When we get to class Dad gets right to business.
"You need to choose who the class president will be. Do whatever just don't disturb me," Mr. Aizawa says as he zips himself up in his sleeping bag and goes to sleep.
"What if we do it as a democracy?" Ida interjects.
"That's a good idea, Ida. If you get multiple votes, you won fair and square," Izuku responds.
After all the votes are counted up I have three and Izuku has two and Yaoyorozu has one. Izuku and I walk up to the front of the class and Ida looks very disappointed.
"Hey, Ida, this was your idea," Kaminari says.
When I get to the mess hall, I see that Izuku is sitting with Ida and Uraraka. I head over and start eating with them, pulling Shoto along.
"Are you sure I'll be a good class vice president?" Izuku asks.
"You'll be alright," Ida assures Izuku.
"You got multiple votes. That means multiple people believe you to be the best," I add.
"Tenya, you're always so formal. Why is that?" Uraraka asks.
"I come from the prestigious Ida family. The Ida family has been in heroics for generations. I want to be like my older brother, Ingenium, he's a famous hero in our family."
That's when the sirens start to go off, indicating that someone has initiated UA. The students all start to rush out of the mess hall messily.
We all try to stick together but we're separated quickly. I teleport to above the exit.
"Everyone! Stop! We need to evacuate in an orderly fashion so no one is unaccounted for! Line up in a line when you get outside based on your class!" I shout and they start going out in an orderly fashion.
When we get outside, I take a headcount, leaving Izuku in charge as I teleport to my dad. He's standing with the other teachers at the gate.
"Dad."
"Yes?"
"Everyone in class is accounted for. Izuku is watching them right now. What happened to the gate?"
"The media."
"No. They couldn't have done that. It must have been someone with a disintegration quirk. Not a strength, it would have a dent and still be solid, not crumbled like this. It couldn't have been an acid quirk like Ashido's, it would have looked more melted. Could I go out there and look around? I can have you on speaker."
"Fine. Be careful."
"Yes, Dad."
I put the phone on speaker and head out into the crowd changing my hair to blond and my eyes blue. I look around for anyone doing anything suspicious. I spot someone in a black hoodie on the opposite side of the street. I walk over and they turn their attention to me.
"What do you want?" Shigaraki asks.
I summon a dagger of shadows while holding a finger to my mouth.
"I was just wondering if you saw anything suspicious."
"Nope."
"Okay, thank you for your time," I say as I make a shoeing motion.
I head back into UA hanging up the phone.
"They must have left already."
"This must be a declaration of war," Nezu says as I change my hair and eye color back.
"If so, we should have all the teachers constantly on the watch," I say as I tap my earpiece, turning it off. "Since we have that training exercise at the USJ tomorrow, we should have another teacher there other than Thirteen, Mr. Aizawa, and All Might."
"You are correct Hizuki. Though as we all know, you, Persephone, are going to be there. You've gotten good at quirk analysis."
"Thanks, but that's all thanks to me spending time with Izuku. He taught me how to do that," I say as I start to walk back to the class.
•••
It's finally time for our heroics class.
"Change into your hero outfits and head out to the training fields," Dad says. "Go on. Time is of the essence."
We all grab our hero outfits and change, rushing out to the training fields where class 1-B is standing in their hero outfits.
"What are we doing with class 1-A?" a blond boy in a tuxedo asks loudly.
An orange-haired girl in a teal knee-length dress and a black corset slaps him in the back of his head.
"You're all here for joint training," Vlad King says. "One person from each class will compete against each other. There will be one exception, two students from class 1-A will battle each other since there are twenty-two students in that class this year."
"I heard that there are four recommended students in 1-A. Let's see how good they actually are!" the blond boy shouts laughing.
"The battles will be randomized and it will be a bracket," Dad says. "Sato and Shiozaki are up first. The first one to immobilize their opponent wins the round."
Sato and Shiozaki step into the field and Sato put sugar in his mouth. Before he even has a chance to hit Shiozaki, she extends her hair, which I see are vines, into the ground, and it comes up through the ground, wrapping around Sato as he's lifted into the air, immobilized.
"Shiozaki wins," Dad announces.
The blond boy laughs again. "See class 1-B is better!"
"Shut up!" Katsuki and I both shout as he's slapped in the head by the orange-haired girl.
