Oriens Academy [Phoenix Game]

[amdreams]

"We can have one if you want, Anya. I'm sure they won't mind. My mom loves kids and my dad just doesn't want any boys over. I'll just let them know tonight when we get back."


Rose finished off her sundae before heading to the counter to pay the bill. But before they could leave, Belle came out of the kitchen carrying with her two small golden jingle bells, like Rose's. The woman handed one to Lily and Anya, saying, "Any friends of Rose are welcome here."


...


The drive back to the academy was as smooth as the one from it. And after dropping Lily and Anya at the door, she went to park her car in the student garages. She'd need it this weekend to go home anyway, so why send it back now? From there she went to where she had left Lily and Anya and then the student council room.


Inside, she found Bunny waiting for her, clutching an arm that most certainly didn't look good. Actually, all of Bunny looked like a mess. Her hair was ruffled, her clothes dirty, and there was bruising every here and there. "Wha-what's wrong, Bunny? What happened?"


The angel looked Rose square in the eye. "You said you needed proof, right? Well, is this enough?" She then held out her arm, still bent at that odd angle. The bruises had expanded further and there was now small spots of red appearing as well.


Rose was about to ask who had done this, but she had already known. The girl Bunny had warned her about before. Mel. Great. Not only was she wrong about this girl but students are now endangered because of a poor decision. Rose held her head. A headache was starting from this new information and she wouldn't be able to think clearly just yet. "Come . . . come back tomorrow, okay? Tell me what happened then. And bring everyone involved."


"Now, get out. Everyone. I . . . I need to think."

 

[CSA]

Anya seemed to really have enjoyed their slumber party after all, seeing as she was asking about having another one. Well, whatever would make her happy Lily would agree to. And to be honest, Lily didn't dislike their little get-together at all. It was actually pretty fun.


"That sounds great. I really enjoyed myself last time."


And as long as there were no boys allowed, Lily would certainly be comfortable wherever. Rose's father seemed to have some good sense- at least for a guy.


As they left, both Anya and Lily were given those pretty bells.


"Thank you very much, Belle! We'll be certain to come again." Said Lily, smiling.


The two were dropped off at the front of the school while Rose went to park her car, and Lily waited for her just inside. If all had gone well, there would be a surprise awaiting them around the council room. When the door opened, Lily was surprised to see that it was Bunny who was in stitches.


"That useless green piece of ****!"





Lily was almost certain that the boy had run away as always he did, and left Bunny to face that psycho with only the vampire as company. It was almost as if he had made it his life's goal to be as whiny and useless as possible. Well, they had the evidence. Lily was disappointed, mostly in herself, for thinking that green would ever do anything worthwhile.


As Rose chased them out of the room, looking as overwhelmed as Lily had ever seen, she couldn't help but think one thing.


"Keikaku doori..."





Just as planned, Rose had fallen to defeat. Everything nice and pure she had wanted to believe about humans had crumbled beneath her- leaving her stranded on a pillar of pebbles too small to take but a step. She would be forced to consider that her bias had put the whole school in jeopardy, and give in to the despair that only crushing defeat could supply.


And then she would search desperately for the refuge that only Lily could bring- grabbing madly for but a strand of her strength. Lily would be her savior, and in that comfort she would cede the suffocating role of council president to her. Perhaps she would say that it was only for a month or so, but Rose would drown in Lily's benevolence. Become complacent.


Lily would rise to power, and from that new throne could finally begin her works.





The door closed, and Lily took Bunny across the hall so as to make certain Rose could not hear.


"You did very well, Bunny." whispered Lily, lowering herself to the Angel's level.


"Sadly I don't think that anything less than this could have convinced her, but you did it. You may have to keep these injuries until tomorrow just in case, but..."


Lily reached into her flower and pulled out a small vial filled with a golden liquid. She handed it to Bunny.


"Afterwards, take this. You'll be fully healed within a few minutes. It's the least I could do, considering what you went through."


A tear began sliding down Lily's cheek.


