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When Christmas hols roll around, everyone goes home.
And Renée makes a suggestion and Miranda sends some owls, all with the same underlying invitation:
Mum wants to go shopping in Muggle Edinburgh and said I should invite some friends. You can Floo in or she can pick you up by Apparition, as you like, and we'll get lunch and she'll have you home in time for supper. Want to come?
She invites Karen and Jenny and Emma and Alli, and as an afterthought also Vivian, since she and Karen have been friendly and another muggleborn might ease Karen's jitters.
chanuphis
chanuphis
Miranda, for her part, is wearing jeans and a t-shirt. And has loaned Karen a set of same, which don't fit her all that well but will serve. "I can go back and get a non-pink shirt for you to borrow if you need me to?"
parental_guidance
Emma pulls the shirt out of the bag and holds it up. It is not just bright pink; there is a unicorn made out of purple sparkle gel on the front. She raises her eyebrows at Jenny.
witch_please
Alli solves the problem by swiping the shirt from Emma and throwing hers at Emma instead. Emma has to dodge to catch the shirt rather than having it land on her head. "Sparkles! Gimme!"
parental_guidance
Emma inspects the replacement shirt. There's still a unicorn on the front, but it's not made of glitter and the shirt itself is black. She shrugs. "Good enough. Thanks Jenny." And then to Alli, "You're weird. You hate pink."
metamorphmaga
"Er, not really? I had plenty of boring shirts, but those handed down to the ducklings when I left for school cause I started wearing robes, and the boys weren't interested in 'girly' shirts." She rolls her eyes tolerantly. "And now I mostly just have things they won't wear left. So- unicorns and ponies and kittens, oh my!"
witch_please
"They're not that bad," Alli says thoughtfully. "I mean, they're weirdly tight, but look!" She turns and wiggles. "My arse looks fantastic."
slythervivian
Vivian is not staring at people's trousers. She is not she is not she is not. Look at her over here not staring at anything.
chanuphis
"Is everybody dressed tolerably for a day of wandering around in Edinburgh?" asks Miranda's mum.
"I think we're good. We good?" asks Miranda. And when no one volunteers a desperate need, she nods at her mum.
"Stick together," says Renée. "I think there's - yes, three and three if we count Miranda. Why don't you all pair off one person who knows Muggle things and one person who doesn't?" She waves vaguely at the girls. "And then if you want to split up or wander a bit ahead of me you won't be caught out too badly."
Miranda nods. "Vivian knows Karen better than she knows the rest of us, I think - Jenny, who do you want? Or perhaps, Emma and Alli, who wants Jenny?"
"I think we're good. We good?" asks Miranda. And when no one volunteers a desperate need, she nods at her mum.
"Stick together," says Renée. "I think there's - yes, three and three if we count Miranda. Why don't you all pair off one person who knows Muggle things and one person who doesn't?" She waves vaguely at the girls. "And then if you want to split up or wander a bit ahead of me you won't be caught out too badly."
Miranda nods. "Vivian knows Karen better than she knows the rest of us, I think - Jenny, who do you want? Or perhaps, Emma and Alli, who wants Jenny?"
parental_guidance
"-I'll go," Emma says over her. "No, Alli, you may not have Jenny make animal faces at the Muggles."
chanuphis
"To be entirely clear: Jenny, don't make animal faces, or do any morphing at all, so that Muggles can see you," admonishes Renée, while Miranda takes up her post next to Alli. "Any last-minute questions before we leave the Floo station?"
metamorphmaga
"Don't worry!" Jenny says brightly. "I know the ruuuuules," she adds on a singsong in Alli's direction.
parental_guidance
Emma glares at both of them, then attempts a smile for Miranda's mum. "No, um- thank you, I think we're all set."