APPEASE Rebecca. On a 10+ use her FAVOR. She's now a FRIEND.

⚅⚅ - 2 = 10.

You allow Rebecca to drag you off to the baths at House Leontes, complaining all the way. Her red and gold robes are ripped and torn by the Binding Vines and by Mrs. Travers' abrupt banishment, and soaked between her legs from Rebecca's effusions, first a fearful discharge of urine as the Binding Vines tightened, then a flood of orgasmic fluids as she rode the clutching vine between her legs. But her glasses survived. You suspect they've been magically toughened, after what you've seen Rebecca go through so far this term.

"Wash me," Rebecca says. "Make me clean."

You don't have Marina's gentle hands, but Rebecca insists. Halfway through, as you soap, sponge, and rinse, Rebecca starts weeping.

"What is it?" you say.

Rebecca sniffles. "I don't know, it's just, you come out of nowhere and turn all our lives over. Me. Marina. Andrew." She sniffles again. "Maybe not Peter, ah-ha-hhhhhh," she says, with a half-laugh, half cry. "And on your first day, your FIRST DAY, you're lovers with Dorothy the Giantess and that venomous snake-headed pervert of a Nurse who bites every student's bare arse for her so-called vaccinations. You're sponsored by our Housemaster. You sneak off to the Fifth House for a sapphic shag with Dorothy, you bring down a wall fighting a monster plant and somehow it's not YOU in trouble, it's the Warden, because it got out that you found the Warden with Andrew's willy balls-deep in her arse before she came to save the day."

You wrap your arm around Rebecca's shoulders and let her sob.

"I just want my chance to be somebody," Rebecca says. "I want to be like you. So confident and brave."

"And lucky," you say. "By rights I'm too stupid to live."

Rebecca lets out a sobbing giggle. "And lucky. I want that too."

"You still want me to be my suitemate? Your class partner? I can ask Tutor for a transfer. Or Housemaster." you ask.

"I want..." she says. "Can we be friends?"

"Yes," you say.

You wrap your arms around one another in a close embrace.

"Friends," she says. "Now make me clean."

Rebecca stands up so you can sponge between her legs, from her thick dark bush through her slippery lips to her tightly crinkled, ticklish anus.

Dorothy the Porter, Marina Madeline, Andrew Saltire, Housemaster Fergus Firetail, and Miss Wormwood are your FRIENDS and each will freely grant one FAVOR.

Your familiar Sapienta also counts as a FRIEND.

Use your FAVOR from Rebecca. Rebecca Honeybee is no longer a HANGER-ON but a FRIEND.

You have 7 XP and may spend 5 XP to apply ADVANCEMENT. Introduce a new plot complication, dramatic point or story theme as appropriate, or jump forward in time.

You have -1 AMBITION, +3 BRAVERY, +1 CUNNING, and +0 DILIGENCE.

You owe your Conjurations instructor, Mrs. Travers, a GOAL (Practice Dismissal, -2 DILIGENCE as a Moderate Goal).

What's your next Move?