"Thank you. I just... I don't want Anya to have to worry about... I mean..."


Lily felt her cheeks gaining color again, and backed away from Bunny.


"Thanks. We'll finish this together."


Of course, Anya was still around. Lily couldn't say too much, so she simply left it at that and went back to her room. Things were progressing as planned, but far more quickly than Lily had thought. She would spend more time than normal in her adult closet that night, in hopes of having everything ready for the finale.

 

[Airagog]

John smiled seeing Rose and bowed graciously to her. He didn't leave immediately, rather the human thought he would give some consolation to her.


"Miss Rose there is no need to be so worried. Mister Azure performed admirably and even saved the young angel's life. It was reckless and stupid of him, of course, but I find that to be part of his charm. He really risked his life for another and was ready to die to protect her as well as no one was in any real danger."


John would raise from the bow smiling warmly at Rose.


"Please, I ask you do not beat yourself up for this! I was present to ensure worst came to worst everyone survived as well as a member of the disciplinary committee was there. This is simply a case of a bad apple and you can never truly know a person, so you cannot possibly be at fault! I have great faith in you, please rest and relax. I am sure everything will be alright."


John nods at Rose. "Now if you will please excuse me, I will be taking my leave as to not stress you out. Also upon further contemplation I sent my voodoo doll back home. It was for the best."


John would leave the room, smiling. This situation had a silver lining for sure. He couldn't deny it. It gave him a chance to ally himself with new people.


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[amdreams]

After getting thrown out of the student council room, Lily had pulled Bunny aside, thanking her and giving her a vial. She turned the golden liquid in her hands. It was certainly pretty. It was probably nectar. Bunny had heard of the healing property of alrauune nectar, however, she did wonder if it would react badly with her nature.


"Thanks, Lily," she said as the alraune left. And with her little healing potion in hand, she went off to her own room. Everything was going smoothly so far, sort of. Let's just hope that tomorrow would go better.


~~~~~


Riff sat in one of the chairs in Mel's room, watching his mistress stand in front of the window with her back turned towards him. The room was silent. Riff and Vash had told her exactly what had happened and she in turn told them of her side to things.


Vash plopped down beside the blond with a bag of chips and a wide grin on his face. His smile faded as he looked down at Riff's arm. "She really did a number on you, didn't she?" he whispered while crunching on some chips. Riff looked down at the bandages on his right arm. "It's fine," the boy muttered. "Something like this is nothing. Besides, this is because I failed Miss Mel."


"Be quiet, Riff." Mel had turned from the window and was now facing them. Walking over to Riff, she handed him a small piece of paper. "I need you to go investigate something for me. Anything will be fine for now."


"As you wish, Miss Mel. I'll leave right away."


"Get back as quick as you can," she said, turning back to look at the night sky. "Tomorrow is going to be an . . . interesting day at least."

