21: No Schist, Sherlock
Ash kind of enjoyed the next few days.
Pippa transformed the lounge at the House of All into a hospital. She had tried to use the House of Nature, but Olivia and Alice had objected.
"What?!" Olivia had shrieked. "How am I going to relocate the Hedgehog Hospital AGAIN?"
"Also, there is no way I can get to sleep at night with twelve people moaning and groaning and scaring that injured pelican Pippa's planning to operate on this afternoon." Alice added.
"Yeah." Olivia added. "That pelican has serious anxiety issues."
The sofas had all been shoved into the training hall, along with the games cupboards and book shelves. Due to popular demand, (and a riot led by Max) the HD television which was over two metres long had been left in its usual place. In Danny's words; 'What can help ease our boredom during our recovery time better?'
As all twelve of them had helped make the TV in some way, they could all change the channel, or access iPlayer, with no more than a wink. Sianna had put last year's final of The Great British Bake-Off on. Ash, being the Sherlockian she was, had changed it to an old Sherlock episode. The image had changed to Paul Hollywood cackling with delight when somebody's sponge hadn't risen. Then Sherlock investigating a crime scene. Bake-Off. Sherlock. Bake-Off, Sherlock, Bake-
Sianna gave up, leaving Sherlock to discuss his findings with Watson.
"No schist, Sherlock." Ash said triumphantly.
Pippa had healed most of Ash's wounds - the scratches, the bruises from her fight with the SMDTs - by holding her hand on her for about five minutes. The only wound left was the lack of skin on her right leg.
She lay back on her pillows and, sipping the tea she had forced Daisy to fetch her from the kitchen, sunk into the Sherlock episode,
*
Mason watched as Felix sketched out a map on the whiteboard using a blue marker. He drew a lake at the top, eight buildings dotted around, and a river snaking in the middle.
"At Willow Forest," he said, "People do not chose who they live with. There is a stone cabin for each of the seven Elements. You stay in the cabin of the Element you control, with those who control the same Element as you."
X raised her hand.
"Yes?" Felix said.
"But, wouldn't that mean that, like, some of the cabins must be virtually empty, and others jammed full? Also, what if you end up with somebody you hate?"
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