>>19032963>[The sun has risen but the Brightest Ray of Sunshine is doing her best to avoid all daylight. Sola Fire lays buried in a pile of doona and dirty clothes, praying to fall asleep for just one more minute. One more minute of sleep means one less moment in the day she has to be awake. But as she lay there barely napping, suddenly there came a tapping, as if someone gently rapping, rapping at her Dojo dorm.]"Is this a visitor," she muttered, "tapping at my Dojo dorm?"
The potential list of visitors immediately run through her head:
>Ash and Paule are in Japan, if social media is to be believed;>Kanako would have simply picked the lock and been gone before Sola awoke;>LILLITH could break the door down, if she ever had a need to get inside;>Maria usually summons people to the headquarters, instead of bothering them here.That only leaves one option: Carmody. Sola rolls out of bed and throws on the cleanest clothes she can find. Carmody wanted nothing to do with her yesterday, despite every bottled up inside of Sola that she *needed* so desperately to let out, so this might be as good a time as any. Conversations rarely happen when required, it seems, and 'too late' is better than 'later still'. She opens her door, ready to face the beauty so far out of her league, and while she's not entirely wrong...
>[Standing at her door: the other Jefferson, with an unexpected offer.] 