Outside the Dorms, Laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaate Monday Night/Early Tuesday Morning

[glacial_witch]

Karla fled towards the dorms, running as if there were Hell-hounds flat on her heels. Just a little bit further, she thought. Just a little bit faster… She was flagging, and quickly, but she reached down deep in her reserves and dredged up enough energy for one last little burst of speed.

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[trigons_child]

The sudden shock of fury jolted Raven from her sleep. For a moment she was confused, trying to figure out where the feeling was coming from, and then she felt a familiarity with the source and realized she knew who it was. "Karla," she said, rising from her bed. Somewhere outside, but she needed a moment to contain the feeling and stop it from affecting her before she could find where she was. She pulled a cloak around herself and stepped out into the hallway.

[thatsamilkshake]

Francine thought the wave of badhurtangrybrokenWRONG that made her sit up with a gasp was the end of a nightmare she couldn't remember, for just a moment, but it was still there, as she tried to catch her breath, and still there as she blinked in the dark, and still there as she heard footsteps outside in the hallway and stumbled over to the door to look out. "What's--- Raven? What's happening? Something's wrong!"

[thismaskiwear]

"Francie?" Katchoo was up a second later, and a step or two behind getting to the door thanks to nearly tripping over Clocky on the way. "What's goin' on?"

She smothered a yawn and continued, "If you're goin' off on some crazy rescue mission thing again, you're not doing it without me this time, got it?"

[trigons_child]

"It is Karla," Raven said, pressing one hand to the wall to keep her balance as she tried to contain the anger and pain. "She is somewhere close...hurt and enraged."

[thatsamilkshake]

"I felt that. It woke me up." Francine was shoving her feet into the shoes by the door, which would work better if she picked the pair that was actually hers. "I'll come with you. I might not be able to do anything to help her, but the heck if I'm not gonna try."

[thismaskiwear]

Yeah, Katchoo needed those shoes, okay? As soon as she could get to them, she was jamming her feet in, which was easy when they were as battered as they were.

"So what's the holdup? We're gonna do this, let's haul some ass already."

[trigons_child]

Raven turned to speak to Emma for a moment, then looked back to Francine and Katchoo. "I can teleport us to her," she said. "If you are willing to travel that way."

[thatsamilkshake]

Francine had traveled by portal, by gate that needed her blood to work, and if you counted trips into Karla's spell-land, by unicorn. She was getting scarily used to just nodding and wondering if she'd be revisiting her dinner afterward. "Okay. If it'll get us there faster."

[thismaskiwear]

From the discomfort on Katchoo's face -- well, an empath like Raven probably didn't need to see that to know she wasn't thrilled with the idea (Portalocity still made her queasy), but Francine was going.

That was pretty much all she needed to swing the decision.

"So everybody shut the hell up and let's go, geez."

[thatsamilkshake]

"Um. Chewie?" Francine coughed and tapped her on the shoulder.

[thismaskiwear]

Halfway through stepping out into the hallway, Katchoo smacked the heel of her hand into her forehead and turned to look at Francine.

"What?"

[thatsamilkshake]

She pointed down. "Pants?"

[thismaskiwear]

. . . oh yeah.

WHATEVER.

"FRANCINE! F$^K A BUNCH OF PANTS!"

Look, she'd already gotten her shoes on, okay? Geez.

[thatsamilkshake]

"I don't care what you do with the rest as long as you wear at least one pair," Francine said, rolling her eyes. "It's cold out."

[thismaskiwear]

"Fine, fine." Katchoo reached into the closet and snagged a pair of sweats, and she did not almost fall over trying to get into them, and if you implied she did there might be a punch in the arm waiting for you. "Now can we get a move on? Since you woke me up for this . . ."

[trigons_child]

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