"Because it's good practice. And I'm tired of just practicing on the beams in my room. The SIM rooms are pretty good too, but sometimes I like to go outside because I can now and that's important. And I like to practice because after I've spent all day on things I'm not good at, it's nice to spend time at something I am good at," she said, flipping up to an upright position to make conversation a little easier. "Is that why you like to play your violin on the roof?"
Kezzin smiles a closed-lip smile that mostly hides his very sharp teeth, "I come up here because the view is better, and it is far from the stampeding students. I like to start and end my day with some peace. I haven't been at Avalon long, but sometimes it feels like I have been here forever. A few minutes at the end of the day helps to .. clear my head, I guess." He looks at Asha a little more closely, then down the side of the drop she had been balanced over, "Can you fly, or do you just like to take really big chances?"
"Because it's good practice. And I'm tired of just practicing on the beams in my room. The SIM rooms are pretty good too, but sometimes I like to go outside because I can now and that's important. And I like to practice because after I've spent all day on things I'm not good at, it's nice to spend time at something I am good at," she said, flipping up to an upright position to make conversation a little easier. "Is that why you like to play your violin on the roof?"Kezzin smiles a closed-lip smile that mostly hides his very sharp teeth, "I come up here because the view is better, and it is far from the stampeding students. I like to start and end my day with some peace. I haven't been at Avalon long, but sometimes it feels like I have been here forever. A few minutes at the end of the day helps to .. clear my head, I guess." He looks at Asha a little more closely, then down the side of the drop she had been balanced over, "Can you fly, or do you just like to take really big chances?"
"I can fly. But I'm really bad at landing. So I guess it's a little bit the second one too," she said with a shrug. "But they say crashing is good practice for possibly not crashing at some point in the future."
Fei passes through the gates of the school, and continues for a few paces beyond before stopping. His lace confirms that the school has ample power levels, and the corridor has enough to spare for his test.
The young monk takes a centering breath, and lowers his stance slightly, leaning forward. Once he is sure there is nothing else in his immediate vicinity, he takes off at a full run, holding a position a few feet to the side of the road.
In a few short seconds, Fei passes the position of the first battery pylon buried further off the side of the road. As he does so, his lace instructs the pylon to transmit some of its energy - but instead of going to the school or another pylon, it goes back into the nanosuit. It then routes into his legs and, timed with each stride's contact with the ground, begins to propel him forward even faster than his already-phenomenal speed...
...And the young actually monk does not lose a leg in the process (though the ground is a bit worse for wear). (^-^)
Raelle giggled uncontrollably. "No one's ever going to accuse us of being sophisticated," she joked. "But at least I know that I'm not the only one who totally loses all social graces when we're together."
"And it's okay. I know you have to go learn how to save the world," she said, smiling. "I'm glad you were able to stop for a few minutes though. I'm happy to see you. And I really needed that laugh,' she added, giving him a quick, light kiss on the lips.
Ardiente returns the kiss with a chaste one of his own, smiling but still blushing furiously. "Okay I should get going. Mithos already has a big headstart on me with this stuff and it wouldn't do to let him show me up, right?"
"See you tomorrow?" he asks, jumping up to his feet with an easy motion.
Phaezeriel slips into the nursery and smiles tiredly at Vai. He is carrying a trays from the dining hall, ::I didn't see you at dinner, and something told me you might be here. I hope you don't mind, but I brought some for you.:: He sets it near Vai and retreats toward the doors with a smile.
Vai tenses slightly as the door opens, but smiles and relaxes as Phaeze comes into view. A glint of light catches and shines through the diamond still about her neck.
"Thanks, Phaeze." she says warmly, already salivating a bit at the smell of the food wafting through the room. "I appreciate it. You should come in. Eggs aren't great company, though I'm sure I'll regret saying that once they hatch."
She glances down at the textbook in her lap - Algebraic Geometry, and quickly sets it aside. "Not getting far with this right now anyway."
