The Principal's Office

[tailor_made]

The door to the principal’s office is open at all hours, although you will only find Hester at the receptionist’s desk from 8:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. This is primarily where you can have private conversations with her. Though there’s an actual office in the back, it is always closed and locked.

Comments

[brokeforgood]

[Tea she can turn down-- but the cookies? No way.]

I gave mine to Salieri, when I first saw it. If I tell him I want it back, he's going to think I've gone of the deep end. Kind of like you, right now.

[tailor_made]

[The cookies are very tasty! And all different shapes- hearts, stars and horseshoes.]

I don't think you've gone off the deep end. I just think getting a second copy of a picture that includes your own corpse isn't, hmmmm, let's say "productive" or "healthy".

[brokeforgood]

Yeah, see, this is why I’m not asking him. [She sighs heavily.]

I need it back. I don’t even care about my own corpse being in it, though, thanks for bringing that up and also for confirming?

My sisters in that picture.

[tailor_made]

[She's on the verge of arguing- she doesn't want to retraumatize Farrah anymore than she already has- but the moment she brings up her sister Hester's resolve wavers and she glances toward one of her several desk drawers.]

...Right. Annleigh.

[brokeforgood]

Yeah. Annleigh.

It’s not the best picture of her, but... it’s the only thing I have. [She hadn’t been looking at Hester— but now she does, pleadingly.]

[tailor_made]

[Hester watches her for a long minute, her brows deeply furrowed while she tries to find any real reason to not give it to her...and she can't. Heaving a heavy sigh, she pulls open the draw and takes out a photograph. She starts to extend it to Farrah but stops, carefully folding it so that just Annaleigh is immediately visible, before she hands it over.]

I wish I could give you a better one.