"…Miss Cowatch, what are you doing!"

Dollface turned from her desk, black eyes wide and knife still in her hand.

"I-I just!"

Ms. Peregrine scowled, "That is prohibited!"

Dollface quivered in the Dorm Mistress's shadow, "I just wanted to-"

"I don't care!" Ms. Peregrine said, voice louder than necessary, "Knives are prohibited!"

"No!" Dollface squealed like a little girl as Ms. Peregrine grappled for her folding knife, "Grampa gave me this!"

"We told you at the door!" Ms. Peregrine shouted, causing other girls to come running to the door, "No weapons!"

Dollface screeched like a crying child, face reddening, as she wailed "no" over and over.

Ms. Peregrine wrenched it from Dollface's delicate hands and snapped the blade shut.

"And you were chopping up a teddy bear?" Ms. Peregrine gasped, "You're deranged!"

Dollface glanced at the bear laying on her desk, "No!"

"Wipe your face." Ms. Peregrine snapped, "You're eating with the rest of us tonight!"

"Noooo!" sobbed Dollface, hyper aware of the leering faces of girls ages eight to seventeen getting ready to laugh and point.

"Frickin' psycho."

Dollface slumped to her knees, hearing the first of the whispers.

Now it's my turn to play take apart and put back together!

"No…"