Dorm Roof, Saturday morning

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

When Willow woke up she knew at once what she had to do and where she had to be. Also she knew that she was Nadia. Which was not so much true but at least it accurately represented her state of mind.

Which is why, after running some errands, she was now on the roof of the dorms with her backpack and a pastry box beside her.

This was also why she felt an urge to sing.

Now the thing with Willow is that 1) she couldn't sing and 2) she had no idea what songs Nadia sang while she was up on the roof doing her roof-singing thing.

Willow was nothing if not a girl who innately tried to do her best anyway.

"There was a farmer who had a dog and Emo was his name-o
E-M-uh, two other letters-O
E-M-two other letters-O
E-M-two other letters-O
And Emo was his name-o!"

"Nadia" nodded in satisfaction at what she felt was a roof-singing job well done, and sat and waited to see if anyone felt like joining her.

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[twohalvesofaphd.livejournal.com]

"Maybe it's a monster, a monster I can kill with my sword," Alanna sounded positively gleeful.

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

"Gremlins are totally monsters!" Nadia said. "Evil bitey monsters that... um. Bite. I'm falling short on some details here, but I like the sword plan. Wanna jump about it?"

[twohalvesofaphd.livejournal.com]

"Sure!" Alanna said. "Because I am a girl who would not flinch from jumping!"

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

"We're supposed to jump off the roof," Nadia said.

It's probably worth noting that Willow had no idea how anyone jumped off the roof of the dorms without killing themselves.

[twohalvesofaphd.livejournal.com]

Neither did Zack or Alanna for that matter.

"Off the roof?"

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

"Yep," Nadia said. She peered over the edge. It seemed a long way down.

[twohalvesofaphd.livejournal.com]

"Maybe we're just supposed to jump on the roof?"

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

"That does seem safer, doesn't it?" Nadia said, hastily.

[twohalvesofaphd.livejournal.com]

"Yes, yes it does," Alanna replied.

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

Nadia did a jump in place. "There. That's good."

[twohalvesofaphd.livejournal.com]

Alanna also jumped in place. "I don't know about you, but that makes me feel ready to fight gremlins with my sword."

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

"I don't feel like running around naked, so this must be more of a fighting moment for the both of us," Nadia agreed.

[twohalvesofaphd.livejournal.com]

"Yay fighting," Alanna said, pumping her fist in the air.

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

"Yay gremlin smooshing!" Nadia said, with an accompanying fist pump. Then a scooting away from the edge of the roof because that was still ooking her.

[twohalvesofaphd.livejournal.com]

"So," Alanna said. "Any idea where we might actually find these gremlins?"

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

Nadia thought about it.

"The gym? Of course at the time I was a gremlin, but maybe that's where they've got their nest and queen?"

[twohalvesofaphd.livejournal.com]

"The gym," Alanna wondered why her nose started throbbing. "Yes, that must be where they bit me, while I was practicing with my sword."

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

"We could go down there and try to hit them with bats!" Nadia suggested, looking far too gleeful about this.

[twohalvesofaphd.livejournal.com]

"I think that's a brilliantly violent idea," Alanna agreed.

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

"Can we take the stairs, though? I'm kind of in favor of traditional means of leaving the rooftop."

[twohalvesofaphd.livejournal.com]

"Yay tradition."

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

"Yay not being a pancake."

[twohalvesofaphd.livejournal.com]

"Unless you're a gremlin," Alanna said. "Then we must make them pancakes post-haste."

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

"I feel like I should have a weapon of some kind, but I'm not sure what," Nadia said.

[twohalvesofaphd.livejournal.com]

"It would be easier to smash gremlins with a weapon of some kind, maybe a mallet of some sort?"