Now Jory was just walking around, looking as other students apparently were completing the mission also.

After a while, he came across some medium sized plants that looked as if they needed water. "You thirsty, little guys?'' he asked once again reviving that old habit of talking stuff other than people.

He pointed his werewolf hair wand at the plants' roots. "Aguamenti!'' Jory said. Instantl, water began t pour from the wand tip. He moved his wand along the row of plants, careful to give them adequate water but also not to over water them.

'Its been awful'

Vickers gave a slow nod as he finished bolting his side of the trellis. He just had to glance towards her though, when she started going on about her being jinxed. It was clear that the look on his face said otherwise.

Oh but now the dam has cracked and bursts of frustrations started pouring out of his Prefect. As she went on this Ravenclaw stood by transfixed, nodding then shaking his head at certain parts of her rant. His head turned sharply to the now standing trellis. Woah, who needs a hammering spell when you’ve got the might of Mjolnir?

“Well…” he started after that bit of awkward pause, stooping towards the ground and collecting the leftover wood pieces then started lining them up side by side “….apologies are not worthless. They are a sign that you’ve admitted your fault, or at the very least acknowledged that you were part of the issue.” he said, laying a couple of longish planks and Pario Claustrum-ing them across those smaller wood pieces, forming the backing and seat of the future swing. “I know of people who doesnt even realize they are part of the problem… or would go so far as to deny it... forget trying to get an apology from them.” Looking up he continued “You may not feel so great right now, even after you apologized-- healing.. that takes time, but at least you’re on the first step.” he said as he gave her a pensive smile.

Louisa watched him work on the leftover wood pieces, she didn't quite get what he was making of that until he lined another set of wood pieces. She was listening to him, too, of course but the girl sighed and started gathering wood scraps for the ceiling. "I'll do the ceiling," she said quickly before moving on to the more important part of their conversation, "I can't just sit and wait for time to 'heal'," she let go of the woods she had in hands to make air quotation marks. "Or for the situation to magically fix itself."

Sitting down on her knees for more comfy position, the girl started aligning the wood pieces together. She was going to match what he did mostly. Louisa went on by lying the rest of the wood pieces crossed with the already aligned ones, "We're wizards and witches. I think we can fix it... by magic." She attempted a smile and gave Vickers one short glance before returning back to her work, "D-do you think... we can extract memories well? After we consult the spell books of course..?" All she needed was to take the memory out of Paulie's head and.... hffff, who was she kidding?!

"Pario Claustrum..." she started bolting the pieces together before quickly stopping. "Is this wide enough?" It was about a half-meter wide.

Sarah decided to check out the student garden next. Oy, some flowers looked like they had not been watered in days! She took out her wand. "Aguamenti!" she said and did a movement with her wand. The flower before her gave a relieved sigh. Whatelse could be done while she was here , while she was i her industrious mood.

He finalized the assembly of the swing, bolting the backing onto one edge of the seat securely and added more support planks on the entire underside. He strategically placed a few more bolts, driving them only about halfway through. There was a reason for that yes.

He nodded when the Ravenclaw lass said she would get started with the roof. As she continued to speak he picked up the string he set aside from the skewer bundle then with a couple of loose circular strokes he quietly uttered “Cordage Creatus”. The string grew to become a lengthy bit of thick rope, of which he roughly measured out and cut it in half with another “Diffindo”

He glanced at the Prefect, his lips pressed together in thought. “Would this problem be so urgent that you need to have it fixed right away?” he paused for a second before adding “Have you considered that in the effort of trying to fix it, you might inadvertently make it worse, like adding water to an inferno?” He didn’t know what the issue was and was trying to decipher it from the Prefect’s actions and responses. So far he can tell it was deeply personal… embarrassing perhaps… damaging even, given what she said earlier.

He started to knot those half-buried bolts with the rope, crisscrossing them along the swing’s underside to support it securely when it goes up. He was working on the second rope when his head turned sharply back to the Prefect. “Extract memories?” he repeated softly “You mean like… take a memory out of someone? Or modifying what’s in there?” That sounded sneaky dangerous “Im sure there are spells that would do that… even some magical items.” He wouldn’t know of any but surely his Uncle would. The man’s whole career was about the strange and the unspeakable.

