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Ancient Runes Lesson 3: Saving The Whomping Willow
It was the second week of March, the weather was not so cold anymore and the sun was out today for a nice early morning outside Ancient Runes class.
Professor Botros had set up today's class out on the Grounds, by the whomping willow, literally by it. There were fourwallssurroundingthe tree, so it looked like the ancient Whomping Willow was inside an open box. The paralyzed branches were visible from above, towering over the walls. The professor had a small board next to him, his wand in his hand, and his blonde curls shining under the sun. He was ready for today's class, he wasn't smiling though, this aging disease had put a damper on his overall good nature, but he looked nice and kind all the same.
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Bay hobbled over to his wall to try to figure out what to do with it.. he so badly wanted something to lean or sit on.. his knee was just on fire.. looking around he didn't see anything but the ground.. and he didn't want to sit down on that so he continued to stand and look at this wall..
how am i supposed to do this.. looking around he was seeing if there were any more fourth or fifth years around to help him brain storm..
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Ok. So, Tag paid very close attention to what Botros was saying. It seemed easy and hard, both at the same time. Did that make sense? Well, it did to Tag. Anyway, he'd try to do his best with this task, and participate, in any little way he can. But first, he'd just watch his classmates a bit, and hopefully, if he got the hang of it he would try to do more than just stand, and maybe minimally talk.
Anyway, the blonde, not so short, boy went over to the wall where the sixth years were supposed to congregate and waited for some to start arriving. Sixt years, over here.
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Oh.
Oh wow, okay. This was going to be interesting. Ella eyed the fourth wall from where she stood and considered how hard this was going to be. Botros had probably given the seveth years this wall for a reason, right? And Ella really hoped it wasn't too complicated because as much as she liked a challenge, her brain was doing the old age thing lately which made it impossible to remember ALL the things she needed to. Teamwork, though. That's where teamwork was going to come in handy. Speaking of, she had a team of seventh years to find.
"Hey, you two." Sander got a smile and Alec got a grin. Only badgers so far? Hulk would be along soon too, right? Right. Probably moving slower these days. Merlin knew that Ella was. The eighteen year old tucked a strand of hair behind her ear and looked from the boys to Botros and back again. "This should be interesting." Nodnod. Definitely.
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Lex was about to see what would happen if she point blank slapped both hands against the wall and felt the static but then the Professor was saying words...a lot of them too. Just how did he expect her to keep up? There was a wall that could fry you and he was going on about complicated things such as curse breaking. GEE, wonder which her mind would be paying more attention to? With her eyes on him, she reached over slowly to touch her finger to the wall again--ZAP!
That would never get old, it really wouldn't. Ahem but it would seem she was standing by the wrong wall? Oh? Seriously? Working in years now? But all the smarty pants runes masters weren't IN fourth or fifth year? Lex wasn't planning to work with anyone that knew the same amount as HER, not when there were Seventh Years about to sit their NEWTs who would therefore know this stuff like the back of their hand.
Second bad life choice made by the Professor, definitely.
With more than a little reluctance, the Prefect dragged herself over to the wall Bay was standing at. "Sup?" She said with a small nod before turning her attention to the wall. Did it EVEN zap?? Hmph!
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They were working with people! Yay! Adi liked people. Yep. So he didn't mind working with first and his fellow second years. He shuffled over to Ian, Caleb, Lux, Cutty and a Ravenclaw firstie. He supposed Benny and Sophie were right behind him.
Adi's mind had been changed. He couldn't wait to get started on this activity.
First to third years? That was Tobias! AND they got to work with Botros? Sweeeeeeet.
Heaving himself back to his feet again, which took him a considerable amount of time seeing as his knees liked to complain a lot these days, Tobias took a moment to stretch before following the steady stream of lowerclassmen over at the wall with Botros. Lotta friends here, helloooooo friends!
Now he was closer, Toby had the opportunity to check out the wall. He didn't touch it or anything, just squinted. Squiiiiiint.
