Hoping for a Miracle | Glowfic Constellation

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Musoka Azul is different from her new classmates at Collège Françoise Dupont, in as many as several ways.

Bluer, for one. She's always loved the color blue, even before she learned what her last name meant, and once she was old enough to buy her own clothes and dye her own hair, she's rarely been seen wearing something that wasn't a shade of blue. (Possibly this will cause her some trouble, given recent developments in her life, but right now, she's not too worried about it. (She should, in fact, possibly be more worried about it, but she is 15 and has no room in her head for worries.)) She's wearing a light blue top with faint stripes, a long navy blue skirt, and has on a pair of fingerless gloves and a backpack that are both the same sky-blue color as her hair.

She's also noticeably foreign. Oh, she speaks the language just fine (albeit with a slight Spanish accent), but she's very clearly not from around here, and it shows; a little in how she talks, a little in how she looks, and a fair bit in how she acts, staring wide-eyed at the sights of the biggest city she's ever seen in her LIFE. She grew up in a small coastal town in Spain, and had been content to stay there (well, at least until university), but recent events have convinced her that she's needed elsewhere. So now she's living with her aunt in Paris, because Paris is where the superheros are. (She doesn't know what the deal with Hawk Moth is, really? Seems kinda ridiculous?? Maybe it's less ridiculous in person! Hopefully she'll find out soon.)

She also has an absurdly powerful piece of ???alien??? technology on her, which is approximately the COOLEST THING THAT'S EVER HAPPENED, even if the built-in AI lady is sometimes totally unfair (she IS TOO capable of sustaining flight! She'd be GREAT at flight!! These 'safety' constraints are probably completely unnecessary!!!)

She's also... lost. This place is way bigger than her old school, and she thought she understood the directions she was given but that was seven whole minutes ago? Which... isn't very long. Ooops? (in her defense, she thinks, she was busy thinking about how ridiculous Hawk Moth is and how great she'd be at flying. (And also she has ADHD.))

Oh, well. No time like the present! She skips up to the nearest person who'll meet her eyes, and asks them for directions to Miss Bustier's room!

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Valid of her! Musoka will wait until Lila's ready to eat and otherwise chat with her new classmates, answering any questions they have about what Spain is like or why she moved here, and working on memorizing everyone's names and other facts about them as they come up in conversation! (She's going to get a good grade in transfer student, a thing that is normal to want and possible to achieve)

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It doesn't take long for Lila to storm away from Chloé. She makes it to the door of the classroom, then remembers Musoka exists. She glances back to see if Musoka is still meeting people.

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Musoka extracts herself from the group ("It was great to meet you all! Gonna go grab lunch, I'm starving." ) and catches up with Lila.

"Everything alright?" she asks in quiet Spanish.

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Lila sees Musoka looking at her and quickly pastes a smile on. "Of course!" Lila says, "Everything's fine. You ready to grab lunch?"

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Oh, good! Musoka loves it when things are fine. "Yeah! Let's get some food, I'm starving."

She has no idea where to go, so she looks expectantly at Lila.

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Oh good! Lila had kind of expected to have to do more convincing.

The cafeteria is this way!

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(A fun thing about Musoka is that if you tell her something and you'd obviously know better than her if it were true, if she isn't already suspicious she'll just believe you!)

She follows. "So, how long ago did you transfer? Where were you before this? Have you seen" any of the superheroes "anything cool or interesting since then?"

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(That is a fun thing about Musoka! Lila appreciates it!)

"A few months ago, technically." Lila said, "I got akumatized on my first day, though, so I only just rejoined the class last week. I've seen so much interesting stuff while I've been out, though! Like, you know the Majestia comics? Did you know the writer actually lives in Paris? I talk to him sometimes and I'm even the one who suggested the twist where Lord Tadpole joins the villains!"

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If Lila is skilled in the ways of observing people, she almost certainly noticed Musoka's poorly-suppressed spark of interest at the mention of being akumatized. However, Musoka herself has already mostly forgotten about this by the time Lila finishes speaking.

"Woah! That was you? Ohmygosh, I loved that twist, that's one of my favorite issues!!!" She continues to gush about her love for Majestia and other such comics ("I just love superheroes, you know? Don't tell anyone, but that's actually part of why I wanted to come study in Paris...") as they get lunch.

She eats concerningly quickly ("...ah, sorry, I have 2 older brothers with bottomless pits where their stomachs should be, too used to having to eat fast if I want my fair share...") and continues chatting happily. What else does Lila want to talk about?

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Lots of things! It turns out Lila knows lots of cool people. She's helped out with the costumes for that one movie and found a missing pair of lucky cleats for a football player and helped a little girl find her dad who turned out to be the lead developer on that one video game everyone's talking about! It would be a kind of boring litany of good deeds if it hadn't resulted in a bunch of connections with projects Musoka's excited about, but Lila's mostly succeeding at figuring out what Musoka's into and telling those stories.

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