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Originally Posted by
sweetpinkpixie 
Grabbing a telescope and a towel, Kurumi returned to her desk and applied a healthy amount to her towel. Holding the telescope as gently as she could, she ran the towel all around it, being very careful not to drop it. Was it just her, or were they all doing an awful lot of maintenance this term? Kurumi didn't mind it so much, but it was taking precious time away from actual learning. Wouldn't this cleaning time be better spent memorizing star names or something?
Having applied a thin layer, Kurumi set it down and waited for the layer to dry. When it did, she picked it back up again and repeated the process making tiny clockwise circles. Having covered the telescope with the solution, she reached for a dry towel and began to dry it off.
As Kurumi continued to dry her telescope, she took her eyes off it for just a few moments to see how everyone else was doing and to check the board for her next instructions. As she did, her fingers slipped on a slippery area from the cleaning solution and the telescope when shooting straight up into the air.
For the love of Merlin's cottom bathrobe! (ｏﾟДﾟｏ)
Everything seemed to be going in slow motion. Kurumi throwing her towel down on the table. The telescope turning over in the air. It making its decent back toward her. Kurumi realizing that it was falling just out of her reach. Her leaping across the desk. Catching it. Somersaulting across the floor with the telescope wrapped up in her arms like a baby.
Kurumi eventually stopped rolling when she hit something, which she assumed to be Professor Hadley's desk.
Looking down at her telescope, it was clear she needed to start over with the cleaning as her fingerprints were all over it.