"Works for me!" Kaylee says.  "Fingers crossed!  See you soon!"

"See you!"

-

Lianne's conversation with her mom goes well, mostly because she catches her mom at a busy time. Her mom offers to pay for the hotel for them both, as well as Lianne's registration and transportation (Lianne claims she's taking a bus, and that it's in a nearby city), and distractedly tells her to have fun.

Lianne calls Kaylee with the news, then starts preparing for the trip.

Kaylee's dad goes for it pretty easily too.  After Lianne calls they manage to get it straightened out between them who's paying for what, and then Kaylee packs.

Soon, it's time to leave.

Lianne meets her at the intercity bus station.

"Hey Kaylee!" she greets, then sends a silent, 'I'm a bit nervous, but it's nice to be finally doing something.'

"Hi Lianne!"  'Yeah, I know what you mean.'

'So what's our plan for when we get there? Like, obviously get a hotel and tell our parents we got there safe, but as far as finding other girls goes.'

'Hmm... well, if we hunt in another girl's territory enough we're bound to run into her eventually.  It could take a while, but if we don't have any better ideas... I wonder if there's something conspicuous we could do that could draw a magical girl's attention but that no one else would look twice at.'

'No clue. Hunting might work, though, especially if there aren't a lot of witches.'

She nods.

'So, do you know anything about the city we're heading to?'

'I've been here a few times, so I can maybe recommend somewhere to eat? Never came here on my own, though, this is just where the airport is so we were driving through. I looked up some decent hotels in the price range my mom gave me, though, so we'll have a choice of where to stay.'

'That's something.'

Soon, the inter-city bus pulls up, and they embark.

The city's a bit over an hour and a half away by bus, of a reasonable size to host a fictitious con (and probably plenty of witches).

Lianne lists the options she found for hotels; they're mostly similar, though she's favoring the one with the most convenient access to downtown and public transportation.

"Yeah, let's go with that one."  'Wanna check in now or do some hunting first?'

'It'd probably be best to have somewhere to put our luggage away,' she points out wryly. "Let's check in then get something to eat; there's supposed to be some good restaurants within a block."

'Oh, good point.'  She blushes a little.  "Yeah, sounds good."

She makes the booking online, then leads the way to the hotel - though admittedly it's more of a large motel - which luckily just requires the credit card rather than a photo ID to check their ages (most places won't rent to a sixteen-year-old, annoyingly enough).

The room's small, and somewhat nice for how cheaply the room came. They each have their own double bed; Lianne claims the one closest to the door, if Kaylee doesn't mind. There's a tiny bathroom, and wifi for an extra charge. No fridge or microwave, but they were planning on eating out anyways.

"So what were you thinking for food?"

Kaylee's fine with the window bed.

"Whatever's good around here.  I trust you."  She shoots Lianne a grin.

"Haven't exactly been anywhere right around here, but, hmm... Pizza? There's a place that does custom small pizzas, they have a pretty wide variety of ingredients."

"Sounds good to me!"

So pizzawards they can go!

(It really is a very nice pizzeria. Lianne gets something complex and slightly bizarre.)

'So hunt after this? Are we thinking just stay in the area at first, take the city bus somewhere else if nothing shows up?'

'Sounds good to me.  Think we'll be able to stay out of sight okay?'

'Yeah, should. It's also almost dark, people will be less likely to notice a couple of girls ducking down an alley. We can also wait to transform until after we're in the barrier, it's not like we've ever been attacked right off the bat.'

'Sounds good to me.'  "This place is really good, by the way.  Thanks for taking me out."

"Oh, you're welcome! Thanks for coming, and for having the idea to come out here - I would've just waited until the summer."

"Aww, don't mention it."  She sips her soda, smilingly.