supercatty | [catch all for crow]

[ winter dorm, winter dorm welcome to the winter dorm. catra.

crow's just gonna bop her on the head lightly. ]

So. What happened? Like everything, yesterday, last night?

[she is chilling in the common room for now, less fussy then when she first woke up, but she will probably bolt for the rooftop soon enough]

[a light hiss as he bops her head, and her ears flatten]

You're not even going to pay me for my story?

I fended off a goose for you and carried you back here.

[ pay up, catra. ]

[UGH. FIIIIINE]

[a gentle scoff, but she does start her story]

. . . I don't really fully know what happened. One minute we're in the school, and the next we're in an airship hangar with some mysterious guy talking to us over a collar-radio, telling us to steal an airship.

...

Wait, just out of nowhere? Like, blink and suddenly you're the airship theft brigade?

Completely out of nowhere. No warning or anything. It really puts a cramp in your day.

Especially if you're scared of heights.

So? All those injuries a side effect of, y'know. Airship piracy?

[points to her leg]

Where I got shot.

[then her arm]

Rough landing in the water when the airship broke.

[then to her ribs]

Getting thrown about when the airship was hit by the bomb.

...

Not an excursion you're planning on repeating any time soon then. That's fair.

And the goal of all that was those pieces of paper you got? Like Viola's papers, and the map? The beat kicked up such a stink about us getting access to anyone's papers I'm not sure if I'm surprised you got any at all, or not surprised that you had to half maim yourselves to get one in the first place.

Absolutely not.

[she's had enough adventure for an entire lifetime, thanks]

I don't know if that was the goal, but it's what we got at the very end. Some guy in a gray hood gave them to us.

"Guy in a gray hood"?

Uh, yeah. What, do you want me to give you a name? A better description? If I could, then I would.

[but nope he's just a guy in a gray hood]

… It’s kinda weird there was anyone there at all, actually. I was kinda wondering if you’d all been picked on purpose and taken somewhere but the fact you got those admission papers, and the fact there were people there…

I dunno. You think this was something either no one running this show expected, or something no one stuck here knew was going to happen except whoever is running this show?

[i did not get this notif wtf]

I have no clue.

[and she doesn't have enough information to like. . . make an educated guess, so. all she can do is recount what happened and thaaaat's about it]

[ :pensive: ]

A mystery, within a mystery within an annoyance then.

Something like that.

So if you're suddenly whisked away to parts unknow, brace yourself for a really bad time and try not to get killed, all right?

[she says SO CASUALLY]

Wise words to literally live by, I guess.

Yeah. Definitely literally.

[a beat. she had been joking, but wow!! the thought that it could happen again to other people!!]

[her ears droop]

. . . anyway, I'm serious. I don't know if it'll happen again, but just. . . be careful.