Raelle giggled uncontrollably. "No one's ever going to accuse us of being sophisticated," she joked. "But at least I know that I'm not the only one who totally loses all social graces when we're together."
"And it's okay. I know you have to go learn how to save the world," she said, smiling. "I'm glad you were able to stop for a few minutes though. I'm happy to see you. And I really needed that laugh,' she added, giving him a quick, light kiss on the lips.Ardiente returns the kiss with a chaste one of his own, smiling but still blushing furiously. "Okay I should get going. Mithos already has a big headstart on me with this stuff and it wouldn't do to let him show me up, right?"
"See you tomorrow?" he asks, jumping up to his feet with an easy motion.
"Definitely. If for no other reason than Jiminy has me coming out to the factory for a while for an 'orientation' for my new work study class that technically starts on Monday. But I'm hoping that we can spend some time together outside of training too. It is a weekend after all. I'd like to spend some of it with my boyfriend," she said with a shy smile, still getting used to using that title for Ardiente.
Phaedra glared at Ignace and then glared briefly at Lang. "Hello," she said stiffly to a spot just past Lang's ear.
Lang Bows at Phaedra, I am honored to meet you. he says respectfully.
Lang then turns back to Ignace, I am sorry about before, I have missed your company. Lang says as he walks with them to the Cafeteria.
He offers a hand to Chara, even offering to let her ride on Lang's shoulders if she wants.
Vai tenses slightly as the door opens, but smiles and relaxes as Phaeze comes into view. A glint of light catches and shines through the diamond still about her neck.
"Thanks, Phaeze." she says warmly, already salivating a bit at the smell of the food wafting through the room. "I appreciate it. You should come in. Eggs aren't great company, though I'm sure I'll regret saying that once they hatch."
She glances down at the textbook in her lap - Algebraic Geometry, and quickly sets it aside. "Not getting far with this right now anyway."
Phaezeriel smiles at Vai and settles down near her instead of leaving again, ::Not the best conversationalists, are they? Their thoughts are starting to get rather coherent, though they don't have much to talk about. They do like the stories and music we share with them.::
"I can fly. But I'm really bad at landing. So I guess it's a little bit the second one too," she said with a shrug. "But they say crashing is good practice for possibly not crashing at some point in the future."
"Yes, landing well is important, but so is a willingness to take risks." He gives a powerful stroke with his wings and leaps off the dormer's peak and onto the balcony where Asha is. His wings fold back behind him, and he kneels to put the violin in its case laying nearby. "What do you like to do other than balance on balcony rails and avoid crowds?"
Sadie finds them an unoccupied SIM room and pulls up a menu. "Okay, so should we duel each other or should we fight against simulated monsters here? And how do you want me to set the pain levels? Like totally realistic pain or dial down pain feedback?" she asked Adon and Djalos.
"I'm not terribly picky. I just wanna fight something."
It becomes very quickly apparent that Kevin is not the best person to help watch Genie "The Chosen One." As much as he wants to be on Jeran's good side, he politely bows out of the rotation. He wasn't helping anyone by further mentally scarring the girl.
She checked her list. "I think that's five total. So only one more slot. I dunno. I could try art. That should be good for a laugh. Or stealth. I mean, everybody's gotta fail a class sometime, right?" she said, wrinkling her nose at the thought of failing to excel in class. "At least that's what Jiminy always said. Of course he only failed because he was too busy playing pranks to do his homework or actually attend classes, but hey, it's the principle of the thing."
The Djinn chuckles slightly. "Art might be fun. I've heard the Stealth teacher is really boring. Whatever it is."
Jasper trips over something, waving all four arms as he stumbles for a moment before catching his footing again. He looks at the floor to see what he tripped on but doesn't find anything there. He furrows his brow and keeps walking, trying to play it cool.
"Ya. Art maybe. Sounds like fun. And Jiminy is the one with the factories in town. The one that thinks he's funny?"
Tybalt for about the third time this week realizes he can teleport long distances without expending the energy he did before. He finds himself at the lake, arriving and then relocating to the other side when he sees Ardiente and Raelle several yards away. Hopefully before they see him. He knows they don't like him, and he doesn't want to bother them, but to seem like he does this on purpose would be rude.
