Sit with Prefect Ish for the evening meal and try to charm her into bed. (ENCOUNTER)

Roll +BRAVERY(+3) to ENCOUNTER Prefect Ish to learn more about Leontes, hopeful to charm her into bed.

⚄⚁ + 3 = 10.

When you ENCOUNTER Ishtar Stellaris, on a 10+, she is willing to go along with you, take +1 Forward.

You laugh. "No, Prefect, I'm from a little mountain village," you say. "My family was fortunate that we had an indirect connection to Boarbristle."

"I'm impressed that the Housemaster sponsored you in," Ish says. "And pish, Golondrina, we're at table, it doesn't have to be Prefect this and Miss Redmoor that. Maybe at House Draconis or Minerval."

"Well, I did work hard at the preparatory academy," you say. You lean confidentially close. "Though I heard one of my instructors say that she was at wit's end and hoped Boarbristle would know how to deal with me."

"Oh, did you give your teachers trouble?" Ish asks.

"Not on purpose," you say. "I think I was just, well, earnest? Asking after more exercises, that sort of thing? And, well, boys or girls, I was always the tallest and strongest. I don't think it frightened the teachers, but the other students didn't really like me."

"You seem perfectly charming and personable," Ish says. "And, if I might say so, rather good at making friends." Her cheeks pinken a bit and she brushes back her dark curls. She leans forward and murmurs in your ear. "Were you gagging for it?" she asks.

Now it's your turn to blush. "I suppose I must have been."

Ish grins, her eyes sparkling, and leans forward again. "To pull two of the most dangerous members of Staff on your very first day. You're already the stuff of legend."

Your neck aches a bit where Dorothy's climactic throes tossed you around, and you feel the stinging of many bites from the snake-haired nurse Miss Wormwood.

"I suppose I should cultivate the company of someone less dangerous," you say. You tilt your head and wince as your neck reminds you again. "So what does a Prefect do?"

Ish raises her shoulders in a shrug. "Junior staff for the Houses. Riding herd on the lower forms, like yourself. Calling for quiet or attention. Directing traffic in the halls. Fetch and carry. Fink out troublemakers to the Tutor, if it's academic or petty, or to the Warden, if it's dangerous. But they were late to assign rooms and we're short some of the House staff this term, so I've been rushing about getting the new scholars settled. Like, again, yourself."

"Thank you, you made me very welcome," you tell Ish.

She sighs. "And then I had to get several other rooms sorted out. Some sort of mix-up. Happens every first turn. There's still baggage down in the Tutor's office that we have to get up to the rooms. Once we get the rooms assigned and set up. Which is back on me tonight, so we don't have students sleeping in the common room or under the Tutor's desk."

"Could I help?" you ask. "I'd be happy to." As a welcome distraction from the aching and itching, until you're properly tired again. "Happy to," you emphasize.

Ish tips her head and raises her eyebrows. "Well, Golondrina, if you're willing, then you're very welcome."

You spend the rest of the evening getting the new Leontes scholars sorted out. First-years, except for one gloomy young woman who had transferred from another school who carries a big bird on her shoulder as her familiar, and a fidgety second-year fellow who was with House Beavertail last year.

You keep giving Ish, or rather, Prefect Ish, since you're helping with her official duties, little brushes with your fingertips as you receive bedding from her, or take directions. She settles down several more rooms of students, teaching them REVELATIO so they can find their way within the House, until you run out of roomless students and their baggage.

It's all rather light work, and you see that Ish is tiring before you do. Of course, you did have a nap, and she was working up until the evening meal and assembly.

At the end of this process, you're rather familiar with the part of House Leontes where the lower-form students lodge, including lavatories, baths, laundry, and all the other necessities, and how to get in and out to the refectory and the common room, and REVELATIO is almost second nature.

"So shall we walk you home, Miss Redmoor?" Ish says. "I'd say you've had a rather heroic first day." She rolls her shoulders under her red-and-gold robes.

"Well, Prefect," you say. "Perhaps we should walk you home?"

Ish raises her hand. You mirror her gesture, touching her hand palm to palm. Your fingers knit together. She smiles and tilts her face up to look at you. "So I wasn't imagining it, Miss Redmoor," she says. She withdraws her hand and takes out her wand. "REVELATIO," she incants. "See the golden thread?"

"Baths," you say. "Prefect."

Ish laughs. "Miss Redmoor," she says. "Bath first. And then, we shall talk."

"Yes, Prefect. Talk," you say.

"For whatever else would one do with one's tongue, Miss Redmoor?" Ish says.

"I suppose we could talk about that, Prefect," you say.

"Precisely, Miss Redmoor, precisely."

Roll +BRAVERY(+4) (+3 Bravery, +1 Forward) to HAVE SEX with Ishtar Stellaris, whether in the baths or in her room. On a 7+, apply the Leontes House Sex Move, CHARM, to make her your FRIEND or owe you a FAVOR.