Izuku is mumbling so fast that I can't make out what he's saying. I quickly teleport into the school grabbing a notebook and pen, then teleport back out handing it to Izuku. He starts writing without me having to say anything.
"Oi! Shut up Deku!" Katsuki shouts.
"Sorry," Izuku says, stopping his mumbling.
I slap Katsuki in the head as I say, "No, Izuku, continue," and he starts his mumbling again.
As Shiozaki sets Sato down, retracting the vines and disconnecting them, Vlad King says, "Next up is Asui and Bondo."
Shoto walks over to the disconnected vines, crouches down, and sets them on fire with a spark. The vines go up in flames as he walks away and they turn to ash within seconds. I wave him over to where Izuku and I are and he changes direction walking towards us.
Asui and Bondo go into the field. From the holes in Bondo's yellow mask, a liquid comes out as Asui jumps, but ends up landing in it getting stuck. I conclude that he has an adhesive quirk and even though Asui is stuck she extends her young to wrap around Bondo and his mask, lifting him in the air.
"Asui wins," Vlad King says.
"Class 1-A is better than you extras!" Katsuki shouts.
"Next up is Jiro and Rin," Dad says.
Jiro plugs her earphone jacks into her speakers that are built into her boots. She channels a sound from them into the speakers, projecting them at Rin. The sound doesn't do anything to Rin as his body gets covered in green scales. He rushes as Jiro as she unplugs her earphone jacks and uses them in a whip-like manner. Her earphone jacks do nothing to Rin and he comes up behind her, grabbing her wrists and pinning them behind her back, immobilizing her.
"Rin wins."
"Ha! Class 1-B is the better class!" the blonde boy shouts as Katsuki.
"Shut your trap Monoma!" the orange-haired girl says slapping him again.
"Enough Monoma. Next up is Todoroki and Tsunotori," Vlad King says.
Shoto and the blonde girl with horns walk onto the field. Tsunotori detaches her horns, shooting them at Shoto, and he creates a wall of ice by just reaching his arm out, stopping the horns as she regrew them. Shoto walks out from behind the ice and creates a small glacier trapping Tsunorori in it, immobilizing her.
"Todoroki wins."
Shoto walks over to Tsunotori, reaching out a hand to melt the ice, releasing her. Then he walks over to the wall of ice he made, melting it.
"Next up is Uraraka and Tokage," Dad says getting into his sleeping bag. "This is boring."
Uraraka and Tokage walk onto the field and Uraraka charges at Toakage. Uraraka is able to touch Tokage levitating her, but that's when Tokage splits off into multiple pieces. She controls her arms to go behind Uraraka, grabbing her wrists.
"Uraraka's quirk is basically useless if someone like Tokage can split into multiple pieces and then fly around," I say.
"So Tokage can split herself into multiple pieces and control them. She could probably even float on her own. I wonder if there is a certain range that Tokage can control her parts. If so, would they drop out of her control, basically dead? Would she be able to regenerate them or would she have to walk and collect them?" Izuku asks as he is writing in the notebook.
"If she can regenerate them, how much energy would it take? How much time would it take for a part to regrow? Can she only split into five pieces or can she split into more? If so, how many pieces can she split into?"
"If she can regrow them, it'd be like she has a lizard tail."
"We could call her quirk," Izuku and I both say looking at each other. "Lizard tail. Nice!" we say giving each other a high-five.
"That's what happens when your best friend teaches you how to do a quirk analysis," I say.
"Thanks," Izuku says. "Though it's only because you took the time to ask and hang out with me. Also, you're smart. Unlike Kacchan," Izuku says glaring at Katsuki.
"Shut it, you damn nerds!"
"Tokage wins."
"Next up is Hizuki and Kuroiro," Vlad King says as Dad gets out of his sleeping bag to watch.
I walk to one side of the field, letting the shadows float around me my hair levitates off my shoulders, and the capturing weapon defies gravity. I use the shadows and wrap them around Kuroiro, solidifying them. As I do, it's as if he had disappeared. I release the shadows and he appears closer to me. I summon a pole of shadows and throw it at him. He disappeared as the pole of shadows touches him. I conclude that he can fuse into anything dark in color or shadows. I rushed closer to him and use the capturing weapon to restrain him. I pull the capturing weapon so he's pulled into the air, and then slam him into the ground.
