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Prom arrives.

Bella wears her indigo dress and her indigo heels with their straps that go all the way up her calves, and she nukes Sherlock some breakfast, and she waits.

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pythbox

"Minnie," she says.

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cross_and_bow

"Minnie," says Bella, looking around and finding that there are no nearby witnesses, "are you by any chance a vengeful ghost who kills people who go stag to prom?"

Edited Date: 2013-03-03 06:22 pm (UTC)

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pythbox

She giggles.

And steps back, directly through the wall.

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cross_and_bow

Oh, lord.

Bella hunts down Sherlock, who is presumably still in the middle of dancing with Kayli. "Hey sweetie!" she says. "Can I cut in? I found Minnie and we should go say hi!"

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eversomuchfun

"Certainly," he says, giving Kayli a final twirl and bowing over her hand as he steps back.

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cross_and_bow

[She went through that wall,] Bella adds, and she describes what Minnie looks like, [presuming her appearance is stable, anyway. She talks like a person, up to the point where I got her name and asked her if she was by any chance a vengeful ghost - I don't know how reasonable she is, she laughed and backed away when I said that.]

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eversomuchfun

[I see,] says Sherlock. [I wonder if I should hang around the afflicted sink. She can't exactly drown me.]

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cross_and_bow

[Good idea. Here - you should be carrying squares anyway -] She unclips her chain and shakes four of the coins into her hand and presses them into his, then clips the chain back on. [I'll go around and see if she's in the room she appeared to go to, though I'm not betting on it.]

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eversomuchfun

[Right.]

He kisses her cheek quickly, just because he can.

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cross_and_bow

She flashes a smile at him and she's off at a run.

That wall leads to a science classroom.

The ghost is not there. Or at least is not visibly there. "Minnie?" Bella tries. No luck.

She heads back into prom, scanning the crowd for that face, that dress.

Edited Date: 2013-03-03 07:58 pm (UTC)

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pythbox

No sign of either.

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cross_and_bow

Okay - headcount. People were only admitted in pairs. Is there an even number of people in the room?

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pythbox

Yes, not including Juliet.

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cross_and_bow

[Is the coast clear by you?] Bella asks Sherlock. She goes to check the other bathroom; if two people have gone to the bathroom at the same time that would also yield this mathematical result.

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pythbox

There is, indeed, someone in the bathroom.

She's not wearing her mask anymore, and she's a little translucent now, with dark bruises on her neck.

"What are you doing?" she wonders.

Edited Date: 2013-03-03 08:13 pm (UTC)

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eversomuchfun

[Yes.]

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cross_and_bow

[Found her. Girls' bathroom.]

"Looking for you. I want to talk to you," Bella says to Minnie, spreading her hands in a nonthreatening gesture. (Wand's tucked into her sash, coins around her waist, she's not nonthreatening, just looking that way.) "Can we talk?"