He neared the roof the Prefect was working on, gauging its size “Lets try to make it twice as wide” he said turning for a moment to look at the swing’s length. Bending down he inserted a support brace on one end of the roof and started transfiguring more skewers into planks, then started bolting them down onto the brace with the hope when they were done with it, the roof would be about twice its original width. As he worked on this his lips made the motion to speak, then close, then opened again. He was trying to avoid asking this of Louisa, but from how she's been talking she sounded like “Are you in some kind of trouble Prefect?” he murmured, looking at her with great concern.

Messer made his way toward the students garden to practice on the Aguamenti Charm. There's a lot of different plants here so its a perfect spot to practice on this charm.

But the garden seem a bit crowded, so the Hufflepuff searched an area where he could practice the Aguamenti Charm in peace. When he already found a spot, Messer took out his wand from its holster.

"Lets' do this!"

He pointed his wand at one of the plant that seem need some watering. "Aguamenti!" Nothing happen. There's no water coming out from his wand. Maybe he need to concentrate more. Concentrate Messer! "Aguamenti!" and a splash of water come out from the tip of his wand, not as much as he thought it'd be but hey its a start.

Twice as wide. "Got it," she said quickly looking around for more wood scraps, Vickers talking in the background. She pushed the pieces over to where the half roof lied on the ground and sat back down to expand the roof some more. She started aligning and crossing the wood pieces with her hands, the bolting should be later. "Yes, Vickers, I know there are spells and items that could do it. But do you think we can." she glanced up at him, "As in you and me." Aaaaaand he was dragged into her scheme. oops

Back to her work, she started bolting the pieces together repeating 'Pario Claustrum' and jabbing with her wand where the bolt should sink. She was doing the last few pieces when Vickers called her Prefect. AGAIN. Louisa's head snapped toward him and she squinted her eyes, "Louisa..." her gaze went down to the roof then, "Define trouble. But yeah... you can say I'm in a big trouble with a couple of people right now. Gryffindors in particular. Never liked the house," she added to herself.

The roof's width was doubled by then and the girl got up, dusted off her skirt and looked at Vickers. His swing was already taking shape, "How did you learn how to do all that?" Her chuckle was feeble... but there! Louisa barely had practical knowledge at all. She didn't even bother to learn all the complicated functioning of their washing machine back home, let alone learn how to build a swing. Not a great analogy but you catch her drift.

"Do we need to fixate those to the ground?" with her thump over her shoulder, she pointed at the ready trellis... one of them standing unsteadily on its own.

Icy blues from this Ravenclaw stares back at the other Ravenclaw, widening in obvious alarm “You want me to help you era--modify someone’s memory?” Merlin what kind of trouble has their Prefect gotten into? A big one, she has just said, and apparently it was with the Gryffindors. “Wh-Who?...” he mumbled nervously, those icy blues now scanning the area to make sure NOBODY was eavesdropping. The Lions werent called the House of Courage due to their cheery disposition. He had a really good idea what would happen if someone crosses them.

But his fellow Claw was in trouble and he has to help herrrr!

He shrugged good-naturedly at her next question “I read it in a do-it-yourself manual” replied with a small grin “And I’ve had experience building stuff at home-- mostly for animals like dog houses and bird cages.” Obviously what they were doing was meant for people but to him the basic principles of building was the same.

He stood up and approached the trellis already standing. Yeah proof of how something can get lifted then dented into the ground by an angry Ravenclaw people. “Yeah, I think it’s a good idea to do a fixate charm to make sure the trellises stay standing… let me just bury it into the ground some more.” he said as he raised his wand above his head and uttered “Malleus.” The hammering spell did its work and slammed the trellis’ plank into the ground. He did this a few times on both sides until the planks’ ends have dug snugly into the soil. Moving to the other trellis he raised it to a standing position and started hammering it into place.

With both trellis standing he moved to levitate the new roof and fitted it carefully onto the trellises. A smile crossed his features. They were almost doneeeee.

Pffffffffffft. Seriously, wasn't there a boy who wouldn't pee his pants when Louisa revealed her thoughts to them? She rolled her eyes, "Yeah. I want you to help me." There was no 'asking' in the sentence. Geddit? "Paulie. If he agrees... we won't do anything without permission probably," swallowing the last word. There was no need of laying ALL the facts and possibilities before the stammering boy just now... she could think of something when they were forced to break rules take special measurements to achieve their purpose of fixing the problem.

