be kind

— the song of achilles

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)

I conducted my own investigation because no one listens to me. I got away with it because no one looks at me. Because, unless I have your reports, your coffee, or your lunch, I’m invisible.

Tu ne crois à rien.  — Je crois à toi.

I don’t know what I’m supposed to do Haunted by the ghost of you Oh, take me back to the night we met

Extreme hide and seek

Pick a radius from one building

Thirty minutes to hide. Watches all synced up. Can’t use phones bc Booker is a cheater. Whoever is it has five hours to find everyone.

Any place is fair game. Want to hide in some old lady’s bathtub for the duration of the game? Or in a grocery store’s freezer? That’s fair game.

If you get caught, you go to the coffee shop of shame and wait for the others to trickle in.

It’s good training for the entire team. They have to think how the person who’s it thinks and shrug off their tells they’ve unknowingly accumulated. The person who’s it has to get creative and make use of all avaialable resources.

If Nicky or Joe are it, the other always gets found in 30 minutes top. It’s pretty amazing because Nicky once hid in a bell tower and exactly 22 minutes later, Joe was standing at the entrance, arms crossed, and looking completely unimpressed.

Andy once used a blood hound to track them. It was the first time all three of them were caught. After that, they always made sure to cover themselves in a different scent. Nothing too strong though because people get really paranoid when they start smelling perfume in their house.

The second time they were all caught, Booker tapped into their phone’s gps and found them all in the first hour. They had to do a second round that day.

Joe’s the best hider. He once hid in a library and watched Booker walk past his table three times. The wig and dress probably helped a lot.

Andy is the best seeker. She’s been tracking animals for over six thousand years. The only difference between the ones she used to hunt for food and her family is her food was a little smarter.

Nicky is the most predictable. He always goes for high places with good sight lines.

"There's an easy fix for that," Andy says. "You can be the seeker."

She finds everyone aside from Joe, who, as part of a bet with both Nicky and Andy, was following Nile the entire time. Nile lost her MIND when she found out

Andy is the seeker the first time that Nile hides and Andy, for the life of her, cannot find Nile.

They’ve definitely squabbled over a hiding spot before. 

“Get out,” Joe hisses. “I was here first.”