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The Front Lawn of the Dorms, Saturday Afternoon

If you thought Sparkle was going to just let this weather pass him by today, you really had another thing coming. Glitter! There was glitter as far as the eye could see with drifts that came halfway to his knees around some of the corners on the grounds to the dorms. And Sparkle?

Well, Sparkle had an affinity for glitter, okay? He could do so much with this stuff. Stick it in more shower heads, throw it off the roof at people in water balloons, mail it to his enemies...

And that was why he had already stuffed his backpack full of the stuff, and had now started on filling a couple of pillowcases, besides. He was going to be twinkling for like a year, but like that was really anything new, and holy shit, the possibilities were endless, here.

Endless.

[OOC: Open lawn is open! GLITTER.]

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"For here? Hell yeah," Sparkle laughed, shoveling another handful of glitter into his pillowcase. "We get all kinds of weird fucking rain around here, like, I got my cat because of weird things falling from the sky. And there's usually at least powdered sugar leading up to Christmas."

It was one of the few things Sparkle actually liked about this place, really.

"Hey, Bugs. How're you settling in?"

Hanna stopped and spun in place, baffled and amused. Shiny, multi-colored, sticky glitter all over her boots; she kind of liked the effect. In her hair-- also amusing.

"Bugs-- oh!" She laughed, then said, "I am adjusting. And my classes are useful.... it rained cats!?"

Oooo!

"And dogs," Sparkle laughed. "It literally rained cats and dogs, once. Most of them were gone the next day, but Velcro, my cat, he stuck around."

... That pun had been totally unintentional. But Sparkle grinned more when he realized what he'd just said. And then made a face, and spat out some glitter.

"I don't like most of the weird stuff this place pulls, but sometimes it's pretty okay. Things like this? We can keep this."

"Velcro," Hanna repeated, giggling. Maybe there was something in the glitter? Or maybe it just brought that out in her. She stomped through a few drifts, then bent down to scoop some up, throwing it in the air. LIght scattered through it and the wind blew it everywhere. "It's not even cold! Just fluffy. I like this better than real blizzards by several kilometers."

"At least two or three thousand meters," Sparkle laughed, shaking his head. "You and me both, anyway. Glitter beats freezing half to freaking death. Speaking of, how's that coat been working out for you? Good and warm?"

It had better be, okay?

"It is working quite well, thank you!" Hanna stomped over closer, beaming. "It was a very good deal, and I do not regret it... what are you collecting the glitter for?"

Had to ask, Sparkle. There's just so *much* of it.

"Because you never know when you're going to need it, or how long this sort of thing will stick around," Sparkle explained with a grin. "Like, maybe I'll use it for the next dance, or I'll mail some back home just because I can. The sky is the limit when you have this much glitter!"

HE NEEDED IT. HE NEEDED IT ALL.

Hanna spun one way, then the other, stirring up a little cloud around her feet. "Do you need help?... I could decorate my room with it."

Carmilla would give you her most Dubious Look Ever, Hanna.

"... Shit, that would be awesome. Have you got something to put it in? Like, I'm just using pillowcases, but I guess shopping bags or something would work, too."

There were options. Glitter hoarding options.

Hanna took a moment to think, and then said, "I have some plastic bags, I think. I will be right back."

She had no idea how she could even use it to decorate something, just that she wanted to find a way. She ran off to go inside to her room, pelting and stirring up puffs of glitter in her wake.

Sparkle grinned after her, getting back to work stuffing more glitter away while he waited.

There was going to be so much of this shit around the dorms for a while.

Hanna returned only five minutes later, with plastic shopping bags in hand, and dragged them through the glitter, filling them the best she could. "Glue on a poster board?" she said, thinking aloud. "Or in vases everywhere. Or maybe stuck to the window? If Carmilla doesn't object."

"You could do, like, glitter edging on everything," Sparkle suggested. "Lampshades, window frames, your headboard..."

Sparkle could come up with plenty of places to put this stuff, no worries.

"Edging! Yes!" The most decoration Hanna had ever done was some carving on their house, when they had time. A few small hand-made toys. But this was so different and bright, she could try anything with it. "...and possibly clothes." She giggled. "Whether I want it or not."

"Definitely clothes," Sparkle laughed, tying off a pillowcase and reaching for another. "You're going to be twinkling at least until summer break, I'm pretty sure. But, I mean, at least it'll be awesome, right?"

That was one word for it.

"Yes," Hanna said with great satisfaction. She might get sick of it? But not any time soon. "Have you had a good week since I saw you last? Or was the Day of Truth awful for you?"

"The whole truth thing? I freaking hate it," Sparkle sighed, wrinkling his nose. "I didn't say anything too stupid, for the most part, but I did have a nice long rant at a teacher about trust issues and mary-jane, so that could've gone better. Ugh. How about you?"

"Mary Jane?" Hanna tilted her head. "It was-- uncomfortable. Being told things that people were embarrassed about. Like Alanna's breasts. I don't have too many secrets that people know enough about to ask awkward questions."

If they had, it would have been *so* much worse.

"Mary-jane," Sparkle replied, "like... pot. Dope. Weed. Marijuana."

Which he could have said right up front, granted.

"And... what? What were people saying about Alanna's tits?" A beat. "No, no, wait, I don't actually want to know. There are a lot of things I'd love to know, but anything about Alanna's boobs, I can probably pass on."

Not that he didn't like you, Alanna. But, uh.

"Oh. The drug." Right! She knew this one! "A relaxant and potential intoxicant... no, Alanna merely had some insecurities. She shouldn't, they're nice breasts."

"Yeah," Sparkle agreed, giving Hanna a sidelong glance. "The drug."

At least she just seemed pretty happy to know what it was? That was helpful.

"And she really shouldn't. I mean, like, I'll admit I'm not really the go-to guy for ranking the island's top ten hot chicks or anything, here. But she's got a great figure, she shouldn't get down on herself about it. Nobody here should. Fuck, like, most of the people on the island are impossibly hot."

"Johnny said I was hot," Hanna mused. "But also that he had a girlfriend. So it won't lead to anything but observation. And I think Alanna wasn't *too* worried. She and Johnny seemed happy to talk to each other even with all of the truth-sharing." Since they were dating, that was good, wasn't it?

"What did you tell someone about Mary Jane? Or is that an indiscreet question?"

"Little indiscreet," Sparkle replied, wrinkling his nose a little. "But, like, nobody seems to give a shit around here. Told a teacher that I was probably going to get drunk and high that night, no big deal. She didn't seem to care, except that she figured I had better uses for my time."

Seriously, this place weirded him out sometimes.

Hanna nodded in understanding, then tentatively asked, "You aren't worried about any health effects?"

Erik had been more than a little strict on the idea, since he had no idea how anything like that would effect Hanna.

"Ha, seriously? No way. I mean, it can't be good for me, whatever, but I smoke worse shit in a normal cigarette anyway. My health is clearly not, like, my highest priority."

He shrugged his shoulders and stuffed more glitter into this newer pillowcase.

"I don't much care."

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