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Rakki takes a dive into the wave pool, surfacing soon after and bobbing with the waves.

"Hah! This is awesome. Maybe some time we could go to the ocean in my... well, nevermind. I guess I don't have a skimmer any more... But we could... well no that's gone too..."

He pauses for a moment, looking into the rising and falling water around him.

"This... this is good too. I uh... I'm glad I met you guys."

"Same here. This is way more fun than back at home where everyone is always so stiff and formal around me all the time. Not easy to find playmates that way, you know? This is a good place to be for starting over," she said breezily, totally ruining the effect by choking on a mouthful of pool water. "See? Not dignified at all," she sputtered.

Janie wrote:

Lol. No worries. Even if he were being suave, pretty sure it would be wasted on Miss Oblivious here. :P

"Well, we can swim in salt water in the SIM rooms if we want," she said agreeably. "But I don't like the SIM rooms. My weather magic doesn't work well in there because none of it is real and there's almost no actual moisture in the air. It's just simulated moisture. Blech. Seriously, that place is like a desert. I totally prefer using the actual pool," she said, starting to focus on calling up a mostly gentle wind, waving her arm back and forth over the pool to get the waves started.

Gavin is equally oblivious to such things...he probably won't realize he has feelings for anyone until it's too late...

"Yeah this is way better!"
Once the waves get going, he dismisses his armor and falls in, another attempt at a cannonball.

Janie makes sure that she has the wind going at the right pace to keep the waves going for a good long time before she follows suit, jumping into the pool with a few steps running start. She comes up laughing as she works to keep her head above water with the constant up and down of the waves.

Janie wrote:

"Cause it's all fun and games until the teachers show up!" she said, laughing. "Well, I can call up some wind and turn this into a wave pool without any danger of electrocuting anybody if you wanna do that."

Rakki steps around the edge of the pool, arms out wide. "Knew you could do it." He flashes that charming smile before his hands go to his hips. "Wave pool sounds fun to me. Just like the ocean back home. Do wish it was salt water, though. This blue stuff always just feels so weird."

I'm so bad at flirting. He's supposed to be a lot better than me at that.

Lol. No worries. Even if he were being suave, pretty sure it would be wasted on Miss Oblivious here. :P

"Well, we can swim in salt water in the SIM rooms if we want," she said agreeably. "But I don't like the SIM rooms. My weather magic doesn't work well in there because none of it is real and there's almost no actual moisture in the air. It's just simulated moisture. Blech. Seriously, that place is like a desert. I totally prefer using the actual pool," she said, starting to focus on calling up a mostly gentle wind, waving her arm back and forth over the pool to get the waves started.

Janie wrote:

"Right. Calm. I can do this," she muttered, sitting down on the wet concrete floor, and staring at the growing clouds. She could feel them growing as the heavy weight of the water piled up and up and ....oh, crap, no, she couldn't let herself get drawn into it. The last time she'd let herself get caught up in a storm like that she'd started a tornado in magical theory class.

The cloud keeps getting bigger and it's starting to get a little darker too. Electricity is jumping all over Janie's skin, as she stares at the cloud.

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And then the electricity stops and the cloud breaks up into several smaller clouds, which drift slowly apart, the rain slowing and eventually stopping as the clouds become too small to sustain it.

"Woo! I did it!" she whooped. "I actually did it! Without inciting any miniature natural disasters on the way!"

Just smiles

"Told ya! Now, let's try to have some fun before we're caught!"

"Cause it's all fun and games until the teachers show up!" she said, laughing. "Well, I can call up some wind and turn this into a wave pool without any danger of electrocuting anybody if you wanna do that."

like this, only a dude.

He nods, as his armor shrinks slightly, then rises out of the water, hovering above it.

"Yeah, hey Janie, calm down, you got this."

"Right. Calm. I can do this," she muttered, sitting down on the wet concrete floor, and staring at the growing clouds. She could feel them growing as the heavy weight of the water piled up and up and ....oh, crap, no, she couldn't let herself get drawn into it. The last time she'd let herself get caught up in a storm like that she'd started a tornado in magical theory class.

The cloud keeps getting bigger and it's starting to get a little darker too. Electricity is jumping all over Janie's skin, as she stares at the cloud.

1d20 + 19 ⇒ (20) + 19 = 39

And then the electricity stops and the cloud breaks up into several smaller clouds, which drift slowly apart, the rain slowing and eventually stopping as the clouds become too small to sustain it.

