Ignoble
Ch. 3--Trouble Lurking
Part of 100 themes! couldn't follow 100 word limit... and kudos to Tamora Pierce for Raoul, Buri, and the setting! Arianna is mine and Bridey is torikkusuta of "Audacious". Enjoy!
"Bridey! Bridey! Bridey!" called out Arianna, hurrying to her new friend. Bridey took one look at her and the grin on her face and said, "No."
"But Bri-dey! It's going to be really interesting!" she told her friend.
"No, I don't want part in whatever you've come up with. I haven't recovered from the last punishment we got from your ideas."
"But this one's different!" she insisted. "And I can't do it without you, I don't know how to make it work!" When Bridey still wouldn't agree, she said conspiratorially, "I've got some new chemicals~!"
"Chemicals?" Bridey's curiosity was roused. "What kind of chemicals?"
"Chemicals that go boom," Arianna responded, her face alight. When Bridey agreed at last to help, Arianna giggled. "This is going to be interesting!"
She was vindicated when the chemicals set off a very large boom indeed.