✎1 [action]

[crayoned]

[Waking up in a bed of flowers is not something Mary was expecting to do today. Or any day really, given it would have been impossible back at the gallery. And yet here she is, sitting up, surrounded by flowers out in the sunshine.

Did she somehow make it out? This is the outside, isn't it? It's bright. There are lots of people walking around, even if they're just NPCs. This is ticking all the boxes for what Mary's definition of 'outside' is. But if this really is the outside then how did she get here? She certainly didn't get here using the method she was planning to use. Dying definitely wasn't a part of her plan.

... Well, it didn't matter now, did it? She's finally made it out of the gallery. Ib and Garry don't seem to be around, but after what happened she's not sure that she wants to see them right away anyway. For now she intends to enjoy herself and have a little fun before anything or anyone decides to come along and spoil it for her.]

A

[Having woken up in one of the flower beds by the greenhouses and collected her thoughts, Mary is seriously going to town on these flowers. Red flowers? Yeah, she's going to pick some of those. And a few yellow ones, too. And blue? You better believe she's picking every blue flower she sees. There are just so many pretty colours and so little time! Sorry to any gardening club members that happen to spot her.

Want to tell her off? Point out some particularly pretty looking flowers for her to pick? It's all good.]

B

[Having successfully made off with a bundle of flowers, Mary is running around the school grounds, handing out the odd flower here and there. She intends to keep most of what she picked for herself, but if she gives out a few flowers then maybe she'll be able to make some friends out of it! Friends like receiving gifts, right? And if a person isn't your friend yet then giving them a gift must make them your friend twice as fast! Yes, that makes sense.

She's trying to give flowers out to anyone who passes by, be they NPCs or otherwise. Once she has her eyes set on someone, Mary runs over and quickly blurts out an introduction before handing over one of her flowers.]

Hey, my name is Mary... Don't you think these flowers are sooo pretty? You can have this one if you like, it really suits you!

Comments

[crayoned]

Then I'll go later then, not now. [So much to do, so much to see. Class can wait.] You keep bringing up a lot of things that I don't understand... Where's the principal's office?

[Also, what's the principals office? Can she subscribe to getting an explanation for everything she's told about that she doesn't get or know about?]

[absolutisms]

[ she could, but not from akashi — ]

The third floor of the administrative building. [ ... ] Though I don't suppose you know where that is, either.

[crayoned]

[But she wants to learn from Akashi. And get actually useful answers from him. And hear about the secret behind his eyes.]

No, I don't know where anything is except for the garden and the glass houses near it. I'm not sure what an admin-ist-trative building is either...

[Word. Big word. Better slow down and sound it out to make sure it comes out right.]

It sounds important.

[absolutisms]

[ give him a second. ]

How young are you?

[crayoned]

[Hmm. She takes a moment to look Akashi up and down before coming to a wonderful conclusion.]

Younger than you! [Helpful, right?] You're really tall, so you've gotta be older than me.

[absolutisms]

[ mary here, being the only person on this earth to call akashi tall. very endearing. ]

That much is obvious, isn't it? [ but doesn't answer his question. ] Young enough to have never gone to school?

[crayoned]

[Well when you're a little kid a lot of people do tend to be taller than you. She's just stating a fact here!]

Uhm, maybe? [She doesn't know how old you have to be to go to school!] I've never been to a school before, ahh... But I know what a school is!