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Breaking curses...dealing with wall...weak spots.
The talk seemed to be going a mile a minute and Ben was struggling to keep up. Runes was just not his best subject, almost worse then potions had been last year. Thankfully Botros had written the instructions for breaking down the curse on the board so he could actually copy it down directly rather then try to catch it all. As it was, his quill was moving at a decent clip to get it all down before they had to move on. Before the professor spoke of them breaking off into groups.
Being a second year, Benny followed Adi over to the professor and his group. They would be taking the first wall together and dealing with whatever was written on it. Hopefully he didn't get lost in all that was being said like the last class. At least he had the Hufflepuff...AND Botros to help him along.
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Botros watched the students assemble themselves into groups. Naturally, the two older groups were not visible to them anymore but he trusted the kids to play it cool and not tamper with anything and get themselves killed. Well... he trusted some of them not to do that.
"Alright everyone, it's time we rush and break those curses before the Willow wakes up." And destroyed the walls and took them hostages hanging on its branches for days. Ahem. "Begin!" He called out using his wand for everyone to hear.
As for his group, Botros rubbed his hands excitedly and pointed behind him at the wall. "First thing we do is look for the curse. Let's go and inspect the wall closely. If we can't find runes on it, we'll have to use the spell we used in our previous class to reveal them." Aaand he turned to approach the wall and pretend to examine the drawings.
ooc: - The activity has begun, you may follow the steps I clarified in my previous post.
- It's okay if your character doesn't do all the steps, let's try and distribute the work for everyone. Make sure to work as a team as much as possible.
- Once you use the revealing spell, wait for me to post the result of that spell.
- We have 3 days to finish this activity, we need at least 5 posts from every student so they could earn full credit. Creativity and team spirit also count when grading.
- Remember that it's about having fun, so let's play together!
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Grins were returned to the Head Girl. Big grins. HEY!
And Sander was ready? Good. Because they were meant to get started, right? "Do you think anyone else is coming or... will it just be us three?" Three Hufflepuff seventh years. And he felt like the dumbest one here. BUT, this reminded him all too much of the Quiz Bowl last year. Pity he couldn't remember the details. Only... that there had been... a wall with runes. And West had been there. And some Divination was involved.
... That... wasn't helpful.
Shaking his head, Alec moved over towards the wall and leant as closely as he could to it without touching it. Eyesight, you know. And they were meant to be finding the curse, right? But... there wasn't... much there. Only the drawings. And something that... if he tilted his head over towards the side, looked a bit like Uruz.
"I... can't see much in the form of runes apart from these weird markings," he said, nodding over at the wall, "But I don't think they're runes..." Doubtful looks to the Uruz-looking one. "What do you guys think?" And what should they do?
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As for his group, Botros rubbed his hands excitedly and pointed behind him at the wall. "First thing we do is look for the curse. Let's go and inspect the wall closely. If we can't find runes on it, we'll have to use the spell we used in our previous class to reveal them." Aaand he turned to approach the wall and pretend to examine the drawings.
More squinting.
Squiiiiiiiiiint.
Toby even shuffled a few inches closer, still squinting and all. He knew runes could be pretty easily hidden, but... nope... he couldn't see any.
"I don't see any runes," he piped up to Botros and the rest of his group, and started patting down at his pockets, looking for his wand, which he was constantly losing these days. Although, Tobias hadn't been quite so good at this curse stuff as he usually was with Ancient Runes things, so who was he to really make a call? Maybe the others could see better than him.
Hmmm... maybe if when he found his wand, Tobias could use that Eye Focusing charm again. This seemed as good a time as any.
"Can you guys see any?"
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As for his group, Botros rubbed his hands excitedly and pointed behind him at the wall. "First thing we do is look for the curse. Let's go and inspect the wall closely. If we can't find runes on it, we'll have to use the spell we used in our previous class to reveal them." Aaand he turned to approach the wall and pretend to examine the drawings.