~~~~~ Thursday, January 30th ~~~~~


~~~~~ 7:00 AM ~~~~~

​

The next morning, Bunny woke up early to meet with Rose. She had told Azure and Richter about the meeting, as she knew Lily already knew and that no one else was involved*.


It was odd being up this early. Well, it wasn't really that early, but it looked like it was. Very few kids were in the halls. And those that were there, were there for club activities. Band geeks were carrying their instruments toward their clubroom. Track and field members could be seen jogging outside the window. That guy with the rabbit pin following some of the middle school students around. Wierd. She saw those guys around a lot, didn't she?


When Bunny got to the council room doors, she tried to open the doors but they were locked. The angel then knocked and after hearing no immediate answer, knocked again. This time she could hear someone moving inside. The doors opened to show Rose, in not the best condition Bunny had seen her in.


Her hair was slightly messed up. Her eyes were red and had small bags under them. And her clothes were wrinkled. Had she stayed here all night? "C-come in," Rose said, locking the door behind Bunny. "Forgive me. I'm just . . . a bit on edge. Didn't want anyone disturbing me."


* Richter and Azure can choose to bring John and Naval if Comrade and Azure want, but as of now, they do not know and this is a private meeting.

 

[Croissant]

Elæm


Thursday, January 30th 7:05 am

​

Elæm slowly walked through the schoolyard his steps echoing, he wondered where exactly he needed to go, it was a bit weird for him to be entering the school year so late but he sighed, obviously lost at this point. He opened a small paper and looked inside of it, a room number was listed so he decided to follow the number order until finally going up several stairs he found it.


Elæm looked about as he opened the unlocked room, he saw other luggage inside the decently large room and set his luggage on the top bed. He looked at the uniform he had laid out and put it on, an elegant series of blue, black and silver.He walked outside, hopefully looking for where his classes were, he was suddenly self reminded that he had to take the aptitude test to finally enter the classes he wanted so he dashed towards the office and asked for a test.


He later came out in about 15 minutes and thought to himself


"-Well that was easy...-"


He simply walked around the school courtyard at this point, not knowing exactly where to go and he sighed, the place feeling as alien as ever. He sat down at a bench and simply relaxed, his scarf blowing in the wind.

 

[ComradeSenpai]

Richter slouched as he made his way through the halls, carrying his cane. He felt tired, grumpy, and impatient, and the thought of teaching classes only made it worse.


After passing by a group of middle schoolers, he grabbed a boy with a rabbit pin. Richter opened his mouth, revealing dozens of long, needle-like teeth packed closely together. He trembled unconsciously before fleeing the vampire.


He'd already surmised the door would be locked, and didn't bother to check before biting his thumb, entering Rose's office unannounced. "I trust you understand the gravity of the situation, Miss Cross? Or shall I punch a hole through my lung to remind you how dire this is?"

 

[Advent Azure]

Azure woke up in his room, he was exhausted from yesterday's fight. Using magic was a new concept to him, and moving it around his body was taxing to him. Still, today's a new day, and whatever happened last night was behind him... Still, Rose wanted to talk to him about a thing.


-Man... I must have been real tired... I don't really remember going to sleep to much..... I wonder if Naval or John are here?-


Azure yawned as he forced himself out of bed, and made his way over to his desk and took his weapon, keeping it safe and covered on his side. He was sure that Rose probably wouldn't want to be kept waiting to long, and as he made his way out of his door that was left open during the night, at least slightly ajar, Kylier came on in and pushed Azure back


"Azure, I believe it is time for another talk..."


-Freaking Kylier... I'm not going to deal with you if I don't have to anymore, I'm not helpless anymore!-


As Kylier encroached upon Azure, he nonchalantly maneuvered his hand onto the covered handle, and created an illusion of himself for Kylier to entertain, upon which Azure just bolted on out of there. Upon getting a far enough distance from his illusion, the strain on Azure upkeeping it forced him to drop it...


"..."


-Ugh...-


"Won't be seeing her for a while..."


Azure began taking his time going toward Rose's place, half looking for Naval or John as he went along

 

[CSA]

"Hey... hey, Anya."


Lily gently shook her room mate awake. For once, Lily was the one who was up first. Then again, she didn't really sleep that night. She would need to get a little extra sun today to make up for the spent energy, but otherwise she would be fine.


"In theory, it should be ready... I should run a few tests to make certain, though."





"Anya, I have some student council business today as well so... once again, I can't really join you for breakfast. I don't know how long I'll be, but hopefully we can resolve the stuff we've been working on soon."


Lily had packed a sample already, so she was good to go. Lily didn't want to let Anya alone, but the things that they were like to talk about were not for the ears of children.


