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lemon 
Alice didn't like the wall, no. She didn't know if it was worse than helplessly drifting around like a stray balloon, though, so she didn't complain. "I'm fine. It could have been worse, yeah?" Much worse. She wasn't all that hurt, really. She was tough, didn't all Beaters have to be? The lioness would let Selina could take all the credit for her ruggedness. YES. Ruggedness. She had loads of it.
She almost laughed, though, at the look that he was giving the meteors. Alice tilted her head upward to stare at him quizzically. "Why're you glaring at the stars, Cactus? If you want one, you can have mine." Because she could catch three, of course. She was just that awesome, hadn't he noticed yet? The fourth year's faze froze a little bit as he reached for her hand, though. Vivi wouldn't be skeptical of that, would she? .. She could probably leave that out of the usual owls. Yes. She could do that.
So Alice took his hand, flailing and kicking over to another patch of meteors that seemed to be moving slowly enough for them to catch. "These. These look okay." OH. And that blue one.. yes, that one was hers. Mo could take his pick out of the rest. She kept a hold of his fingers while extending her arm toward the meteor, so that she wouldn't start spinning away and out of control again.
It wasn't helping, though, that for every inch closer she moved, the star moved an inch back. Stretch.
"Glaring at 'em on account of me being mad at them. They're just... rotten," Mo refused to take Alice's meteor. Not only was it
hers, but he wanted to do this himself. How awful would it be to say that on his very first time around being weightless, he'd failed at the task given to him?
Alice took his hand, and Mo wriggled back around until he wasn't hanging upside down anymore. As she moved back out into space, he planted his feet against the wall behind him and pushed off, sending them both careening into the patch of slowmovers that Alice had spotted. It was her turn to try to catch a meteor, right? Even though she'd already gotten one? Mo waited patiently as she reached for her blue meteor.
But then... he couldn't help it. A yellow one swept past, just within reach, and Mo shot out a hand to catch it. It seemed kismet, except for how it tugged him backwards with the force of the meteor hitting his glove, and Mo's hold on Alice jerked her too. Had it made her miss her meteor?
"Sorry 'bout that... but I got one too. Yellow."