Outside the Dorms, Very Very Late Monday Evening/Too Early Tuesday Morning

[suitably_heroic]

It was raining.

It was not raining very hard, but it was definitely raining at the insane time the sirens went off across the school. The lawn outside was slowly but surely turning into a wet mess, and the grass was just high enough in some places that it might leave wet splotches on an unsuspecting passer-by's pants.

Clearly this was a great time for a fire drill.

It was clearly also a great time to test the new volume on the sirens, which blared even harder than they had ever done before. Hope you didn't have to take any tests in the morning, kids!

[[ has a firedrill! students, have at. ]]

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[dirtiest-skank.livejournal.com]

Olive was kind of staring, yes, but she felt she was allowed. Anyone with that much decoration wanted you to look at him. "Do you just make a lot of bad decisions or do those all mean something?" she wondered.

[makemyownway.livejournal.com]

"Can it be both?" Cade asked with a tiny smile.

[dirtiest-skank.livejournal.com]

"Sure, that Venn diagram can overlap," she decided. "How many did you get while drunk?"

This could be a fun game.

[makemyownway.livejournal.com]

Cade looked them over, remembering. "This one," he said, pointing to one on the back of his thigh.

[dirtiest-skank.livejournal.com]

Olive tilted her head to look. "Regret any of 'em?"

[makemyownway.livejournal.com]

"Nah," Cade said. "None of them say Mom or some girl I don't talk to any more. I'm okay." He pointed to the bright red one on his bicep. "Everyone in Rav's crew has one of these. I made mine look a little different just before I came here since he doesn't boss me now."

[dirtiest-skank.livejournal.com]

"Well you showed him," Olive said with a firm nod. Shut up, it was sort of adorable.

[makemyownway.livejournal.com]

"Sure did," Cade said. "Karking pirate."

Really. Pirate.

[dirtiest-skank.livejournal.com]

"...like, 'yo, ho, yo, ho, a pirate's life for me'?" Olive sang.

Yep. Sang.

She wanted to be sure.

[makemyownway.livejournal.com]

Cade stared at her blankly. "Like 'this is a raid, give us all your stuff, maybe we won't kill your family'."

[dirtiest-skank.livejournal.com]

"So not exactly the same kind of pirates." Olive was sort of freaked out, yes, but doing her very best not to show it.

[makemyownway.livejournal.com]

"Not quite so...sing-y," Cade replied.

[dirtiest-skank.livejournal.com]

"Still into rum?" she wondered. "That's a big thing with our pirates. And monkeys!"

[makemyownway.livejournal.com]

"I liked it when the radio rodents gave me some," Cade said helpfully.

[dirtiest-skank.livejournal.com]

"They gave you rum?" Olive was pouting. "Not fair. No one offered me any."

She wouldn't have taken any but still.

[makemyownway.livejournal.com]

"I was very persuasive."

Mean. Cade was very mean and scary to them.

[dirtiest-skank.livejournal.com]

"I think that your version of persuasive is different from my version of persuasive, if it was done to squirrels," Olive noted.

...she hoped, since flirting with squirrels was gross.

[makemyownway.livejournal.com]

Cade had standards!

...they were around here somewhere, darnit.

"Well, they woke me up and chased me through town," Cade grumbled. "They weren't gonna get a medal."