Plotting

[Musa]

''Maybe their pixies could try to convince then?'' Bad idea, Musa thought, but still... She looked at Layla and Stella. Stella was nervous, Layla was nervous, she was nervous but... Well, things looked particularly tense between then, but then maybe it was just her.

She agreed with the ship idea that Stella gave but... Teachers would notice that, right? Weren't they trying to act without the teachers? Musa scratched her head. Maybe she could think of something about the ship, and to convince Flora and Sky that they were being controlled.

[Eros]

Eros's left eye twitched. "Mini specialist, mini specialist. I'm not a pixie! Pixies are girls!" he spazzed before regaining his fabled calm. "Sorry. But we males hate being called pixies," he added, wrinkling his nose. He settled closer to Layla and looked up at her before looking at Musa. "That might work with Chatta and Flora. But Sky and the seer don't know we're their partners. Sure, Sky has the limited knowledge that I'm his but he hasn't fully acknowledge it. And the seer, well, the seer has no idea she has a pixie."

[Tune]

"Eros. There is a time and place for spazzing about being called that. This is neither," Tune said, fixing the male with a look.

[Amore]

Amore fluttered over and landed on Stella's shoulder. "You're not going to leave me behind, are you?" she asked, tugging on a small lock of Stella's hair so she'd acknowledge her. "I'm coming with you."

[Stella]

Stella nodded absently, as she gently pulled her hair from Amore's grasp. Looking around at her friends, she sighed, "Why do I have the feeling that we're not getting anything accomplished? Come on guys, focus. So far all we have is that we're going to get to Shadowhaunt by ship. Of course we'll have to sneak out at night so that the teachers won't notice us, but that's no shocker, right?" Plopping down on the floor, Stella bit her lip. "So now what? We have a way to get to Darkar's castle but no idea what we're going to do once we get there." Wryly, she asked, "What are we going to do once we face Sky and Flora? Have the boys wrangle them into the ship and then bring them back here so that Faragonda and the other teachers can work their magic?"

[Amore]

"Let's leave a certain male professor out of it," Amore said, a bit firmly. "He's a monster. Playing with Flora's heart." She wrinkled her nose. "I should force feed him my flowers. The slime."

[Stella]

Stella shook her head apologetically as she replied, "Sorry, Amore; we can't afford to do that. I mean, it's no secret that I don't like him either, but he is one of the best spell-casters we know of. As much as it grosses me out to say this, Flora - the real Flora - needs him and the rest of the teachers to help her through this."

[Amore]

"I suppose," Amore reluctantly agreed. "Still doesn't mean I have to like him." She snuggled close to Stella before tilting her head. "What if the evil Flora cursed him during their fight? What if he can't help her?"

[Stella]

"That's not going to happen," Stella replied with forced optimism. Internally, however, Stella knew that it could very well be a possibility that the teachers would be useless. And if that happened there wouldn't be anything anyone could do. They'd all just have to accept the loss of Flora and go on with their lives - a thought that pained Stella.

[Amore]

Amore hugged Stella, trying to comfort her partner. She didn't like the situation. She hated the idea of fighting friends and whatnot. She pulled a plain simple rose out of thin air and stuck it in Stella's hair. Content at that simple gesture, she settled down and snuggled closer.

[Musa]

Musa felt on Stella's voice, when she talked to Amore that she was trying... To force optimism. The whole scene, the whole situation was hurting Musa. The idea of fighting a friend, and loosing someone... And if things went wrong? And if Sky and Flora stayed evil forever?
She didn't wanted to loose anyone.
''So, we will be going at night?'' Musa asked, trying to sound determined. Trying to. She didn't knew if her voice managed to hide her counfison, and her fears.

[Layla]

Feeling quite uncomfortable due to the unspoken fears that were hanging over the room, Layla cleared her throat for lack of anything better to do. Glancing over at Stella, Layla paused for a moment before beginning firmly, "I hate to be the one who goes against the plan or whatever, but maybe we should consider talking to the teachers again. I mean, if we go running off to Shadowhaunt and something happens to us and we should need help, no one will be around. And I just don't think we're prepared to deal with that."

[Belle]

"Couldn't," she paused to sneeze, "couldn't the specialists come with us? They," she paused again to sneeze, "could be handy." She looked up at Layla and snuggled. "Layla... What about the seer... We'll help her get free, too, right?"

[Layla]

Layla grimaced as she replied quietly, "Without Sky, the Specialists won't be nearly as helpful. After all, Sky was their leader; without him, I'm afraid that they won't know what to do. I mean, of course they'll go, but we need more backup then just a few boys. I think Ms. Faragonda is our best bet. Even if she is reluctant to let us go, I know we can make her come around and see that it's for the best that we go."

[Belle]

Belle nodded. "Let's just hope the seer doesn't tell Darkar what we have planned," she said quietly. She coughed a little. "Bad enough she has lousy taste in men. Her having to help Darkar just... ugh."