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The Perk, Thursday

Kenzi was debating going in to Caritas to work tonight. On the one hand: free reign to torment zombies. On the other hand: eerily quiet bar except for zombie stylings on Twilight Zone- like music.

In the meantime, there was coffee, demanded from bored-out-of-their-minds baristas. And hoping Toby and Bo and everybody were okay, somewhere.

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Arietty had spent the last few days on a borrowing binge in the dorms -- there were no beans to see her. None! -- before finally deciding she'd venture out into town to see what was going on. She'd spotted the note Kenzi left in the lobby the night before, and thus aimed for the Perk first thing, just in case she was camping out.

Which would be why a small radio-controlled Mini Cooper was zipping in through the door, its tiny driver blasting brit-pop on a phone as tall as she was.

It was too quiet in this town without any beans in it.

Kenzi leaned over off her chair, until her face was right above Arietty's auto. "Duuuude. I so need a car like that. And you're still here! Yes!"

"I have two," Arietty said proudly. "Mercy fixed them up for me." She nodded up at Kenzi, pulling out her safety-pin grappling hook and flinging it up on an available chair to start climbing. "And of course I'm still here. I thought perhaps there was some sort of bean holiday going on."

"Not hardly." Kenzi pulled herself back up and pouted, pushing the plate with the half-eaten muffin on it closer to where Arietty was climbing up. "Everyone just disappeared! I think I've seen like two other people around the dorms all week! And barely anybody else in town who isn't a zombie!" She watched Arietty's progress. "You didn't see or hear anything either?"

Arietty finished climbing up to the table top and shook her head. "Sorry. It was quite exciting at first. I've gotten some very good borrowing in."

Hope no one missed their lipsticks, hair ties, mismatched earrings, random socks, varieties of coins, and any other tiny ephemera they might have left lying about in the dorms.

Kenzi might have had some fun in various houses across the city. She was, in fact, wearing Bo's boots. But it was less fun when Bo wasn't there to tease about it.

"I've been over the whole island in the last couple days. There's no note, nothing wrecked, nothing destroyed. The people are just gone." She bit her lip. "This stuff, it usually lasts a week or so before we undo it... but. When we don't know what to undo..."

Arietty frowned. "Well, how do you usually figure it out? Last fall, I didn't think anything was strange at all about being stuck hiding in the walls until after it was all over."

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"Oh, thank God," Petra said when she saw Kenzi. "What's going on, do you know? Did I miss a memo or something and everybody's in the Caribbean right now without us?"

"Jeeeez I'm glad to see you too." Kenzi practically beamed at her, then shook her head. "Nuh-unh, no idea, and if you missed a memo, everyone else I talked to did too. It's people in town, too, not just teachers and students."

"Maybe they got the memo about the free vacation, too?" Petra said hopefully, but not like she thought it was very likely.

"Then we are so guilting them into a trip to Paris when they get back," Kenzi decided. "'Cause that's just freaking mean. This is boring." And scary. But easier to say 'boring.'

"Tell me about it. And totally unfair; I thought I had classes this week, but apparently nope."

"The Improv class at the Community Center got cancelled too. For 'obvious reasons,'" Kenzi quoted. "And yeah, nobody yesterday giving my classes. I've been knocking on doors, trying to find people." And occasionally wandering in to get lunch.

Arietty waved from the table. "I thought perhaps they all declared a holiday."

"It was rude of them not to tell us if they did," Petra grumbled. "Hi, I'm Petra, I don't think we've met." She was pretty sure she would've remembered a teeny tiny little person.

"Arietty," she said. "I don't come out, much. Sometimes all of you beans can get a little overwhelming."

"Nice to meet you, Arietty." Petra would have offered to shake hands but she thought that would end poorly. "Yeah, I can see how we would be a little much." They probably seemed really loud, for one thing.

She did okay with pinkies, if she used both hands.

"Any theories where everyone went? Since it's not some sort of bean holiday season."

As she had taken to doing since everyone went missing, Grace made her way into the Perk around dinner time and went up to the counter with a sad expression on her face. "Can I have some cookies and hot chocolate and an apple?" she asked. "My mom will pay you when she's back, I promise."

Sure enough, the barista made a sympathetic noise at her and handed the food over to Grace without a second thought, and Grace sat down at one of the tables, looking much less upset now that she had free dinner. Sure, there was plenty of food at her house, but that involved pouring things and cleaning up messes, and that's what her mom would do whenever this stupid thing was over and everyone was okay again.

Kenzi blinked at the sight of a little kid by herself-- this wasn't last weekend any more. Picking up her mocha, she headed over to the table and asked, "Can I sit here too? I'm Kenzi."

"Okay! I'm Grace it's nice to meet you," she said quickly, smiling and holding out her hand for a shake.

Kenzi shook her hand with a grin, sitting down and saying, "I think I heard you on the Radio a day or so ago. Reading the notes?" Since they were short enough for a little girl to read, for once.

"Yeah! That was fun! Do you want a cookie?" Grace asked. A bounty wasn't worth having if it wasn't worth sharing with good people, that's what her mom liked to say. "How come you didn't disappear?"

"I don't know," Kenzi said, drawing the word out. "And thank you, yes, I'd love a cookie. Your mom and everybody are gone too?"

"Uh huh. And people feel bad and keep feeding me. It's pretty cool." Grace smiled a little at Kenzi as she handed over the cookie. "How long until you think they'll come back?"