On the grounds

[princesspowerful]

Molly is younger than a lot of the other students (but not young enough to be left out of things, just so you know) and is a bit more excited than the others. While going to school isn't as thrilling as being somewhere completely new and awesome, she's enjoying herself none the less. Besides, she figures it's only a matter of time before she gets rescued by her friends and go back to fighting crime.

For now, this game seems kind of cool and she gets to play it! She was chosen over her friends and the older students so HA! Take that! She figures she'll go defeat some bad guys, because some bad guys need to be here, right?

Not one to understand the severity of being taken somewhere to play some kind of game, Molly is generally enjoying herself and running around the grounds trying to find anything cool.



Sorry if she runs into you.

Comments

[greennotgold]

"Code names and costumes? Why?" Fletcher repeats, tilting his head curiously. He doesn't seem to notice the mark that has faded in on the back of his left hand.

[princesspowerful]

Even if Molly had remembered how to make the vow, she wouldn't realize that she just made one with Fletcher.

"Because that's how superheroes do it! Duuh" she extends her hand like she sees older people do when they just meet, "I'm Molly Hayes but you can call me-- uh" she stopped to think.

"OH NO I FORGOT MY CODE NAME!!!"

[greennotgold]

Fletcher extends his hand in return, but pauses at her outburst.

"You--you forgot it?" Did she have one before? He doesn't really know what to think when it comes to her. "Um--um, are any of your friends here? They might remember!"

[princesspowerful]

"I couldn't find them before and they wouldn't leave me behind," she was clearly upset about all of this, "How could I forget!!?"

[greennotgold]

He can tell how upset she is. "H-hey! Um, a lot of people've forgotten things, didn't you watch the movie they showed us? They--they took away our memories to try to make us fight. That... that's probably why!"

[princesspowerful]

"But I wanna play with my memories," she whined.

[greennotgold]

"I--I don't think it works that way." He looked down guiltily. "Sorry."

[princesspowerful]

"Well it should work that way," Molly shuffled around for a few moments pouting about how unfair life was when she was hit with a new resolve, "I JUST GOTTA WIN AND REMEMBER THINGS THEN!"

[greennotgold]

"R-right." He raises his fists to his chest in solidarity. "Good luck, Molly!"

[princesspowerful]

"Don't you want your memories back too?" She asked curiously.

[greennotgold]

"I... yeah, but... I don't like fighting." He scuffles one foot against the ground nervously. "So-- I, um, I mean I don't want people to just give me Memory Charms, but I don't want to hurt anyone..."

[princesspowerful]

She smiled, "I'll collect lots and lots of memory thingies and I'll share with you but only if you go on adventures with me!"

[greennotgold]

He smiles back, a little shyly. That's sort of like Equivalent Exchange, isn't it. "What kind of adventures?"

[princesspowerful]

Uh well actually she hasn't really thought of any, she's just making it up as she goes along, "We need to explore the school and see if they have anything cool!"

[greennotgold]

"Oh. Well, we already know about the library-- oh! The lady at the desk gave me this!" He pulls the little map out of his pocket and holds it out -- and only then does he notice the mark on the back of his hand. "...where did that come from?"

[princesspowerful]

"Using a map makes it not fun! We need to explore by ourselves!" She said proudly before examining his hand, "did you draw on yourself with marker?"

[greennotgold]

"...oh." He likes maps, though.

"Huh? No... That wasn't there before." He folds the map up and puts it away, and then rubs at the mark with his other hand. It doesn't even smudge; he might be getting a little worried now. "It--it doesn't hurt, but--"

[princesspowerful]

No Fletcher, maps are dumb. Molly has much to teach you, like getting lost is half of the fun.

"Maybe it's a stamp from the train!" She starts looking at her hands and arms for her own stamp but finds nothing.

[greennotgold]

"But it definitely wasn't there before!" His voice is getting more high-pitched; it's higher than hers by now. "What-- what if it means something bad?! I should go find a nurse or--or something--!"

Fletcher Tringham: Always the worrywart.

[princesspowerful]

"Okay! Let's go find a doctor with good soap." She takes his hand again and leads him in a random direction.

[greennotgold]

All this being dragged around by a random stranger, even if she is a kid his age, is unnerving. But Fletcher is a doormat, and so he follows.

[princesspowerful]

Molly wouldn't notice even if he was putting up a fight, but he's not so she just keeps leading. Not that she knows where she's going.

[greennotgold]

Hey, who cares? This is sort of like an adventure, right? Although it should be noted that they are headed further into the woods.

"Um... do you know how to fight really well?" he asks her. Since she's planning to win...

[princesspowerful]

"Ya huh! I'ma superhero, I defeated bad guys."

[greennotgold]

"Superhero? Like in comic books? Are you an alchemist?" That's the only thing that makes sense to him, naturally.