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When All Things Young Are Old Again

Eventually the weirdness of adults being children came to an end as it began. Everyone slept at the same time and woke up once more themselves, though perhaps with a new understanding of their fellow islanders. Or perhaps more confused than they began. Either way, it was time to face the music and the others on the Isle.

Get Ready, Aim, FIRE!!!!!

Just a few hours after everyone awoke as themselves again there was a roiling stench of smoke coming up from the basements. Those going to investigate might notice a slightly singed programer on loan from Auradon rushing up the stairs, shirt over their mouth, coughing.

"Well...." Ian said, "Clearly that was not a grounded outlet after all..."

The fire is out, but even those who don't deal with Ian directly will have to deal with the smoke filling the school. But if people gather outside to get some fresher air, well... that's a good place as any to talk about what had just happened, is it not?

To Avoid Looking Back, Let's Go Forward

It seemed an age and a half that adults had become children. That they ran around with no memories of their adult worries and traumas. But eventually the spell came to an end and the adults were adults once more. Things returned to the weirdness that was the status quo in Auradon. They awoke as themselves in their dorm beds in their adult clothes. And now people had to face the music, they had to deal with the fall out from things their kid selves said and admitted and showed that their adult selves would never have let slip.

And the Queen would not admit she was one of those. Which is why it was good that she had something to suggest as a distraction. Not a day after people became themselves again they would find hand written proclamations slid under their dorm room doors. It was time to make another push towards clearing out another area, this time their goal were the farms. This wasn't going to be easy, the farms aren't close. The notice also warned that this would be a lot of effort and hard work, and would not be finished soon.

So for those who were willing to help, there was a lot of work to do. Between hauling mess out of the tangle, and finding places to put things out of the way, sorting things to see what could be salvaged, there were plenty of opportunities for people to find tasks. And despite the Queen's intention, those could also lead to opportunities to talk.

Break Time

There might just be a few additional flaws in the Queen's royal panicky plan. For example, one flaw is that people take breaks. Sometimes at the same time as other people! Maybe this plan wasn't all that well thought out after all. Especially when they pulled a large fancy wrought iron table from the mess. It had coiled designs of flowering roses, the metal painted white with the leaves glossed over with green glitter and the buds with pale pink and pale blue glitter. The queen especially seemed to dislike and avoid that table, though there was easily room for a half dozen people around it at any given time. They also managed to find chairs of lots of different designs, most of which were actually intact.

★ There was one that looked like the person in it was sitting on the curved trunk of an elephant, but with cushions
★ There was a chair that looked like a ornate throne of gold with plush pale pink cushions.
★ There was a chair made to look like a high heel shoe of glass. How it isn't broken after all that work to pulls it out, who knows? Must be magic.
★ Three chairs that matched each other that looked like they were made of seashells.
★ Two chairs that looked like they came from the dorms
★ And one chair that was basically a cushion on a wooden frame that looked like it was for small animals, especially as it was tall enough that a mouse standing on it would be able to see the top of the table.

And then of course there was the exhaustion that sent people back to the dorms. The cafeteria wound up as an informal unintentional gathering place, even when there was no food. It was a good place for people tired enough to head back but who found themselves too wound up to actually head to bed once they got back. Also some of them that may have been able to avoid people they didn't want to face might find themselves too tired to leave when those very people they were avoiding came in as well.....

Our Way Is Forward

Our Way Is Forward