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Library, Monday

Tip had let her guard down when they'd gotten to Christmas without the usual fall disaster happening, and she was kicking herself for that so hard as she came into the library for work on Monday.

Seriously. How had they all not been on high alert for something like this? It happened every year. Just -- you know. The new kids usually got a chance to settle in, first. Instead of going immediately missing.

She hoped her new sib was okay, wherever they were.

She looked around for any evidence of what people had been looking into yesterday, then went to pick up any books she could find on missing people and bring them out to the center tables. It was going to be a long day in the library, especially if no one found anything. . . .

[~~minor OCD coming~~ open!]

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"Got anything good?" Tip asked after a little while. Not because she thought the other girl would find something and not tell her, but more because working quietly was starting to get to her. "I wish the squirrels had seen more at the picnic than unwrapped boxes."

Nina sighed as she looked up from her latest book.

"Nothing promising," she admitted, making a face. "Except the fact that I might have a song about kidnapping the sandy claws stuck in my head forever now…………………….."

But that didn't seem right for this situation.

Tip had spent enough time around J.Lo over the years to figure out 'sandy claws' right quick. "Pretty sure we didn't do that," she said. "It's more like . . . Santa Claus is kidnapping us."

"I know," Nina said, grimacing. "Which, like, ruuuuuuuuuuuude!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I know that my presence can be a delightful gift on occasion and I'm sure everyone taken is also occasionally delightful but rude to simply take such gifts, all unasked for!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"Yep. Kidnapping's the rudest." And Tip was not loving the reminders of the early days of the Boov invasion. It was all right there, Christmas and kidnapping. ". . . You don't suppose someone was trying to ruin Christmas and just -- missed, do you?"

Nina considered that.

"I mean, like, it still begs the question of why all the new people were kidnapped," she mused, "unless they were considered presents to us all……………. but it does give us another avenue of exploration to pursue………………."

"Or they were just convenient because they were all together," Tip suggested. "It's pretty standard imperial terrorism, take some big tradition of the local culture and -- wreck it." Her eyes went a little wider. "Like the Welcome Picnics. This might be the first wave of an invasion!"

"Annnnnd they took one of the most powerful warriors on the island," she said thoughtfully. "Bus Dean would have been a great boon come any fighting………."

Her eyes slid towards Shunsui.

Well.

If things got worse she might have to see if she could boss a god around.

"I think you might be on to something!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"It's kind of what happened when my world got invaded," Tip said. She'd gotten pretty good at bringing that up casually over the years. "They spent awhile getting intel on us, then on Christmas Eve abducted a bunch of people." She frowned, remembering the weeks she'd lost moping on the couch watching news coverage. "And then they killed a bunch more. We should watch out for that next bit."

"Like, I think we should do more than just watch out for that next bit," she said slowly. "Like, maybe have radio include a warning in their broadcast—Kitty's got radio next, I'm sure she'd help--and, like, I've got the email addresses of everyone on the island who has an email address."

Because Nina was like that.

"I could draft something up and send it too………."

"We can do a special announcement through the radio if we have to, too," Tip said. "Good idea. Though we probably need more than 'hi, this might be an invasion'."

"That's true," Nina said, "especially for a full-out emergency broadcast………. though, like, it should still be noted that people shouldn't be going out alone since there's the spate of kidnappings going on………….."

And she'd like to think that would be common sense but, well. On the island?

"Weren't some people grabbed from the picnic itself?" Tip asked. "That's . . . kind of the opposite of 'alone'."

"I know," she said patiently, "and that's concerning. But if people aren't alone the odds <>do go down regarding them being kidnapped and if they're not alone and someone gets kidnapped we have better odds of knowing they've been kidnapped."

Nina pursed her lips as she studied the page she was on.

"Besides, like, if they really wanted to ruin us, they'd take the squirrels away!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"Not if they want to spread panic," Tip pointed out. The Boov hadn't bothered trying to take out the human communication systems. That way everyone got to see what their creepy guns did.

There was more than one way to cause panic, but…

"You know," Nina said slowly, with genuine concern, "like, I guess from what you've said that this is hitting kind of close to home for you???????????? Are you okay?????????????"

Tip sighed. "Yeah, I'm alright. It was years ago. I just -- never really liked Christmas much since, and this happening right around now with presents involved and stuff is just . . ." Depressing and horrible and making her twitch. ". . . Annoying."

"We'll fix it," she said firmly, wanting to be reassuring. "We'll to the bottom of this!!!!!!!!!!!! There's nothing that can't be fixed with enough knowledge and, like, I'm real good at researching!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"We will," Tip agreed. "Hey, my friend and I managed to fix it that time, too. It just . . .. took several months. And a secondary invasion. And cloned cats."

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