"My... my symbol?" Vai asks. She had only met this boy once before... he's a Champion too?! Just how many ARE there?
"The necklace, dummy. Necklaces are popular I guess cause Love and Time both have necklaces too. Think of it like a relic. It's like an amped up holy symbol turned up to 11. Geez, what am I, a babysitter? Explaining things to noobs, guarding princesses...this job sucks!"
"Aaagh! Now I feel like a jerk for having been jealous of her," she said putting her head down on the table.
"I think she's an empath or something." Michael admits as he takes a bite of his food and finds it delicious. "Would be a good way to get tips, I guess."
"Geez, what am I, a babysitter? Explaining things to noobs, guarding princesses...this job sucks!"
"Aaagh! Now I feel like a jerk for having been jealous of her," she said putting her head down on the table."I think she's an empath or something." Michael admits as he takes a bite of his food and finds it delicious. "Would be a good way to get tips, I guess."
"Wait....you mean she knows it's been driving me crazy and she's just messing with my head??? Oh, now I really am confused."
Ephebe knocked on the door to the headmaster's office again. It was entirely probable he wasn't in...she might have to wait until after the weekend. Well, it wasn't like she had any classes to miss.
"Wait....you mean she knows it's been driving me crazy and she's just messing with my head??? Oh, now I really am confused."
"I don't know. I said I think she might be an empath. Considering I didn't know I was psychic until a week or two ago, you probably shouldn't put much weight on my opinion."
Ephebe knocked on the door to the headmaster's office again. It was entirely probable he wasn't in...she might have to wait until after the weekend. Well, it wasn't like she had any classes to miss.
Ephebe is about to knock again when the door opens.
"Sorry about the wait, I was double and triple checking the wards that will be in place for the War. I'm guessing this is about the schedule change? Blame the fact I was around your mother when she was pregnant."
"Oh, I'm not upset about the schedule change exactly. Although I would have preferred to hear it from someone other than Madame. It's perfectly reasonable to expect me to drop classes like advanced PE, light blades, and ballet while I'm pregnant. It's just that I only have two classes left and with Dad gone one of those is self-study. I've suddenly got a lot of time on my hands and I can't spend it all napping," she said, joking.
"Actually, there was something else I've been thinking about too that I wanted to talk to you about. Umm...have you thought about expanding the school? It's just, your kids are getting to be about old enough for school themselves, but you can't put little kids into classes with teenagers....it might be a good idea to start an elementary school as well....like maybe in another wing of the building? I didn't just think of it out of the blue. It's...well, I was talking to James about the possibility of staying on and teaching after graduating and it would be weird to be teaching people who were classmates not that long before. But it wouldn't be weird at all to be teaching kids who are much younger. So I was just wondering if you'd already thought about it."
Tyrrin tried to keep her face blank - a trick she had learned from her mother - and simply nodded. "Thank you. I don't believe I have your name...?"
"The necklace, dummy. Necklaces are popular I guess cause Love and Time both have necklaces too. Think of it like a relic. It's like an amped up holy symbol turned up to 11. Geez, what am I, a babysitter? Explaining things to noobs, guarding princesses...this job sucks!"
Vai looked once again at the necklace. It did give her a sense of comfort to be holding it, and felt ever so slightly compelled to put it on, a feeling which she didn't resist. The clasp is easy to work, and she puts the necklace on. "You know, you don't have to be so mean about it."
"The necklace, dummy. Necklaces are popular I guess cause Love and Time both have necklaces too. Think of it like a relic. It's like an amped up holy symbol turned up to 11. Geez, what am I, a babysitter? Explaining things to noobs, guarding princesses...this job sucks!"
Vai looked once again at the necklace. It did give her a sense of comfort to be holding it, and felt ever so slightly compelled to put it on, a feeling which she didn't resist. The clasp is easy to work, and she puts the necklace on. "You know, you don't have to be so mean about it."
"What, did you expect me to be celebrating because I'm being forced to play the hero? Think again. I'm way too much of a coward to want that role, thanks so much. Why should I have to pretend like I think it's a great job? It's not."
After leaving the practice room Enre, hears how Ryleh was looking for him. He hurries to take Eir to a room telling Artōrius to follow. Once in at the room he tells Artōrius to watch over Eir while he goes to find Ryleh.
He walks out of the room and beings to search for Ryleh, finding her after some time he says "I was told that you have been looking for me."