"I'm sorry."

 

[Croissant]

Elæm

​

Elæm felt the boredom settle in, he was given a pass until noon so his classes can be registered and he can finally get his new updated schedule, although he still had to go to the Combat classes. He looked around and wondered what their backgrounds were, his coming as a new student still hadn't been announced so he wondered how people would feel about him. Elæm sighed and laid his head back again.


He looked to his left and in the near halls was a person with a cane, and a boy with a rabbit pin walking about. The person with the cane grabbed the boy and revealed long fangs as if to frighten him. The boy ran away squealing like a pig, Elæm frowned at this.


"-Obviously a vampire... Wonder what his problem is?-" he said





Elæm looked at the room he walked in, due to his eyes he could tell some other presences within the room. He didn't really bother checking the room for him self but it seemed important, people would walk in back and forth through it. Elæm stayed seated and continued to admire the breeze.


But Elæm was getting pretty curious about that room, and the people going in and out of it.

 

[ComradeSenpai]

Anya instinctively hugged Lily as she was stirred. Groggily, she listened to her instructions and apology.


"It's okay Lily." she answered sleepily, rubbing their faces together. "We can eat together later I guess."

 

[CSA]

"Oh, good. I don't like it since it's the second day in a row, but it has to be done. I'm sure I'll be open for lunch or at least dinner, though, so... be good until then." Said Lily, lifting the still slumbersome Neko and placing her in seated position on the edge of her bed.


"Now, get yourself up and dressed. I won't be here to make certain you're ready on time today."


Lily then slithered out of her room and made for the student council.


"Ugh... I hate leaving her alone like this, but I'm an adult. She may not understand yet, but adults have certain responsibilities that must be tended to. It's all for her own good. Everyone's own good. The others are so stupid... the only way to keep them all from killing each other is for a superior being to rule over every single one with an iron fist."





Lily took out her key and entered the council room, locking the door behind her. Rose looked as Lily had expected- disheveled and beaten. This situation still required tact, however, and Lily would not let her guard down. If she did things correctly, the council president would soon be hers.


They would all soon be hers.

 

[Advent Azure]

Azure sighed, he could find hide or hair of the two that managed to stumble on the Mel issue, but it was probably for the best, after all, who know's what Mel is capable of, if anything Azure is going to at least be immune to whatever magical effects she has in store for him... as long as he can handle the amount of magic it is...


"I'll probably see them later... after all, Naval was nice enough to help me to my room, I should probably do something for her... or maybe she'll ask me for something..."


-And that weird guy... John..... I don't know about that what that wink meant exactly...-





As he went on over to the student counsel room he looked over one last time to try to see if he could spot them, but had no luck. He tried to open the door, but it was locked.....?


"Uh... Rose?"





Azure tried twisting the door knob open back and forth a little, giving it somewhat of a rattling sound as he knocked on the door


"Are you in there Rose? I'm here like you asked...?"


-...............gah!-


"Kylier!?"


Kylier and grabbed Azure in somewhat of an endearing hug... although that was probably only to keep up appearances in the public halls... it was annoying... but the usual...


"Now now Azure, as you really sure you want to go in there now? I think that going on about this might be a little more than you will bargain for you know"


Azure tried struggling out of her grasp, but for whatever reason she seemed extra determined than normal...


"Kylier! Get off me!"


"Are you sure you can't just leave this to Lilium? She's already in there you know, and I'm sure you can just trust her to handle things"


"Its not about that anymore! Its not that I don't trust her, its just that I can't sit on the sidelines on this issue anymore, and I'm not going to listen to you either!"


-Geez... what's with her... she'd usually just subdue me by this point... why is she trying to convince me to leave this alone... my mind's already set-


"Azure..."


All of a sudden, that familiar feeling Azure got about her came back... she was serious he was sure... he could tell in that dominating tone in her voice...


"Mel's been holding back all this time, and I've only seen so much as one spell of hers... and her physicality in combat... I believe you will find yourself outmatched... and that you won't just find yourself simply unconscious and back in your room sleeping..."


"......."


"And about Bunny..... never-mind..."


-She's to enigmatic..... the personality change from the plan... her age, most people are not entirely "normal" after living that long, although she is an angel... but her apparent uselessness in combat even if she does have magic... pretty much being forced to rely on Azure to only end up having an Arm damaged, she doesn't add up entirely to one persona as far as I can tell..... Although it still may be that shes all talk too... I should let this simply be for now..."


