June 11, 1999 -- After School

[kouyouensei]

[Friday. A simple time when people are rushing more rambunctiously out the doors and are more likely to leave them ajar should somebody who doesn't attend insist on entering the school building. Clicking heels ring through the halls and soon enough Haruhi's abandoned classroom radar goes off.

Currently her heels hover a few inches above the floor as she's leaned forward to slam the table with all her might, eyes watering from the dust pushed into the air.]

What do you MEAN they still haven't given you guys' club official recognition? This is head and shoulders above some of the other so-called activities! You have a calligraphy club at this school, don't you? All they do is write.

Who does a person have to talk with around here for some justice?

[Turning her head from person to person with expectant glares. A gentler glare for Maria by a slim margin]

Comments

[independent_dollmaker]

[THIS AGAIN]

What about me is mysterious, exactly?

[kouyouensei]

I don't know where to start! You're a walk-in wardrobe of what-ifs!

[Nothing.]

[independent_dollmaker]

Name one.

[kouyouensei]

Where.......... did you... learn to sew?

[independent_dollmaker]

I picked up some of it from my aunt when I was younger, but I'm largely self-taught.

[kouyouensei]

How do you get such nice materials in a town like this?

[Though Haruhi doesn't even have much of a seamstress's eye so maybe she's wrong about it being nice]

[independent_dollmaker]

They're just ordinary fabrics.

[kouyouensei]

...

Where was.... who...

[Looking down at her hands. She is rapidly draining her already limited supply of potentially bizarre Margatroid traits.]

[independent_dollmaker]

I'm related to a witch, if you're looking for things to accuse me of.

[kouyouensei]

[Knocks her knee against the table leg her whiplash is so bad]

Like a real one or just the "burnt at the stake for being sassy" kind? If she was killed I'm sorry for your loss--

[independent_dollmaker]

I don't think I'm qualified to judge if she was a real witch or not. She was burned at the stake a couple hundred years ago.

[kouyouensei]

Well, that's very unfortunate. Did she have an extant arrest record?

[independent_dollmaker]

All I really know is that her name was Celeste and that she was burned for witchcraft.

[kouyouensei]

That's pretty limited information; I won't sugarcoat. But Celeste and Margatroid are both quite distinctive names...

[Not ones she can pronounce well either]