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Summer vacation elapses, and sees their storefront doing one heck of a business in the Avalon with the help of their griffin employee. There is a suggestion box for new spells they should invent, some of which have to be long-term projects but others of which are converted into new product fairly promptly.
School starts up again. Darren and Bella are both skipping straight into twelfth grade. (Bella looked into just starting college early, but while she does technically have the sort of resume that can lead to that kind of thing, she can't exactly write an essay about how she saved the life of another person and this caused her to have Moral Character, let alone about how she started a small business - so skipping one grade it is.)
They apply to colleges. They both get into University of Washington and get sufficient scholarships to accommodate both going there.
Summer ensues again.
One afternoon, Bella is over at Darren's, and has fallen asleep - in purring fullform - across his lap on the couch.
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shesepankh
morethanimaginary
Savannah blinks. "Okay. Well if you're doing that thing you do where you're worried about my innocence or some shit, don't bother, I got this."
morethanimaginary
"Yup. I know me better than you do. I'm not freaking out about killing them, but I do want to be as prepared as possible if this shit ever happens again." Pause. "So, I want to eat all of their hearts."
shesepankh
"If you say so. Were there any critters? You can't use those, right?"
morethanimaginary
"Two. I don't think I can use those. I can always try," she shrugs. "If all else fails, guess I have dinner early."
morethanimaginary
"It's the practical thing to do, and they're surprisingly delicious."
morethanimaginary
"Guess so! I'm not complaining. I'd still do it if it wasn't delicious, but I'd probably have a harder time at chewing it."
morethanimaginary
Savannah gets to work. She's polite enough to drag the corpses out of view of Darren and Bella, before she starts. She leaves out the satyr and the nokk, but everyone else's heart? She's going to try to eat. She shifts halfway through the second to fullform, and then it just sort of - comes naturally. It seems absurd that she can fit this many hearts in her stomach, but... It works. It just works.
"Done," she says, once she's eaten the hearts of everyone they've killed. Her face is covered in blood and gore. "Time to check on the ink monster?"
"Done," she says, once she's eaten the hearts of everyone they've killed. Her face is covered in blood and gore. "Time to check on the ink monster?"
castmyown
Darren launches into a very technical reasoning - he lists out the runes he used and ballparks the configuration he put them in, but can't get it exactly right from memory without redoing the math.
"I'll remake it when we get home, certainly. It seems like it could be useful."
"I'll remake it when we get home, certainly. It seems like it could be useful."
shesepankh
"Okay. Let's go see what it did."
Bella heaves herself up onto her paws.
Bella heaves herself up onto her paws.
castmyown
Her boyfriend follows in fullform, and off they go to the exit.
Is the ink monster still there, noticeably alive?
Is the ink monster still there, noticeably alive?
shesepankh
The spell has worn off.
There is a puddle of goo. It doesn't slosh around.
"How do we tell?" wonders Bella.
There is a puddle of goo. It doesn't slosh around.
"How do we tell?" wonders Bella.
shesepankh
"I don't know if it's smart enough to play dead, but I don't know that it's not either."
castmyown
"Hmmm."
He goes off, grabs a flashlight, and then flies up and shines a light down at the ground in front of the ink monster. Is it going to go into the light? Or has it already done so? (Ha.)
He goes off, grabs a flashlight, and then flies up and shines a light down at the ground in front of the ink monster. Is it going to go into the light? Or has it already done so? (Ha.)
shesepankh
It doesn't move.
"Looks dead," sighs Bella. "I guess I didn't really have a good idea of how to retrain it, anyway..."
"Looks dead," sighs Bella. "I guess I didn't really have a good idea of how to retrain it, anyway..."
morethanimaginary
"Imagine trying to play fetch with it. It'd be a nightmare."
shesepankh
"I think I'd find it very satisfying if I played 'fetch your old boss's boss', personally."