Scribblers: Vignettes

So, I thought I'd just write a series of these, as they occur to me. If I remember to actually do them they'll mostly be about just small moments in the Scribblers' lives, done in prose rather than script. The tone in each will probably differ wildly, but there we are. Other people should feel free to add to these.

It was a friendship forged almost out of necessity, really. Her mother was Allergic to animals and so wouldn't have them in the house; therefore the first time Shift ever absorbed the genetic sequence of another creature it was both accidental and a squirrel in a complicated anecdote involving the playground antics of Year Nines. Fortunately, no one else was around when the shock of suddenly having the excess DNA caused Shift to spontaneously transform both body and mind and scamper wildly up the nearest tree to tremble and think about acorns except Finesse, so the biggest headache was averted right there. Unfortunately, Finesse's own powers were still unrefined at the time, and she required physical contact to activate them. Saving Shift, therefore, became an entertainingly complicated ordeal in which Finesse had to rather hurriedly refine her tree-climbing powers, and ultimately both were only saved by the pile of gym mats Finesse had wisely thought to place beneath the tree.

Ultimately both learned the fine details of their powers, but the friendship stuck anyway. Shift was somehow immune to the usual tinnitus people developed after listening to Finesse's opinion on something, while Finesse's ears seemed somehow permanently attuned to the uniquely quiet wavelengths of Shift's voice. It was a working system.

Also they were united by their theory that the school was being run by a terrorist cell posing as the Deputy Heads, a theory that was erroneously dismissed until its tragic conclusion a few years later. Conjoined smugness makes a wonderful glue for friendship.