RITA CATCHALL

[divineimpulse]

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[divineimpulse]

How did you find this all out?

[byleth is listening with rapt attention.]

[overlimit]

Most of it was on that Welcome Forum. Just had to read through a bunch of stupid conversations to find the useful bits.

[divineimpulse]

[wow, and she thought she'd read carefully.]

Where did you see the part about no expulsion?

That's a surprise.

[overlimit]

It mostly came up with idiots talking about all the idiotic things they're doing.

[divineimpulse]

[she nods, brow crinkled.]

I'll have to re-read it all.

[she glances over rita's notes. graduation or nothing.]

It seems... performative.

[overlimit]

Which part?

[she doesn't sound like she intends to argue, whatever the answer is.]

[divineimpulse]

All of it.

[like they're... board game pieces, rather than people.]

But we don't have a choice.

[overlimit]

[she grimaces a bit at that.]

I hate to admit it... but for now, yeah. There isn't much we can do other than play along and see what they've got in store for us.

[divineimpulse]

[she matches rita's grimace with one of concern. hate it!]

Until the other shoe drops.

[overlimit]

Exactly. We'll have to try to be ready for anything.

I don't know about you, but I don't plan on sticking around here for a whole year, even if time doesn't move without me.

[divineimpulse]

I'm on the same page as you.

[she's eating pizza, though. might as well get her money's worth while she's here.]

[overlimit]

... Hm. [it's a sound of acknowledgment, if nothing else.]

If the people running the show don't show up soon, then we can start, I don't know, lighting fires and seeing if we can smoke them out.

[it's not clear if she's talking literally or figuratively.]

[divineimpulse]

[leaving the razed earth option until last? Rita's a good girl.]

What do you imagine the punishment might be?

[overlimit]

Well, I've never really been to school, so you might be better equipped to guess than I am. What normally happens to troublemakers, other than expulsion?

[divineimpulse]

Some kind of abnormal twist on detention.

[overlimit]

Sounds plausible.

I'm not sure I care about this 'wish' business, but I'd rather not end up imprisoned, or anything annoying like that.

[divineimpulse]

That's what I'm imagining.

Detention as a jail cell.