Never run with scissors

[waterproofed]

Hey, everybody! I'm officially back at the castle. Seems like everything's been pretty quiet around here. [a pause] Oh, I got something!

[a longer pause] Ohhkay. Not that I don't appreciate the thought, but what am I supposed to do with-- WHOA! Since when can they do that?

[this vague post brought to you by the scissors from the Lost Room]

Comments

[acesarewild]

... Should I go through the short list of innuendo jokes, or the long one?

[waterproofed]

What are you talking about?

[acesarewild]

Either you've just discovered the joys of puberty, or vagueness is not your friend.

[waterproofed]

What does puberty have to do with anything? [no really, you are talking to a dense kid, Ace]

[acesarewild]

[Ace weighs the merits of trolling the kid against his own curiosity. it's a pretty close race]

Never mind. ... What'd you get, if not a sudden case of full salute?

[okay so it was more of a tie than a close race]

[waterproofed]

[oh. OH. OMG DUDE WHAT EVEN. Move on]

My friend gave me a magic object that wrecked my wall.

[acesarewild]

[YOU'RE THE ONE WHO LEFT IT OPEN TO INTERPRETATION, KID]

... Oh, that's much more detailed and specific, spank you very much.

[waterproofed]

You're welcome, I think.

[acesarewild]

You're still missing the point of the whole vague thing, I think. What was the thing and how, might I ask, did it exactly wreck your wall? Did they leave you a backhoe? A team of certified demolitionists? A very silent chainsaw?

[waterproofed]

Well, when I told Katniss it was a pair of scissors, I think I weirded her out. But that's what happened! I just picked them up and twisted them, and there was this huge crack in the wall!

[acesarewild]

I'm personally a little weirded out that you have a friend named Catnip. But ... lemme get this straight. You did not, in fact, apply those scissors to the wall in any manner? It's okay, I won't tell your parents. Vandalism is occasionally good for the soul.

[waterproofed]

Katniss. [look don't you start acting like Mr. D too]

And I was nowhere near the wall. These scissors have magical powers or something.

[acesarewild]

Okay, this I gotta see. Where are you? ... Stable says hi, by the way.

[waterproofed]

Oh, yeah, I better go down there and let them know I'm okay. I'll be down in a few minutes.

[delincuente]

Oh, hey! I didn't know you'd gone anywhere.

[Most competent friend ever, clearly. She startles slightly at his shout.]

... You okay there, dude?

[waterproofed]

Uh, yeah. I kinda ruined my wall, but the castle fixed it.

[delincuente]

Oh man, what was it?

[waterproofed]

Magic scissors. Allen gave them to me.

[delincuente]

... Magic scissors ruined your wall.

[waterproofed]

Seriously! They've got super powers or something.

[delincuente]

And someone gave them to you? Some friend.

[She laughs, unaware of the circumstances of the gift.]

[waterproofed]

I know he had a good reason to give me these.

[delincuente]

... It was a goodbye gift, then. He got sent home?

[She recognizes that tone, and the sense that Percy can't just ask his friend why he left him the scissors.]

[waterproofed]

Maybe. Or he went to the Dead Zone?

[delincuente]

Why would he just go out there?

[waterproofed]

To help the Fairfield people, maybe. Give us some good PR for the First Gens.

[delincuente]

Ah. All that important stuff I'm too lazy to wrap my head around. I get it.

[the_effect_she_has]

Perc ...what the hell just happened?

[waterproofed]

The scissors broke my wall.

[the_effect_she_has]

[And even after a year, Katniss can't help but be surprised by news like this.]

Your what broke your what?

[waterproofed]

Scissors. They broke my wall.

[the_effect_she_has]

[Right, she hadn't been hearing things then. She wasn't sure if she should be relieved or confused.]

... Your scissors broke your wall. How did they do this?

[waterproofed]

I don't know. It was weird... I was just kind of twisting them around and there was this super-powerful force that tore into the wall.

[the_effect_she_has]

That happened. While you were twisting your scissors.

[She pressed her lips together, looking thoughtful] That's actually really amazing.

[waterproofed]

I know! If I can figure out how it works, they can make a pretty good weapon. I knew Allen would look out for me.

[the_effect_she_has]

...That's just how Allen was. Is. He's not dead. He just went home.

[It just felt like he was.]

[waterproofed]

Did he? I thought he disappeared out into the Dead Zone... Either way, I know he'll be okay.

[the_effect_she_has]

...Wait, he went into the Dead Zone?

[Now that was news to Katniss. She thought he had just gone home.]

[waterproofed]

He had some friends out there.

[the_effect_she_has]

I didn't know any of us had friends out there ... well, besides Winchester.

[waterproofed]

Yeah. A couple of residents decided to go live out there, and I think some were First Gen spies or something.

[he pays attention. This is Violet's influence, probably]

[the_effect_she_has]

... wait, Allen went to go live where the First Gen spies are going to be? Will he be all right?

[waterproofed]

Of course he will! Allen's a great fighter and he's been learning medicine.

[the_effect_she_has]

Well ... all right. Yes. He's smart enough to survive on her own.

[Except now, she was going to worry about it.]