"Hizuki wins."
I release Kuroiro and walk back over to where Izuku, Shoto, and Katsuki are.
"Nice job Hizuki. I think Kuroiro can merge with anything that's dark in color or it's just shadows," Izuku says.
"I came to that conclusion also."
"Nice job," Shoto says.
"Thanks."
"Bet you couldn't beat me!" Katsuki shouts.
"Yeah sure. Prove your point when you go against me."
"Hagakure and Tetsutetsu," Dad says.
They walk onto the field. The only thing that I can see of Hagakure is her gloves and shoes. Tetsutetsu's skin and hair turn to steal as he charges at Hagakure. She takes off her gloves and shoes, throwing them to the side, becoming fully invisible. It seems as if Tetsutetsu felt something on his back, he turns around and pushes Hagakure to the ground, restraining her.
"Tetsutetsu wins."
"Mineta and Awase," Vlad King says.
Once on the field, Mineta throws his balls all over the field. As Awase doesn't know what they are, he just charges through, getting covered in them and stuck on the ones on the floor as he steps on them.
"Mineta wins."
I walk over to where Awase is coating myself in a layer of shadows, summoning a dagger of shadows. I cut the balls off his feet, the balls sticking to the dagger and I dissipate it, summoning another dagger as we walk to another field. I start cutting off the balls stuck to him, not saying anything. I repeat the dissipating the shadows on my hands and the dagger and summoning them again, multiple times.
"Thanks," Awase says.
"No problem. I should have asked first if it was okay. Sorry if it made you uncomfortable."
"No, it's fine," he says and I walk off to where Shoto and Izuku are.
"Tokoyami and Kendo," Dad says as they walk onto the field.
The orange-haired girl grows her hand so it's the size of her body. Tokoyami lets his shadow bird lunge and attack Kendo and she slaps it growing her other hand to the same size. She grabs the shadow by the throat and goes for Tokoyami, wrapping her other hand around him.
"Kendo wins."
"Koda and Kodai," Vlad King says and they walk onto the field.
Kokai takes out something from her pocket on her hero outfit and throws it at Koda. As they get closer to him, they grow, becoming large, trapping him.
"Kodai wins."
"Sero and Honenuki," Dad says from the sleeping bag.
Sero and Honenuki walk onto the field and right away Sero starts to sink into the ground as if it had been turned to quicksand. Once he's elbows deep, the ground solidifies again, trapping him.
"Honenuki wins," Vlad King says taking over Dad's part, as the ground becomes liquid again and Sero is pulled out. "Kirishima and Kaibara."
Kirishima and Kaibara walk onto the field, and Kirishima hardens his skin. He charges at Kaibara who attacks him by spinning his body like a drill which doesn't have any effect on him. Kirishima tackles Kaibara to the ground restraining him.
"Kirishima wins."
"Very manly bro," Kirishima says helping Kaibara up.
"Ojiro and Shishida."
Ojiro and the student with fur all over his body walk to the field. Shishida grows in size and grabs Ojiro's tail as he tries to swat away the hand. Shishida wraps his arms around Ojiro, restraining him.
"Shishida wins. Bakugo and Shoda."
"Die!" Katsuiki shouts as he blasts himself forward with his explosions.
He gets close to Shishida and Shishida punches him. Even after he's punched Katsuki, it's as if he's punched again, but stronger, blasting Katsuki back. Katsuki gets on the ground, steadying himself as he gets ready to pull the pin in the grenade. I teleport in front of Shishida, putting up a wall of shadows in front of us just as Katsuki pulls the pin setting off the ginormous explosion.
"Bakugo Katsuki! You could have fucking killed him!"
"Language!" Dad shouts.
"Sorry! Anyway, what made you think that thought that it was okay to do an attack like that on him? Who even approved of your costume? Mr. Aizawa, who approved Katsuki's costume?"
"I believe that it was All Might."
"Another thing on that list. Don't ever do that again!" I shout at him as I teleport back to where I was, letting the wall of shadows down.
They get back to the fight Katsuki jumps in the air, ending up behind Shishida, grabbing his wrists, and holding them behind his back.
"Bakugo wins. Aoyama and Monoma."
"I'm better than you peasant!" Monoma shouts as they walk onto the field.
