<div class="floatleft">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/f/f9/MaplePortrait1.png)</div><strong>Character</strong>: Maple MacAlistair<br/><strong>Who:</strong>Maddy<br/><strong>Where:</strong>908 East Tower<br/><strong>When:</strong>4th arrangement<br/><strong>Wearing:</strong>Clicky link! (http://www.polyvore.com/frogrun/set?id=217844701)<br/><hr/><br/>Maple looks up when Maddy enters, but closes her mouth before uttering a single word; it's pretty clear she's still not going to be getting any sort of explanation, at least not yet. She feels a surge of anger and frustration, accompanied by a renewed wave of guilt, but quickly suppresses it.<em>Empaths.</em><br/><br/>She doesn't say anything. What is there to say? It's taking most of her willpower just to hold the fractured bits of herself together, to make sure things are taken care of. Part of her, a part growing increasingly large with every passing moment, wants to leave it to the headmaster, but this isn't his mess. Maple started this; she'd asked Foley to bring Ken in, she'd ran off and left Maddy to do...whatever it was she'd done, she'd taken the phone without properly assessing the situation. It was only fitting she stay until the end, whatever the end looked like.<br/><br/>And then Maddy's projection hits, and Maple can feel all the broken, jagged pieces she's tried so hard to hold together start to slip from her grasp. It hits like a wave, like floodgates opening and plunging her beneath dark, icy water. It's almost a physical thing. Maddy's guilt and sorrow resonate with Maple's own and for a few seconds she's a crying mess, tears streaking down her cheeks, slender shoulders wracked with ugly sobs.<br/><br/>No matter how overwhelming the waves though, they can't snuff out the little flame of anger and Maple reaches for that flickering point of light in the dark waters. The heat rushes through and envelops her, no less unpleasant than the freezing water but nothing that threatens to drag her away. The massive waves still crash around her, dark and looming, but they can't quite touch her.<br/><br/>Maple takes a shaky step towards Maddy and drops down to her knees. Reaching out, she grabs the other girl by the shoulder and shakes her roughly. "Madeleine! Pull yourself together!"