MIKA

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It’d just go flat! You’d put all the effort into styling it and then it’d be ruined by the morning.

[eleisoned]

Exactly! So - don't judge me by how I'm looking today, okay?! I'm not at my best! I will be tomorrow!

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You look cute though! Don't stress about it.

[ girls! bigging up girls!! important! ]

[eleisoned]

I know, but I could be cuter!

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You can only work with what you have in the moment. And think about it -- how much MORE are you going to appreciate your cute curls if you had to work hard to get them?

[eleisoned]

You're right, you're right...

So - what did you find out?

[ballies]

That we know nothing and we’re probably in a competition!

[ yaaaay? ]

[eleisoned]

Nothing but bad news, then. How are you feeling about the competition? Have you met all your teammates?

[ballies]

Two out of three? I haven’t run into— hang on—

[ she’s pulling out her phone to look. ]

Albedo. I bumped into one before I really acknowledged the whole team thing, and the other after the leaders showed up.

[ the goats…..! the irony of them being team responsible, hello? ]

[eleisoned]

Two out of three is good. And there's always tomorrow! So what do you think of the ones you've met?

[ballies]

Kinda early to say, but they seem fine. One of them’s a bit fixated on how smart he is though.

[ noodle arms satan…. ]

What about you? Met your group yet?

[eleisoned]

Those types can be so annoying... You just want to slap the smug smile off their face when they go around parading their knowledge, right?

[ surely a universal feeling. ]

Mmhmm. So far so good, they all seem perfectly nice.

[ballies]

It's kinda funny. I guess you can't just flex and show off your brain muscles like you could your arm muscles. Maybe that's their way of flexing.

[ still.

and then that one was her teammate so she's going to have to put the getalong shirt on, maybe. ]

You're with uhh.... the mouse? [ she's whipping through the profiles again. mousey, mousey? ]

[eleisoned]

Hehe! Exactly! They can't show off their brain because it's trapped in their skull!

[ ok ]

Yeah, Gold Mouse! They're good at spinning! [ OK ]

[ballies]

As most brains should be.

[ girl.

but! oh! ]

Right, right. That's Ryuki's team too.

[eleisoned]

Oh, Ryuki! I talked to him a little bit. You know him?

[ballies]

Yup. We're from the same place.

[eleisoned]

I see... But you're on different teams. That must be difficult.

[ballies]

Maybe? There’s nothing stopping me from just showing up in your dorms and never leaving, honestly. I didn’t see any rules on not being able to do that.

But with the competition thing, I guess we are pitted against each other.

[eleisoned]

Even if it's hard, I can also see how it would be kind of comforting to have an ally on another team. Stressful, but also comforting...

[ballies]

Right? We can share team leader gossip.

Then again, Ryuki’s not much of a gossip. [ he’s her favourite stick-in-the-mud ]

[eleisoned]

Aww, that's too bad. We all barely know each other! We should be gossiping all day and night!

[ballies]

Never underestimate the power of a gossip circle.

[eleisoned]

It's a more positive power than you'd expect...!

[ballies]

Rumours usually have truth to them, after all. So, it pays to listen.