"Huh...?"


Kylier was ready at a moments notice to dissappear the instant anyone so much as turned a corner toward where she and Azure was... especially if the door were to open... besides, making Azure look like a fool or idiot was never a problem in her eyes...

 

[ComradeSenpai]

"See you later." Anya yawned as the alraune left. She could feel her energy draining without Lily. She stood up, and partially undressed before collapsing back onto the bed.


She curled into a ball, still smelling her friend in the blankets. She always felt better with Lily. She'd have to make sure they spent all their time together soon. Glancing at the clock, it occurred to her that she'd be late for class if she didn't hurry to the dining hall. That was alright; she could miss some time. She was feeling ill anyways.


"Maybe I won't do anything all morning." she said, staring at the ceiling. She curled under a pile of blankets, and went back to sleep. For now, she'd figure out a way to stay with Lily.

 

[Airagog]

John smiled as he walked up to Azure, John was wearing a black pinstripe suit with a red undershirt and a silver tie. He nodded to Azure.


"What do you think? Does this look pretty sexy or maybe im overdoing it? I was told vertical stripes are very slimming so I thought I would try this suit."


John turned around posing in his well-tailored suit. He had a bit of money thanks to mother dearest and his odd job and research. Mother said he needed to go to "Bag himself a major hottie who has connections." and if that didn't work he could "Simply capture and torture them until they break like I did your father." of course he was there for reasons far from romantic, but he found it was always best to agree with her.


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[Advent Azure]

"Gah....! .......? huh...?"


The next thing Azure knew after trying to shake Kylier off, was that John was in front of him. Azure looked around in confusion, for Kylier, but she probably bolted when John came about, using her Illusions to hide herself. With a sigh, he turned back to John.


"I don't really know anything about fashion..."


He looked him over as he twirled around... and gave him a friendly smirk and nod


"I'd say you look pretty classy...? I don't think you're overdoing it"


Azure did his best not to turn his last sentence into a question or anything he found himself most comfortable in rags... well not rags exactly, Azure's favorite clothing is just has a lot of looseness to it, making it very comfortable, while allowing for full range of motion... unlike the school clothing...


-I wonder when Rose is gonna open up...-

 

[Goddess]

Waking up in a rush she had slipped on her clothes then ran out of the room. Tripping a little she was abke to catch herself using the wall. Snickering a little she resumed her slight jog from her room to the student council. With small help from her wind and running up two stairs at a time she managed to make it to the student council room. Opening the door the closing it she bowed her head before leaning against a chair.


"Naval reporting for duty."

 

[Airagog]

John pouted a little bit playfully, enjoying himself.


"You think so? this pinstripe is supposed to make me look thin, and slightly menacing, but I just feel like it might make me too much of a goofball."


He would laugh silently to himself as his body shakes a little bit from the laughter.


"All joking aside, I hope that you are doing well today?"

 

[Advent Azure]

Azure's 'day' so far....... Not five minutes after he woke up Kylier tried to lock him up... Probably... Then afterward tried restraining him forcefully.....


"I guess today is pretty peaceful nothing much really happened."





He looked a bit confused at John though. He wasn't sure what he meant by him looking like some sort of goof


"You don't look odd to me really."


As honest as Azure was, this means literally nothing coming from someone who had such an odd and bad life as him. If anything it could be considered an insult by others who REALLY know everything about him.


"What about you? I didn't see you in the morning, so I figured you had some sort of thing you needed to do? Or we're you kidding about the night watch thing?"

 

[amdreams]

"Out of my way!"


Vash had no idea why he thought it was wise to rollerskate in the halls. He had no idea why he didn't ask Mel what she wanted to eat before taking everything he could from the dining hall up to her room. He had no idea why he thought he'd be fine without the GPS Mel stressed that he carried.


Now here he was, zooming down hallways with his arms filled with muffins, eggs, bacon and much more. Barely swerving past the random students he encountered on the way, each one not exactly happy with being nearly run over. As he zoomed past a group of middle schoolers and a lolicon that seemed to have wet himself, he gave himself a pat on the back. Though it was too soon to celebrate as he crashed into a turquoise haired boy in the hall near the student council room.


Vash tripped over the boy, sending himself rolling into a wall and his food scattered all over the floor. "Woah . . . " His head spun as did the hallway and once he could see straight again, he spotted the boy he had tripped over. "Yo, dude. You okay?"


