Editing Musette (section)

===Summer Squabbles===
Was being looked after by [[Rad Ray Sunshine|Ray]] who used her in a lesson, she caught sight of certain student who died soon after.<ref name=l&m>“You’re safe, Musette,” Raymond said.  “We discussed you coming to my class, remember?”

Musette nodded.  She looked across the room.  She froze, staring at one part of the room, and Lucy twisted around, looking at a stricken Laila.

“Uhhh,” Laila drew out the sound.

“Musette, would you care to explain?  The-”

The bike circled around, and it cut its path across the diagram the ghoul was in, disturbing the chalk.  Raymond sighed.

The girl in the circle darted out, heading for the darkness by the shelves, off to the side.

Raymond crossed the stage, heading for that spot, stopped, then went for another section of shelves.  “The circle is for your own health and protection, Musette.  Trust me.”

He bent down, then slid the cassette player across the floor.  It stopped in the middle of the diagram.

He walked over, fixed the chalk with a chalk pen in his pocket, then straightened.  He gave the bike another push in passing.

 - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/12/15 Excerpt] from [[Gone Ahead 7.5]]</ref>

When [[Shellie Alitzer]] attacked the [[Kennet Trio]] Musette watched unmanifested, she did manifest when John sent the trio to safety though was not seen immediately after.<ref>The cassette player with the ghoul attached was still sitting on a shelf.  Musette was unsummoned, the circle wrapped up.  Too specific to turn against Shellie, so she couldn’t hope to bait Shellie inside and then flip it on.<br>[...]<br>They fell amid broken floorboards, where rain was torrential enough to pool in the dips and bends of the shattered floor.  Benches littered the area around them.<br><br>Musette stood in the background, so pale she seemed to glow in the dark. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/12/19 Excerpt] from [[Gone Ahead 7.6]]</ref><!--“You need me?” Musette asked.  The ghoul, called by the cassette player.

“Cleanup.  If you’re up for it.  I know it’s not your usual meal.”

“I was talking to her,” Musette said, pulling off her leather jacket.  She tossed it to the ground beside Lucy.

“That works too.”

“I’ll get to him after,” Musette said, sitting on the jacket.  “Heya.  Want company?”

“Am I next on your list?  Slated to die?”

“Nah,” Musette said, settling in.  “Not as far as I can tell.  But this is familiar ground for me.”

Lucy nodded.

“Talk to me,” Musette said, sitting shoulder to shoulder with Lucy.

“I was thinking about him being my familiar.”

“Yeah.”

John remained standing where he was.  He wasn’t sure he was supposed to hear this, but…

“…Not so much anymore.”

The air filled momentarily with the smell of acid and ink.

He nodded, turned, and got started with cleanup, fishing in pockets for car keys, apparently content to miss the remainder of the conversation.

Musette finished her talk with Lucy, and sat for another fifteen minutes before rising.

She cracked her jaw, then set to work.

The last practices that gave any awareness of the scene to the body ceased to function, and all went dark.
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Unseen it turns out [[John Stiles|John]] had borrowed her, later asking her to clean up for him after a job.<ref>He reached into his bag and he got a cassette player.<br><br>The music began playing.  A light, sad rock ballad.  Lucy sat, and John remained where he was, watching her, until her head started bobbing.<br><br>“You need me?” Musette asked.  The ghoul, called by the cassette player.<br><br>“Cleanup.  If you’re up for it.  I know it’s not your usual meal.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/01/05 Excerpt] from [[Gone Ahead 7.x]]</ref>

Unknown what happened to her.


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