[first action, in school]
[As the students trickle in, they will see Susan calmly sitting at her desk reading a book.  There is an ever so faint gleam in her eyes . . . Despite herself, Susan is not as far above such typical human emotions as pride or arrogance as she sometimes claims to be.  She will rise to her feet as the last student shuffles to ( Read more... )

[action]
1.  In the library, Susan is poring through a wide variety of books - or as wide as the variety in the library gets, anyway.  As time passes, she appears more and more frustrated for whatever reason until finally, she firmly snaps shut Tips for the Sporty Young Lady and deposits it into the nearest trash receptacle with an expression of ( Read more... )

[How suspicious.

These packages never came without prompting.  This, admittedly, should have been a tip-off, but sensible Susan Sto Helit, for one of the very few times in her life, ignored that nagging sensation at the back of her mind telling her it was a bad idea (wasn't some sort of ridiculous Earth holiday about .... pink and hearts and candy ( Read more... )

1. [on the street, you are approached by a young girl]

Excuse me.  Excuse me!  Yes, you.  I need to be pointed towards the Sto Lat plains.  There will be a reward, I'm sure.  Mother is bound to be in hysterics by now.

2. [Young Susan can be found outside the library glancing through a pile of atlases and throwing them aside in short order.]

3. [After ( Read more... )

[Hogswatch and the plague of cats had made for a lovely diversion, but it was back to business now.  The house, thankfully, was no longer unbearably fragrant and the carpet had stopped squishing underneath her feet.  Reluctantly, Susan would have admitted to being amazed (and slightly impressed) at the sheer spite of the animal.  Owner swat you ( Read more... )

[public, yes even to Teatime]
  . . . In light of the recently surfaced information -- which, if I might hazard an opinion, should have been distributed much earlier -- I recalled something that may be of interest to some of you.  I was a bit busy dying at the time, so you'll have to accept my apologies if I don't remember the events as well as I ( Read more... )

[The first thing she does when she wakes up is to check for attached limbs.
Yes.  Four of them.  All there.
The next thing is to listen to some of the calls that have been coming in.  Though she's missed most of the warnings, it's not difficult to tell that things have become progressively worse in her absence.  That, and the men in white were ( Read more... )

Tell them. Tell them what just happened to you.

[The voice of everyone's favorite police officer is sent out in a public broadcast -- There is no response from the one he addresses with the exception of vague, muffled noises, heavy breathing, and the occasional labored gasp.  It takes a full minute of this before the first word emerges from the ( Read more... )

[filtered away from Death . . . after a moment's thought, away from Teatime as well]
As some of you may have heard, a relation of mine has recently come into town.  A close friend of my parents, to be exact.  The old, ah.  The old dear was in charge of my upbringing after the age of sixteen, and he considers me to be a grandchild of sorts.  I, in ( Read more... )

Well, that was invigorating.

Children, I hope you remembered those papers on the irony inherent in the title of Sense and Sensibility.  Literary analysis waits for no man.  Pokey Minch, Kaguya Houraisan, and other interested parties, report to me tomorrow if you'd like to take that long overdue exam for placing out of class.

[filtered to teachers and ( Read more... )