Private Finished It's Thyme We Were Fronds

After a few blank looks or "who's that?", Fe finally found somebody at the academy who actually knew the person she was asking around about. It turned out that Carmin was, unsurprisingly, not the most popular student around Fe quickly found out as she thoughtfully, but purposefully marched through the school, her heels clicking loudly on the linoleum.

As the sirin passed row upon row of well-used lockers, she began to notice, with some nostalgia, that this part of the school had not changed much since she had last studied here. Finally, after peeking into a few classrooms, she found the one where Carmin was. The green plant on his head giving him away. Satisfied with herself, Fe took out her phone and decided to wait, leaning casually against the wall opposite to the door, for him to finish his last class.


@Mint

Fe put her phone away as soon as the bell had rung to indicate the changing of class, and was watching the door like a hawk for Carmin when he spotted her. She had no intention of letting him slip by.

"Hey there, Carmin," Fe said as she greeted him with a friendly smile, unconcerned with whether or not she should be there.

"I thought I'd stop by and see if you were free," she said. "I have a little business proposition for you," she explained, getting straight to the point. She wasn't a woman to mix words or waste anyone's time with unnecessary pleasantries.

Fe watched the fleeting emotions and uncertainty on Carmin's face. She had come prepared for him trying to turn her down. In fact, she was steeling herself for Plan B when he, thankfully, accepted to at least listen to her.

"Cafeteria?" she suggested, having the clear feeling that he wouldn't want to go back to his dorm room to talk with her privately.

"Great," Fe replied affably as she looked down the hall, paused and then gestured for Carmin to follow her. She remembered that the cafeteria wasn't too far away.

Once both of them were sitting at an out of the way table in the quiet cafeteria, Fe, who was now opening a bottle of water she had bought, looked at Carmin.

"First of all, thanks for coming. I wasn't at all sure if I would need to kidnap you or not, " she told him with a grin.

At Carmin's question Fe just shrugged. "Where else is someone your age going to go to school, at Dark Crystal?" she asked.

"Besides I used to be a student here at Starlight. It was not much of a jump to assume that you lived here at the dorms. A good number of students do," she explained as she took a sip of her water and looked at Carmin as she did so, a slow smile forming on her lips.

"Don't worry, I wasn't stalking you," she added with a wicked grin.