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Spring is here, and the campus as fully sprung to life. As school life marches ever on, all the signs of winter have retreated, as the days grew warmer, one could feel titter-pated, but even during this time of year, it isn’t all flowers and sunshine.

A. Spring’s is here, life is skittles
The sun is starting to stay out longer, and the air is filled with bird song, flowers, and pollen. Several cherry trees on the campus itself is starting to blossom, making a romantic picnic spot, or for the Japanese students to have a little home away from home. Many professors also are starting to hold their classes outdoors to enjoy the sun - unless they're vampires.

Just check for mushroom rings before you lay the tablecloth down.

B. What’s bugging you?
As the chill winter surrenders to spring, the Wooly Bugs started to swarm the mountains chasing the receding cold, and has descended upon Daybreak academy once again. Wild ones are extremely docile and will even submit to be sheared, which faculty will pay students to assist with as Wooly Bug wool are excellent materials for magical clothing.

The adorable little creatures will cling to fridges, iceboxes, and any anyone who underdressed for the weather, sapping away the chill. While they are good for warming up, if they’re left unchecked, a person can get swarmed and succumb to heat stroke.

C. Walpurgis Night
Among the magically aware, even the most hidebound of mages bow down to the traditions of Walpurgis Night, when magic flows strongly and fires burn in celebration all throughout the night, with the last of winter being chased off by the flames.

A local coven has always extended an invitation to staff and students into the forests surrounding Soliel to join them in celebrations, plenty of drinks for those of age, with merriment involving familiars and mischievous spirits abound. It’s become a tradition to try to find the first tree in bloom, or to try to fly a broom - careful though, some of the flying brooms are endowed with prankish spells to add some mischief to the party.

D. IRIS NETWORK
Hey everyone! What is Spring to you? What do you look at and say, “Ah, spring is here!” For me, it’s sneezing until my nose falls off before I hand out flowers all over campus so everyone can enjoy them!

Well I wasn’t being literal about my nose falling off, I forgot this place can be weird. Anyways, What’s Spring to you?

-Lily W. Horticulture Club President

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i. bug out

[Even in the guise of a white cat, the characteristic chill of being an actual ghost attracts the Wooly Bugs in droves. Paige doesn't particuarly mind. She can't feel the heat they produce very much anyway. It's kind of pleasant, actually. She hasn't felt warm in months, since her death.

Still, if you're looking to shear a few bugs for a quick buck, there's a steady supply of them surrounding what appears to be a very contented cat sitting atop a closed cooler chest. Get close enough and the cat will flicker briefly, replaced by a waifish young woman in the blink of an eye.]

Hey, are you looking to shear one?

ii. network

It used to mean allergies, I guess. Now, it mostly means I feel cheated out of Easter candy.

[A large number of Wooly Bugs surrounding a cooler isn't too strange, but they'd quickly sap the cold from it and move on. They seem to be instead focused on the cat. Salomão hasn't seen this sort of behavior in the creatures before, and if they're going in search of a warm-blooded entity, there's likely a problem. Either there's been a shift in the behavior of the Wooly Bugs as a whole, or the cat is cold.

His conclusion is the cat is not a cat. However, the last thing he expects it to be is a thin young woman. He'd suspect she's a fey, only weren't they also warm like humans?]

No. I'm wondering why they went after a cat. You're a vampire?

[It's barely a question. He says it like he knows. Why else would she be cold enough to attract the legion she has?]

[Already, Paige doesn't like the way he says it. Half dismissive and half like it isn't even a question; like he knows anything about her. But she doesn't even a miss a beat, putting on a smile and offering no signs of the immediate irritation she feels. It's easier that way, for one, and she can't afford to be making enemies before she's really established herself here, for another.]

Close-ish. I am dead, but I'm a ghost, not a vampire.

A ghost?

[Ghosts are one thing he's not studied. They weren't important enough to fit into his limited class slots. Salomão sort of considered them temporary, a step in the process of necromancy, given no thought to those of them who may not have bodies to return to, or can't move on.]

Alright, then. I've not met a ghost before. How does the cat thing work?

[Much like Paige, he's trying to avoid making enemies or getting off on the wrong foot, a recent transfer himself.]

( Bugs aren't anything Kanata thinks about usually, outside of the occasional roach that crawls into his dorm room. Most bugs aren't so...cute, though. One lands on him and the warmth isn't even what he's initially interested in, it's the softness he feels when he moves to take it off of his shoulder. What the fuck...who said bugs could be cute?

Despite full well knowing that cats that are people and people that are cats are both things that exist, the sudden shift from one to the other gets to Kanata every time. Can't people shift with some sort of warning like he does?? It's like a whole event, there's build up and such.

It causes him to jump, at first only cataloging the cat in his mind as something to pet eventually, but now there's a chick there out of nowhere, asking him...what now? )

What? Share it? Ain't there enough of these to go around...? ( They're actually floating around everywhere at a second glance; get your own cute bug, ma'am. )

[Paige blinks a couple of times as her brain computes what he's saying. It takes her a hot second to figure out that he's misheard her, or at least misunderstood her intentions. She's only kind of sharing her bounty. Honestly she could shear them herself, yeah, but she'd be here all day. And Paige isn't about that manual labor life. Instead, she intends to get someone else to shear the lot of them and schmooze her way into splitting the profits.]

Oh, no. Shear. I'm asking if you want to shear one, for it's wool.

( Oh, okay...that makes so much more sense. Kanata lifts up one of the bugs to see it wriggling around, squishy and vulnerable...nah, fam. )

Is that kind of stuff ours to take? Who knows if it hurts or not...imagine someone coming up to you and just takin' your hair to cover their ass with.

( This is said while he's wearing clothes but...you know what, whatever. )

What kind of candy? Why didn't you get any?

Also fuck allergies.

Have you ever had those little chocolate-coated marshmallow things? Those were my favorite, but basically anything chocolate, I miss. My auntie Beth sends a box from Germany every year.

I can't actually eat anything any more, though. Major downside of being a ghost.

Oh yeah that explains that.

I'd say I'd probably drop dead if I couldn't eat anymore but in this case it's kind of redundant oops. In a couple ways. Let's just say I wouldn't trade my runny nose for not being able to enjoy chocolate anymore.

Also you say "sends" and I don't know if that means she's still doing it and doesn't know you're dead, but if that's the case then I'd like the address so those sweets don't go to waste.

Test Drive Meme - May

Paige | OC | OTA

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