[seasonality] catchall for beau

[wtfox]

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[wtfox]

[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?

[disreguarded]

[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?

[wtfox]

[hm!!!!]

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

[disreguarded]

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

[wtfox]

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

[disreguarded]

Yeah. For me too.

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

[wtfox]

[she nods]

Some thudding... and a shout.

[disreguarded]

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

[wtfox]

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

[disreguarded]

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

[wtfox]

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

[disreguarded]

[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?

[wtfox]

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.

[disreguarded]

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.

[wtfox]

...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?

[disreguarded]

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.

[wtfox]

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...

[disreguarded]

[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.

[wtfox]

[she smiles up at her]

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

[disreguarded]

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

[wtfox]

I'll do my best for you!

[disreguarded]

[a pause, and then she ruffles lila's hair a bit.]

Do your best, but hey - if it gets too hard, that's good too, okay? [...] Come on, let's go look for the dog.

[wtfox]

[she nods! and then - ]

Oh, right... Bloody Mary! Heeeere, Bloody Mary...!

[#dogquest2k21 is doomed to failure if even maya's chicken army can't lure her out, but they can try]