CLOSED ♔ YOUR PRINCESS IS IN ANOTHER CASTLE

[slay]

WHO || Buffy Summers & Spike
WHAT || Buffy and Spike play more Mario Kart
WHERE || Knights HQ, Game Room
WHEN || July 30
HOW || Prose

A girl like Buffy shouldn't have been spending the sunnier part of a summer day inside. And she hadn't been -- for most of it. She'd had plenty of hang around outside and enjoy the sun time. It was just that, well, it was muggy and gross and the sun wasn't even that sunny, more of a partly cloudy, and who ever thought England was that great anyway? Even when it wasn't foggy, it was icky in one way or another.

Anyway. She'd wound up inside, pacing the halls, restless, and found her way to Spike's door. We're not discussing how she knew which bedroom was his. Theirs is a forbidden love. She hung around outside of it for what felt like a great long while, tongue pressed against the inside of her cheek, warring with herself.

He was probably sleeping was the primary excuse she used to try and convince herself not to knock. It was better than addressing the million other actual reasons she might not have wanted to, like the fact that even when they were friends it felt baggage-y. And it did nothing for the twitchy feeling in her spine and she was starting to think it was just ... Spike-sense. Which was a whole 'nother ballpark of don't wanna acknowledge.

She reached out decisively and rapped her knuckles on his door with a few hurried knocks.

CLOSED ♔ GIRL, I KNOW THE WOODS LOOK DARK

[slay]

{ lost girls ♔ tilly and the wall }

WHO || Buffy Summers & Myrilandel de Tanos
WHAT || Buffy teaches Myri some sweet moves
WHERE || Knights HQ, Training Area
WHEN || August 5
HOW || Prose

She hadn't pulled weapons from the racks, but Buffy had done some prep work of the sparring space they'd claimed as their own by getting pads out just in case it turned out Myri packed more of a punch than she appeared to. Truth be told, Buffy wasn't anticipating that much, but it'd prove to be a motivator.

"You know," she pointed out, pushing the pads up against the wall and wrapping tape around her knuckles. "I feel compelled to mention that Fred's usually the go-to guy for the training business. Or, Kat." A beat. "For anything but firearms, anyway." Except, Kat wasn't her knight anymore. Right. Myri was gonna be all full-knight gal, just like Spike.

She kept forgetting she was being left behind. Her expression grew a little distant at that, then she just looked down at her hands again, putting more attention the wrapping and soldiering onward.

"I mean, I'm happy to do it, I just. They might know more than I do." After all, super strength couldn't really be taught.

[Open] Hand in the fire, gonna get burned

[reallywicked]

WHO || Faye Chamberlain & OPEN
WHAT || Faye snoops where she probably shouldn't
WHERE || Near the magical supply room
WHEN || August 18
HOW || prose or actionspam, whichever you prefer!

For as much as Faye put on the dumb, one-track-mind girl act with a lot of the castle's men, she really had a lot more in mind than sleeping with every Knight she met. Sex was a tool to be used to meet an end. But it wasn't the only tool she had at her disposal. She was learning about magic, after all. Well... not so much learning, as figuring it out as she went. Magic would be her tool one day. But she had to learn to properly wield it.

There was also a great deal to learn about the castle. She hadn't taken much time to have a look around before, so now that she was back and more of the mindset to learn her surroundings, she was making up for her previous mistakes. She was being leisurely with it, strolling down the halls, one hand trailing fingertips against the wall. As she ran her hands over a door, she stopped.

Looking at it, it didn't seem any different, but something made her stop. She looked around, making sure the coast was clear before grabbing the handle and turning. The door opened and Faye stepped inside. This was a lot like sending a kid into a candy shop- except instead of kids and candy it was a witch and magical supplies. She probably wasn't supposed to be in here- considering she hardly knew what she was doing with magic. And considering that, she probably should have thought to close the door behind her...

Oh well.