He runs at Aoyama who shoots his laser at him and Monoma dodges, touching Aoyama. Monoma runs back and shoots Aoyama with a laser. While Aoyama bends over in pain, Monoma runs behind him pinning his arms behind him.
"Monoma wins."
"See, I'm better than all you peasants!" Monoma shouts laughing. "Class 1-B is better!"
I summon shadows around his ankle solidifying them, yanking him up so he's dangling in the air upside down.
"Hey! Let me down!"
I release him and he drops to the ground in a heap.
"Enough! Ashido and Yanagi."
They walk onto the field as Monoma gets off it. Ashido seems to slide on the ground as she secretes acid from her feet. She gets closer to Yanagi who seems like she's going to attack and Ashido dodges out of the way swiftly. That's when Ashido starts to float. Ashido is then thrown to the ground. She gets up and runs at Yanagi. She's lifted off her feet and pulled closer to Yanagi till Yanagi pins Ashido's arms behind her back.
"Yanagi wins. Kaminari and Komori."
As they get onto the field, mushrooms start to grow over the field and I conclude that Komori has a mushroom quirk. Kaminari rushes for her as mushrooms grow on him and electricity covered his body. He gets close enough to her and wraps his body around her, shocking her. He grabs her wrists, restraining her.
"Kaminari wins. Ida and Tsuburba."
They get to the field and Tsuburba blows out air and Ida runs into him, coming across an invisible force. With one kick he gets through the barrier.
"Tsuburba must be able to solidify air," I say to Izuku who's still writing and mumbling.
"Yeah, it seems to do with how much breath he can breathe out."
When I look back I see that Ida had come up behind Tsuburba and restrained him by his wrists.
"Ida wins. Yaoyorozu and Fukidashi."
Yaoyorozu creates a rope and ties it like a lasso. She throws it.
"Boom!" Fukidashi shouts and an explosion happens, blasting the rope back.
Yaoyorozu creates a metal weight and adds it to the end of the rope, running toward Fukidashi throwing the lasso, finally getting the robe around him, pulling it tight even though a large gust of wind came from Fukidashi shouting "Woosh", the weight counteracting the wind.
"Yaoyorozu wins. Shoji and Kamakiri."
Kamakiri creates a large blade and rushes toward Shoji as he runs Kamakiri. Kamakiri swings his blade at Shoji, cutting him and Shoji continued running. Shoji got close enough that he could wrap his arms around Kamakiri, restraining him.
"Shoji wins," Dad says. "Shiozaki and Asui."
Asui jumps high and tries to wrap her tongue around Shiozaki. Shiozaki turns around creating a wall of vines to stop Asui's attack. Detaching her vines, she grows vines out of the ground wrapping around Asui whose in midair.
"Shiozaki wins. Rin and Todoroki."
As soon as they get onto the field, Shoto ices the field over with ice, trapping Rin where he is. Shoto grows the ice so it's at his waist, restraining him.
"Todoroki wins. Tokage and Hizuki."
As we get onto the field, Tokage splits into many pieces. Before she can spread them out more, I create a dome of shadows and scope all of her up like using a net. I restrain her by having her stuck in the dome with no way out.
"Hizuki wins," Dad says and I turn to smile at him and he nods in approval as I release Tokage. "Tetsutetsu and Mineta."
Mineta tries the same strategy but Tetsutetsu avoids all the balls he throws, running behind him, and tackling him to the ground.
"Tetsutetsu wins. Kendo and Kodai."
Kendo runs toward Kodai, enlarging her hand so she can grab Kodai. She grabs Kodai, restraining her.
"Kendo wins. Honeniuki and Kirishima."
As they get on the field, Kirishima hardens his skin. Kirishima runs toward Honeniuki and he starts to sink as the ground turns quicksand-like. As he gets waist-deep, the ground solidifies, trapping him.
"Honeniuki wins. Shishida and Bakugo."
Katsuki charges at Shishida, using explosions to propel himself. Shishida runs forward and grabs Katsuki restraining him. Katsuki creates multiple explosions burning Shishida, leaving spots without fur.
"Shishida wins. Monoma and Yanagi."
Before they get on the field Monoma walks over to Honeniuki and shakes his hand. He walks onto the field and the ground turns quicksand-like and Yanagi starts to sink into the ground. Monoma starts to float as she gets waist-deep into the ground. He is slammed into the ground flat on his back. The ground solidifies as Yanagi is neck-deep.