"Ah. Yes. You have been a difficult person to locate. I will get straight to the point. I need to speak with you about a problem involving Destruction, or rather a seed of it, that is currently trying to use the girl Nasima as a doorway into the material plane. Obviously, that would be not good. You are familiar with Nasima?"
Wyrd gets to his feet and extends a hand to Ehos.
Let's head inside. It is just about dinnertime, and the Headmaster said something about there is a forge. I would like to find it.
Enre thinks for a moment reminding Nasima from the day the demons attacked. He than says "The sylph? As for the seed you mean the skull shaped being she summoned to attack the demons?"
Ryleh nodded. "Yes, that is exactly right. I am trying to formulate a plan to remove that being from her soul, and in order to do that I have been consulting with all of the Champions I can find as well as several advanced practitioners of magic. I was hoping you might have some insight as well."
Enre shrugs "No idea, I do not really speak to my patron. Let me see if I can ask a question of Wrath, might be able to get more information for you."
Enre draws his sword from his baldric and holds it in front of his face focusing on calling Wrath so he can ask some questions.
Ehos takes Wyrd's proffered hand and stands, pulls out the pad and quickly scribbles: 'I have a map of the school in my room, that should show us to the forge. Besides, I should change my clothing.' With that, the pair are off, Ehos retrieves a change of clothing and his map of the school. They are able to follow the map and find the forge in the same part of the school as the open Magical Lab. 'Here we are my friend. Are you a blacksmith by trade?'
"What, did you expect me to be celebrating because I'm being forced to play the hero? Think again. I'm way too much of a coward to want that role, thanks so much. Why should I have to pretend like I think it's a great job? It's not."
"I don't think anyone would expected you to be a hero anyway." Vai muttered as she turned back to the mess. Hope certainly was annoying. "If you don't want to help: fine, leave."
"It's nice to meet you, Jaiye. Perhaps you won't need to fake interest for the teachers now." Tyrrin said with a smile. It was strange that the first real connection she had made at this school was a lycan. Fei could maybe be counted as well, but he had been overpolite in their interacts, which Tyrrin had concluded to mean that he was hiding his dislike for her. "I just arrived yesterday, I haven't even registered in classes yet... what are you taking?"
"What, did you expect me to be celebrating because I'm being forced to play the hero? Think again. I'm way too much of a coward to want that role, thanks so much. Why should I have to pretend like I think it's a great job? It's not."
"I don't think anyone would expected you to be a hero anyway." Vai muttered as she turned back to the mess. Hope certainly was annoying. "If you don't want to help: fine, leave."
Keme laughed. "Nobody? You haven't met my patron yet. She can be a real b%*~* sometimes. Playing the hero now is my punishment for looking like an idiot during the fight with Madness." He shrugged. "Not my fault I got grappled by the tentacled thing from wherever. I'm not really the run into battle type. But don't try telling that to Hope. But, you know, if you don't want my help cleaning up this mess, I'm happy to leave. I'm just not allowed to go far."
"I never said I didn't want your help." Vai said, exasperated. "I want this mess to be cleaned up as quickly as possible, as I still have to change and get ready for the talent show." Vai was already putting away her shopping to get it out of the way - and to use the bags for any garbage in the room.
"Geez, you're as demanding as the princess. Is it a girl thing?" he asked testily as he continued casting Make Whole on the many broken things in the room.
"Interesting... I doubt the school has much to teach me about the History of Agartha, it is a subject I've already studied intensively, however..." It sounded like alot of the classes here were combat-oriented. Almost as if this Cardcaster were training his own personal army of all the nastiest beasties and brutes he could find. "What do you think of the Headmaster, Jaiye?"
Vai was growing increasingly frustrated. Keme seemed to delight in sarcasm and trying to hurt people's feelings, so Vai snapped at him, completely out-of-character for the otherwise shy girl. "Maybe it is. Maybe it's that time of the month. Or maybe you just think is demanding of you. You seem to complain more than I demand, that's for sure." Vai didn't feel good about that. Now she had sunk down to his level. "I'm sorry, that was mean. Let's just clean this up?"
Vai was growing increasingly frustrated. Keme seemed to delight in sarcasm and trying to hurt people's feelings, so Vai snapped at him, completely out-of-character for the otherwise shy girl. "Maybe it is. Maybe it's that time of the month. Or maybe you just think is demanding of you. You seem to complain more than I demand, that's for sure." Vai didn't feel good about that. Now she had sunk down to his level. "I'm sorry, that was mean. Let's just clean this up?"