They were starting! Awesome! Adi turned to listen to Professor Botros speak. Inspect the wall. Right! "Come on, guys!'' he said and followed their Professor towards the wall. Time to start looking for those runes!
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Soon enough it looked as if all the older students had disappeared to their respective tasks and Professor Botros called his group to their own. Benny listened to what was being said, not sure how to take the issue of having to rush before the willow woke up. Um...why wasn't it just kept frozen in some way? Surely it wouldn't be safe once the tree limbs moved and they would have to stop.
As they were instructed to move closer to the wall, the Gryffindor was tentative in his movements. Both because of his aches and the worry over the other things...maybe more for the former. He had to agree the first boy who spoke up once he was closer, he didn't see any runes anywhere on the wall. "Nope...no runes. Just carvings of people and animals."
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Lex had slowly been made aware of another injustice. How come she couldn't work with the Professor? Was it because they were younger and supposedly more stupid? She couldn't accept that. Who's to say she understood anything in the first place? HUH PROFESSOR?? Seriously. Leave her with Fourth and Fifth years then expect her to even be able to recognize this stuff. He failed to understand that this topic was lost on her unless she had an Alice nearby....an Alice he'd assigned to the other seventh years.
Complaining wouldn't get her far though, call it a gut feeling but she could tell so she settled with searching the wall. "Think my eyesight might be failing, either that or we didn't get any runes on our wall." She casually commented to her only partner so far.
Or were they meant to use the spell to see? That was probably it. Best wait on her partner, being a team player like she was and all because she was hoping he'd have all the other answers too, yup, Prefect Exploitation at its best. Ahem.
Speak up Bay, her hearing wasn't that good and she didn't have all day to be standing here.
While she waited for his input, her eyes ran along the length and width of the wall. Something had to pop up at her at some point.
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As for his group, Botros rubbed his hands excitedly and pointed behind him at the wall. "First thing we do is look for the curse. Let's go and inspect the wall closely. If we can't find runes on it, we'll have to use the spell we used in our previous class to reveal them." Aaand he turned to approach the wall and pretend to examine the drawings.
Awesome! It was time for them to start.
Wandering closer to the wall while making sure she didn't get zapped, Lux looked it over carefully. It was a good thing that she was not suffering from any eye problems like some of the other students seemed to be.
No one on her team seemed to be having any luck either. "I don't see any Runes either. Maybe we need to use the spell." Now how did it go again? She had a feeling she could remember it. Something with Revelio? Or was she wrong?
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Lex had slowly been made aware of another injustice. How come she couldn't work with the Professor? Was it because they were younger and supposedly more stupid? She couldn't accept that. Who's to say she understood anything in the first place? HUH PROFESSOR?? Seriously. Leave her with Fourth and Fifth years then expect her to even be able to recognize this stuff. He failed to understand that this topic was lost on her unless she had an Alice nearby....an Alice he'd assigned to the other seventh years.
Complaining wouldn't get her far though, call it a gut feeling but she could tell so she settled with searching the wall. "Think my eyesight might be failing, either that or we didn't get any runes on our wall." She casually commented to her only partner so far.
Or were they meant to use the spell to see? That was probably it. Best wait on her partner, being a team player like she was and all because she was hoping he'd have all the other answers too, yup, Prefect Exploitation at its best. Ahem.
Speak up Bay, her hearing wasn't that good and she didn't have all day to be standing here.
While she waited for his input, her eyes ran along the length and width of the wall. Something had to pop up at her at some point.
Bay was just watching Alex.. she seemed to be in a weird mood today.. "errrr.. theres no runes on the wall because we need to reveal them" he said kindly.. he did not want to get on her bad side today.. no way!!!
