txt | catch-all: lux.

[Having fun with that baton, Lux? Wherever it is she is, and whatever trick she happens to be in the middle of — she will suddenly be interrupted by the sound of... clapping?

Yeah. Clapping a cheering. Was she even doing anything impressive? Oh, well. This is happening now.]

Wooooooow! Do that again!

[ it makes lux fumble the catch from the toss she had just finished. she still catches it but - clumsily. ]

Oh - well, I can try!

[ but it is a little harder when she's conscious of her audience! so the next time lux flips the baton up into the air, it's spinning a little too quickly. she doesn't manage to catch it at all. ]

Oops.

[RIP, Lux... She looks sheepish as she watches her fumble her catch again.]

Sorry, sorry! I guess I must have knocked you off your groove.

No, not at all. I'm really just not that good with these kinds of things.

I've never been particularly athletic or coordinated.

Really? I couldn't tell at all!

[Because. She is not athletic either, so.

She hums for a second, thinking.]

Mind if I join you for a while? It might be fun if we practice together.

Of course! The day is always brighter with company.

[ i am going to say they are in the gym. ]

Shall I fetch you a baton?

[the void has become the gym it's fine

she holds up her hands and waves her off.]

Oh, no. I can fetch it myself! Just point me in the right direction.

[how does the gym even work? mystery.]

[ lux points - with the baton! wow. ]

They're in that storage closet. Along with all kinds of other things that you might recognize more than I did.

Hm?

[She shimmies over to the storage closet, while giving her a curious look.]

What couldn't you recognize?

Hoops and nets and things like that. I assume that they're for some kind of games, but... I don't know.

Not that I'm not familiar with such things, I just imagine that they're here for specific purposes that I'm not grasping.

Those... Yes, they're for specific games. I can tell you their names, but you're probably better off asking one of the kids. Or someone more athletic than I am.

[ she laughs. ]

I don't think it's a very pressing matter. And - who knows? Perhaps next term we'll have classes to teach me with these things.

[They are both in the common room because they live here. Hello.

Ichinose is at least looking less like a perpetual snot machine than she did yesterday, but, uh...]

I guess this is adios to our normal school life, huh?

[Bummer.]

[ once again, lux brings her a glass of water. habit, at this point? then lux takes a seat, pulling her notebook onto her lap.

what does adios mean... no, she can figure it out from context clues. ]

It... Seems that way. I wonder if it was just a ruse from the beginning.

[she smiles after excepting the glass of water, but... whew.]

Would it change anything if it was?

I'd like to think so. A good thing can go wrong. I think that distinction is important.

Or, if there was never anything good to begin with... [ well. ]