Room 1 [late Tuesday afternoon]

[pasunereveuse]

Celia had stopped to get coffee for herself and Eleanor on the way home from work, and had been perhaps a touch creative in her order -- there was more caramel and whipped cream in both drinks than actual coffee, but she didn't much care. The day was dreary enough to warrant both a hot drink and a treat

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[nobloodymessiah]

Eleanor lifted her cup and brought it to her lips with a frown. "It's not too cold," she decided, having missed that her friend had warmed both magically. "Though it is odd in this weather to have coffee take a chill so abruptly. You'd expect that in January, not July."

[pasunereveuse]

"Something is wrong with this house," Celia said definitively, crossing her arms around herself. "First the television, now this. Not to mention the things I've heard about happening to other people."

She made a face, flopping dramatically onto her bed. "It's enough to make me miss the dorms."

[nobloodymessiah]

"What things have been happening with other people?" Eleanor asked, taking another sip from her coffee. There was rather more caramel and whipped cream than coffee, but she wasn't one to critique free coffee from a friend. "Are there more animal transformations? That was beginning to seem like an epidemic."

[pasunereveuse]

"No, thank heaven, since I've no desire to wake up as a chipmunk or something." Celia probably shouldn't take that sort of thing for granted. "People keep talking on the radio about wailing and cold spots and -- you know, if I believed in ghosts, I'd think there were ghosts in this house."

But she didn't believe in ghosts, even if cold spots kept appearing.

"It's just odd, is all."