Gwen Carey
April 30, 2009 1:00 PM
Risky business (Connor). by Gwen Carey
Mere days lay between her and the last farewell she would bid to Sonora Academy when Gwen walked into the Labyrinth Gardens with the air of a woman on a mission. If it was a covert mission, well, that still counted. The significant part was that she knew where she was going and why, and a good reason existed for her going there. The details just detracted from the innate drama of the thing, and she was far too enchanted by said innate drama to allow that.The sun had been hot on her arms and shoulders as she made her way through the twists and turns of the hedges, and it didn't improve as she reached and remained in the spot she had been aiming for. She was wearing a hat, of course, but freckles were still a danger. If that danger came to pass, Connor was going to pay dearly for not leaving his commons earlier. She could not have gone to all the troubles she'd gone to all these months to preserve her looks just to get them ruined by a slow man at this point.
She'd come across her highly useful hiding place just after Morgaine's Sorting. Because she'd lacked anything better to do, she'd followed her sister carefully until she found out where the entrance to the Pecari Common Room was and how it was entered. Really poor security on the school's part, she had to say, but Crotalus' wasn't much better. The only dorm Gwen didn't roughly know the location of was Teppenpaw, and that was just because she wasn't interested enough to look. She might have to do that before she left, though.
Though she'd overheard the passwords before, Gwen had never attempted to actually go into Pecari Maybe there were a few Crotali who could blend in with the largest House, but she, sadly, wasn't one of them. Because of her year and personal reputation, she would stick out like a sore thumb, and that could lead to unfortunate consequences. Since Gwen disliked unfortunate consequences of every kind, she'd had to settle for the amusement of knowing how to get in when she was not supposed to. This was the first time she'd come around in a while, though, and it was more tempting now. What were they going to do to her if she got caught, expel her less than a week before she left anyway?
Because she was, at heart, a Crotalus, though, Gwen stayed in her hiding place. Before she got too impatient, the guy she had come out to see finally decided it was time to get out of the House and do...something. Gwen had no idea what he'd been planning, and she didn't much care. Those plans, whatever they had been, were about to get disrupted.
Once she was satisfied that no one else was about to come onto the scene, she stuck her head out of her prickly bit of hedge. "Connor," she said, pitching her voice low. She could have spoken normally, or even come out, since there was no one else around, but why ruin her own fun? It was, after all, the part where he was strictly off-limits that made him interesting; his morality surely would have made him boring if they hadn't had to treat their relationship like espionage. "Come here."
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