... and getting into a new one. WHICH was supposed to be less crucial than Paulie breaking up with Tori and Adam. Louisa could take anything to fix that.

Back to work. Louisa moved away a bit as Vickers started hammering the first trellis into the ground, "I don't even know how I pushed this up," she observed, absently looking down at her dirty hands. Ohh! It was her turn to steady them in the ground. Louisa moved closer and with her wand she clamped the plank's roots to the soil around it. Four times; one for each plank.

Then came the roof, Vickers lifted it and slowly fixed it on top of the trellises. Louisa moved forward so that she was directly under it. "I'll bolt the edges of the roof to the trellis.." Just in case she was doing anything wrong. Standing on her tippytoes Louisa spoke loudly, "Pario Claustrum," jabbing with her wand at the corners of the roof where it connected with the trellises. The bolts erupted from her wand and sank into the wood, or well that was what she thought. They'd find out easily whether it was right or not... hehe.

After about ten bolts, Louisa paused and looked at Vickers. "You think that's enough?" She did contribute them equally... so....

Paulie if he agrees….

Paulie… there was only one Paulie he heard about who was from House of Gryffindor…

“THE HEAD BOY??!??” he blurted out in shock before clamping his mouth shut. Wide eyes stares back at the Ravenclaw Prefect. Of all the Gryffindors she had to get in trouble with it had to be the Main Man of the student population? He wasn’t used to breaking rules. Well maybe except that one time… or twice… or….

… well heck he prided himself for doing things by the book at least in his mind. But if his Prefect needed help to get out of this big trouble with the Head Boy… he supposed he could rationalize bending a few rules, erasing a few memories. He’s a Ravenclaw, they’re gifted with rationalizing even the most insane ideas right?

Don’t answer that.

He nodded his head silently, complicit now with whatever the Ravenclaw brunette had in mind. Hastily he levitated the swing in place and started looping the other end of the ropes around the roof’s support plank, suspending the swing in mid-air. He peered forward to when Louisa asked if its roof was secure enough. “Yeah that’s plenty good enough.”

He stepped back and smiling widely, beheld the work they made “We did it, we’ve made a trellis garden swing Pr--Louisa” he said, juuust about catching himself from calling his Prefect by her title which she has made clear she disliked. After a while he angled his head “It looks pretty bare doesn’t it?” he was hoping it would look fantastic but it was just…. presentable.

"Yep, right 'ere." Isaac replied pulling it from the pocket of his robes. Handing him the list he added "First one is Flipnsnipwitit." His gaze moved right back to the bush that really needed work, it's vines and branches were just a mess of tangles and there were dead leaves all over the place. It needed tidying!

"I think I'm gonna take on thet one." he said pointing. "Ye can help if ye want or take another." Taking out his wand he headed for the said bush. Taking one of the branches in his hand gently he started trimming it back a bit, so it wasn't hanging over the path "Flipnsnipwitit" he said continuously, snipping off little branches here and there, moving a few branches so that they laid more neatly, and didn't twist amongst the others. Looking up towards João he checked to see what his partner was doing, before looking down at his work.

Jory looked around and noticed there were also other plants that needed water. He first inspected them to make sure there was no damage to the branches.

Satisfied they were alright, he aimed his wand at their roots. "Aguamenti!'' he said once again and water instantly began to flow from the wand tip.

The Puff repeated this as he walked along the plants, still aiming his wand at their roots and making sure not to over water them. Jory grinned as he wondered what would Professor Bentley do if he did over water them.

Sarah spotted some toadstool with fangs. Sarah had once read about how to harvest them, so she decided to give it a go and harvest the fangs and give it to the foul mooded potions professor. First step was to numb them with the Numbing Charm: Viro Torpeo [Vee- row Tor- pay - oh]. Sarah took out her wand and said "Vee- row Tor- pay - oh" and jabbed her wand. She looked down at her notes that she had carried in her gloved hand.
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The toadstool surely looked numb - it was looking like a drunk-ed. Sarah placed he notes down so she could use both her gloved hands.
Following instructions she held the cap firmly yet gently and 'yank' went the one tooth as Sarah's hand grasped it and pulled. She did the same with the other tooth. She out the fangs in the jar that she had brought. She will get another 2 fangs from another toadstool and then stop.

