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Noemi was surprised when she got the text message that she did. Hide and seek? Games? She was still recovering from her burns, but it didn't hurt as much to walk around.

Usually she would keep away from events like this, but she wanted to try being strong, like Milo said. And she needed...god help her...to get to know other people and hunters.

She shyly gathered four flashlights from the supply closet, fumbled with her phone for the longest time and then went up to the meeting room. She didn't immediately say a greeting to Milo, thanks to her shyness, and looked at her feet mostly.

Hopefully the people she texted would be here.

Dylon was there with bells on, grinning ear to ear as he sat down. Games on a rainy day was great! Maebe was there, and she was of course given a once over and a waggle of his brows. His arms draped across the back of the couch confidently.

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Otto was not there, because he hated crowds. Even if he was pretty great at hiding, he was so not into joining in on group fun times.

Hanna's burns weren't 100% healed, but she was well enough to go back to her dorm, which was nirvana as far as she was concerned. She looked mostly well, save a few angry red marks of healing splattered across her torso. Luckily, her face had mostly cleared so she looked relatively normal. Laying in her bed, she was contemplating a charming nap when her phone went off with a tweet. It was Melvin -- a name she recognized after the fiasco. He was the one who fired shots inside the Sarlacc. Hanna's nose wrinkled.

Still... the promise of socializing again -- sans famine infection -- sounded like a lovely mental break. Plus, ADVENTURE. Hanna loved herself some adventure.

Slipping a dark gray hoodie on over her teal tank top and jean shorts, she pulled on a pair of knee-high grey socks and black boots. The only flashlight she had was something she had found in the hallway -- no telling how long the charge would last. Still, she tucked it into her pocket and set out in search of things more interesting than the ceiling of her room.

Hanna arrived to the 2nd floor lounge just behind a gathering of a couple others. She waved to Neomi, and then made her way over to Peyton. "Hey," she said, smiling. "I'm glad to see you when we both smell much better." The ooze from the Sarlacc had been... tangy?

Golden eyes fell to her socks. "THOSE. ARE. AWESOME," she said quickly, a bit more enthusiastically than normal. "Gryffindor colors, am I right?" She hoped that was Peyton's intention. Otherwise, she looked like a massive nerd.

Which, you know, sort of fit.

Evan wasn't afraid of no ghosts the dark, but he did startle when his little-used phone vibrated in his pocket, probably indicating that it was dying or about to explode or--no, he just had a message. He paused before reading it, half afraid that it was another mission summons. He had only just recovered from the last one, and he found that he had little desire to throw himself back into sure and sudden danger. That was distressing; he reminded himself to start using his liberty days, and soon.

Fortunately, hide and seek didn't sound stressful at all. He didn't text Nora back, figuring he would just see her up there anyway. Sure enough, she was still texting when he arrived. With a sly smile, he snuck up behind her. "Found you," he whispered into her ear.

Lips split in a bright grin at Hanna's greeting, and she laughed. "Yeah, right? IT's good to see you up and about." The last few times she'd seen the poor trainee she'd been bedridden and burnt like everyone else that'd been quarantined from the Sahara mission. Pey was glad they had all been released. Playing infirmary tag had been a great distraction, but it had been incredibly exhausting. That first night the teen had had a blissful eleven hours of dreamless sleep before the dreams had started in.

Nora was also treated to a smile, and the dainty Sun lifted a hand to give a little finger wiggle of a wave to her and Evan before Jack's voice wrenched her attention around to him, and her smile took on a decidedly sharp edge. "I know I can." They'd played that game already. He might have longer legs, but she'd been faster.

She didn't bother acknowledging his so charming assessment of her, she knew she looked tired.

As a pair of arms looped over her shoulders her head tipped back to eye the redhead that had draped herself against her back, and she turned to lay a kiss on the taller girl's cheek. Lips against her skin, she murmured. "Jack thinks I look like s**t." A fragment of a chuckle followed, pale eyes rolling back up to the giant. America had seen the marks on her neck, and Peyton had told her where they'd come from and why. The Moon also knew the shorter girl hadn't been sleeping great.

Peyton always confided in her Moon-wife.

Hide and seek. The hiding part sounded fine, the seeking not so much. Playing in the dark, however, with both strangers and quite probably familiars? That was an offer a bit too tempting to pass up. So, Finn decided to leave his room, shaking off his lower then usual mood to get out and be sociable, grabbing a flashlight on his way out the door.

Shortly afterwards he was making his way into the second floor lounge, eye scanning the room, gaze falling on Noemi for a moment, offering her a cold smile should she glance his way, before he made his way over to where he felt most comfortable for the moment, next to Jack, while continuing to eye up all of those already arrived.

Oh hey, two girls wrapped up in each other. Fun. His smile changed into a smirk as he very obviously stared at the two of them, knowing them both by name but not much else.

His towering green haired friend was pretty good at shaking Finn down for information, but wasn't so quick to offer any up in return, so he also had no idea of any animosity between one of the girls- or maybe even both- and Jack.

Finally he tore his gaze away, flipping his flashlight in his hand. "So no to the blind dates, but yes to this? Really, Jackie?"

Even while he spoke, he began digging in his pocket for his phone.



He had no doubt she had already heard about the hide and seek through the technology grape vine, so she would likely know what he was talking about through the innuendo.

Evan was promptly visited by deja vu when her kneejerk reaction was to throw her arm back and smack him. At least it wasn't her foot this time.

"Good grief, Evan, don't sneak up on me like that," Nora chided him as she rubbed her knuckles, her partner cackling madly in her head. "Oy. Otherwise, glad to see you've made room in your schedule."

She turned her gaze back to group, perking. "So you're there too, then?" she asked the trainee draping around Peyton. "'Fraid I haven't introduced myself yet. Nora Ravensgrove, new occupant of some torture room. Manacles, bloodstains, everything."



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"Ah, good~ It'd be pretty boring if you couldn't keep up," Jack replied quite pleasantly. He had just been just about to reach for his phone when Finn made it a moot point.

Sigh. "Jackie" really needed to go.

"Mutiple idiots for a short time versus one person of your choosing for god knows how long? I'll take my chances," he drawled. "Besides, you should be happy. Not hermiting, see? Absolutely socializing." He made a vague gesture that apparently was supposed to symbolize this.

Thoroughly unaware of what had transpired betweenthe two, he merely gave Fini a flat look when she arrived, as if expecting some new cheeky comment from her too. Conspirers.