Once on the far side of the lake from the school, he summons a very large white shepherd's crook, attaching a hook and line to it and casts it into the water, hoping to get some fresh fish for sushi in a little bit.
Al sits in the meditation room, trying to seek his center and imagine calm fish...to no avail. His experience from earlier still has him worried. He decides to seek out his mentor.
Djalos pipes up. "Why not a combination of the two options?" All around Djalos, the air begins vibrating, and he begins... somehow manipulating the tremors with his hands, and a small section of the room shows a throne room.
"Occasionally, I was tasked to protect, rather than kill, a target. When that happened, rival clans began clamoring to off me and the mercenary forces I hired. I, of course, defeated them. But it is an interesting situation nonetheless. How about all three of us compete against an AI opponent to capture the target?"
Phaedra glared at Ignace and then glared briefly at Lang. "Hello," she said stiffly to a spot just past Lang's ear.Lang Bows at Phaedra, I am honored to meet you. he says respectfully.
Lang then turns back to Ignace, I am sorry about before, I have missed your company. Lang says as he walks with them to the Cafeteria.
He offers a hand to Chara, even offering to let her ride on Lang's shoulders if she wants.
Chara gladly climbs up on to his shoulders, turning to stick her tongue out at Phaedra.
Chara gladly climbs up on to his shoulders, turning to stick her tongue out at Phaedra.Phaedra glared at Ignace and then glared briefly at Lang. "Hello," she said stiffly to a spot just past Lang's ear.Lang Bows at Phaedra, I am honored to meet you. he says respectfully.
Lang then turns back to Ignace, I am sorry about before, I have missed your company. Lang says as he walks with them to the Cafeteria.
He offers a hand to Chara, even offering to let her ride on Lang's shoulders if she wants.
"I hear that your ceremony went smoothly. I am glad. It is....for the best that I did not attend." Her posture was still a bit stiff and her speech formal, but she didn't seem to object to Lang's presence.
"I hear that your ceremony went smoothly. I am glad. It is....for the best that I did not attend." Her posture was still a bit stiff and her speech formal, but she didn't seem to object to Lang's presence.Chara gladly climbs up on to his shoulders, turning to stick her tongue out at Phaedra.Phaedra glared at Ignace and then glared briefly at Lang. "Hello," she said stiffly to a spot just past Lang's ear.Lang Bows at Phaedra, I am honored to meet you. he says respectfully.
Lang then turns back to Ignace, I am sorry about before, I have missed your company. Lang says as he walks with them to the Cafeteria.
He offers a hand to Chara, even offering to let her ride on Lang's shoulders if she wants.
"Ignace got upset with some mean boys and went boom while you were gone. That's why she missed so many classes this week. It took days for the teacher to convince her it was safe for her to come back," Chara said with cheerful tactlessness.
"I can fly. But I'm really bad at landing. So I guess it's a little bit the second one too," she said with a shrug. "But they say crashing is good practice for possibly not crashing at some point in the future.""Yes, landing well is important, but so is a willingness to take risks." He gives a powerful stroke with his wings and leaps off the dormer's peak and onto the balcony where Asha is. His wings fold back behind him, and he kneels to put the violin in its case laying nearby. "What do you like to do other than balance on balcony rails and avoid crowds?"
Asha considers this carefully. "I don't know yet. I'm still learning. There wasn't really anything else to do in the tower and now that I'm here there's soooo much to do, and I keep trying new things, but there's so many of them. It gets a little overwhelming. Kinda like all these people. It seemed simple at first, but the more people I know the less simple it gets. There's so many different rules about what is or isn't appropriate," she said with a sigh and a grimace. "And I'm trying to learn what I need to catch up, but I only have so much room in my brain!"
"But I am definitely learning the layout of the basements," she said with a cheerful smile. "I keep falling through the floor when I get scared so I spend a lot of time looking for ways back up."
