wtfox | [seasonality] catchall for beau

[outdoors is good! that means fresh air!!

but outdoors is also not good in that lila keeps glancing at the athletics field where she just (watched as) taichi found a corpse. and then those glances turn into her starting to walk over that way as she fiddles with her necklace...

beau is conceivably out here somewhere too. she pauses when she spots her.]

...you're not gonna tell me to go back inside and leave this to the adults, are you?

[ah. poor lila.

beau moves a little closer, coming to stand next to her.]

Nah. I'm not. I'm coming to check on you. [...] You okay?

...yeah.

[she looks down]

I can't find his dog back at the dorms. I thought... maybe I could look for her around campus.

[she puts a hand on her shoulder? gently. she's got bed linens wrapped around her hands.]

I can help you look, if you want. Are you sure you're good? It's fine to not be.

[beau what did you do to your hands. she looks at them with concern.]

I'm... I'm good. I just want to do something to help. [a beat.] You really wouldn't mind helping me look?

[oh you know]

No, of course not. It sucks to not be able to do anything, so we might as well try. I guess we're just waiting on the Dorm Heads to say something?

[hm!!!!]

...I guess so. I haven't been able to get ahold of them since last night.

Were you able to text them last night when the doors locked?

No, that's when it stopped working...

Yeah. For me too.

[sigh.] Did you guys hear any weird noises in your dorm? Upstairs.

[she nods]

Some thudding... and a shout.

So it was like that for all of us? Or just some dorms. Which one are you in again?

I'm in Summer... which ones have you heard about it happening in?

Just mine, Winter, and yours, so far. There was glass shattering and a yell.

We should check with someone from Fall and Spring... unless you've already checked with them and they didn't hear anything?

[me doing threads simultaneously and having to retcon]

-- Wait, no, Molly told me there was a thud on wood and a yell. In Spring. [...] Think it was the Dorm Heads trying to get in and out of the dorm, maybe?

It could be... they seemed to think this was just a normal school year, before, so they were probably as surprised as we were to get locked up.

Okay, sure, but Yamato told me Luke mentioned they took our powers and shit away to "even the playing field" so I don't know how much I believe that. It just seems really fucking suspicious.

...yeah. That's true.

[ugh!]

But if what happened last night was something they'd planned, then... I don't know, would they have been as surprised by what was happening as those sounds suggest?

We also don't know if it was actually them.

... I don't know, girlie, I'm going to hear their side of it, but it's gonna be a big ask for me to trust a fucking word that comes out of them.

It makes sense for it to be hard to trust them... I mean, we barely know them. They haven't even shown their faces.

[...]

I'd like to believe they aren't lying to us on purpose, but maybe that's just naïve...

[a sigh, and then she reaches up to rest a hand on top of lila's head.]

No, it's not. [her lips twitch a little, tiredly.] I think that sort of optimism is necessary.

[she smiles up at her]

...then, I'll try to keep being optimistic!

Someone's gotta. [she smiles back, actually!] Counting on you.

I'll do my best for you!

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