itscurtains | Is This Where You Wanna Be? Crawling On Your Hands and Knees?

[In a perfect world, Maya would have been able to isolate herself for the rest of the evening. It's not like her to wallow in her feelings, but it's also not like her to be trapped away in a murder school or part of an execution so... not like she has much choice there. Besides, between the influence of Janis, and the sight of her remaining dormmates, it's clear that Maya simply can't... let things go.

It's like she told the SQUIP. They look to her for hope. And so, hope she must be. It's her job to stand tall for the others. Thankfully help comes easier this time -- there's no need to scruff Discord, or try to keep Spongebob from making Hate Patties. Maybe that, in and of itself, is a good sign.

It's just another fluke. They'll be okay. They're together, after all. Even Salieri and Discord are getting along well enough to help.

Cutting potatoes proves to be an interesting task, considering the fact that most of the knives are missing. Maya has a few guesses as to how that happened, but she won't point fingers again today. She makes do with what she has -- two swords between her and Cassandra.

Potatoes, cakes, pies -- the arrangement is much the same. There's even cocoa (made by less experienced hands, unfortunately), and alcohol. It all feels like a repeat of last week, but she's trying to not think about it. She does her best to keep a smile on her face as she knocks on each door, inviting others to the cafeteria once more.]

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Mm, yes, I suppose we should. Though I still think the ceiling is a perfectly fine place for all this.

[...he'll float the cup sticking there down, though.]

[Salieri reaches out to pluck it from the air as it floats into reach, before moving to stack it with the others]

Perhaps at another party, then, you can attempt to convince Mademoiselle Maya to leave them up there.

Tempting.

Though there is the concern that they might all fall down on everyone.

[He isn't... the most confident about his magic sticking up on the ceiling for that long.]

As if you wouldn't enjoy that.

Oh, very much, but I did promise no harmful chaos.

Ah, well. Mark it down as an idea for another time, then.

Once that contract is at an end perhaps, hm?

[he pauses at that, going thoughtful for a moment]

...yes. Perhaps.

Well, now, that pause seemed terribly significant.

[he waves a hand, dismissing it a bit]

Not terribly. Simply...thinking of when we finally get to leave this place.

Any day now, if we want to be in denial and optimistic about it.

[That does make him chuckle a little, mouth curling back up into a smirk]

By this time tomorrow, I'm sure we'll be off to another dimension. Where shall we go first, then?

Well, I do have to stop in Equestria first and make sure it hasn't been taken over by any dark forces in the ten minutes I looked away.

[Salieri arches an eyebrow at that]

Is that something that happens regularly there?

Oh, now and then. Of course, a few times now it's been me, but there have been others.

Now and then but enough to be a pattern. [dryly] I see.

Well, just in the past little while there was Nightmare Moon, King "No Discernable Personality" Sombra, the changeling attack... And my first escape, of course.

They stay rather busy.