Okaaaay. That was louder than she expected. Louisa frantically strode closer to Vickers and tugged on his sleeve, "SHHHHHH! Yes, the Head Boy." Looking around in case anyone heard the boy's stupid shout, and then met his eyes stubbornly, "Don't be afraid. Paulie's not that overwhelming…" Unless you have your lips on his. "We're not going to affect his...err...responsibilities..." scoffing here, "..as a Head Boy. Just don't tell anyone… and I mean.." she brought her face clooooooose to his, warningly, "..any living… breathing… talking… creature." Including Callie's parrot.

Moving away again to allow him to breathe again Louisa put on a small smile. So. They had a deal obviously. "Now you do your research about spells and even items, maybe we can get some on our next Hogsmeade's weekend?" And then the two of them would go convince Paulie of getting his memory erased and TADAAA! No snogging with Louisa, no breakup with Tori.

The Prefect then stood next to him admiring the swing, "You can carve some shapes on the swings." She offered as her hand went into her pocket and took a pouch out. "I brought some seeds… I think some will grow into vines and others are just flowers. There's a slight problem.." she gave him a mellow look, "I don't know which is which so we'll have to plant all of them near the trellis." She had other important things to focus on, okay? Like… erasing people's memories and ruining someone's relationship.

She opened the pouch, took a handful of seeds and dropped them in Vickers' hand. "I'll take that side," Louisa moved to the left side and knelt down placing the pouch nearby. With her wand she used Diffindo spell to dig holes into the ground, without any explosion this time. Her mood apparently got better after talking about the issue worrying her. After making three holes, she stopped and took three seeds of her pouch dropping each one in one of the small holes, then gently closing them back again with her hand and patting twice.

Grabbing her wand she murmured, "Aguamenti," faintly so that it didn't gush water. A sprinkle of water erupted from her wand and onto the ground, she distributed the liquid as much as she could and patted the muddy soil again. "Do you think we should leave them to grow on their own or accelerate their growth?" She looked up at him and then back at the muddy unattractive ground, "Maybe help them just a bit..." so that people knew there were plants around here and not just stomp around and plop down on THEIR swing.

Sarah went to an adjacent biting toadstool and numbed it. The teacher now better be happy. She said "Vee- row Tor- pay - oh", did the jab and then She repeated the procedure once more, firm but gentle and yanked out the fangs with abandon. A couple of minutes and two fangs later Sarah had four fangs in the jar. Now if a student helping a teacher with her stores cupboard didn;t make the teacher happy then what will? Maybe the teacher was just always foul mooded. Sarah then removed her gloves and carried her jar into the castle.

Ravenclaw Prefect getting angry… Ravenclaw Prefect getting intimidating…. Ravenclaw Prefect getting really close to his personalspaceomgbackoffdonteatmeee!

Shrinking at the intimidating brunette Vickers nodded his head rapidly “I won’t tell anyone I promise.” He took secrecy pretty seriously, learning that honored code from his Uncle. “O-Ok I’ll do my research… but if we want to really know how to do memory extraction and modification it would be from my Uncle.” he hastened to add “I wont talk to him about this unless we couldn’t find it in the books… if we can get access to the books…. Wouldn’t memory modifications usually be something in the Restricted Section?”

Then the Prefect finally let him go and suggested about carvings on the swing “What…. like Runes?” then she handed him some seeds. His face lit up, obviously thinking that this was a preferred option for him. He moved to the other side of the trellis swing and followed Louisa’s examples, digging the first few seeds into the ground then casting “Aguamenti” to water the newly buried seeds. He was still poking into the ground and Aguamenti-ing the seeds when he heard the Ravenclaw lass ask a question “I think it would be a good idea to hasten the growth a bit, get some foliage onto the trellis and the roof to form a bit of a shade.” He stood beside the trellis with the damp earth, and after pausing a moment to recollect the spell, made the proper wand movement and uttered “Herbivicus!” the damp little depressions on the soil started to shift, as tendrils from the seeds started to push its way out the ground. He kept at the wand movement and the spell, watching the crawling vine clinging onto the trellis and started to crawl for the roof, gradually thickening with flowers starting to pop up and added more color to the newly built structure.

