This is a school computer, and thus I am using a school keyboard, which as expected, sucks. But anywayz, school has reopened again from the SARS closure (which could have been longer in my opinions) so updates will be rare. Don't say I didn't warn you.
The party of twenty-eight trudged none too silently through the thick shrubbery of the woods.
As far as Diana and the other Redwall readers were concerned, they were lost, no doubt about it, and that it would have been wiser to stay put until, some way or another, a map chanced itself into their reach (which was more than impossible). And knowing how large Mossflower Woods could be, they were quite against the group moving.
As far as all the others were concerned, they were lost, no doubt about it, and they wanted to get to civilization as soon as possible because they were hungry, hot, and thirsty.
And so the decision of the majority overruled the decision of the Redwall fanatics, and thus they moved on.
The sun was not helping either, and it continued to beat down on their backs. Plus, they wore, over their P.E. T-shirts (it was Monday, P.E. day), *dark blue* pinafores.
"We are like so hopelessly lost," Diana muttered grumpily.
"I thought you were a Redwall expert," Mei Keen replied just as grumpily, as she matched the pace of the fuming bookworm.
Diana flared up, "I don't go memorising Redwall maps, you know!"
And so on.
~*~
Miss Sue Tan walked up the lavender coloured bridge on the fourth floor, and turned right, to head down the notoriously notorious corridor that housed 6H, 6J, and of course, 6I.
Not that it was her job; she taught the P5s. But she saw the lights fans on in 6I, with nobody in the classroom, and thus had deigned to go over to perform the rightful duty every responsible citizen should have done. She went to turn off the fans.
Passing 6H, which was having Chinese at the moment, she saw the tendrils of smoke emitting from the 6I classroom door and paused for a bit. "Oh my," Ms. Tan said softly to herself and bravely stepped in.
The classroom was engulfed in smoke, but there was no fire. Reasoning to herself that the men from the Ministry of Environment were probably fumigating the field, she coughed a little and waved the smoke away from her face, she stepped forward and nearly tripped upon Diana's "Marlfox", which had, for some strange reason or another, landed on the floor. Picking it up, she unintentionally touched a corner of the visualizer.
And it blew up again.
~*~
Nobody (with the exception of Zhao Lao Shi) even jumped when yet another teacher dropped down on them in the middle of nowhere.
"Hi Ms. Tan!"
The welcome reception was all ready this time, and they sounded a little too cheerful for the present predicament.
"What am I doing here?"
"Join the club, Ms. Tan!"
Then Diana gave a loud gasp and ran over to her ex-English teacher and literally snatched something out of her grasp! "My Marlfox!"