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🎈GET YOUR ASSES TO OLIVE GARDEN🎈

Sometime in the morning on Sunday, there are little notes that have been slipped under everyone's doors. Written in markers reads the following:

Let's celebrate getting Knuckles back at Olive Garden tonight at 6pm!!!!
Also I'm bored
-Percy

…Yeah………but hey, at least these notes will be customized! Each note has two characters, but, uh, these might not be accurate to who's actually in the room. He doesn't know who everyone's roommates are, so he's just hoping for the best I guess. (Someone's note includes the new guy, More. Shizuka is also on one of these as a pink dolphin with glasses.)

Anyway, the Olive Garden seems to have some balloons floating around. With the current state of the residents, nobody seems to care! There are also chefs in the kitchen who will make whatever you ask, but pushing them around enough will get them to leave the kitchen to anyone who wants to make something. (Thank you Redd.) Drinks are available for everyone, alcohol and regular soft drinks alike, and really? The world is your oyster. … Olive?  You get the drill.

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[ Oh. Oh, thank god, she's not sounding like a freak?

A little gingerly, Ashley glances back at him. ]

Why's that?

[ how do you call yourself an idiot without calling yourself an idiot? .....never mind that he's already called himself that but the audience was a bit different. ]

I'm not great at words—let alone be able to put them down like you did.

Writin' a talent, right? Not everyone can do it.

Tell that to all the other in school who thought creative writing would be an easy elective—in high school and college!

[ She sighs, slumping her shoulders a little, finally relaxing a little, it seems. ]

Somehow, even in 200 level courses, I keep getting guys who think they know everything because they read A Song of Ice and Fire.

[ this is wolfwood just nodding along as he drinks his wine pretending to understand what ashley is talking about. he's listening! but...knowing about school is one thing but applying that to him? oh, absolutely not. let's not even touch how he has no idea what "A Song of Ice and Fire" is.

speak your truth ashley. ]

If readin' just one thing makes ya an expert on somethin' then there must be a lot of shitty experts in the world. In my experience, the people who claim to know everythin' end up knowin' what they wanna know.

Ignorance makes some people the belief they have power over others.

[ Sorry Wolfwood, she'll realize, eventually, that her experience is not universal! For the moment, she looks pleasantly surprised. ]

Exactly! [ She huffs. ] Part of learning is acknowledging you don't know things, too. That's what school is supposed to be for, improvement and understanding.

[ it's fine. he's used to people just saying things in his presence without bothering to check in with him if he's able to fully follow them or not. comes with being a priest.

don't mind him as he casually slips in a caveat for all the homies who haven't stepped foot in a school. ]

Or, if school can't teach ya any of that, the real world is there to humble anyone who thinks too much of themselves.

Oh- r-right, of course. [ Ashley blushes a little. There's that realization. ] School doesn't have to be for everyone. It's just- it works for me.

It works for a lot of people.

[ let him throw her a bone. its really not her fault. ]

But ya said it yerself—part of learnin' is knowin' that there are things ya don't know. The place isn't too important.

Right. That is what matters most.

[ A moment. ]

I think I learned something new just earlier today, actually. Do you want to guess what?

Sure.

[ hmmm. there's probably no way he'd get it right but— ]

Does it involve somethin' that we just talked about?

Not exactly. It is something we've talked about, though.

[ ...hm. why does this feel foreboding?? ]

Yeah? What's it then?

The person who healed me when we first showed up here.

[ Knowing stare! ]

It was you. Wasn't it?

[ ah.

slightly raising his hands defensively. as much as it would be in his right to continue to lie... it would be entirely moot. ]

Cat's out of the bag, huh? [ ahem. ] Yeah, it was me.

[ Satisfaction on a mystery wrapped up! ...But wait, that's not satisfactory enough. ]

Why didn't you just tell me? Doing the whole drive-by thing, it could be kinda creepy, you know?

[ he knows what's happening but it's not like he can call her out on it. he's being bullied. this isn't fair??

help. ]

I didn't want to make a huge deal out of it. It's not like I did it for thanks.

It's not about that! It's good to know who to go to, in that kind of thing, right?

[ It's not about that, either. It's about who she might be able to trust.

But, she's not going to say any of that. At least she's not bullying him too much. ]

Besides, by misdirecting, you only made it more of a thing.

[ she doesn't need to say it for wolfwood to know that's an angle that she would be looking at. but it's also the angle of why wolfwood wanted to keep it a secret.

he'll let her have her way, though. she isn't wrong by any means. ]

Given what the spread of our abilities are and generally speakin'—people who have the ability to help others rather than to harm them make for easy targets.

People want to know they'll be protected and who it'll involve.

Easy...targets? You don't...

[ No, she can't think what she does and not understand where he's coming from. ]

...I guess I get it. You couldn't be sure who was a friend and who wasn't.

We all come from different places with our own motives.

[ at the same time— ]

...but it's not like I could go about ignorin' someone who was hurt.

...Well, I know you didn't do it for thanks, but still: Thank you. It felt a lot better not having to worry about my eye or the rest of it.

Yer welcome.

If ya ever get any bumps or bruises—I'll be sure to do it properly next time.

[ you know, not in secret and with her fully aware of what's going on. ]

I'm counting on it.

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