Keme grinned. "So you do have a backbone after all." He ruffled her hair. "Idiot. It's okay to be mean some of the time. You don't have to keep walking on eggshells like you're gonna get kicked out if you don't behave all of the time. Look at me. They still keep me around and I never behave."
Almost as if this Cardcaster were training his own personal army of all the nastiest beasties and brutes he could find.
"Actually, there was something else I've been thinking about too that I wanted to talk to you about. Umm...have you thought about expanding the school? It's just, your kids are getting to be about old enough for school themselves, but you can't put little kids into classes with teenagers....it might be a good idea to start an elementary school as well....like maybe in another wing of the building? I didn't just think of it out of the blue. It's...well, I was talking to James about the possibility of staying on and teaching after graduating and it would be weird to be teaching people who were classmates not that long before. But it wouldn't be weird at all to be teaching kids who are much younger. So I was just wondering if you'd already thought about it."
"I hadn't thought of it, to be honest. At least about an elementary school anyway. It does sounds like a good idea though. Some of the students who aren't little kids but aren't teenagers could be moved to it, and basic classes could get them ready for their graduation from elementary into the high school level."
"If someone else was watching them, I'd have more time to work with the other students too. I don't seem to help out much past enrollment. I don't have to warn you that they are a hand full though. Did you know they got the bubble machine from the garden and into the gym, where they managed to freeze or chill the bubbles?"
"Khasser, take the rest of the eyes if you want, we need to keep going." Oniero says as he checks the direction they need to take and leads the way. This jungle was starting to feel stranger and stranger to him, but the others didn't seem bothered. They come across a river and kill a the gigantic mosquitoes that attack them before Oneiro calls for small break.
"I haven't seen dweomercats since the fight with them. I don't think I'm the only one that finds that slightly suspicious. Why attack us once and then leave us alone? It doesn't match up with the entry about the survivor."
Honestly, I do not know much about myself. I didn't even know that I could understand the common tongue until Lady Ananda started speaking it to me. I don't remember who I was or what I was before the day after the world turned inside out. I woke up laying beside a cooling lava flow with no memory. But I remembered one thing: Avalon helps people, so I can here to see if they could help me. On the way here though, I passed a few villages and the sounds of the forge always called to me. Kinda made my hands itch.
Wyrd steps into the forge, and looks about. The tools seem somehow familiar, but in ways he cannot place.
"I hadn't thought of it, to be honest. At least about an elementary school anyway. It does sounds like a good idea though. Some of the students who aren't little kids but aren't teenagers could be moved to it, and basic classes could get them ready for their graduation from elementary into the high school level.""If someone else was watching them, I'd have more time to work with the other students too. I don't seem to help out much past enrollment. I don't have to warn you that they are a hand full though. Did you know they got the bubble machine from the garden and into the gym, where they managed to freeze or chill the bubbles?"
"Oh, no! Was anyone hurt? What am I saying? Of course someone was hurt, or they wouldn't have been caught," she said shaking her head and trying not to laugh.
"Well, I wouldn't have thought of an elementary school either except that spending time watching my cousins and thinking about the future, I realized that these things go together. Actually, since I don't have much of a class schedule anymore, and I don't really have much of anything I need to do for what few classes I have left, I can probably spend my time helping out with the administrative tasks necessary to get something like that started. If that's something you'd like to go ahead with, which it sounds like it is. Not that I blame you." ^.^
"Khasser, take the rest of the eyes if you want, we need to keep going." Oniero says as he checks the direction they need to take and leads the way. This jungle was starting to feel stranger and stranger to him, but the others didn't seem bothered. They come across a river and kill a the gigantic mosquitoes that attack them before Oneiro calls for small break.
"I haven't seen dweomercats since the fight with them. I don't think I'm the only one that finds that slightly suspicious. Why attack us once and then leave us alone? It doesn't match up with the entry about the survivor."
"Do you think we're going in the wrong direction? Or perhaps the survivor lied...it's not like that is out of the realm of possibility."
"Oh, no! Was anyone hurt? What am I saying? Of course someone was hurt, or they wouldn't have been caught," she said shaking her head and trying not to laugh.
"They would have been caught either way. It was right before the fencing club was going to meet. Seeing Miss Jhiwoon with a hurt ankle scared them enough they won't do that again anytime soon."
"Well, I wouldn't have thought of an elementary school either except that spending time watching my cousins and thinking about the future, I realized that these things go together. Actually, since I don't have much of a class schedule anymore, and I don't really have much of anything I need to do for what few classes I have left, I can probably spend my time helping out with the administrative tasks necessary to get something like that started. If that's something you'd like to go ahead with, which it sounds like it is. Not that I blame you." ^.^
"Well, if you really want to I guess that will be fine. Be prepared for so much paperwork you'll want to pull your hair out though. I still can't figure out how I got through all of it when I was trying to get Avalon started... So much energy drink, so little room in my stomach for it."