She checked her list. "I think that's five total. So only one more slot. I dunno. I could try art. That should be good for a laugh. Or stealth. I mean, everybody's gotta fail a class sometime, right?" she said, wrinkling her nose at the thought of failing to excel in class. "At least that's what Jiminy always said. Of course he only failed because he was too busy playing pranks to do his homework or actually attend classes, but hey, it's the principle of the thing."The Djinn chuckles slightly. "Art might be fun. I've heard the Stealth teacher is really boring. Whatever it is."
Jasper trips over something, waving all four arms as he stumbles for a moment before catching his footing again. He looks at the floor to see what he tripped on but doesn't find anything there. He furrows his brow and keeps walking, trying to play it cool.
"Ya. Art maybe. Sounds like fun. And Jiminy is the one with the factories in town. The one that thinks he's funny?"
She laughed. "Yep that's him. Best description of my brother I've ever heard. I still think it's weird that he's become all responsible adult now. It's just....kinda a big transition from how he was before." She shrugged, trying not to get all depressed again.
"So that's my class schedule sorted. I'll make sure to register that with the office before Monday. In the meantime," she started to say before she was interrupted by her stomach growling. "Er....time for dinner?" she asked hopefully.
Al sits in the meditation room, trying to seek his center and imagine calm fish...to no avail. His experience from earlier still has him worried. He decides to seek out his mentor.
Ryleh is sitting at a small table in the garden. She is sipping a cup of tea while she watches a group of children playing in the distance.
Djalos pipes up. "Why not a combination of the two options?" All around Djalos, the air begins vibrating, and he begins... somehow manipulating the tremors with his hands, and a small section of the room shows a throne room.
"Occasionally, I was tasked to protect, rather than kill, a target. When that happened, rival clans began clamoring to off me and the mercenary forces I hired. I, of course, defeated them. But it is an interesting situation nonetheless. How about all three of us compete against an AI opponent to capture the target?"
"Okay, that works for me," Sadie agreed, inputting the request into the machine. First the scene around them turned into a dojo filled with weapons and armor. "Suit up," she said, examining the swords and testing a rapier for balance.
Djalos simply taps two of his ever-present amulets. Suddenly, his prim school uniform transforms into a ragged coat and scuffed leather armor, and the two blades on his necklace become wicked-looking sawtoothed sabres. He touches a small switch on each, and the faint glow that accompanied them fades.
"I am ready," he says simply.
Fei's experiment in kinetic acceleration goes well enough until he reaches the midpoint between Avalon and Kuros.
Coming rather abruptly upon a small caravan that had stopped on the side of the road to tend to one of their horses, the young monk was forced to rapidly alter his course. Had he devoted less attention to his energy readings and more to the road ahead, he could have probably taken to the air and avoided the group altogether.
Instead, he only had time to veer his body sharply to the left of the caravan, throwing his arm down in an attempt to alter his momentum. While it was a maneuver his body could handle, the ground could not...and as he just barely zipped by the rather surprised travelers, Fei lost his footing in the disintegrating earth and barreled across the road like a boulder, crashing through a patch of exposed rock and into a small copse of dead trees. The resulting spray of shattered stone and splintered wood left in his wake was a bit...excessive.
Fei finally came to a halt several dozen yards later, flat on his back and spreadeagled - a clear track in the earth marking his path as he raised his head to look back toward the road.
[Blink, Blink]
"Hmm."
The boy with the messy hair shakes his head slightly, shuffling his perfectly imperfect locks. It took a lot of time and care to look like you didn't care.
"Touring is never easy. But that does help. Everything else still takes, er, took hours." He's still having a hard time speaking about it in past tense.
He nods affably to the other new addition of Gavin.
"So, you're like some kinda professional musician then?" she asked in response to his comment about touring.
Ryleh is sitting at a small table in the garden. She is sipping a cup of tea while she watches a group of children playing in the distance.Al sits in the meditation room, trying to seek his center and imagine calm fish...to no avail. His experience from earlier still has him worried. He decides to seek out his mentor.
