2nd Floor Common Room, Friday Morning

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Nina was on a quest!

A journey! An adventure!

There was a naked cat in the bedroom and she needed to find it clothes! There hadn't been any clothes that had fit the cat in the bedroom that had been within reach, which meant that she had to venture out and inspect other drawers and cupboards because the poor thing was going to get cold!

And everyone knew that cats didn't like hats very much.

(The naked cat had really not liked it when Nina had tried to put one on it, at least.)

The naked cat had refused to come with her (Nina had the scratch on her arm to prove it) and the friendly pink jelly blob had made funny noises at her and while she'd been giggling had rolled under the door and away.

Which was just another reason to go exploring! Maybe she could find the jelly blob and make friends with it? That'd be so fun--

But quietly.

If she was quiet, after all, she wouldn't be in anyone's way and no one would notice her and that would mean she'd be a good girl and her game wouldn't be stopped so she wasn't in anyone's way.

Nina poked her head into the open door and, seeing that no one was in there, tiptoed her way over to all the big drawers, ignoring the soft looking couches and the big black mirror things. She peered into the metal box with the handle on it and the metal bars inside of it and opened the humming box that turned out to have some food in it, though she didn't touch any of it because it wasn't hers and she didn't know what a lot of it even was and even the fact that she was able to read some didn't help her out.

What was mar-jar-in anyway?

She found a bag of rice in another drawer, once she'd abandoned the humming cold box, leaving the door ajar accidentally, and then a bunch of pots and pans, which made her think she wasn't going to find clothes in what might be a kitchen but, really, now that she was here she had to check all of them, right?

That was what adventurers would do! Right!

[Open, naturally!]

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Sabine reached back into the drawer and presented her with a wooden spoon.

"It's a new model."

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"NOW I'M FULLY ARMED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" she said, beaming as she took the blaster and looked it over. "I'M NINA, BY THE WAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

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"I'm Sabine," she said. "You have to be quiet if we're hunting enemies. We don't want them to know we're gonna get 'em."

Sabine Wren: early master of stealth.

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"Oh!" Oh, hey, Nina did have the ability to stop shouting. "I didn't realize we'd already started hunting, sorry! It's good we're small, though, because big people never see little ones very quickly."

She giggled.

"But they get mad if you tell them that."

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"They do? My dad says I stand out."

Because she was probably covered in paint and gravitated towards color like crazy.

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"Maybe it's different with parents????????????????????????" It wasn't like Nina knew! "No one ever comes or has time for me unless I get really, really loud or if I'm being Bad."

She was going to hate that she'd admitted that after the weekend.

"Sneaking is a lot of fun though!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

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"Are you god at it?"

It was important for this mission Sabine had just decided they were on.

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"I think so!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" she said, putting her pot lid down since that wasn't sneaky at all. "Are blasters sneaky???????????????"

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"No but my mom says it's 'fective," Sabine said.

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"Wow," Nina said, impressed. "You've got both a mom and a dad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

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This was going to break Sabine's heart on Monday.

"My dad's really nice," she said, because she hadn't yet learned the art of deflection. "Where's your mom and dad?"

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"Don't have any because I was left at the school," Nina said matter-of-factly, and it was a little weird that Sabine didn't know that because everyone knew that usually. "I'm a........ a.......... ward of the school!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

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"Like the Academy?" Sabine asked.

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"YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" she said, delighted. Then flailed her blaster about. "Sorry!!!!!!!!!!!! I forgot to be quiet!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

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"It's okay if you're quiet when we go hunting," Sabine told her. "Or! You can be a distraction!"

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She was a pretty good distraction, it was true.

Nina giggled.

"That means be lots and lots of loud, right??????????????????????"

It was maybe not Nina's first time being a distraction.

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"Yes! On three, be loud," Sabine told her, lofting her spatula and making her way towards the fridge very slowly.

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Oh, Sabine. Sabine, no.

"1! 2!" she chirped, bracing herself to be as loud as possible. "3!"

Deep breath!

"SUNSET ON THE MOUNTAINS, THE FALL TREES AGLOW,
BRILLIANT SHADES OF AUTUMN - CRIMSON RED, TAN, YELLOW.
MAPLE LEAVES AND IVY ADORNING THE TALL PINE TREES
WEAVE A BEAUTIFUL PATTERN HERE AT THE FOOT OF THE MOUNTAINS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

That children's song was... not meant to be bellowed that way, no.

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Sabine ran towards the fridge, dropping to the floor to roll towards it. She then popped up onto her knees to open the fridge, and yelled "Pew! Pew!" while shooting her spatula into it.

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If Nina had any idea of what a microphone was, she'd be pretending her blaster was one right about now as she continued being the biggest, loudest distraction she could be.

"AUTUMN LEAVES AT SUNSET ON THE MOUNTAIN STREAMS AFLOAT,
EACH LEAF A SHADE OF AUTUMN - CRIMSON, BROWN, YELLOW.
MAPLE LEAVES AS THEY DRIFT NEAR THE BANK AND AWAY
WEAVE SUCH BEAUTIFUL BROCADES AS THEY GO BY."

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"I got 'em!" Sabine called. "The enemies are defeated!"