Hey, teacher, leave them kids alone

[strikefirster]

Who: Johnny, Daniel, Ortus, Gideon Nav's Exquisite Corpse, Paul, Kaworu, Deku, Harrow, Maybe more?
What: Kidnapping, Forced Adoption, Getting these kids away from the Emperor
When: Shortly after boatgate
Where: The Bone House and Cobra Kai

Content Warnings: Probably references to Murder, Manipulation, Johnny Lawrence.

Prompts and Mingle will be in the comments.

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[noniad]

[ A brief absurdity: Ortus wonders if this is what the fabled tales of worried parents sending their cherished offspring off to their first Cohort rotation are all about, and if he should expect to find lemon candies and a fresh change of socks tucked somewhere in the box that Augustine has handed over. It's not an unwelcome thought, but it is a sad one.

He does not care for God's loneliness in his emptied nest. He finds he cares, with the ache of a bruise, for Patience's.

Perhaps he will drop something inside of his own. A pen, or a strand of polished knucklebone, or a few scraps of notation. Another reason to lure the Saint, or at least his cavalier, out of this place. ]

Perhaps I shall provide a brief background to the audience to avert some of the more common questions about bones. [ He resists the urge to place a hand on Augustine's shoulder, but only just. ] To leave more - space for 'signings'.

[ He is struck by the terrible and touching knowledge that there will be those who will insist on such a thing. ]

Do not be a stranger.

[ That is how people say goodbye in stories. Ortus nods to them both in turn, necromancer and cavalier, Saint and spirit, Augustine and Alfred, before he turns away, making his way to the truck being loaded now with the young alongside their belongings. ]