Mara'd had a Very Trying Morning. She'd gone out for coffee and had been attacked by raining candies shaped like fruit and, weirdly, birds, and then been treated to a lesson on counting by a giant talking Number Four ( Read more... )

Lottie wandered into the common room in her ratman pjs, hair poofed out sideways, eyes still more than half closed. It was too early. It was barely afternoon. But she'd woken up with her stomach growling, so now here she was, in search of delicious breakfast foods ( Read more... )

Lottie had considered going into the library today to do more hacking, since she was new to it and might need more instruction and all, but she was also pretty sure the scowling librarian man wouldn't appreciate having a bunch of dogs and cats in there, and the menagerie she'd managed to collect so far of left-behind pets had looked so glum when ( Read more... )

Lottie wasn't going to need an email to tell her to look up and see that there were aliens. She had an excitedly barking dog and her own finely honed mystery instincts to do that for her ( Read more... )

So it was, like, really hot out. It was hot in a way that Lottie hadn't really known was possible in real life without things being on fire. It had to be at least 40 or something. (Sure, her phone said it was 32, but it was not to be trusted.) It was absolutely not a day to be outside unless you absolutely had to be, unless you were secretly a ( Read more... )

Lottie sang a little popcorn song to herself as she danced around with a very large bowl of the stuff, shaking it about a bit to help distribute the butter and salt she'd put on it properly. She danced her way over to the couch where she flopped upside down and switched on the television ( Read more... )

Mabel's classes were finished for the week, and she was in a fairly social sort of mood... which, in fairness, was exactly the sort of mood she tended to be in roughly 99% of the time anyway. Waddles was sleeping off dinner back in her room, and it occurred to her that maybe this was an excellent opportunity to get some knitting in while also ( Read more... )

Rules for interacting with Professor Jerusalem outside of class ( Read more... )