"Monoma wins. Kaminari and Ida."
Kaminari runs at Ida who's running faster. Ida gets to Kaminari and kicks him in the stomach, everyone getting electrocuted, resulting in Kaminari short-circuiting. He stares off in space with his thumbs up, clearly not mentally here and Ida restrains him.
"Ida wins. Yaoyorozu and Kamakiri."
As Kamakiri creates a blade, Yaoyorozu creates a sword, charging at him. As they're fighting, Yaoyorozu finds an opening and hits Kamakiri in the side of his head with her sword, knocking him out.
"Yaoyorozu wins. Shiozaki and Todoroki."
Shoto creates a small glacier, trapping Shiozaki within the first minute, getting it over quickly and easily.
He walks over and melts the ice as Dad says, "Todoroki wins. Hizuki and Tetsutetsu."
As Tetsutetsu turns his skin to metal, I control the shadows so they wrap around him, solidifying them. I control the solidified shadows so he's in the air restrained.
"Hizuki wins. Kendo and Honenuki."
Right as they get onto the field, the ground turns quicksand-like and Kendo starts sinking. She enlarges her hand and tries to use it to keep her up, but she sinks to her waist and the ground solidifies, trapping her.
"Honenuki wins. Shishida and Monoma."
Shishida charges at Monoma as he also charges forward and wraps his arms around him, just as he did with Katsuki.
"Shishida wins. Ida and Yaoyorozu."
As Ida charges forward, Yaoyorozu creates a shield, seeming unsteady on her feet. As Ida gets close she lifts the shield blocking his kick. After a couple more times blocking the kicks, the shield falls out of her hands, clattering on the ground. She becomes pale and seems unsteady on her feet. I teleport to her and she faints. I grab her before she can hit the ground.
I carry her over to where Vlad King and Dad are, setting her down saying, "Remember when you first got the class assignments. I read about our classmates' quirks. Yaoyorozu overused her quirk. She'll need to eat something when she wakes up."
Dad nods in acknowledgment, saying to the rest of the class, "Ida wins. Todoroki and Hizuki."
I go onto the field and before the match starts I ask Shoto, "Left?"
"No."
"Okay. Ready when you are."
He tries to encapsulate me in a glacier of ice but I quickly bring up a wall of shadows. I teleport to him, walking through the shadows, feeling them on my skin. I appear behind him and wrap my arms around him as I use the shadows to restrain his arms, pushing him to the ground.
I smile when I roll him so his back is on the ground and say, "Guess I won."
I pull him up, having the solidified shadows dissipate as Dad says, "Hizuki wins. Honenuki and Shishida."
As soon as they start the match, Shishida starts to sink into the ground. He sinks quicker than others did and the ground solidifies, trapping him.
"Honenuki wins. Ida and Midoriya."
"Izuku," I say.
"Yes?"
"Try to limit the amount of force you use. Don't use one-hundred percent."
"I'll try," he says as he walks onto the field.
I teleport to Yaoyorzu who is starting to wake up as Izuku and Ida start fighting.
"I'm going to get some snacks from Recovery Girl," I say to Dad.
"Okay."
I teleport to Recovery Girl and she asks, "What do you need?"
"Do you have granola bars or something for someone to eat?"
"Yes. What happened?"
"Yaoyrozu overused her quirk and passed out. She just needs some food."
"Okay. Here you go."
"Thanks."
"Tell her to not overuse her quirk."
"I will," I say as I teleport back to Yaoyrozu who's now up. I hand her the granola bars, saying, "Eat these."
"Thanks," she responds grabbing the from me.
"No problem."
I look and see that Izuku is still fighting, even though he has a broken arm. Ida comes for him again and as Ida kicks, Izuku dodges and knocks his foot out from under him, causing Ida to fall to the ground. I cheer as Izuku gets on top of him, pinning him down as he steals Ida's quirk, the red aura coming off Ida and going to Izuku.
"Midoriya wins. Hizuki and Honenuki."
As we get onto the field and start the battle, I create a platform of shadows above the ground, jumping on it just as the ground turns liquid. I control the shadows so they go higher as I'm on the platform. I wrap the shadows around Honenuki, pulling him up and out of the ground as it solidifies again and I see that he's trying to liquify the shadows.