Taking out his wand he went up to the wall.. "just like this.." he made sure she was watching.. he tapped the wall with his wand and said "SpeRevelio" waiting and watching the wall to see if anything was going to happen.. hopefully something did because man oh man…. he didn't want to upset her.. he knew what he was doing-ish… so hopefully she'd be happy with him.. oh speaking of happy he had some chocolate frogs in his pocket..
"did you want some chocolate frogs?" he offered her.. maybe that would put her in a better mood...
As soon as the boy cast the spell on the wall the runes appeared subtly blending into the wall.
SPOILER!!: The wall
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There were about a million sixth years in the world, or it seemed that way, and Mo felt pretty confident that they'd be able to take out their wall in no time flat. Or at least in the next two hours flat. He approached the wall at an angle, looking for any particular spots of interest. A crack, a chip, a dent, a rough spot... anything, really.
And since he couldn't touch the wall without getting zapped, it looked like eyeballing it was the only way to go. Mo leaned in, noting a particularly smoothed out area... sure. Why not give that spot a try?
Erm... "SpeRevelio." Anything? Did it work? Where were his classmates?
The runes appeared on the wall, subtly and blending with the backgorund.
SPOILER!!: The Wall
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SPOILER!!: Alec
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Grins were returned to the Head Girl. Big grins. HEY!
And Sander was ready? Good. Because they were meant to get started, right? "Do you think anyone else is coming or... will it just be us three?" Three Hufflepuff seventh years. And he felt like the dumbest one here. BUT, this reminded him all too much of the Quiz Bowl last year. Pity he couldn't remember the details. Only... that there had been... a wall with runes. And West had been there. And some Divination was involved.
... That... wasn't helpful.
Shaking his head, Alec moved over towards the wall and leant as closely as he could to it without touching it. Eyesight, you know. And they were meant to be finding the curse, right? But... there wasn't... much there. Only the drawings. And something that... if he tilted his head over towards the side, looked a bit like Uruz.
"I... can't see much in the form of runes apart from these weird markings," he said, nodding over at the wall, "But I don't think they're runes..." Doubtful looks to the Uruz-looking one. "What do you guys think?" And what should they do?
Sander looked around wondering whether the only 7th years in class were just Alec, Ella and him. "I don't know Alec. Right now, I only just see us," Sander told Alec as he raised himself on tip toes, trying to see whether the others were still trying to make their way over to join them.
Hoping that they would eventually, Sander walked closer to the wall and studied every inch carefully. "I know that my eyesight has been affected by this aging illness but I have to honestly admit that all I can see are these Egyptian Hieroglyphics. But those aren't runes, right?" Sander agreed with Alec.
Then he thought of something. "Ella, Alec. I just thought of something. If there's a curse placed on it, wouldn't it most likely be hidden? Whomever placed the curse on it would have made it difficult to see with the naked eye. Do you think trying the spell to reveal it will work?" Sander asked as he took out his wand and tapped an area of the wall that looked like it might be hiding something.
"SpeRevelio," Sander cast the spell and waited to see whether the runes would now magically appear and be visible to them.
The runes appeared subtly as soon as the boy cast the spell.
SPOILER!!: The Wall
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Botros watched the students assemble themselves into groups. Naturally, the two older groups were not visible to them anymore but he trusted the kids to play it cool and not tamper with anything and get themselves killed. Well... he trusted some of them not to do that.
"Alright everyone, it's time we rush and break those curses before the Willow wakes up." And destroyed the walls and took them hostages hanging on its branches for days. Ahem. "Begin!" He called out using his wand for everyone to hear.
As for his group, Botros rubbed his hands excitedly and pointed behind him at the wall. "First thing we do is look for the curse. Let's go and inspect the wall closely. If we can't find runes on it, we'll have to use the spell we used in our previous class to reveal them." Aaand he turned to approach the wall and pretend to examine the drawings.
Kace was joining the group for the first wall. He was a third year. So he joined with Adi and Lux and Ben. From what he knew in the group. He smiled towards them and nodded. Then as he approached, he heard the professor ask them a question. So he needed to examine the wall.
