No-one really noticed us as we walked down the street, despite my staggering and Tefia's insistent giggling.
"Would you please shut up?" her giggling was really starting to get on my nerves, and to make things worse, she was constantly poking my face and then laughing. It actually made me feel pretty self-conscious as I looked at the people around me, just walking around in their normal lives. Surely, after all we'd been through, we couldn't look like them?
When I thought about it, though, we'd done pretty well with keeping ourselves relatively neat. I had a rip in the knee of my trousers where a scrape showed through, from our fight with Fuchsia, and the rest of my clothes barely even looked messy. Tefia wasn't looking too bad either, though she always looked mucky, even after she'd just got up and apparently had a shower. I did not understand her sometimes.
"Gun." she said suddenly.
"No, Tefia." I sighed, we'd been having this argument for a while now, I was way over it. "You can't get the gun out, because people will notice and we're trying to stay unnoticed as much as we can."
"But I want my gun." she pouted at me. "You're being so grumpy lately."
"Or maybe I'm just not completely drunk." I muttered.
"Meh, meh, meh. Moan, moan moan. You bore me, River." she skipped ahead a bit, giggling even more.
Just ten more minutes, ten more minutes. I said inside my head, trying to keep myself going.
We'd decided to just walk the rest of the way, since the train stations might have guards watching out for us and people might notice us if we took a taxi, because apparently we wer known 'missing persons'. Or maybe that woman was just too fussy. Either way, we thought it would be better to take the streets, especially since we were still fairly close to the uni and Tefia was still pretty drunk.
"River's mean, yeah?" she was talking to a smart man in a suit now, and he wrinkled his nose at her unappreciatively, and stalked off. "Well that was mean." she said, folding her arms. She then began talking to a woman with a buggy, complaining about how mean the man was.
"Come on, Tef." I said,careful not to use her name. It wasn't an uncommon name, after all. "She's a bit," I made a swirling motion at the side of my head as I dragged her away. "sorry." The woman gave a curt nod and hurried away.
"Tefia, stay by my side." I moaned.
"Okie-dokie."
Thirty seconds later I felt her finger prodding my cheek again. "You wanna play with my gun?"
"No, Tef, no." I gritted my teeth. I didn't know it was possible to want to knock out a friend so much. She was annoying the crap out of me.
"How much longer?"
I looked down at Tefia's phone and the map on the screen to see where the next turning was. "Right at the next turning and the uni is at the end of the road. I would've thought the that you would recognise this area by this point."
Tefia shrugged. "I'm drunk, remember?" she said defensively.
"Yep."
She actually managed to stay quiet for a couple of minutes as we walked along the road. I couldn't see if there was any damage from the outside, since the Spiritus university was hidden by the real university. Students walked in, laughing at each other and chatting, and i couldn't believe that they were missing such a phenomenon, right in their front door. They never really explained how that works to us, but a popular opinion was that the Spiritus entrance was actually a kind-of portal to another place where they had replicated the University's campus. Some of the magic spirituses might be able to do that, with all of them working together - the magic spirituses were all basically stuck-up wannabes who tended to throw glitter around a lot.
