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[fiery_ring]

The location is the same as last time; the old shed behind the school.

Only this time, it's much darker. In fact, it's about six in the morning.

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[fiery_ring]

"Hey, you! What are you doing?" asks a girl who is most certainly not Carlotta. In fact, Demeter may recognise her as the pretty Angela who was at the tournament.

She's near the gate, retrieving a tennis ball, and now staring at Demeter.

[wheatencrown]

"Just admiring the fine school, I'm thinking of sending my own daughter here."

Demeter is her most regal and powerful with a smile.

[fiery_ring]

"Oh. Then you ought to come around the front. And why are you tying that ribbon on there?"

[wheatencrown]

"I'm going to take a photograph for her of the school and I want to give her a sense of where things are. Also I was thinking of how the roses matched the color of her ribbon. Shouldn't you be in class, dear?"

[fiery_ring]

"I just finished my tennis lesson." Angela says. "I was retrieving a lost ball. Hang on a moment, I'll get the key and let you in, so you can meet the head."

[wheatencrown]

"Oh you don't need to do that. I haven't made an appointment and honestly I was just sneaking a look."

[fiery_ring]

"Well you ought not to." Angela says suspiciously. "I don't mean to be rude, but this is a school and we can't have strangers snooping around."

[wheatencrown]

"Of course not. I should go anyway and I'll make a proper appointment."

Demeter gives her a smile and heads back out the gate, this going to make things trickier.

[fiery_ring]

Angela watches her suspiciously, then moves towards the gate to take down the ribbon. But just as her hand approaches it, someone calls her in, and she leaves it alone.

[wheatencrown]

Once she's left the school, Demeter heads into along the road, trying to figure out the best way to watch for Carlotta without getting caught again.

[fiery_ring]

Carlotta sees the ribbon, but doesn't manage to get out of the school unnoticed until nightfall, when she sneaks out just before bedtime.

"Demeter?" she whispers, getting near the gate and hiding in the shadows.

[wheatencrown]

Somehow Demeter is there, its hard to hide so and she's feeling rather uneasy,

"Yes, I'm here."

[fiery_ring]

"I'm awfully sorry, it's been difficult to get out..." she stops, spotting a torchlight in the grounds, and decides there's nothing else for it; she scrambles over the gate and drops next to Demeter, pulling her into a nearby bush.

[wheatencrown]

"Don't apologize, I found the bracelet but everything else has been more complicated."

Demeter pulls a veil of a sort over them so even if someone peers into the bush they won't be seen.

[fiery_ring]

Carlotta keeps very quiet until the man with the torch goes away.

"Come on." she says, getting her key out to open the gate. "If I'm not back in time for bed I'm going to be for the high jump."

[wheatencrown]

"You'll get back in time if need be I can cheat somehow to help you."

Demeter follows her as quietly as she can.

[fiery_ring]

Carlotta keeps close to the wall after locking the gate, and looks around carefully before coming around the front of the shed.

"Okay, let's go."

She takes Demeter's hand, and leads her through the door.