Al asked the wall where he could find Ryleh, and they lead him to the garden. He approaches where she is sitting...
"Please excuse the interruption, Gyna'ka. May we speak?"
Lang holds Chara in place, glancing up as she tells about the boys. she did huh? well, I'm glad everything and everyone is ok. he says, almost wishing he was there for her.
looking to Ignace as they walked. Yes, the ceremony went well. I... he starts to say something else, then stops perhaps this is not the time.
Lets go have some fun this afternoon. and looking to Phaedra It's ok to smile, I know a lot more than you think about firebirds. and you just may find that some of us non-firebirds can be good friends.
She laughed. "Yep that's him. Best description of my brother I've ever heard. I still think it's weird that he's become all responsible adult now. It's just....kinda a big transition from how he was before." She shrugged, trying not to get all depressed again."So that's my class schedule sorted. I'll make sure to register that with the office before Monday. In the meantime," she started to say before she was interrupted by her stomach growling. "Er....time for dinner?" she asked hopefully.
"You think that's a big transition, you should see a civilization after a couple decades of evolution. One master and everyone is banging sticks together and the next everything is all plumbing and iron an... You get what I mean. People change. Sometimes for the better." He shrugs. Always the jokes with this one. At least that was probably a joke. He said it like one. But he says most things like that. He doesn't seem to be complaining, just relating things from another perspective.
He glances down slightly when her stomach growls, smirking with a chuckle. "Sounds like a plan. I'm afraid if we wander any longer we'll never find our way back out." He thinks for a moment as one of his lower hands brushes the wall to conjure arrows to the cafeteria. "You should let me cook for ya some time. I got pretty good at during my time. For myself at least. Never had anyone else to cook for before."
"I was the professional musician. As our friend said, Rakki Okane. Afraid I don't have anything on me for autographs, but I'm going to be here for a while if you'd like to get back to me."
He doesn't seem to be rude intentionally. He's very sure of himself in a rather practiced way. As if he was expecting to be bombarded with pictures of himself to sign at any moment.
He's still listening as he pulls a small sort of wallet type thing from a chain on his hip. He starts to quite literally leaf through it as it seems to be filled with different types of fresh green leaves.
Asha considers this carefully. "I don't know yet. I'm still learning. There wasn't really anything else to do in the tower and now that I'm here there's soooo much to do, and I keep trying new things, but there's so many of them. It gets a little overwhelming. Kinda like all these people. It seemed simple at first, but the more people I know the less simple it gets. There's so many different rules about what is or isn't appropriate," she said with a sigh and a grimace. "And I'm trying to learn what I need to catch up, but I only have so much room in my brain!"
"But I am definitely learning the layout of the basements," she said with a cheerful smile. "I keep falling through the floor when I get scared so I spend a lot of time looking for ways back up."
Kezzin smiles back at her, "It can be rather overwhelming! I couldn't really function well with all that was going on until I found this lovely instrument hiding in a shadowed corner of the library. That was when .. I .." What she said finally seeps through and he stops, puzzled, "Falling through the floor?"
"I was the professional musician. As our friend said, Rakki Okane. Afraid I don't have anything on me for autographs, but I'm going to be here for a while if you'd like to get back to me."
He doesn't seem to be rude intentionally. He's very sure of himself in a rather practiced way. As if he was expecting to be bombarded with pictures of himself to sign at any moment.
He's still listening as he pulls a small sort of wallet type thing from a chain on his hip. He starts to quite literally leaf through it as it seems to be filled with different types of fresh green leaves.
Forces down a bite
"Oh, I've never heard your music before, I just heard other students talking about your stuff..." He goes to take another bite, then blurts"I'm sure you're really good though!"
