The remainder of the school day is not terribly interesting.

That evening he's at the cemetery again.

Nothing seems out of place, and as far as he can tell there's no mysterious skulker other than him tonight.

In that case he wants to try to scrape some of that moss himself, this time being careful to get the roots if possible.

A few moments after he goes into the crypt the door shuts behind him. "Okay, who are you and why- Sadde?!"

That's Cally. Or someone who sounds a lot like her.

"Oh, hi. How're you?" He grins.

"What the hell-" She sighs. "You're going to ask a lot of questions now, aren't you? Seem like that kind of person."

"You could preempt me and answer them before I do," he suggests cheerfully.

"I-" She glances behind her. "Naw. You've got to get out of here before- Before. I'll meet you at the school's running track tomorrow and we can talk then, swear to God."

He peers at her for a couple of seconds then shrugs and nods. "I'll take you up on that. See you!"

"Right, just hurry out of here." She follows him out and disappears into the dark graveyard.

The next day she fabricates some flimsy excuse to not be at her house and goes to the school track.

Cally is doing sprints, at an Olympic-hopeful's level. She even has some kind of setup that looks like it's timing her.

Sadde's not surprised. She waits to be acknowledged.

She does two more runs, then stops to say, "Hey again. Mind if I stretch and cool down while we talk?"

"Go ahead."

Cally starts walking around, pausing to do various stretches, still breathing heavy. "So, questions?"

"We can start with the 'what the duck' part and then go to the more specifics once that's clarified."

"Yeah, I uh. Really don't know how much to tell you. How much I wanna tell you, can tell you, depending what you already know."

"Magic moss that at the very least works like several cups of coffee minus the crash, possibly accompanying healing and long-term benefits to health and physical status..."

Sigh. "The moss is just magic coffee. I'm not on magic steroids, this body is the result of hard work."

"Mmhmmmmm?"

"No, screw that. I'm not a damn doper. Not anything stronger than Lumi moss anyway."

"No no I'm just curious about what else. Like, I refuse to believe the world is a perfectly orderly physics-abiding one except for this one patch of moss growing in this one crypt."

"Hmm. If you get too much curiouser you might run into trouble. There's other things. Other plants."