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[velluminous]

Who: Mister Adair, Ms Fairplay, and you!
When: September 15
Where: At the bulletin board
What: A warning
Warnings: none

[ this morning, two Kin'uns are at the bulletin board, adding a new entry, and then simply loitering nearby.

Ms Fairplay, notably, has her arm in a sling. Mister Adair... fares better, with a few scratches upon his hands and face. both of them look... pecked. ]

There. [ says Ms Fairplay, of her clumsy signage. ]

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[velluminous]

[ Ms Fairplay? more like Ms Fussing With Her Sling. it's a painful business, but she does so regardless, trying to adjust how it hangs against the side of her neck, and how it does or doesn't catch her hair up in the knot. ]

Half this school body will be invalid before long.

[ratiocinations]

[Holmes only provides the addition to the bulletin board a cursory glance before turning his attention to her fussing.]

...Do not keep moving it. If your hair bothers you, we could keep it in a braid until your shoulder heals.

[selfportraiture]

[Here comes Ena--with a pen in hand, to adjust Minato's missing person poster--just in time to see that added to the bulletin board.




She stares at it.]

... Seriously?

[ratiocinations]

[hi i'm right here, living with the consequences of my actions (aka ms fairplay lives with the consequences)]

Very seriously.

[velluminous]

[ seriously. ]

What.

[titlecard]

[ Adults loitering... now that's a sight.

One that inspires Mark to check the bulletin board! Hey look, there's something new. Rooftop access... Do not attempt to climb...

His brow furrows, looking back and forth between the large letters and the states of loitering adults, particularly one Ms. Fairplay.

... ]

Do you want some help next time?

[ just assuming there will be a next time ]

[ratiocinations]

[ ...

Yeah, asking the teen who can fly might have been the smartest option, and yet.]

It was my idea, and one that Ms Fairplay had even considered beforehand. Were there consequences to our actions, they should've befallen only us. ...For what it is worth, I can handle a few sparrows pecking at me.

[Though he wonders if that would be enough to keep someone like Mark from flying up to the roof? Knowing this place, it might be.]

I will debate if there should be a next time. We caught only a glimpse of what awaited us up there, and perhaps for now, the birds' warnings should be heeded.

[velluminous]

[ adults are allowed to loiter, Hiro.

she would cross her arms—even moves as if to do so, and ends up just holding one arm across her belly in a facsimile of it. ]

No. This is exactly why we do not ask for help first time.

[tailsofwoe]

[ As she reads the new note: ]

Interesting. Sounds like learning more ought to be at the top of our agenda.

[ Her eyes slide off to the side and land on the injured pair. ]

A valuable lesson, but not one that came without a price, I see.

[ratiocinations]

[He huffs from where he stands nearby.]

Information rarely does, in this case. At least we are able to ascertain that whatever awaits us up there—accompanied by some strange, bright flame—is unlikely to be... friendly.

[velluminous]

[ it is her pride that is wounded more than her body.
and don't get me wrong: her body hurts like hell. ]

I begin to wonder whether we aren't kept from rooftop by benign forces more than evil ones.

[inexorableiron]

... So why was climbin' a great idea?

[ratiocinations]

If access to the rooftop was impossible from the inside, why not test if the outside was viable, instead?

[velluminous]

It was not great idea, and you and everyone else know this, yes, yes, yes. [ it is clearly chafing away at her dignity, to have walked away so injured from so fruitless a venture. and yet— ] We have learned more than we know before. Firstly: confirmation that something evil lurks upon top floor. Secondly: it produces or tends to some manner of flame. Third: these birds will inflict harm to dissuade anyone reaching top. So they must believe whatever is above is worse than... this.

[ with some disdain, directed at her own dislocated limb. ]

[darkholder]

[coming over to fuss after reading that!!]

Have you both been looked after...?

[the sling is a good sign, but.]

[ratiocinations]

[He waggles a hand dismissively as she comes over.]

I am fine. …It is Ms Fairplay who’s taken the brunt of the damage.

[velluminous]

Yes; we practically become doctors, now.

[ seems they're both playing dismissive. she, at least, cannot help the desire to brush it away; it is too vulnerable to admit to the pain. after... all that has happened recently, and with Kenkou, as well— ]

[tempeyeture]

[ smh they can't leave mom and dad unattended for FIVE MINUTES ]

Ummmm. You guys knows I'm, like, crazyyyyyy athletic, right?

[ They should have taken him to be irresponsible, please!!! ]

[ratiocinations]

[SORRY SON]

The idea was mine and Ms Fairplay’s. We were willing to live with the consequences of our own actions because of it.

[threadling]

-- did you two get in a fight?!

[The look on her face and the tone of her voice makes it clear that in this one moment, the moment where she thinks the two of them got into kind of brawl, either with someone else or with each other and that left Severine with some kind of arm injury, is far and away the most she's ever respected either of them.]

[ratiocinations]

[Time to shatter that newfound respect-]

No. We fell.

[demonvinegar]

[ looks at his seniors. then at the bulletin. and back to the seniors.


with a raised eyebrow and maybe a hint of amusement; ]

You fought with birds?

[ratiocinations]

[hi did we mention this is a team of gremlins]

No so much “fought” as was “torrentially pecked by.”

[poetaste]

[Well, it had to happen.

Cadence is here, with her bird, silently reading the bulletin about other birds. It's bird-to-bird rivalry here. The raven's expression, especially, radiates "this sign won't stop me because I can't read."]



You know some of us are holding onto wings, right?

[ratiocinations]

[listen why won't people just let the hags climb for enrichment]

Noted for the next time we require a birds'-eye view. This time, Kin'un would be the only ones to bear the consequences of their choices.

[Or more precisely: two of them.]

Consequences that were mild, all things considered. [don't look at ms fairplay's dislocated shoulder]

[pissandvinegar]

[ looks them over. looks over the new addition to the signboard. looks back at them ]

You must have taken a terrible fall, Miss.

[ratiocinations]

[Aha. She sure did not land kindly. It's probably fine. Holmes wishes to god he had his pipe with him right about now — some proper tobacco would be divine.]

A terrible landing, despite our best efforts.

[mogger]

I'm a freaking ninja, I could have gone up there.

[ smh mom and dad ]

You guys need the nurse's office or what?

[ratiocinations]

[He is tired of regurgitating the same thing—their choice, their consequences to bear—so he just responds blithely.]

You would have gone up there and been pecked to death.

[Okay maybe not "to death" but he's being dramatic.]

[cupidsammo]

[ Koharu passes by, stops to skim over the new note, then looks up at them. ]

... Are you both okay?

[velluminous]

Bahhh. I am not dead, I suppose.

[ grouchy ]

[presgarddihellis]

... goodness.

Once again, I've been beaten to the absurd task by Mr. Adair.

And Ms. Fairplay this time, too?

[velluminous]

Do not say that as though it is embarrassing thing.