Charlotte is occupied.

Charlotte wasn't so easily distracted as her friend Emma had claimed. That didn't mean it wasn't a very real danger, though, especially in a new and exciting environment like the SS Awesome Excelsior. There were all sorts of things, all over the ship, that could catch the eye of a woman like Charlotte.

Her friends were waiting back in the common room across the hall, expecting her to appear at any time to reveal the elaborate plan she had drafted for Melody's bachelor party. In fairness, Charlotte had actually constructed one such plan. It had just been derailed as she had begun to prepare for it, as many of Charlotte's elaborate plans often were.

Charlotte knew each and every one of her friends inside and out, but over the years she had still not realized how to handle or prevent strange contingencies, coincidences, and conflicts, not to mention her own immediate obsession with 'resolving' them in whatever form that they might take.

What ended up delaying Charlotte from meeting with her friends was...