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[ there are no actual words in the text, just a photo of Henry's graffitied artwork of Corr on the brick wall of a building. ]

_{[She should have guessed. Sherlock Holmes is a Brit, after all.]}

You mastered the camera? That's great.

_{[She's clapping, really.]}

It's a flattering likeness, I'm sure he'd like it if he had artistic sensibilities.

[ thanks 4 your encouragement henry ]

You should pass that onto the artist. I'm sure they'd be flattered you're flattered.

_{[She's not taking credit for this.]}

If I ever meet her I'm sure I will.

[ fooling exactly nobody here, henry. if only because sean's venn diagram of "people who have met corr" and "people who can draw" is a perfect circle. ]

_{[Oh, what, just because you saw her drawing on her sneakers one time... And probably in her little black sketchbook multiple times... And the paint-stained fingers... And that she's just crazy enough to find your water horse kind of cool...

That doesn't mean anything.]}

Who says she's a she?

[ yeah, definitely, that means nothing at all........... ]

Call it a hunch, I guess.

_{[Look, Chloe does it, too, okay, she's not the only vandal with ovaries in this town.]}

That might be considered sexist. Do they have that term in your time? Look it up.

[ SCREAMS bc the word sexism wasn't really invented until the 60s ]

I've got enough homework I'm not doing...

[ he will probably look it up anyway ]

Let me put it this way. There are only three people in this town who have seen Corr face to face, and only one of them seems likely to go drawing his likeness on walls.

How's that going, by the way? The student life.

_{[She bets he went to whatever new semester orientations the school offered. Speaking of what people seem like, he seems like that kind of nerd.]}

Your horse is basically a cherry red sports car on legs. Unless everyone's been struck blind, more than three people have noticed you two around.

I do try to keep him as far away from the public as I can, just in case. I'm sure some have seen him, but not many at a distance that would let them draw him like this.

_{[Is school as bad for him as it is for her and they're just not talking about it, or is he just that determined to get her to admit she's the culprit?]}

Could be our mystery artist thought he was an interesting subject.

[ neither, i just forgot to address it lmao ]

I'm sure she did. Excuse me, he or she.

And school is fine, when I go. There's a lot of reading. Homework doesn't really suit me, but they don't entirely seem to mind if I don't do it all, as long as I show up to most of the classes and don't cause much trouble.

_{[Not letting her wriggle off the hook when she tried for a subject change, how rude.]}

If you looked closely enough, you might see a signature. Lots of people tag their work that way.

_{[One way to tell apart hers from Chloe's.]}

You? Cause trouble? I don't believe it. Is getting back into the swing of book learning as hard as you thought it'd be? Figures a sea witch would dive right into the deep end, going straight for college.

[ he files away the bit about the signature for future reference. ]

Saying 'back' sounds like there was ever book learning to begin with. I went to the college because it was right for my age.

It's not too bad, actually. So long as the professors don't mind explaining like I don't know anything. Most of them don't.

You can read these texts, so someone must have hooked you up with the basics at some point.

Look at you, jumping the line. You're making the rest of us look bad with all this overachieving.

My mum taught me. That's about as much formal education as I've had.

[ overachieving??? sean doesn't know her. ]

You sound like you go to class even less than I do.

Plenty of kids homeschool that way. Thought about tutoring any?

_{[Moms. Are they in awkward territory? It feels like they could be in awkward territory. Maybe she feels bad bringing up what must have been an abrupt end to those lessons once his dad died and his mom bailed that she tries out a helpful suggestion.]}

Back home I went to school. Here? Probably. The high school's a joke.

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