Miss: Fay helps you finish.

⚀⚁ -1 = 2.

On a miss, choose one:

• You weasel out of it or miss the opportunity. Cross off the GOAL. Roll to GET OUT OF TROUBLE.
• You pass it along to someone else. Cross off the GOAL. Expend a FAVOR.
• You can't quite get it accomplished. Keep the GOAL. If this is an assigned task or a FAVOR owed to someone, roll to ENCOUNTER them at -1.

You're struggling with that last tray of doses as the light fades from the window.

"Morgan?" you hear from the door.

"Fay!" you say.

Fay looks a bit pale, but, well, close to her normal coloration, a moon-faced blonde with a bit more curves than the average Minerval girl. She's wearing her House uniform of black and silver.

Your frustration spills out. "Miss Wormwood promised I'd get to see you when you woke, if I finished the doses. Golondrina finished her half, and I just had the one tray left, but I spoilt it. And now I'm still working on it."

"Ah ha ha," Fay says, "You'd think you were the one trapped in the Infirmary."

"Well, I am," you say. "Because of you."

"Anyone would think you didn't love me if they heard you say something like that," Fay teases.

"You're good at this. Would you please help me finish?" you plead.

"Oh, all right, for you, you old grump," Fay says. "Get me a smock and an apron and we'll see it all done."

You set your tools aside and cover the partially complete tray. You touch Fay, fingertip to fingertip, your matching fingernail inscriptions marking your lovers' binding. They're sharp and clear, after renewing them just before Boarbristle's first term started for your third year.

You kiss Fay, recognizing the taste on her lips. "You had your tongue in Lolo's arse again," you say.

Fay looks abashed for the fraction of a second. "Yes."

"I don't blame you, I would have, too," you say. "Did she kiss your arse, too?"

"Yes," Fay says. "She was good at it."

"Do you think we can get her into Minerval?"

Fay laughs. "We can try."

You kiss her again.

You go to the little bathing place where Miss Wormwood ravished you two days ago, before beginning this project. But there's none of that for you and Fay. Only the Nurse gets to be naughty here.

In under an hour, you and Fay conclude the preparation of the school's inoculation doses and Miss Wormwood releases you to return to your House.

You have 2 XP.
Your roommate Fay is your FRIEND.
Your ENEMY is Pipistrelle Clawson, a Prefect in House Minerval.