The Perk, Sunday Noon

[my_own_advocate]

Lucifer had had a wonderful last night abroad, and then an extremely slow morning. Eventually, they'd taken the portal back and now here he was, sitting at a table at the Perk with a large hot cocoa in one hand and his phone in the other.

"Ah," he said, scrolling down to an NSFW article. "Finally, some good news in the world."

The distraction buzz was probably going to wear off eventually, but Lucifer wouldn't be Lucifer if he wasn't going to try to keep it going as long as possible.

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Community Center Class: Tactics Pancake!!! | Monday

[bookbeltof_love]

Nina was still grumpy, but having supper with her brother last night had made her feel a little better (even if, like, they hadn't really talked about why she was grumpy) and anyway, like, most of her class wasn't going to notice her mood.

(She was… pretty sure that Bus Dean could, but also didn't know if he'd say anything about it.)

In any case, though, that was a problem for after class.

"Compatriots!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Welcome back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" she said, to all appearances cheerful from where she sat upon her desk as if it were a throne. The room was covered in chalk, as per normal, with two large bubble-like configurations drawn on each side of the classroom amidst all of the intricately designed spells.

"Like, I hope you all had fun on your break weeks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's time to, like, see what dreadful things have been occurring to you all in the meantime……………………. Team Exploration, please standing in the left-most clear area and Team Ringbearer, on the right, thank you kindly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Nina waited for them to straggle their way to their respective areas—and arbitrarily assigning places to people who hadn't shown up two weeks ago, keeping the numbers roughly even—before she invoked her spells and the room shifted, the chalk coming alive, and then…

Then they were all back on her deserted island.

Team Ringbearer was standing around their campsite.

Team Exploration was decidedly not.

"Let's get started," she said sweetly.