Topic: Chapter 1
Rosetta placidly fell asleep and a montage of memories stirred on their own accord in her mind.

Before she met Phillis, the hedgehog chimera fell victim to many of Rodwell's thuggings. Everyone in need of money or desired it worked in different districts of the school. Phillis worked a night-shift in the cafeteria cooking food and she was very much appreciated by everyone at dinner. Little did they know her wages had been robbed until recent date.

Phillis would step right into it through, always skulking about the places she expected the ruffian to be. She found a thrill in being robbed by the young man and when she started offering it to the boy, he stopped leaving bruises on her arms.

Rosetta had caught Phillis in the act of offering Rodwell her income for that week one day and was outraged. It was then Rodwell found a par for his strength in Rosetta, which he never assumed before. It had been the docile girl that split the fight.

The next day, Rosetta "convinced" Rodwell to never do such a thing again. He brought Phillis a bouquet of flowers and a sense of humor flooded his personality.

Rosetta aroused from her sleep instantly at the frigid burn of an uninvited guest in her dorm. Darkness had engulfed her room at the stroke of 8 and only the moon left battling shadows of dim light through her windows. Rain stormed outside and trickled down the panes but there was no sign of thunder heard.

A pure entity of light chilled her cheek. It was a snowpuff; a bulbous creature made of animate snow with tiny beaded eyes and a pair of thin antennae. The creatures were popular pets and glowed in a variety of colors. This one's glow had a pink hue.

"A snowpuff? I wonder who it belongs to."

"Nike, Nike. Where are you?" A whisper called.

Rosetta's door had been unlocked during the time she had slept and opened slightly. Phillis stepped in, wearing silky, minty-colored negligee and a matching Santa hat. Her feet squeaked, safely guarded by the synthetic fleece of sheep slippers.

"Nike!" Phillis cried, "Rosetta, catch her!"

Before Rosetta reacted, the tiny creature bounced like a cricket and evaded her owner.

"Hurry, Rosetta! Get her!" Phillis yelled as high as a 6-inch voice would allow her and scrambled out the door, the squeaking of her slippers drowning away with her distance.

Rosetta groggily plopped off her bed, put on a pair of her own fluffy hedgehog slippers and ran in pursuit of both of them.

The halls of the girl's dormitory were a maze of elegance. Portraits on the walls, tables offering mints in punch bowls and potted plants decked most of the walls.

Rosetta caught up with a panting Phillis by a stairwell.

"I need to find her, Rosy... Where could she be? He started acting strange all of a sudden..."

"I'll find her for you, Philly." Rosetta assured her friend, "You search downstairs and I'll look around up here."

Phillis nodded and they parted ways. The only reason the snowpuff made it into her room was because the door had been open a bit on it's own. A snowpuff couldn't squeeze into cracks that well.

Her neighbors slept and it didn't surprise her. It was about 11 o'clock PM, after all. She couldn't just barge into every room.

There were walkways between the male and female dorms. Without a key, however, people couldn't sneak into the dormitory building of the opposite sex's domain at the other ends of the walkways. They could, however, unlock the door of their own doors that lead to these walkways.

There was a unwritten system of transfer of keys between lovers and friends. Rosetta had no boyfriend however and Rodwell would never cough up his key to her.

In front of this walkway, Rosetta encountered a glass fox, baring the snowpuff in its teeth. They brilliant illuminated together amidst the darkness and Rosetta couldn't miss them.

Simply, it was a fox made of out glass. The only object within its body was a small glass heart in the shape of a Valentine. The glass fox could recover from any attack to its body but once the heart is scathed, it suffers from pain. If something is lodged in the glass fox's heart, the fox shatters to shambles the size of brittle.

The glass fox was another popular pet and a very helpful one. Just by rubbing along the shards of broken glass in a hole, the glass fox repairs windows. They are very rare to find and very loyal to their owners so if one was stolen it would never respect the thief or obey it.

"Hold it right there, buster." Rosetta threatened. The fox transfigured Nike and it's collar into glass temporarily as it jumped through the glass door leading to the upstairs walkway between the dormitory buildings.

Once on the otherside of the door, Nike regained her normal physical features and the fox dashed away to the other side of the walkway. Rosetta noticed a leather collar strapped around the fox's neck. It belonged to somebody.

Rosetta reached in her pocket for her key and inserted in the door handle briskfully. She hurried and continued her pursuit of the fox.

Rain made her chase more difficult and doused her uniform beyond "repair" to use tomorrow. Luckily she had dozens of the same ensamble swinging on hangers in her closet.

"Stop right there!" Rosetta yelled, slamming the glass door open.

She met a dead end once she ran into the entrance to the boy's dorms and the glass fox hopped across the glass window. Rosetta had no idea what to do. Of course she could punch the glass door and go from there but it would cause an uproar the next morning. The rain overwhelmed her ears in unison as millions of droplets pittered and pattered incessantly.

The glass fox prodded it's head couple stories above her out of a window and withdrew. Vines branched all over the stone walls leading to where the fox had been. In silent agreement, she planted herself on the vines and climbed for her dear life, hoping not to fall. The vines were drenched and she clawed onto the stubs of leafs and the cracks between stone blocks desperately.

"The things I do for love." She shook her head in despair and pressed on.

Steadily she perched on a window sill near the last trace of the glass fox. The window slid due to other forces and the girl was snagged inside abruptly.