The boomboxes blared loud, heavy metal music. Music one ended...
Rap, rap, rap.
Lilly heard it, but couldn't be bothered.
Music two began and - after a while - ended.
Rap, rap, rap.
Lilly ignored it.
Music three began and ended.
Rap, rap, rap.
Lilly looked up to see the cat. Tetra, she remembered, in the midst of her hurt and anger.
"Go away."
"I'm sorry, Lilly, but I can't do that." - Tetra replied calmly.
"What d'you want?" - Lilly noticed in her speech how it also changed, how it was also childlike. It did nothing to help her mood.
Tetra rehashed what she remembered about Lilly. She was a former older boy. And now she had found out magic was real... Rule number one about magic and people, she remembered: A person that finds out magic is real will tend to believe it can do anything. The music she was playing, loudly at that, was one of her former self. Tetra put two and two together. Jenny had lost enough today. Tetra would not have her lose a friend after all she did and after all she'd been through.
"I came to ask you not to tell anyone anything about what you saw today. But I see we need to talk. They didn't do it, Lilly. And they can't change you back."
"WHY NOT?!" - Lilly screamed at the top of her lungs. Luckily, it was muffled by the sound of the music.
Tetra sighed.
"Lilly. First of all, I want to thank you. You may well have helped save a LOT of lives, your family, your mother, your father, everyone, and I will explain to you how. Please, turn off the music and we'll talk."
Lilly was a bit taken aback by this bit of information. Tetra smiled inwardly. This information helped her get through to Lilly.
Lilly turned off the music.
Sarah left the classroom, annoyed at this reminder that the whole events with Tiffany had caused. How she had acted towards people, and how Tiffany acted towards her. Had she caused this much anger? She used to do it like it was so ordinary...
"Hey. Sarah." - the mad scientist called her.
"What is it, Sider? Want to tell me again about my just desserts?"
Matt sighed.
"Look. I want to apologize if I brought up some ugly stuff, but... You have to admit it was relevant."
Sarah sighed herself. "Was I that much of a bitch?"
Sider shrugged. "Do you want an honest opinion or do you want me to go 'No, it wasn't that bad, relax' and all?"
"You just gave your honest opinion then and there, Sider."
Sider nodded. "Thought so. Look. It was bad. If it were me, I'd try and apologize to people rather than go 'you shouldn't hold grudges', because that's rather easy for you to say. There's a reason the word 'bullycide' exists, Sarah. Whether or not people will let go after you apologize is their choice, but, if you try to make amends, at the very least it should cleanse your consciousness."
Sarah nodded. "Duly noted." - She didn't really feel like doing it. She still had SOME pride, after all.
Sider shrugged. "Just my two cents. You never did a thing to me, Sarah, for what it's worth."
Sarah nodded. "Yeah. You told me as much."
Sider nodded. "True. Look. On a brighter note... I might, emphasis on might, be able to build something to give you a bit more hand mobility. This is mad science, though, so I don't know if it will work and I don't know if there'll be any side effects. Wanna try?"
"Why are you being so nice to me? I thought you believed I deserve whatever I get." - Said Sarah, slightly bitterly.
Sider shrugged. "One, I was just telling Ms. Wilkins the social results of acting like your clique did and then losing power. I really wasn't entering the whole 'karma' debate. Two, no, I'd not have you lose your hands for being a bitch. I'm a mad scientist, but I'm not friggin' Mengele. Three, I want to know if I can and what happens. Four, it might be nice as a social experiment to see how you would react being helped by someone outside the whole structure. Five, I feel like helping you. Before you ask, no strings. Not even the apology thing. I'm not here to play Paladin for the former outcasts."
Sarah looked at Sider.
"You are a weird one, Sider..."
Sider smirked very lightly.
"So they say."
Lucas landed on the church grounds from the tower, just as Robert was making her way back.
"Oh, hey, Robert. How's things?"
"Hello, Lucas." - Said Robert somberly.
Lucas then took the time to notice the eclipse in the sky, as well as Robert's slightly harried looks.
"Are you okay, Robert?"
"I... am, child..." - Sighed Robert.
"Uhm, right." - Said Lucas, knowing Robert wasn't, but unwilling to press it - "Too bad I didn't know about the eclipse. I could have come watch it earlier."
"We didn't know about it either." - Said Robert.
"What?"
"It was... sudden, Lucas. No one had foreseen it."
"Which is why you look so stressed, that it? Okay, that oughtta be good. What's going on now?"
Robert nodded and just sighed, wondering where to begin, if at all.