~~~~~


Rose glared at Richter. "That's not necessary. I understand perfectly well." She was about to say more, prepared to vent her bad mood on the vampire but Lily came in and there was soon another knock on the door. Rose muttered a half-assed morning greeting to the alraune, her earlier fatigue once again catching up to her.


She shuffled across the floor and once she opened the door, a look of annoyance appeared on her face. Azure was there and so was John, dressed in a suit. She really didn't have the patience to deal with a uniform violation right now. "Look, I'm in a bad mood, so if you were invited, come in. If not, leave. And lock the door behind you."


The half-elf walked back inside, heading straight for her desk. She noticed the paperwork from yesterday gone, but she'd have to thank Bolt later. Right now, this had to be done now.


"Now, tell me what happened. Everything."

 

[amdreams]

"Out of my way!"


Vash had no idea why he thought it was wise to rollerskate in the halls. He had no idea why he didn't ask Mel what she wanted to eat before taking everything he could from the dining hall up to her room. He had no idea why he thought he'd be fine without the GPS Mel stressed that he carried.


Now here he was, zooming down hallways with his arms filled with muffins, eggs, bacon and much more. Barely swerving past the random students he encountered on the way, each one not exactly happy with being nearly run over. As he zoomed past a group of middle schoolers and a lolicon that seemed to have wet himself, he gave himself a pat on the back. Though it was too soon to celebrate as he crashed into a turquoise haired boy in the hall near the student council room.


