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[principals]

Who: All y'all
When: Day 1 – Morning
Where: Everywhere
What: School is in

[Somewhere, a bell begins to ring. You may know the type—obnoxious and loud, signalling the start of a brand new day of lectures and learning. Rise and shine, lovelies; wakey wakey eggs and bakey! And with that, just as the toll falls silent, you hear the sound you may have been waiting for: the click of a lock.

You're free to explore.]

Comments

[carnatious]

[ Damnit. Godsdamnit, she can't touch Kaito. She knows she can't. ]

Ain't there s'posed to be six?

[ It's. Something of a deflection. ]

[evenimprobable]

There's two other people, mm. Six total.

[carnatious]

So that's three, not includin' you.

[ Because nope, nope, NOPE, I am loyal to you, not to your team, YOU CAN'T MAKE ME NEENER NEENER. ]

[evenimprobable]

Three including me.

[don't be difficult Aella god damn]

[carnatious]

Not a chance.

[ Pokes him in the chest. ]

We're ... We're somethin', alright? Friends. Apartment C. [ Clan, she doesn't say. But she's thinking it. ]

[evenimprobable]

[he grabs her wrist when she does that - but for all that he seems okay, his hand shaking sure gives him away]

I know.

[carnatious]

[ She lets him grab. She lets him hold on, too, tense but steady in his grip. ]

… You know I ain't the type to regret. But I would—if I hurt you, I would. So I won't.

[evenimprobable]

I've been through it before.

[because that makes it that much better]

[carnatious]

An' that doesn't make a lick of difference to me, buddy.

[evenimprobable]

Don't be difficult.

[says this guy]

[carnatious]

Says you. Don't sass your elders.

[evenimprobable]

When has age ever stopped me?

[carnatious]

[ WHAT IF I JUST NOOGIE YOU AGAIN ]

[evenimprobable]

—will you quit that?!

[carnatious]

Maybe when you quit bein' a moron!

[evenimprobable]

You're the one trying to hold a few years against me!

[carnatious]

You're the one tryin' to throw himself under a flock of raptors!

[evenimprobable]

I would never throw myself to raptors. That's terrifying.

[carnatious]

Metaphorical raptors!

[evenimprobable]

[he huffs and looks away]

[carnatious]

[ Huffs right back at him :I ]

Tell me honestly. If you were the one bein' forced into a black suit, what would you do?

[evenimprobable]

. . . I'm not answering that.

[carnatious]

C'mon, don't make me say please ...

[evenimprobable]

. . .

I'd play along.

[carnatious]

Ha. I'll mostly play along.

That counts, right?