As he moved his wand around the areas he buried seeds in different sorts of flowering plants started bursting from the ground, quickly springing up into full bloom and spreading its leaves into unruliness. “Guess this spell works a little too well for some plants…. ” he smirked, approaching the almost bush like plant, its flowers nearly drowning in its own foliage. With the wand movement he uttered “Flipnsnipwitit” aiming for the numerous leaves and started to tame those down.

Oh, that thing with a horrible name. Nope. João wasn't going to attempt it again. He had made a fool of himself once, he didn't need a second time.

He simply sat down somewhere and watched his partner do it. He certainly wasn't going to attempt that thing, even if it was worth 100 points... okay, maybe he would if it was that much. But it wasn't, so...

...better to enjoy today and not do it.

Unwinding one of the vines that was twisted into the bush, he unwrapped it bit by bit trying not to damage either the bush nor the vine. There had to be a better place for the vine to go, then twist itself inside of a bush! Snipping a few more leaves back with "Flipnsnipwitit" he moved around to the other side of the bush, trimming as he went.

Glancing over at the boy he was supposed to be working with, he saw him sit down. Raising his eyebrow, he wondered what he was doing that for...wasn't he going to help? Or was Isaac supposed to do it all himself?!?! Shaking his head, he went back to trimming "Flipnsnipwitit", it was his loss if he didn't help, not Isaacs. Maybe he needed help?

Calling over to João "Do ye need help with the spell?"

Help? João snorted. He didn't need any help ever.

"No, thank you." ... "And as I remember, we choose three spells out of the list. Why do we do this one?" Hmmm? Who was the rude one here, going by his own choice without even asking him?! Well, João wasn't going to ask for his opinion either. Hopping down from where he was sitting, he got his wand out and searched for a dry plant.

He WAS moody, yes, and this boy's funny accent and rudeness made things no easier.

Halting in front of some plants looking to need some water, he simply pointed his wand and said "Aguamenti." Boring, boring stuff for an accomplished seventh year.

Did he just snort? "Well then ye can do whatever spell ye want." he said shrugging his eyebrow lifting again. He'd asked what Isaac had wanted to start with, and Isaac thought the bush needed to be trimmed away from the walk so he did the trimming spell! "I figured thet people should be able te walk on the path instead of walking around bushes." he replied shrugging.

Rolling his eyes as the guy started watering the plants. Yeah, he'd probably do that later, right now the bush needed trimming. "Diffindo" he said as he severed off one of the larger branches that was already broken and hanging down. There another spot looked better then when he'd first approached the bush. Untangling more vines he finally managed to get the vine free.

Which was attached...to nothing, it was just loose.

Of course he could do whatever he wanted! João didn't need some random guy's permission. So, he didn't even look back and once he deemed it was enough water, he let go of it to water some plant else.

...people, and their bloody complexes to just explain themselves so that they were viewed as right. João simply shrugged back, only turning his head momentarily at the boy. "Alright," he said casually. It was his reasoning, and this was João's. None of them needed any approval.

"Aguamenti," he said at the same time as him and water poured down from the wand. More boring stuff for him.

Oops he almost forgot he was supposed to have a partner. Well he had good reason to have forgotten he'd gotten his feet twisted up in the vine he'd dropped to the ground as he went to continue trimming the bush. Somehow as he was walking it had wrapped itself around his ankles and when he'd reached for another branch that had broken off he fell forward to the ground like his shoelaces were tied together!

UMPHH... Turning he sat with his feet out infront of him. Great... he thought as he tugged trying to remove the vine. It just wasn't working as he tugged it grew tighter. This wasn't supposed to do that! It wasn't that kind of plant! Well he couldn't damage it anymore by cutting it right?

"Diffindo!" he said severing the vine from around his ankles and tugging it loose. Rubbing his ankle he looked down at the side of it. Yep nice and red from the tightness of the vine.

....his uncle? AN ADULT!? "No. We hopefully won't be in need of asking anything from an adult. They just go on and on about what's right and they themselves don't do it when their butt is in the--" She paused and slightly frowned. "Just.. no uncles. Or fathers. Or brothers. I'm sure we can find at least an introduction book in the library, or maybe at Hogsmeade. I might go to my friend's house then and he can get me any book I want." Well Dallin couldn't but he might if he saw her so desperate.