He stepped up and examined it. Kace looked and looked and pointed out, "Professor i do not see any curses but i do see pictures of like egyptians and dogs..." he said just looking at the wall. He agreed with Ben on this.
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Botros watched the students assemble themselves into groups. Naturally, the two older groups were not visible to them anymore but he trusted the kids to play it cool and not tamper with anything and get themselves killed. Well... he trusted some of them not to do that.
"Alright everyone, it's time we rush and break those curses before the Willow wakes up." And destroyed the walls and took them hostages hanging on its branches for days. Ahem. "Begin!" He called out using his wand for everyone to hear.
As for his group, Botros rubbed his hands excitedly and pointed behind him at the wall. "First thing we do is look for the curse. Let's go and inspect the wall closely. If we can't find runes on it, we'll have to use the spell we used in our previous class to reveal them." Aaand he turned to approach the wall and pretend to examine the drawings.
ooc: - The activity has begun, you may follow the steps I clarified in my previous post.
- It's okay if your character doesn't do all the steps, let's try and distribute the work for everyone. Make sure to work as a team as much as possible.
- Once you use the revealing spell, wait for me to post the result of that spell.
- We have 3 days to finish this activity, we need at least 5 posts from every student so they could earn full credit. Creativity and team spirit also count when grading.
- Remember that it's about having fun, so let's play together!
OHHH! The professor was going to be their partner?! Awesome stuff! That was like...the easiest form of cheating ever! You just work with the person who has all the answers! WIN.
Sophie gathered close to the first wall and began inspecting it.
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More squinting.
Squiiiiiiiiiint.
Toby even shuffled a few inches closer, still squinting and all. He knew runes could be pretty easily hidden, but... nope... he couldn't see any.
"I don't see any runes," he piped up to Botros and the rest of his group, and started patting down at his pockets, looking for his wand, which he was constantly losing these days. Although, Tobias hadn't been quite so good at this curse stuff as he usually was with Ancient Runes things, so who was he to really make a call? Maybe the others could see better than him.
Hmmm... maybe if when he found his wand, Tobias could use that Eye Focusing charm again. This seemed as good a time as any.
"Can you guys see any?"
That's right, children. Be my eyes.
"All I see is a bunch of carvings of people doing everyday activities," she said. "No runes. I think we need to do that spell to reveal them." They WOULD get the hard one. She just bet those seventh years had a wall full of visible runes!
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Ian listened as the professor spoke and seemed excited. He wondered a little why the professor seemed to look younger and everyone else that was different was looking older. Maybe he had a magical rune that helped him.
He was broken from his thoughts by the question. He listened to the other students and agreed. Yes professor, just like my classmates, I only see the images. Will we reveal them as we did in the previous lesson?
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There were about a million sixth years in the world, or it seemed that way, and Mo felt pretty confident that they'd be able to take out their wall in no time flat. Or at least in the next two hours flat. He approached the wall at an angle, looking for any particular spots of interest. A crack, a chip, a dent, a rough spot... anything, really.
And since he couldn't touch the wall without getting zapped, it looked like eyeballing it was the only way to go. Mo leaned in, noting a particularly smoothed out area... sure. Why not give that spot a try?
Erm... "SpeRevelio." Anything? Did it work? Where were his classmates?
Ah. Finally. There was a victim. Mo. Ravenclaw. Quidditch captain. Sixth year. Tag nodded at him as he saw Mo examining the wall. Should Tag try and do that as well? Look productive while still being confused. So they first needed to reveal the curse? Tag watched Mo curiously. "SpeRevelio. That's meant to show you hidden objects, things like that, yeah? Stuff that can't be easily seen with our natural eye, and what not."
Smart Tag was smart. Could someone that was not a Ravenclaw make their way over here?
"I think I can help with the carving's later." He was good at that. "These first couple of steps sort of confuse me a tad." Just being honest here.
