Dorm roof, around noon

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So, having been called on being a 'sunshiney' overly-helpful knowitall twice in 48 hours, Dinah felt like she had to actually think about what Ino and Arthur had accused her of. Before a third person told her off for trying to help. After a lot of wrangling, back-and-forthing, mental list-making, and consideration, Dinah decided that:

Ino could weirdly blame Dinah for not being psychic enough to anticipate her finding out about Triela's medical condition, and then getting upset about it. But if she wanted to throw a screaming tantrum, or glare every chance she got? Dinah didn't have to show up for it. Arthur, on the other hand, was kinda right. Half of what Dinah had said to him had been aimed at what she'd thought was his arrogant attitude about what Morgana could do. But Morgana could look out for herself, and hadn't asked for Dinah's back-up. She owed Morgana an apology for trying to speak for her if it ever came up. Maybe she owed Arthur an apology for assuming, and the insults, but she thought the PMS comment that inspired them canceled that out. Anybody else she'd helped or tried to help lately, it was going okay for them, and it wasn't like she was the only one helping them out. Or like they were going to depend on her. The new kids would find their feet in a week or so, and then everyone could progress to jumping off buildings with her. If they wanted to.

Or, try to airwalk like Karla had taught her, like she was right now. Shoes over by the door, eyes shut, humming to try and concentrate.

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[bitten_notshy]

"That wasn't paranoid," Jack protested sullenly. "No, I won't be. Do I need to apologize?"

[icecoldfrost]

"No. But if you throw it in my face again, you won't get a third time," Emma answered, inspecting her nails. "Don't offer a girl a shiny present unless you mean it, Mr. Priest."

[bitten_notshy]

"I won't," Jack promised; Emma deserved her sensitive points. "The whole story is just sad in the dullest way."

"I was born in Prague. My parents had more children than money. When I was five they sold me for a servant to save the cost of feeding me; my guardian found me a few years later. It's hardly worth talking about. All right?"

[icecoldfrost]

"I'm a freak of nature whose father disowned her and threw her out, and I'm rather sure is sadly telling people that I died of some sort of overdose," Emma drawled languidly. "We can form a club."

[bitten_notshy]

"I don't think wanted and convenient children end up at boarding school," Jack theorized, though he was wincing with sympathy. "It would be a big club."

"Why did he disoown you?"

[icecoldfrost]

Emma shrugged. "Having a crazy daughter hearing voices isn't good for the image," she answered. "He had two other perfectly useful daughters, there's no reason to keep the 'defective' one."

"Although he didn't send me here. Like I said, I like to think of myself as 'self-emancipated,'" Emma grinned and tapped her head. "Being crazy was dull. I prefer learning control."

[bitten_notshy]

Jack nodded slowly. He couldn't remember enough to know why he'd been sold; he suspected that, if his parents had even kept his siblings, it was as simple as that blond, blue-eyed children fetched higher prices.

"Fewer voices, more skills?" he asked. "I'd want to do that too, if I could do what you can do."

[OOC: NIGHT!]

[icecoldfrost]

"Quieter voices, at least," Emma said wryly. "Some people are very loud."

"I don't just collect secrets, you know, I do know how to keep them." Emma regarded him neutrally. "There's a difference between gossip and information, and I'm hardly one to show all my cards just for giggles."

Which was her way of saying that she wouldn't say anything.

[Sorry, lost this thread. *falls over* Friday yet?]

[bitten_notshy]

Jack smiled a little. "I don't care if my friends know that anyhow," he said. "But thank you. I'd rather not have people thinking I was some sort of victimized street urchin. I did end up with a good life."

He added, "And of course I'm not one to spread rumors, either."

Which meant he wouldn't say anything.

[No worries!]

[icecoldfrost]

"Somehow 'victim' and 'Jack Priest' do not register in my mind," Emma replied dryly. "I do believe that you would kick anyone who suggested otherwise. Hard. Possibly with permanent damage."

[bitten_notshy]

"You're a good judge of character, Miss Frost," Jack said, a little smug. "Though I hope I'd find a manlier way to cause permanent damage than kicking."

[icecoldfrost]

"Yes, but breaking someone's nose is always so messy."