"On one hand, I'm always suspicious of things that obviously stand out," Stacia muses, stroking the colored folder. "On the other hand, the fact that everything else is in black-and-white -- including the people -- does beg the question of why this didn't. And it's dusty, so it's not like whatever is behind all of this was necessarily trying to make it obvious."
She laughs quietly. "Considering that we're both smallish girls armed only with our wits and what we can scrounge? Let's definitely not split up." She narrows her eyes. "I vote nurse's office first, then the principal, then records. And then we can try to find the film club."
Re: cw: mention of non-graphic (robotic) decapitation
"On one hand, I'm always suspicious of things that obviously stand out," Stacia muses, stroking the colored folder. "On the other hand, the fact that everything else is in black-and-white -- including the people -- does beg the question of why this didn't. And it's dusty, so it's not like whatever is behind all of this was necessarily trying to make it obvious."
She laughs quietly. "Considering that we're both smallish girls armed only with our wits and what we can scrounge? Let's definitely not split up." She narrows her eyes. "I vote nurse's office first, then the principal, then records. And then we can try to find the film club."