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She was sitting so close to the tree that it took AGES to get up and even longer to locate her fellow seventh years. There weren't that many taking this class, were there? Just her and the Head Boy and the Head Girl, she thought. Oh, and that new Sander kid. All Hufflepuffs.
Who... had already gathered into a group. Without her. Oi.
Was this a plot to get her less house points and sabotage Gryffindor so they could have the house cup? Alice was onto them, she was.
"Hi. What's going on? What are we doing? Why is he casting a spell?" The captain jabbed a thumb at Sander. Yes, explain.
Not like anything Botros said had reached her deaf ears.
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There were RUNES hidden on that? Nah, Caleb didn't think so. This seemed like a trick. He shrugged and then squinted like he was looking REALLY hard.
"Are they over the Egyptians head's?" he asked. "Unless..it's a trick. They're hidden, maybe? And we have to do a spell to reveal it?" he suggested. Maybe Botros really WAS tricking them...
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Ah. Finally. There was a victim. Mo. Ravenclaw. Quidditch captain. Sixth year. Tag nodded at him as he saw Mo examining the wall. Should Tag try and do that as well? Look productive while still being confused. So they first needed to reveal the curse? Tag watched Mo curiously. "SpeRevelio. That's meant to show you hidden objects, things like that, yeah? Stuff that can't be easily seen with our natural eye, and what not."
Smart Tag was smart. Could someone that was not a Ravenclaw make their way over here?
"I think I can help with the carving's later." He was good at that. "These first couple of steps sort of confuse me a tad." Just being honest here.
"It's easy, though," Mo almost put out a hand to touch the wall but remembered at the last minute that he liked his brains unscrambled. "We have to find the spot where the runes are hidden. The spell will unhide them... and we can't break the runes until they are revealed. Maybe you and I can just try to figure out what spots might have wards carved into them."
Like for example...? Mo wasn't really sure. The amulet had been SO small, really. "I think maybe... any spaces that are sort of different than the others. Magically smoothed, you know? And then you can try the spell. The worst that happens is it doesn't work and we try again."
Botros watched the students assemble themselves into groups. Naturally, the two older groups were not visible to them anymore but he trusted the kids to play it cool and not tamper with anything and get themselves killed. Well... he trusted some of them not to do that.
"Alright everyone, it's time we rush and break those curses before the Willow wakes up." And destroyed the walls and took them hostages hanging on its branches for days. Ahem. "Begin!" He called out using his wand for everyone to hear.
As for his group, Botros rubbed his hands excitedly and pointed behind him at the wall. "First thing we do is look for the curse. Let's go and inspect the wall closely. If we can't find runes on it, we'll have to use the spell we used in our previous class to reveal them." Aaand he turned to approach the wall and pretend to examine the drawings.
ooc: - The activity has begun, you may follow the steps I clarified in my previous post.
- It's okay if your character doesn't do all the steps, let's try and distribute the work for everyone. Make sure to work as a team as much as possible.
- Once you use the revealing spell, wait for me to post the result of that spell.
- We have 3 days to finish this activity, we need at least 5 posts from every student so they could earn full credit. Creativity and team spirit also count when grading.
- Remember that it's about having fun, so let's play together!
Bev couldn't wait until she was a fourth year, she wouldn't get stuck with babies first years then. But it was okay. They were younger which meant their eyesight was better than hers, yeah?
Hobbling her way after professor Botros, Beverly straightened her glasses. They were like lovers now; she couldn't live without them, and they better not be able to live without her.
Reaching for her wand, she squinted her eyes at the wall. No runes, just little men who were in dire need of underpants. Turning to Botros, she raised her hand.
"I don't see anything. Permission to use the spell on it, professor?" she asked. Bev also turned to her classmates. Were they okay with that? It was evident that's what they needed to do. Duh. She just wasn't sure if she needed permission to do it.
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