Text Cut: teeny tiny catch up woohoo sorry
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PhoenixRising
She held up a postcard for them to see. "Bumper Cars. Anyone want to venture a guess about how they might work?" Alice very much agreed with Hadley when she started talking about how going to places to learn in a hands-on way was cool. It WAS cool.
But she still wanted to drive the bus.
"Oh! Oh I know, professor!" Red jacket clothed hand up in the air.
"Do we get to crash into things for no reason? Wait, for fun?" Even muggles had a destructive side, she was sure.
Had she said they DID get to drive? Even if it was the tinier cars? Alice had absolutely no experience with those Muggle seats on wheels, since she'd never been driving before. But she knew Dora had,
and invited Vesper as accompaniment and not her, which she was still sour about for the record (what kind of best friend did that anyway? Hmph). And Schuyler and Nigel, who were the only other people here who knew how. They'd help her, right?
Psh. But she was Alice Fischer. She didn't need help.
The seventh year was one of the first to bound off the bus and into the arena, selecting herself a pretty orange car and hopping in. Orange! Yes. And then she strapped herself in like a good kid who had some regard for safety, though she had none. And then waited.