Phaezeriel smiles at Vai and settles down near her instead of leaving again, ::Not the best conversationalists, are they? Their thoughts are starting to get rather coherent, though they don't have much to talk about. They do like the stories and music we share with them.::
While tucking into her food in the traditional draconic fashion doesn't lend itself to good company either, but Vai manages to at least restrain herself enough to keep the conversation afloat. She even manages some sense of propriety, chewing and swallowing her bites before speaking. "It's still a bit weird, the whole egg thing. I know it shouldn't be, but sometimes I just get struck with the surrealness of it, y'know?"
"Definitely. If for no other reason than Jiminy has me coming out to the factory for a while for an 'orientation' for my new work study class that technically starts on Monday. But I'm hoping that we can spend some time together outside of training too. It is a weekend after all. I'd like to spend some of it with my boyfriend," she said with a shy smile, still getting used to using that title for Ardiente.
"That sounds nice. Anything in particular in mind, or should I come up with something?" he asks, and despite his apparent need to be going, he isn't really hurrying off quite yet.
Tyrrin had a busy week.
Between trying to watch over Illithia, teaching Professor Reading's classes, Ghalen's attentions, following numerous dead-end leads, following actual leads into Kuros and the Firebird camp, and trying to find out all she could about Ehos' attacker/seducer. All this along with the herculean task of having to actually talk to Keme at times has made the week extremely long and tiresome.
Even now, after class has been dismissed for the day, she can be found grading quizzes in her classroom.
Quietly knocks on the door to Tyrrin's class room, then opens the door.
"Good afternoon, lady Tyrrin. Would you care for some tea, or any other nourishment while you work?" he asks in Elven
Having come to the conclusion that his experiment should not have been performed during normal 'traffic' hours, Fei rises from his thoughtfully prone state and starts to head back to the caravan to apologize for the disturbance. Being the concerned travelers that they were, they had already gathered their horses and fled the scene at speed, warding themselves against evil spirits as they went. :)
The young monk reroutes the excess energy he took back into the battery pylons, dusts off as best he can and finishes his commute to Kuros without further fanfare or incident.
He enters the facility and proceeds to look for James, starting at his office, and then the design wing.
While tucking into her food in the traditional draconic fashion doesn't lend itself to good company either, but Vai manages to at least restrain herself enough to keep the conversation afloat. She even manages some sense of propriety, chewing and swallowing her bites before speaking. "It's still a bit weird, the whole egg thing. I know it shouldn't be, but sometimes I just get struck with the surrealness of it, y'know?"
Phaezeriel nods in agreement, ::I understand entirely. Sometimes the things we encounter in the course of our lives are so utterly alien to what we expect that even though we live through them, they seem to be impossible. Something along those line?::
Cindra sits quietly in the cafeteria eating her meal. A satisfied smile on her face as she rolled the perfect glass sphere around in her hands.
Ryleh is sitting at a small table in the garden. She is sipping a cup of tea while she watches a group of children playing in the distance.Al sits in the meditation room, trying to seek his center and imagine calm fish...to no avail. His experience from earlier still has him worried. He decides to seek out his mentor.
Al asked the wall where he could find Ryleh, and they lead him to the garden. He approaches where she is sitting...
"Please excuse the interruption, Gyna'ka. May we speak?"
Ryleh sets down her teacup and motions to the chair across from her. "Of course. Please, sit. Would you like some tea?"
Lang holds Chara in place, glancing up as she tells about the boys. she did huh? well, I'm glad everything and everyone is ok. he says, almost wishing he was there for her.
looking to Ignace as they walked. Yes, the ceremony went well. I... he starts to say something else, then stops perhaps this is not the time.
Lets go have some fun this afternoon. and looking to Phaedra It's ok to smile, I know a lot more than you think about firebirds. and you just may find that some of us non-firebirds can be good friends.
Phaedra made a face like someone who had just bitten into a lemon. "I do not require your pity," she said stiffly.
Phaedra made a face like someone who had just bitten into a lemon. "I do not require your pity," she said stiffly.Lang holds Chara in place, glancing up as she tells about the boys. she did huh? well, I'm glad everything and everyone is ok. he says, almost wishing he was there for her.
looking to Ignace as they walked. Yes, the ceremony went well. I... he starts to say something else, then stops perhaps this is not the time.
