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The only thing that sucks more than the Scholomance is not going to the Scholomance
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Scorpius looks at her for a second then shakes his head, sighing in frustration. "I don't know. The library attack wasn't normal. But... if there was a maw-mouth, and those mals were running away from it, maybe it does exist but it just ate enough other mals that it's now digesting. Or maybe you're right, maybe Todd made it up, or hallucinated it..." Another sigh. "Regardless, you're right, if it was there to be found I would've found it. I looked everywhere, it's not in the library or the stock room or anywhere."

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That's not the most reassuring possible thing he could say but it's reassuring enough that ten minutes later everyone's convinced they definitely won't be running into any maw-mouths today.

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(Which is exactly as planned. How's that for acting? He thinks he deserves full points honestly.)

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Oh, good. Now maybe people will stop talking about it. That’d be nice.

But does that mean it is talking time for her? It does not. It is eating time, and then once dinner has concluded: does anyone want to come with her to the library now?

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Yeah pretty much everyone is going, what with how they've been avoiding it since yesterday and they have homework to do. Hell, even Scorpius is coming—if nothing else to come to people's rescue if he needs to, he's convinced they won't find a maw-mouth but there may well be a lot other agitated mals hunting kids that will want to show up there.

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Excellent. She'd be going regardless, but it's nice to be doing that in a way that cuts back on unnecessary risk.

Back to being an obsessive workaholic! Her, withdrawn and detached right now? Yes. Look, no one but Alexei and Scorpius and possibly Liu are likely to be able to tell anything's wrong with her at all, and she's got a conversation she does not want to have with two out of those three, so. Bye everyone! She's assigning herself extra credit in Classical Arabic.

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Yeah, those two are definitely getting a certain impression from how she's acting. Especially with the way that her acting that way does the opposite of assuaging their worries, really. They exchange glances when Yvette disappears into the stacks to go to her desk but don't actually speak.

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(They are not the only ones making note of said disappearance.)

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Tralalalala, Yvette can't hear you, she's far too busy with her mountain of self assigned homework. The nice thing about translation work is that it is both useful for learning eldritch lore of old, and it earns mana if done right. She's being so incredibly efficient.

Unfortunately for her, she does actually still have biological functions, and has such weaknesses as 'needing to use the bathroom.' Which means exiting the stacks and being visible to other people. Terrible.

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(As soon as Yvette leaves the library, Magnus has to go pick a book up from the stacks. By himself. Instead of sending a usual hanger-on.)

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...but they really should have a conversation. Alexei feels kind of wretched about it because clearly Yvette isn't okay and clearly she doesn't want to talk about it but...

.......they really, really should.

So when she reappears at the door of the library Alexei excuses himself and tries to intercept her just before she's managed to go into the stacks again. "Yvette?"

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... Damn it.

"..... Hi," she says, already knowing she's lost.

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"I..." Deep breath. "Can... we talk? Maybe, um, in your room?"

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She softens a little, because it's Alexei, and she's... clearly been worrying him a little.

"Yeah. Sure. Of course."

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He nods, a little bit jerkily, and... starts leading the way?

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And of course Scorpius catches up to them just after they're out of the library. He somehow manages to look even more subdued than Alexei did just now. "Hey," he says in a soft, small voice. "Can—can I join you? It's fine if you'd rather not." He's not really looking at Yvette, though, and his eyes are somewhere around her chin or maybe somewhere behind her.

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.... One awkward conversation she doesn't want to have is better than having the same one twice, so.

"Um. Yeah, if Alexei's fine with it."

She expects him to be fine with it.

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He nods again and continues leading the way quietly.

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And for a miracle Scorpius doesn't seem inclined to make small talk or really any size of talk right now, either.

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Well, Yvette sure as hell isn't going to start this conversation she doesn't really want to have. So. Good luck, boys.

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Yeah no they're most certainly not gonna have this conversation in public, in the hallways, not when anyone can hear. They'll just keep walking in silence until they—

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"Don't move."

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??

Yvette stops, obligingly. Oh, is something trying to kill her? Exciting.

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Alexei freezes, too, because you don't not do that when Scorpius Lake tells you to.

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