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This comes from a conversation I had with Inspector Caracal & Lilfluff on Mastodon. 

Content warning: Attempted murder.  

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The school pool was empty, which meant, technically, Aelia should not have been in it.

She needed to swim off some stress, though, and she needed to make sure she was in decent shape when the match came.  They’d lost against Rotterville-Hampton the last three times, and that was just not happening again.

read on…

Date: 2018-01-12 09:36 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] thnidu
jaw drop. almost 2".

Date: 2018-01-13 03:54 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] thnidu
Oh, and...

• The school pool was empty
> I read that as meaning it had been drained empty of water, and so swimming forced a double-take. Maybe "There was nobody in the school pool"?

Date: 2018-01-26 05:27 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] sauergeek
Or replace "empty" with "vacant"?

Date: 2018-01-16 02:11 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] clare_dragonfly
Oh dear. A Change in a regular school? I doubt there are any prospective Mentors around...

Date: 2018-01-26 05:26 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] sauergeek
Given how badly people get treated at places where there are Mentors to hand, that might be an improvement.

Date: 2018-01-26 05:29 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] sauergeek
This is going to go all sorts of wrong for Aelia, isn't it. Particularly when Mr. Shreddy there on the floor is the one who actually deserved what he got.

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