"You can't liquify shadows. It seems you've lost," I say and he slumps in defeat.
"Hizuki wins. Hizuki and Midoriya," Dad says as I jump off the platform of shadows, dissipating the solidified shadows, releasing Honenuki.
As Izuku gets on the field, he takes my quirk.
"You won't be able to fight well without your quirk," he says.
"You forget. I have trained in hand-to-hand combat."
I run towards him, daggers in hand, slashing at his legs as he tries to kick me as Ida does. I draw blood, slashing him, but it's not deep enough to injure him badly. I sheath my daggers and h.e steadies himself. I take the chance to try and capture him with my capturing weapon. He counters with a flick of his finger, breaking it as the wind from it sends me flying backward.
"Your finger's broken. How much longer can you last?" I ask running back at him.
He tries to kick me again, this time with One For All. I knock his foot out from under him and use the capturing weapon, wrapping it around him. As soon as I think I've won, he teleports, leaving the capturing weapon empty. I'm pushed to the ground from behind and I roll onto my back as Izuku gets on top of me. I kick him in the stomach, rolling us so he's on the bottom.
He teleports away and that's when I realize I need to knock him out. As he charges at me, I draw my sword. As he gets close to me, I aim the sword so I hit him in the head with the smooth part, but I hit a wall of shadows.
"I see you've already figured out how to solidify the shadows."
"It's not hard considering I've studied your quirk since we were children and I grew up with you as my friend," Izuku says as he summons a sword of shadows.
I have the advantage as his right arm is broken. He tries to attack me with the sword but I dodge to the right and use the chance to hit him in the side of his head when I'm pulled closer by my legs. I'm then pulled into the air, my cape hanging in front of my face. I unclasp the cape, grateful that I had pants under my skirt. As the cape falls to the ground, I see I'm able to get a good hit on top of Izuku's head. He doesn't realize what I'm doing and I wack him on the head with my sword, knocking him out. I fall to the ground, twisting my body so I don't land head first.
"Hizuki wins."
I brush off the dirt, grabbing the sword that I'd thrown to the side, sheathing it. I clasp my cape back on and pick Izuku up.
As I walk over to Vlad King and Dad, I say, "I'm going to bring Izuku to the nurse. I'll see you later."
"Okay," Dad says. "Congrats on winning."
"Thanks," I say as I walk away.
After I take him to Recovery Girl, she heals him and I head back to the locker room to change. I head back to the nurse, finding Izuku up.
"You were amazing Izuku."
"Thanks."
"Sorry to bother you at a time like this, but do you think you could give me back my quirk?"
"Oh, sorry," he says and I put my hand in his as the red aura flows from him to me.
"It's fine. You caught on quick how to use my quirk."
"I guess I did. I probably could have used it better if I had more time."
"You were awesome. Come on. Let's head back to class to grab our bags," I say and we head out and back to the classroom.
"That fight was so many!" Kirishima says.
"You guys were awesome!" Ashido adds.
"Nice job Hizuki," Shoto says.
"Thanks."
"Thanks, guys," Izuku says. "I could have done better."
"What you did was amazing," I say to Izuku. "You need to learn to take a compliment."
"Sorry."
"Don't apologize."
"I could have done better than you!" Katsuki shouts.
"Then how come you could only beat one person?" I shout back.
"It was the stupid match-ups!"
"You just sound like a sore loser!"
"You bitch!" he shouts as he gets out of his seat and runs toward me.
"If anyone's a bitch here, it'd be you. You look like an angry Pomeranian," I say as I wrap my shadows around him, restraining him.
"Let me go!"
"No bullying!"
"Fine," he says and I release him.
"You remind me of the pro, Persephone," Ashido says.
"Yeah, I get told that a lot."
"She started appearing two years ago and she's always seen with Present Mic. Is she your idol?"
"I guess you could say that."
"Thanks again for your help," Yaoyorozu tells me.
"No problem," I say and look over at Izuku who's flustered as he's talking with Uraraka.
Dad walks in and dismisses the class, walking back out of the classroom.
"Are you coming?" Shoto asks me.
"No, I'm going to meet up with one of my friends."
"But, Izuku just left."
"I'm meeting up with Shiggy. You met him when you took care of my burns."
"Oh yeah. See you tomorrow."
"Bye," I say as I head to the staff lounge.
