It would be nice to say that we stayed there and made out, as if we could afford to do that. It would be lovely if there wasn’t an actual need to start writing down details, and who had which opinions before we started to mix them up or forget them. She was very disappointed by this, but she couldn’t deny that it made sense. Which led to Ivy and I sitting on her bed with papers spread around us. “I can’t believe you managed to steal all of these petitions and nobody noticed,” I said, impressed at what she had accumulated. She smiled impishly, legs crossed and rocking forwards to grab a pen, and an actual pot of ink. I’d steered clear of it, until I got the chance to practice without an audience. Being unable to use a basic writing utensil would create much more problems than I was prepar

