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Fashion! Releasing Your Inner Superhero, etc. [Thursday, May 21, 1st period]

"Today we will begin the most important part of your costumes!" Edna announced as she wheeled in a hanging rack full of spandex body suits. Oh, you lucky people, you. (Don't ask how that last one snuck in there. It had been a Very Terrible Costume Concept.) "Measurements!"

She ignored any horrified looks or attempts to hide under tables. "Ms. Davis, my assistant," she nodded at Brooke, "and I will be measuring you so that the costumes you create for yourselves will fit! While you are waiting, come up with two preliminary concepts for your ensemble--include your logo from last week on one of them--and then ask a fellow student to critique!"

She made shooing motions. "Go! Scatter! Create!" She pointed at one student at random. "Except you. You get to wear Spandex first, darling."

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With Merlin's request that she look out for his little Sib in mind, and being pretty sure she had the right girl, Dinah sat down next to Shilo, and asked, "Did you lose your superheroic symbol?"

"My newest version of it, yes," Shilo muttered, attention entirely dedicated to the interior of her bag. "I think I left it in my cabin."

A moment passed. Then Shilo looked up at her. "I haven't met you yet."

"Nope! Hi," Dinah responded with a small wave of greeting and a smile. "I'm Dinah. I'm a friend of Merlin's. You're Shilo, right?"

"Yes," Shilo said with a nod. "It's nice to meet you, Dinah."

"Nice to meet you too. Can I help?" she offered, looking at the bookbag. "Unless you don't want to just dump it all out on the table."

"I think I left it down in my cabin," Shilo moaned, exasperated. "So unless you can teleport, I think I'm just going to have to draw it again." She reached for some blank paper and some of the drawing supplies. "I'll just doodle it onto my costume idea. Would you mind doing my critique?"

"No problem," Dinah said, smiling "I kind of like the Imp idea you came up with last week. But I always think of mischief or random chaos when I think of them, and I'm a fan."

"Yeah, well, if my father was still around he'd probably make some joke about how I've been nothing but a source of random chaos," Shilo replied, trying too hard to joke. She got quiet as she began to draw.

Dinah perched her chin on her hand, not wanting to push on the subject, but thinking Merlin had been right about the shy, a bit. "Is the rest of your family around?" she asked, trying to keep her voice mild.

"Um. No. My mother got really sick before I was born, and passed away right after I arrived. My... my father passed away in an accident. I was an only child." Shilo doesn't look up at all while speaking.

Dinah watched her draw, and said, "Me too. I got adopted last year, so I have sisters now. But yeah, no parents." She was quiet a moment and said, "I'm sorry about that."

"It's okay," Shilo murmured. "I'm just... getting used to it. Being here has helped, though."

"Yeah? That's good." Dinah thought that maybe more distraction was called for, and pulled out the necklace with her logo on it. "This is the one I'm going to use. I didn't come up with it, my sister did, but it's close enough to what I want."

Shilo looked up to see the necklace. "Wow, that's nice. Your sister didn't mind you borrowing it for the class?"

"Nope. She designed some earrings that go with it, too," Dinah said, smiling and fastening it around her neck. Since they were also comms that cost more than a Ferrari, she was being extra-careful with it. "Although I don't think she anticipated that I'd get a superhero name like Tweety."

Shilo laughed a little. "Yeah, Miss Mode was a bit... awful about people's names."

"I can't believe she stuck Claudia with War Crimes. What kind of superhero could carry that off?" Dinah marveled, keeping her voice down.

"Yeah, Claudia told me about that. It seems more like a villain's name," Shilo replied.

If nothing else, Shilo enjoyed this class because she could socialize with other students and not feel guilty about potentially missing information from the teacher.

"Maybe people become supervillains because they've got rotten names," Dinah said speculatively, starting to add fishnets to one of her costume drawings. "Crawler. Freeze. The Scream. That would turn anyone to crime."

Shilo giggled. "So it's not so much a hatred of their fellow man, but bad PR, that causes people to be criminal masterminds?"

"I've known a few that'd try that defense," Dinah said dryly, thinking of the Chameleon and a couple others. "Oh, woe, woe is meeee, I'm doomed to beee, your enemyyyyy," she made up on the spot, singing it.

Shilo put her hands over her mouth to trap the giggles.

"You have a lovely singing voice," she finally managed to say, still laughing.

Dinah grinned at her. "Thank you!" She gave a mini-bow from her seat, and leaned forward on her elbows. "I love music. No training, but it's fun. What's your favorites?"

"Opera," Shilo admitted. "And rock music. How about you?"

"Mostly rock, and some alternative. My friend Alice works at Groovy Tunes on Wednesdays, and so does Hurley. It's got a great selection, if you want to pick up some new stuff," Dinah said. "Opera, wow. It doesn't all sound alike to you? I think it always being Italian or French or whatever throws me."

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