Vash tripped over the boy, sending himself rolling into a wall and his food scattered all over the floor. "Woah . . . " His head spun as did the hallway and once he could see straight again, he spotted the boy he had tripped over. "Yo, dude. You okay?"


~~~~~


Rose glared at Richter. "That's not necessary. I understand perfectly well." She was about to say more, prepared to vent her bad mood on the vampire but Lily came in and there was soon another knock on the door. Rose muttered a half-assed morning greeting to the alraune, her earlier fatigue once again catching up to her.


She shuffled across the floor and once she opened the door, a look of annoyance appeared on her face. Azure was there and so was John, dressed in a suit. She really didn't have the patience to deal with a uniform violation right now. "Look, I'm in a bad mood, so if you were invited, come in. If not, leave. And lock the door behind you."


The half-elf walked back inside, heading straight for her desk. She noticed the paperwork from yesterday gone, but she'd have to thank Bolt later. Right now, this had to be done now.


"Now, tell me what happened. Everything."

 

[Advent Azure]

Azure walked on in, he was sure that John came in as well, as well as anyone who was hurried over here... and locked the door behind him


-I guess I'm going to have to, it'll probably mean more coming from a student...-


"I'm not entirely sure about everything... but basically, Mel's friends warned me that she was probably going to attack me, or worse for something that I didn't do a few days ago. Since Mel's friends were kind enough to warn me about her doing something to me, I thought that I could have talked to them to try to have them convince her to not do anything to me..."





Azure looked away a bit, still keeping his eyes on her though, with a bit calmer tone, if more worried


"Although she was apparently there as well, and when Bunny tried to talk to them as well, she snapped I think and went full on on attacking Bunny. I tried to stop her and protect Bunny... but I wasn't able to in the end, although I left Mel with an injury trying to save Bunny."





He looked back directly at Rose again, with concern in his eyes


"If I hadn't hurt Mel when she was attacking us, she might of done something even worse to Bunny... Her friends were fighting us as well, but Mr. Richter managed to get them off us... but he got hurt as well helping us. After the whole fight thing, Mel did... something, and that's really all I can remember, she did something that made me blackout... and the next thing I know, a different student was helping me along to my room so I could rest away my injuries..."


Azure was sure that he basically spoke of the most important parts of this whole Mel problem that the others wanted him to


"That's really all I know about this..."

 

[Airagog]

John would pout a little bit as she told him to get out. He felt offended! He was always the life of the party. He smiled when he saw Vash however, clearly fortune favored him.


"Well well! What do we have here. A quite handsome man and the universe decided to give him to me, shame you crashed into the wrong person." John smiled and winked then licked his lips in a predatory manner. "Ya know, you're really cute whenever you're not worrying yourself with murder. I might just have to steal you from Lu's daughter all for myself, after all it's unfair she's keeping such a treasure from the world."


John was shaking a little bit from laughter while he said this.


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[Croissant]

Elæm




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Elæm stood up from the bench and decided to make his way around the halls, try to get accustomed to it as he walked among the students. He was pretty amazed at the number and variety of students there were. He continued walking and thinking of all the different skills all the others may possess, suddenly he heard ruckus at the end of the hall. He tried to look over the crowd and saw that the crowd seemed to be splitting, chaos slowly directing itself towards him.


Elæm was suddenly pushed back by an unknown source and it sent him to the ground pretty quick, his head spun for a bit until he sighed and shook his head. He looked over when the person who apparently tripped him asked him something.


"Yo, dude. You okay?" he said


"Yeah.... I'm good." Elæm responded

 

[Goddess]

Naval raised her hand. " I assissted him to his room." Hearing a noise out front she walked past the boy who was talking and toward the door. Opening it slightly she saw the one that excited and the other she tried to help. Looking at them both she held up a finger to her mouth. " If you dont mind were talking in here so if you can quite down that would be nice."


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[CSA]

As Lily listened patiently to Azure's explanation, she began thinking of ways to go about her own story. Rose was weakened, so what Lily needed was to undermine her without seeming threatening. She was already pretty broken- Lily just needed to be certain that she stayed that way.


Her Machiavellian ambitions and way of thinking made this far more simple for her than perhaps for anyone else. She was truly the pinnacle of evolution for this very time and place. She was powerful but non-threatening, as well as smart and charismatic to boot. She was the type of person who was meant to be followed. She was perfection.


"Well, Rose, to tell the truth... I was sort of a part of this too. When you told me what Bunny had said, well, of course I thought it was ridiculous but... even though I wasn't a member of the council at that point, I thought that the accusation was too serious to not be listened to. I had made up my mind to follow up on it, when I heard that Riff boy threatening Azure. Naturally, I called him out on his threats and he egressed. Afterwards, Azure told me that he thought that boy was the... uh... servant of a girl who he thought to be a killer. Naturally investigating this went up on my priority list, and I talked to Bunny about it. We spoke shortly, with plans to continue later- away from prying ears. I didn't want to alert too many students so as not to cause a panic, after all, and everyone who was in any immediate danger knew what they had to."


Lily was doing well- pointing out Rose's own egregious mistakes amicably and seamlessly within the narrative while making herself look like a reliable hero of the students. Now to bring it home.


"So, we met later that night. Bunny brought Richter, and we discussed the situation and how to best handle it. We... knew that we needed proof of ill intent, so we decided to have Richter present while Azure attempted to talk to Riff- to make certain that nothing got out of hand and to act as a witness. We had anticipated threats, of course, but not this."


Lily pointed to Bunny, who was of course still seriously messed up.


"I would have helped that night, but... remember, I had called Riff out before for threatening Azure. I was afraid one of them might try to hurt Anya, so I needed to stay with her. They threatened Azure in the first place for something his sister did, after all."


As Lily was talking, her face had become more and more worried. This was a good effect to seem sympathetic, but that wasn't the reason her face changed. Just thinking about what they still might do to Anya made Lily sick.


"I was worried a lot last night, Rose. I really did enjoy our time together, and you even almost helped me forget what was going on at school, but... I hope we can go again after this. When I don't have to be so distressed as well."