"Do you think we're going in the wrong direction? Or perhaps the survivor lied...it's not like that is out of the realm of possibility."
"No, it isn't. That would be the problem with following the record of a crazed survivor and mapping out where the lost expeditions might have ended up."
Keme grinned. "So you do have a backbone after all." He ruffled her hair. "Idiot. It's okay to be mean some of the time. You don't have to keep walking on eggshells like you're gonna get kicked out if you don't behave all of the time. Look at me. They still keep me around and I never behave."
Vai ducked away instinctively from Keme's hand. "Just... don't do that please. It's not okay to be mean to people. Why do you want to? Just so you can make yourself feel better? That's not a very good way to live."
Wait till Tyrrin hears about the Wargames :P
"That's a little worrisome... What about the other teachers here? I've met the Professor Relkav you mentioned." If the Headmaster was trying to earn the loyalty of an army, his leadership strategy was questionable. Maybe there was something else going on.
Ehos glanced around the forge. He didn't like all the metal and soot smells. It didn't feel natural. He wanted to help Wyrd, but didn't see a way he could do it. He couldn't use his magic if he couldn't speak, and he daren't risk speaking.
"No, it isn't. That would be the problem with following the record of a crazed survivor and mapping out where the lost expeditions might have ended up."
"Do you want me fly up and see what landmarks are visible?"
Wyrd walks further into the forge and heads towards one of the empty anvils. He runs his fingers across the top of the anvil, producing a screech as iron rubs across steel. A small smile appears on his face as he taps the anvil with a finger. After a few moment looking around at the small forge near the anvil and the other tools neatly arrayed there, he turns back to Ehos. Seeing Ehos' distaste, he heads back out of the room.
Now that I know where it is, I can come back here at a later time. Let's see about dinner.
Enre finds himself standing on a battlefield full of slain soldiers. Flies buzz in the air over their corpses. A lone figure stands among them.It turns its gaze to Enre.
"What is your purpose here?" Wrath asked.
Enre looks at Wrath before saying "There seem to be a problem with a seed of Destruction, that is using a girl as a gate way. They asked if I knew anything, I did not, so figured I would ask you. They wish to know if there is anyway to stop the seed from using the girl."
"Well, if you really want to I guess that will be fine. Be prepared for so much paperwork you'll want to pull your hair out though. I still can't figure out how I got through all of it when I was trying to get Avalon started... So much energy drink, so little room in my stomach for it."
"Well, at least nobody can complain that being pregnant makes me unfit to do paperwork," she said joking. "Besides, I have experience with this sort of thing. You would be shocked how much paperwork a demon can generate. Not that she ever dealt with a page of it herself. Apparently paperwork is for devils. Anyways, I can get started on Monday. Though I might start on the plans tomorrow. You're going to need that wing to have a different set-up than this one. Elementary students have different requirements. They'll need more supervised living situations to start, and playrooms and some version of a lot of the same things that are here already, but made for smaller people. And then there's the problem of needing to design a curriculum...and they can't realy be allowed to specialize as much as the high school students since it's important for children to at least understand the basics of a lot of things...at least that's what Master Quo said. I think. According to the diary, he said it a lot, but not having ever actually met him, I'm just going to have to take Ephebe-prime's word for it."
"Do you think we're going in the wrong direction? Or perhaps the survivor lied...it's not like that is out of the realm of possibility.""No, it isn't. That would be the problem with following the record of a crazed survivor and mapping out where the lost expeditions might have ended up."
"So the question becomes, do we continue in this direction, or go back and try other directions until we find one where we get attacked by dweomercats a lot."
"Actually, yes, Khassar, I think that's a very helpful suggestion."
Keme grinned. "So you do have a backbone after all." He ruffled her hair. "Idiot. It's okay to be mean some of the time. You don't have to keep walking on eggshells like you're gonna get kicked out if you don't behave all of the time. Look at me. They still keep me around and I never behave."Vai ducked away instinctively from Keme's hand. "Just... don't do that please. It's not okay to be mean to people. Why do you want to? Just so you can make yourself feel better? That's not a very good way to live."
"I said I didn't behave, not that I was mean. Was I actually mean? Or did you just think I sounded like it?" he said, laughing.