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The only thing that sucks more than the Scholomance is not going to the Scholomance
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Scorpius giggles a bit in surprise, but it's a very desperate giggle. He starts more actively wiping his face rather than have Alexei do it for him.

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Yvette attempts a small little smile, but she is just so busy putting food into her face. Just. The most busy. The very busiest.

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Chloe sits next to Scorpius, still looking righteously furious. She had to take a detour to confer with the rest of New York, unlike SOME people.

"He's an ungrateful selfish ass and I hope his father disowns him," she sniffs, setting her tray down with a clatter.

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No one really seems to have anything to say about that, at least at first. Not with Scorpius right there.

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".... I'm sorry, Scorpius," says Chloe quietly. "I. He'll face justice even if graduation doesn't get him?"

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Scorpius leans forward and puts his face in his hands. "Graduation will get him. It'll get everyone. If, if what he said..."

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"That's not... graduation last year wasn't much worse than normal. And... the ones that break in and die are ones they don't have to fight, right?"

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"The ones that break in and die are the ones small enough to. Everything left down there is worse."

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...okay, no, this is getting to be far too much. He kicks Scorpius's chair hard enough to give him a hard jolt. "Shut up, Lake."

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"—what?"

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"Seven hundred people. You said so yourself. Stop feeling sorry for yourself because you saved too many people. Todd Quayle didn't save anyone but himself, and pushed someone kicking and screaming into the void to do that."

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Yvette idly thinks that, statistically speaking, this is probably better in the long run. Not particularly fair to the seniors, comparatively, yeah, but. Maleficaria not getting fed means they don't make more, which means less big ones. Just, you know. Eventually.

But it probably isn't an easier pill to swallow for them, who were freshman before Scorpius even got here and died in statistically regular droves accordingly. The first year is the most dangerous after graduation itself; some kids just don't adjust to living in a hostile environment.

"Also," points out Yvette, dry, "the small ones don't necessarily mean the least dangerous, you know. Those sirenspiders were much less scary in the workshop than they'd be in the graduation hall. No time to put up webs."

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"... Yeah. He had to have been mistaken, right? There can't be a maw-mouth in school! We'd have noticed!! They're very obvious."

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This time he has enough presence of mind to not glance at Yvette even slightly. "I hope so. But I'll go hunting for it anyway."

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Some of the people who heard him gasp or just stare at him in shock. Nkoyo actually chokes on her food a bit.

"...you cannot be serious. For a maw-mouth?"

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"Scorpius, you cannot kill a maw-mouth."

And you won't need to.

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"If anyone can..." But he gives Alexei a Meaningful Look (TM).

Also: Alexei calling him by his first name is new. He had been too busy to notice earlier but he's pretty sure that was the first time, there, with Todd? He's feeling kind of warmfuzzy about that.

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...oh Scorpius guessed, too. Alexei should've known.

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Yvette glances between Alexei and Scorpius, then decides that she absolutely does not want to engage with this conversation at all! Fortunately for her, people often don't expect her to talk, anyway. Look at all of these calories, going into her face.

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"Why would you try to fight a maw-mouth. Yes, you're you, but that doesn't make you able to just, just. Kill one by yourself!! Don't be stupid. Try to trap it, or, or, something."

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"Break off the bit of the school it's in and drop it into the void," suggests Yvette, sounding detached, despite literally deciding not to talk two minutes before. Look, she already had this set of thoughts, all right? Yesterday.

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"...at minimum I want to know where it is so I can warn others off it. If it's here at all."

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"Mm. Let's hope Quayle was sleep deprived and seeing things," says Yvette, who is going to go back to her first idea of just shutting up and eating. She's quite sure that both Scorpius and Alexei have figured out what... exactly... she fought yesterday. So. That'll be a conversation. Or two. That'll be fun.

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Thankfully some more people interested in Yvette's book show up to lighten the conversation, and Alexei is perfectly happy to field the questions and shield Yvette.

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Scorpius has less matter expertise but he's sufficiently recovered his ability to work his image (and feel that it's sufficiently necessary at this point) that he can help with that by being charming.

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