i'm kira
<&Light|Hungry> but if i go to mcdonalds, he might realize
<&Light|Hungry> that i realize
<&Light|Hungry> that he would realize
<&Light|Hungry> that if i had gone to burger king
<&Light|Hungry> he would know l was kira trying to hide it
<&Light|Hungry> unless i get onion rings instead of fries with my whopper jr
<&Light|Hungry> because everyone knows onions repel vampires
<&Light|Hungry> and vampires are harbingers of death
<&Light|Hungry> and thus distantly related to shinigami
<&Light|Hungry> which are behind the powers of the death note
<&Light|Hungry> therefore, if i eat onions
<&Light|Hungry> then i can't be kira
<&Light|Hungry> because the onions might nullify those powers
<&Light|Hungry> but what if l realizes
<&Light|Hungry> that i might be willing to take that risk
<&Light|Hungry> and consume onions
<&Light|Hungry> in order to evade capture
<&Light|Hungry> or what if he doesn't even make the connection between vampires and shinigami
<&Light|Hungry> no, that's foolish thinking
<&Light|Hungry> there's no way l wouldn't pick up on a connection like that
<&Light|Hungry> unless he doesn't even know that i got onion rings
<&Light|Hungry> but to make sure he knows i got onion rings
<&Light|Hungry> i'd have to eat them in front of him
<&Light|Hungry> which would seem awkward, going all the way to burger king, then coming all the way back just to eat onion rings
<&Light|Hungry> unless i ask him if he wants anything from burger king too, then i could bring it back to him
<&Light|Hungry> but what if he's not hungry
<&Light|Hungry> i'd have to either make sure he's hungry
<&Light|Hungry> or ask someone else, one of the staff around here, if they'd like me to pick up something for them
<&Light|Hungry> but if i ask someone else
<&Light|Hungry> when i havent' asked anyone else in the past
<&Light|Hungry> l might realize that i'm doing it so that i can have an excuse
<&Light|Hungry> to come back here and eat onion rings
<&Light|Hungry> and demonstrate to him that i don't fear consuming onions
<&Light|Hungry> and that consequently, i'm not kira
<&Light|Hungry> all in an attempt to cover up the truth
<&Light|Hungry> unless i can get someone to ask me to pick up something for them
<&Light|Hungry> then it's not me trying to hide the fact, i'd just be obliging someone else
<&Light|Hungry> but how do i get someone else
<&Light|Hungry> to ask me to get them something from burger king
<&Light|Hungry> what if, instead of burger king, they wanted something from mcdonalds instead
<&Light|Hungry> if they did, i would then have an excuse to go to mcdonalds instead of burger king
<&Light|Hungry> citing the request as my reason for taking a right turn instead of a left
<&Light|Hungry> and thus exhoneratinq my choise from implicating me as kira
<&Light|Hungry> but if i do go to mcdonalds
<&Light|Hungry> i have to get an apple pie with my value meal

[notstevejobs.livejournal.com]

"Thank you," replied Apple Kid. "I will look forward to working with you in the future to clear this up."

He took like five cookies and put them into his front pocket. He offered to sell them to her for $1. "Thank you for the cookies."

He waddled off.