Fourth floor common room, Wednesday afternoon after workshops

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The good news was that Will had picked up a new CD, with an upbeat sound that would be good for dancing to.

The bad news was that the stereo had broken after she'd put it in the common room's CD player, so she couldn't get the disk out, nor could she get it to stop repeating the same 47 minutes of music over and over. Will wondered to herself if she'd get in trouble for breaking open the stereo to get her disk back. Or if she'd ever want to listen to it again after this.

The common room was open, but noisy.


(OOC: I have to run off for a bit to celebrate my little brother's birthday, but the room is still open, and I will be back later. Back.)

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"Or some biscuits of sorts," Setsuna agreed. "Snacks with tea is always a good idea. What do you suppose we have?"

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Will pulled a bag out of the cupboard.

"Half a bag of dry Chips Ahoy, and a couple of leftover dinner rolls. Either of those sound good?"

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"Both, perhaps?" Setsuna offered with a small laugh. "Not exactly the healthiest thing in the world, but I haven't exactly had any dinner yet."

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Will grabbed both bags and brought them back to the common room's main table. "Well, both it is then. I haven't had dinner either, so we can make this a High Tea kind of thing."

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"Yes, exactly," Setsuna chuckled a little as she set the tea to brew. "So now we just have to wait a little, for it to be ready."

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"I can wait for it to be ready," Will said. "It's not like there's any lack of things to do in here."

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"That's true," Setsuna nodded and then, idly, she tilted her head and asked, "what is this that you're listening to, anyway?"

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"Oh, a CD by a band called Fall Out Boy. I heard a couple songs by them on the radio, and decided to pick up the album."

She sighed. "I only wanted to listen to it once, though."

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Setsuna's head tilted, frowning as she wasn't sure she understood. "It seems like a bit of a waste," she admitted. "To buy a CD and then just listen to it once..."

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Will tried to think of a good way to explain her CD listening habits to Setsuna.

"Well, you don't just listen to it once once. Usually I listen to it once all the way through, and then put it away for a bit before listening to it again. After four or five times on repeat one after another, you start to get sick of the songs."

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"I agree..." Setsuna said, frowning, and then she blinked at the radio. "...wait. You mean....right now you've been listening to it on repeat?"

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"Not by choice," protested Will. "I kinda knocked over the stereo after I put the disk in, and the repeat button got broken and stuck down." She heard a whirring noise as the album skipped back the first track. "So it's been doing that for awhile now."

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Setsuna's head tilted a little more as she regarded the CD player, finger thoughtfully against her lips. "Hm," she said, and then looked over at Will. "What all have you tried so far to get it out?"

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"Uh, trying to pull the disk tray out, button mashing, li~~ttle bit of yelling the machine, trying to talk it into spitting ot the CD... I'm trying not to destroy a stereo that's school property."

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"Hmmmm....." Setsuna leaned in closer to the CD player, her eyes narrowed thoughtfully with an expression that, really will most likely only lead to trouble.

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At this point, Will was ready to follow someone else to trouble.

"Oh? You have an idea?" she asked.

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"I'm not...entirely certain," Setsuna admitted, biting her lip a little as she examine the stereo a little closer, "but...if I...if I place it and time it right....I wonder....if a simple focusing of chi, jarring it just so with the side of my hand might not...." She seemed to be fighting for a word. "Y'know....Trigger it open."

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Will thought that over. She understood wat Setsuna was doing, and decided that it couldn't have been any worse than anything else she'd tried.

"If you're willing to do it, it's worth a shot," she said. "Anything I can do to help out?"

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Setsuna's head tilted slightly. "Perhaps just help me focus. Sometimes, you can feed off another person's energy if they focus well enough."

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Will nodded and focused her attention on the CD player.

"I think I can manage that."

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Setsuna gave a firm nod back, with a soft 'hmph' sound as she sharpened her attention directly on the CD player. She drew in a deep breath, held her hand prepped and ready. She closed her eyes, picturing the CD, the stereo, the endless repeating music...She drew her hand back, feeling the chi energy coursing through it.

"Yah!" Her hand chopped down on the CD player and she tried to focus all over her energy on the part that would trigger the hatch that would open it and release them from this repetition.

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And as the chi hit the mechanisms inside the machine, the tray door shot open, and launched the still spinning CD across the room into one of the couch pillows. Will let out a bit of a yelp and ducked to avoid it.

"Thank you," she sputtered out as she looked between Setsuna and the CD.

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Setsuna slowly cracked open an eye. She took a look at the CD player and then the other one opened before she blinked. "It worked..." she sounded surprised and then let out a bit of a laugh. "It actually worked!"

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Will grabbed the jewel case from off of the desk, and shoved the hot and still slightly spinning CD in it.

"It worked! Thank you so much for your help."