Lets go have some fun this afternoon. and looking to Phaedra It's ok to smile, I know a lot more than you think about firebirds. and you just may find that some of us non-firebirds can be good friends.
Ignace rolled her eyes. "Phaedra is having some trouble adjusting to life on the surface. It's easier for Chara and I because we never lived on the sun among the other firebirds. You can't miss what you never had. Her family were strict segregationists and she is still learning how to accept others as equals," she said sweetly but with a pointed glare at Phaedra.
Phaedra crossed her arms and pouted.
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She laughed. "Yep that's him. Best description of my brother I've ever heard. I still think it's weird that he's become all responsible adult now. It's just....kinda a big transition from how he was before." She shrugged, trying not to get all depressed again."So that's my class schedule sorted. I'll make sure to register that with the office before Monday. In the meantime," she started to say before she was interrupted by her stomach growling. "Er....time for dinner?" she asked hopefully.
"You think that's a big transition, you should see a civilization after a couple decades of evolution. One master and everyone is banging sticks together and the next everything is all plumbing and iron an... You get what I mean. People change. Sometimes for the better." He shrugs. Always the jokes with this one. At least that was probably a joke. He said it like one. But he says most things like that. He doesn't seem to be complaining, just relating things from another perspective.
He glances down slightly when her stomach growls, smirking with a chuckle. "Sounds like a plan. I'm afraid if we wander any longer we'll never find our way back out." He thinks for a moment as one of his lower hands brushes the wall to conjure arrows to the cafeteria. "You should let me cook for ya some time. I got pretty good at during my time. For myself at least. Never had anyone else to cook for before."
Andromeda laughed. "Now there's a brave offer, cooking for a dragon. Have you seen how much I can eat in a sitting? You'd have to make enough for an army and that would be about right for appetizers," she joked "At least those are the kinds of comments I've overheard in the cafeteria. Let's just say the lunch ladies are not gonna be happy to see me again," she said, shaking her head. "On the bright side, at least I'm not a picky eater. Anymore. I did go through a phase when I was a kid where I wouldn't eat orange food. Not really sure why. But it drove Mom totally nuts. Especially since Jiminy then decided he wouldn't eat green food and Taron didn't want to be left out so wouldn't eat red food. We had nothing but rice for like a month." ^.^
"I was the professional musician. As our friend said, Rakki Okane. Afraid I don't have anything on me for autographs, but I'm going to be here for a while if you'd like to get back to me."
He doesn't seem to be rude intentionally. He's very sure of himself in a rather practiced way. As if he was expecting to be bombarded with pictures of himself to sign at any moment.
He's still listening as he pulls a small sort of wallet type thing from a chain on his hip. He starts to quite literally leaf through it as it seems to be filled with different types of fresh green leaves.
"Oh, cool. That must have been fun. Sorry I haven't heard any of your music. My village is really small and kinda insulated," she said with a shrug and an eyeroll. "I only learned drums because it was one of the few socially acceptable activities for a weather witch. They have soooo many rules. Anyhow, I'll be sure to look up some recordings and stuff now that I know your name. I love listening to new stuff. So many different styles of music to try, so little time to get to them all! Umm....at the risk of sounding even more stupid than usual....what's an autograph?"
Kezzin smiles back at her, "It can be rather overwhelming! I couldn't really function well with all that was going on until I found this lovely instrument hiding in a shadowed corner of the library. That was when .. I .." What she said finally seeps through and he stops, puzzled, "Falling through the floor?"Asha considers this carefully. "I don't know yet. I'm still learning. There wasn't really anything else to do in the tower and now that I'm here there's soooo much to do, and I keep trying new things, but there's so many of them. It gets a little overwhelming. Kinda like all these people. It seemed simple at first, but the more people I know the less simple it gets. There's so many different rules about what is or isn't appropriate," she said with a sigh and a grimace. "And I'm trying to learn what I need to catch up, but I only have so much room in my brain!"