"Well I didn't really mean Runes, but that works too. It's fine as it is though," she shrugged and looked back down at the ground. Moving just a step forward she waved her wand again repeatedly casting 'Diffindo' and making holes for more seeds. "Yes. Not very comfortable with the idea that other students would use our swing though." Which had a shade! Hmph. Maybe they could put a fee on it?! Hehe. Louisa mused as she dropped the seeds into the holes and covered them again with her hand, patting the ground gently. She needed a hot bubbly bath after this..... the one at the Prefect Lounge would do if it wasn't full of BAD hot memories.

"Aguamenti," she waved her wand at the newly buried seeds, a sprinkle of water wetting the ground just a bit before it went out under Louisa's intention and will. Without lowering her wand the Prefect got up on her feet and followed Vickers suit by doing the wand movement for the spell and uttering, "Herbivicus!" A couple of times at a couple of seeds. The wet muddy soil vibrated just a bit before something erupted from the ground and started branching out quickly forming something that looked like a huge broccoli. Louisa waved her wand again and spoke, "Herbivicus!" At the two huge 'broccoli' and they started branching out more and growing into two small bushes with violet flowers in one and white flowers in the other.

The Ravenclaw got closer to the newly grown bushes and started shaping them well. "Flipnsnipwitit," her wand moving smoothly snipping the abnormal small branches of the bush or even the astray leaves. Doing the first bush first and then the next one. She should help the other seeds grown after that, it worked fine with these two.

He nodded his head, he knows all about nosy, self-righteous adults his whole family is like that "Well, I'll see what I can dig up at the Library, I'm pretty sure I came across historical accounts of memory modifications, but we're gonna need details if you actually want to target on a specific memory... I mean if you want it erased completely or you still want it in Pau--his head just modified." He's not even bringing up the fact that neither of them has ever done any memory modifications at all.

He went back to the flowering vines, its tendrils and leaves having spread thickly and was now forcing its way down under the roof "Flipnsnipwitit" he uttered again with the wand movement, snipping them off and pushing the vines and leaves back out towards the roof, snipping just a bit more so that it forms a good enough canopy without the plants strangling each other for space and sunlight. With all that trimming he decided to water the plant again, just so it doesnt get too traumatized with what they were doing "Aguamenti!"

He stepped back to survey their work. "A huge difference plants make huh?" he uttered, his face clearly proud of their Trellis Garden Swing. He shifted his head and chuckled when Louisa muttered something about charging for it "What like put something in there like a donations box?" he joked. "What about... something to immortalize the work? We can carve our names on the seat there and say its from us, from the House of Ravenclaw, dated this year?"

"If you really do this for me, Vickers, I'll love you forever." And she meant it. It'll be her only chance to actually repair what she almost broke. If it wasn't broken already, hmph. Her wand kept moving thought and she was murmuring, "flipnsnipwitit," over and over making the bushes take slightly different shapes. One of them was slightly 'chubbier' than the others. Louisa then stopped working with them and moved her attention to the other buried seeds.

"Herbivicus," her wand pointed at each one at a time. Different greeny stems erupted from the ground; one was yellowish bunch of flowers, another was just a bare bush.. so on. However, all of those needed a bit trimming, "This growth spell is messy," she mused waving her wand at the first bush and "flipnsnipwitit," where twigs went 'bushy'. She kept her focus on the charm and didn't really notice Vickers' own work till she heard the water come out of his wand again. Glancing his way and smiling slightly at his side of the trellis, Louisa added an Aguamenti spell to the now-fully-grown bushes.

Carving their names, house and year seemed like a very good idea. She nodded and moved to stand in front of the swing. She raised her wand and with the spell professor Jenkins taught them last term, Louisa started carving 'Louisa Vickers' on the back of the swing, then added 'Ravenclaws' to the right side and '2077' to the left side of their names. It wasn't great cravings or anything, they just made sense and were readable, it did take her about five minutes to carve them all the best she could.

"Maybe we should've just brought some painting brushes," she tilted her head examining her last result, and then shrugged. "That means we're done though," she beamed at him. Yes, she was beaming now... after coming here earlier with a poker face - or well, a miserable one. Mood swings of a teenage girl.

Louisa looked around then, used 'scourgify' on the ground under the swing so the woods dust would go away, she then tucked the empty pouch of seeds in her pocket. Everything was nice and clean...