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Second floor common room- Monday evening

After class and training, Sabine had gone and done some shopping, then put everything away in the common room kitchen, putting her firebird on all her stuff in marker. Not that she didn't trust you people, but she didn't trust you people. Her entire plan for the night going forward was very much that of a teenager left on their own: ice cream for dinner and trashy TV.

And then when she looked up from grabbing a spoon, she spotted the gremlin on the counter.

She froze, waiting to see what it was going to do. She'd gotten thicker gloves since dealing with the bitey things at Hera's, so she was probably okay, but she wasn't positive.

The gremlin, meanwhile, also froze, waiting on her.

Sabine backed away slowly, with her spoon and ice cream, and slowly backed away towards the couch, eyes on the gremlin the whole time. It didn't move the entire time, and she sat down without any problem.

She was still looking back occasionally to make sure the gremlin was right where she could see it, though.

[dorms two days in a row! Open CR!]

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Lana was on her way back to her room when she saw Sabine in the room. She stepped inside and nodded to her. "Hello. How are you today?"

"I'm not hallucinating right now, so I'm good," she said proudly. "How was the first day?"

"It went well, I think." Lana frowned. "Hallucinating?"

"There's a gremlin in the kitchen," she explained. "I think as long as he goes unbothered, everyone goes unbitten."

"Ah." Lana carefully came in far enough to see the thing, so she'd know what to avoid. "Far be it from me to bother him, then."

She perched on the arm of the sofa. "What about you, did you have classes today?"

"I ended up in the Circle of Life class," Sabine said, making a face. "Not sure what I'll learn but at least it should be... interesting?"

She did not sound sure about that.

With the intention of going into town, to either test herself at the woods again or maybe just hang out at the beach, Astrid swung by the common room for a bite to eat before she left. Her roommate already there, however, distracted almost right away.

"Oh, hey, Sabine, have you see--"

And, thus distracted, back turned to the counter, and marked as an easy target practically before she'd even crossed the threshold, the gremlin made its move, leaping off the counter to find a nice bite of Astrid's shoulder.

"Son of a bi--" She swatted at whatever it was, despite having a sinking feeling in her stomach that she knew exactly what it was. That feeling turned into butterflies rather quickly, though, as she blinked around the room with a startled expression, pain forgotten, gremlin hitting the floor and scurrying off, no doubt to return back to the counter in due time in hopes for someone else not nearly as cautious or aware as Sabine and Lana had been.

Sorry, Astrid.

Or shall we say Briar Rose?

"Goodness," she breathed out once she really got a good look around the place and realized it wasn't like anything she'd ever seen before. "But where am I? I feel...I feel as though...I've just woken from...a dream..."

"What is it about?" Lana asked. "I didn't understand the description."

...Well. This was certainly happening.

"Astrid?" Sabine checked, knowing full well she wasn't going to answer to that.

"Apparently, safe sex and how to kill people," Sabine sighed. "And something about someone named Elton John."

Astrid? Did...did the other girl perhaps mistake her for someone else? Who was this other girl, who looked so strange, just as strange as this unfamiliar room that certainly was not in the forest or her cabin there?

"I beg your pardon," Briar Rose said, shaking her head. "I'm afraid I don't understand. I'm so sorry. But...you didn't happen to see three older women around here, have you? One in blue, one in green, one in pink? All very small and very dear?"

Oh, she'd been separated from them somehow...oh, this was very, very bad...very bad indeed, but also...perhaps...a little exciting, too.

They would be so worried, though! And rather upset, too, she imagined...

"Sorry, I really haven't, uh... what's your name?"

This was not going to help Sabine's want to keep Astrid protected in bubble wrap.

"Well, those first two could be useful, though I'd hope you would know them already," Lana said. "Who's Elton John - someone who was horrible at them, or someone you should follow?"

You were going to need a whole lot of that bubble wrap, Sabine. She'd survived the summer. The gloves were off now.

"Oh." Briar Rose looked a bit frightened, not unlike a deer caught off guard by a loud noise, her head turned toward the door in a flurry of blonde hair that was not nearly as thick and lustrous as she seemed to think it was. She could leave, of course, but there was no telling what awaited her outside. At least here, the mystery was lessened and, really, the other girl didn't seem like anything she should be too worry about.

"I...I really can't, I'm sorry. I'm not supposed to talk to strangers."

Not that that had stopped her earlier that day, when she ran into that mysterious man, and they'd danced...

She shook her head. "If only I could just find my godmothers...oh, they must be just beside</> themselves with worry!"

"I'm good there," Sabine said wryly, lest anyone think she couldn't take somebody out. "Elton John is apparently a singer who sang a song about the circle of life, but there wasn't a single mention of either subject so I'm not sure what the point was."

"Well, I'm Sabine," she said. "So we're not strangers anymore, right?"

Would that work? Maybe? Astrid was pretty much the only person Sabine would try with.

Nell had spent much of the past two days getting the feel of the land. Literally. She'd been sort of 'communing' with the woods and green spaces of Fandom. Now, on her way back to her room she stopped and looked into the common room.

"What are you looking at?" And then when Nell saw it... "What is that!?"

"Bachelor in Paradise, it's terrible," Sabine said, gesturing to the TV with her spoon.

"I...suppose not," Briar Rose said very slowly as she considered it. After all, for all their warnings and reprimands, she'd never actually encountered a stranger before. Except, of course, the handsome gentleman in the woods, and they had danced, and it had been...so lovely...like a dream...

Her eyes went a little cloudy and distant as she remember it, humming slightly to the melody that had moved them, then shook her head and remembered that she was very much not there right now.

"Perhaps if you could just tell me where I am, first?" she tried again. That should be a good compromise, wouldn't it?

"I mean the... thing," Nell said, pointing toward the gremlin. "Although that thing on the television... I've never seen anything like it. Not that television is something I have much experience with."

Sabine looked back to make sure she knew where the gremlin was, and said, "It's a gremlin. Don't let it bite you, but you're probably safe as long as you don't do anything to it."

"Strange little creature, isn't it?" said ~~Astrid~~ Briar Rose, unable to suppress the smallest of shudders. She regarded the other stranger with eyes that seemed almost a little too innocent and wide. "All the woodland creatures are my friends, but I do think I might have a little bit of trouble making friends with this one..."

Maybe it had something to do with the fact that it was still eyeing her like a tasty snack, despite having already gotten a good chomp in.

"You're in a place called Fandom, in a school," Sabine told her. That sounded safe, right? "Everyone's nice and friendly."

Except the bitey green thing.

"A gremlin?" Nell turned and stared at it again. "What happens if it bites me? Is it poisonous?"

"Yer friends with the woodland creatures?" Nell asked, wondering if this girl might be like her. "Can you feel the land as well? Know what it knows?"

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