Room 505, Saturday Morning, after a quick trip to the town

[cyclopeanmerc]

Normally, Pip should out in the lounge watching Saturday morning cartoons.

Instead, he's produced a map of the town and another more crudely drawn map. There's a half-eaten and mostly forgotton bowl of Rice Krispies lying off the the side. Pip has a pencil and a bunch of figurines and is moving them around, mumbling to himself.

He told them

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[strongestgirl]

Pippi shruged.

"Maybe they didn't know him well enough to ask." she said...

She opened her mouth to say something, but suddenly the sound of a concertina tilled and Pippi began to sing somthing that sounded like...

Hey ho rashan bow
Boreala anna norlan bow
Anna roar an nore an roar an nor
Anna roar la la lalala

Ah pashon pish er parson
Ah sha pukest un parson
Pie-ah pare-ah parson POOF!
POOF!
Pea-ah pie-ah parson POOF!
POOF!

There was a pause.

"Huh." she said.

[cyclopeanmerc]

"That happened to me earlier today," Pip said. "In the coffee shop. At least you didn't scream your thoughts to the town."

He shook his head. "I dunno. Angel knew, I think."

[strongestgirl]

"I could very well have." she said thoughtfully, except that Grandfather Fabe never did tell her what the words to that song meant.

"Well, he knows I'm very strong, but he didn't ask me either. He just probably asked people he knew the best."

[cyclopeanmerc]

Pip sighed. "It's... well. I'm supposed to be helping him get better at fighting. I'm supposed to be his teacher or his sparring partner or something. That indicates a level of trust inherent in the relationship. I have to trust him, when we're sparring, to night just knock my block off. And he has to trust me to do the same. It feels like a betryal."

[strongestgirl]

"People can be weirdly protective in weird ways." she said.

At which point Pip shoved a bunch of stuff in her arms and told her to follow him..