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She pulls her hand back, her fingers constricting into claws, but not enough to close, if she closed, she would feel it more, it would spread more. She smears what little of it is on her onto a clean part of the uniform, now unclean, but unnoticeably so. How much of it is unnoticeably so?
The thought that that... slime, has stained one iota of her body, brings another thought, long repressed, to the surface.
An alien world, an alien fish, an alien slime.
She clenches her teeth, and her intake of air hisses.
Think of what Dr. Chansu said... what did Chansu say? Peppa talked out her problems, and said she was upset for a bit, then she was fine, and Chansu noted something down, and they also talked about tootsie pops?
Peppa could go for a sucker. Where in the school can she find one?
She shuts her locker, the light motion slamming the door shut, and she drops down. If anyone is looking at her or talking to her, it is unclear, as the girl has blocked out everything that would be a distraction from her short-term goal.
She steps out into the hallway, and the Coach pokes his head out as she moves past. He asks something, she says she's going to the nurse. It seems he's about to ask her for more info, but after a moment's observation, he gives her the OK.
As she walks, she snarls as she considers how that last interaction could even happen. Why should she bother with obeying something like "No running in the halls"? She could run faster than a hovercar's top speed, she can simply dodge and weave around those slower than her.
She stops. She considers, maybe the coach's touted surveillance over that hallway, and even the school's security cams, could they see something that would be moving too fast for them to see?
And since there is evidence that a boy got in the girls' locker room, it's also evidence that any of that surveillance is pretty shit.
Though, the only boy in their school she knows of who can move really fast is her brother, and as much of a butthead her brother can be and has been lately, any thought that he's behind this is the simplest thing in the world for Peppa to nip in the bud.
So if it's not speed, perhaps it's another means? How could a guy get into the girl's locker room? Perhaps hiding before or after school- eh, Peppa hasn't sensed anyone hiding in a locker when she's been there, and she can't prove that anyone did before or after she got there. And how would they know her locker combination? It's not even information the school has, those locks are personalized, and when it's reset by what a teacher can do, the combination itself is reset. Peppa hasn't had to redo it.
So say someone had her locker info, they could get in her locker, but that info would need to be gathered by an accomplice, a girl. The other part would need to be done by a guy.
Why would a girl and boy collaborate on this... no, that's useless. A girl and boy did collaborate on this. The question now is Who? Who among the girls has ties to a boy?