"But I am definitely learning the layout of the basements," she said with a cheerful smile. "I keep falling through the floor when I get scared so I spend a lot of time looking for ways back up."
"I have this power that I can't really control," she said with a shrug. "I go right through things. Including floors. Which is better than the time I fell through my chair and then resolidified with the chair leg in the middle of my leg. That hurt. And the nice ice cat person made me some special clothes that go all unsolid with me so at least I don't end up in the basement and naked. It's cold down there! Well, except the boiler room. It's pretty nice in there. But most of the basement is too cold and definitely not the place I want to be walking around naked," she said firmly.
"Definitely. If for no other reason than Jiminy has me coming out to the factory for a while for an 'orientation' for my new work study class that technically starts on Monday. But I'm hoping that we can spend some time together outside of training too. It is a weekend after all. I'd like to spend some of it with my boyfriend," she said with a shy smile, still getting used to using that title for Ardiente."That sounds nice. Anything in particular in mind, or should I come up with something?" he asks, and despite his apparent need to be going, he isn't really hurrying off quite yet.
"I don't have any particular plans, no. It's kind of hard to think with the inhibitor on honestly. So if you have something you want us to do, then that's great. Really I just want to spend some time together. At the risk of sounding disgustingly sappy, being with you makes me happy," she said, blushing and looking away.
Having come to the conclusion that his experiment should not have been performed during normal 'traffic' hours, Fei rises from his thoughtfully prone state and starts to head back to the caravan to apologize for the disturbance. Being the concerned travelers that they were, they had already gathered their horses and fled the scene at speed, warding themselves against evil spirits as they went. :)
The young monk reroutes the excess energy he took back into the battery pylons, dusts off as best he can and finishes his commute to Kuros without further fanfare or incident.
He enters the facility and proceeds to look for James, starting at his office, and then the design wing.
He finds James in the research and devlopment building, surrounded by screens full of blueprints and crumpled sheets of paper. His hair was a mess from running his hands through it periodically in frustration, and the table behind him is littered with empty coffee pots.
Quietly knocks on the door to Tyrrin's class room, then opens the door.
"Good afternoon, lady Tyrrin. Would you care for some tea, or any other nourishment while you work?" he asks in Elven
Tyrrin flips easily into Elven, having lost none of her accent or diction in the months since she's used it. "Just tea please. Thank you Thel."
Despite her response, if Thel has been observant he will note that she could probably use to eat a little more than she has been this past week.
While tucking into her food in the traditional draconic fashion doesn't lend itself to good company either, but Vai manages to at least restrain herself enough to keep the conversation afloat. She even manages some sense of propriety, chewing and swallowing her bites before speaking. "It's still a bit weird, the whole egg thing. I know it shouldn't be, but sometimes I just get struck with the surrealness of it, y'know?"Phaezeriel nods in agreement, ::I understand entirely. Sometimes the things we encounter in the course of our lives are so utterly alien to what we expect that even though we live through them, they seem to be impossible. Something along those line?::
Vai giggles at that. "That's probably a few more words than I would've used."
"Like having a demon for a friend, right? That'd be super weird." She says with a barely hidden smile.
"I don't have any particular plans, no. It's kind of hard to think with the inhibitor on honestly. So if you have something you want us to do, then that's great. Really I just want to spend some time together. At the risk of sounding disgustingly sappy, being with you makes me happy," she said, blushing and looking away.
Ardiente grins, already at maximum blush. "Yeah I think I can hear somebody wretching at all the sappiness. Sucks to be them, cause being with you makes me happy too."
"Okay I should go. he bends down and kisses her rosy cheek once more before transforming into his bird form and taking to the sky with a burst of fire for extra speed.
Raelle (accidently?) catches a little of the splash as Ardiente wings quickly towards Kuros.
Cindra sits quietly in the cafeteria eating her meal. A satisfied smile on her face as she rolled the perfect glass sphere around in her hands.
grim plops down with a trey of food next to what he believes to be a new girl "hi there, what'cha doing there?"