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Susan opened up her locker, and sort of shuffled her books inside. As she did, a small note fell out. She picked it up and read it:
Susan,
Ms. Gulrie said that she'd [crossed out word] [another crossed out word] keep the norns for us, to. You can [crossed out word] delivr them there if you have to.
Katherine
Poor Katherine, Susan thought. Only her would have trouble spelling "deliver". But, armed with the knowledge, she shut her locker and rushed off to her next class.
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Susan dived into the Home Ec. room. Today they were actually going to cook something, instead of the usual dittoes. Noticing none of her other wonderfully responsible cooking partners had gotten there yet, she took it upon herself to check out the food lab. The oven ranges were clean, the sink didn't have any water on it, and so on. As she opened up the oven, she noticed that Lydia just so happened to be setting inside.
"Susan!" she sort of half-cheered, half whispered.
"Lydia? Oh, poop, get out of there!" Susan pulled Lydia out of the oven. And no, she was *not* done well.
"Why can't I stay in there?" begged Lydia.
Susan sighed for a minute. "Remember waay back, in Terra Nornia, that one thingie called 'fire'?"
"Oh, yeah. Sometimes it cooked stuff, didn't it?"
"This does the same thing."
"It does?"
"Right. So, stay close."
Susan made her way up to the Home Ec. teacher's desk, hoping that if she kept Lydia close enough, the teacher couldn't see her over her desk. "Ma'am," she asked, "may I go to the bathroom?"
"Well, it's kind of.." The teacher pondered this a moment. Susan gave a couple of convincing hops. "Oh, all right."
Thanking the teacher, Susan sped out of the room with Lydia in tow.
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The next class Susan had to visit was Science. She was struggling through the problems in the book, when she looked up. A couple of boys had something green by the tail.
"Hey, let's dissect this," one of them said. The green thing squirmed. Susan adjusted her glasses a bit. What was that thing? A good squint provided the answer: Boggles.
Susan hopped up from her seat and rushed over. "Drop that right now!"
"Why?" the other boy sneered.
"Do you remember what happened *last time* you didn't do what I asked when it was really important?" Susan threatened.
"Hey, she's right," the first boy quickly agreed, "you walked with a limp for the rest of the day."
The second boy thought about this, and dropped Boggles. They both quietly took their seats.
Susan led Boggles to a door. "This is the door to the science store room. It links all the science rooms together. Remember Katherine's Dad? He's in the one on the left, OK?"
Boggles nodded, and slipped through the door.