"Woo! I did it!" she whooped. "I actually did it! Without inciting any miniature natural disasters on the way!"

Janie wrote:

Gavin Trell wrote:

Gavin sees Rakki rocket toward the edge of the pool, and immediatly summons his armor. A large, glowing hand stops Rakki as the water churns a bit, suddenly displaced by the huge armor.

"Lets not get too reckless" he gently chides Rakki.

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The cloud that's raining on the slide has gotten notably bigger.

"Oh, thank goodness. That scared me! I was sure for a second there that you were gonna end up in the infirmary and we were all gonna get detention!"

Looks at the cloud brewing over the snakes

"We still might get detention..."

"Ohnonononononoooo," she wailed, scrambling for the ladder. "Everyone out of the pool! I might still be able to get it back under control, but when I lose focus my rainstorms tend to turn into thunderstorms! I know, I know, things I probably should have mentioned before we got started, but it didn't seem like a big deal at the time..."

Gavin sees Rakki rocket toward the edge of the pool, and immediatly summons his armor. A large, glowing hand stops Rakki as the water churns a bit, suddenly displaced by the huge armor.

"Lets not get too reckless" he gently chides Rakki.

1d20 + 19 ⇒ (4) + 19 = 23

The cloud that's raining on the slide has gotten notably bigger.

"Oh, thank goodness. That scared me! I was sure for a second there that you were gonna end up in the infirmary and we were all gonna get detention!"

Janie wrote:

Janie laughed in delight. "Now that I can do, no problem," she said, gathering up the excess moisture in the air and forming it into a cloud right at the top. It wasn't exactly small, per se. But it looked small since it was such a big room. And pretty soon big fat raindrops were falling down, soaking everything beneath it.

"That's perfect!" Gavin takes a run and jumps onto the snakes, riding the rainwater into the pool. He comes up a second later "You gotta try this!!"

Janie laughs and hurries to do just that, shrieking with delight as she traveled down the makeshift slide.

1d20 + 19 ⇒ (15) + 19 = 34

And the cloud doesn't change a bit.

Janie wrote:

Gavin Trell wrote:

"We gotta put em side by side!" he says, laughing.

Janie frowned and chewed on her lip and then a large wind blew through the room creating a huge wave that brought the snakes closer together. "Hmm. Uhh...this may take a little more concentration than I anticipated."

The snakes are concious beasts, or at least well controlled and take direction easily. The two with Janie and Rakki slither out of the pool and up, each biting onto a wall fixture to anchor themselves. The one Gavin was on leans next to those to act as an elevator to the top.

"Maybe just a small raincloud at the top to get water flowing down?"

Janie laughed in delight. "Now that I can do, no problem," she said, gathering up the excess moisture in the air and forming it into a cloud right at the top. It wasn't exactly small, per se. But it looked small since it was such a big room. And pretty soon big fat raindrops were falling down, soaking everything beneath it.

"We gotta put em side by side!" he says, laughing.

Janie frowned and chewed on her lip and then a large wind blew through the room creating a huge wave that brought the snakes closer together. "Hmm. Uhh...this may take a little more concentration than I anticipated."

Janie comes out of the locker room in a sporty two piece suit and claps her hands in delight as she sees the giant sea serpent.

"That is so cool!" she squealed, right before cannon balling into the pool.

Rakki Okane wrote:

"Floats, probably ya. Not sure about slides. They're not technically real snakes, so whatever we can manage with them. Slides maybe not, because you're just about as likely to fall off a side than make it down. But, I mean, never tried it before, soo..."

He trails off, adding a shrug.

"What if you put two of them side by side, and ride the valley between them down?"

"Yeah, that could totally work! Well, at least it's worth a try," she said enthusiastically. "Okay, here we are," she said, opening the door to an enormous room filled with a large mostly empty pool. "Boys locker rooms are that way. I'll meet you guys back out here in a few. There are school swimsuits in the locker rooms so don't worry about not having brought one."

"I can't even remember the last time I went swimming."

The popstar sets his hands in his pockets, following Janie, his tail swishing back and forth. Really that was a lie, but it had been so long he could say it with a straight face.

"So just as a matter of curiosity, how likely are these giant snakes to be amenable to being used as water slides and/or floaties? If not, all is not lost. Swimming is still tons of fun cause there's so much water I can use and I can make clouds and whirlpools...never a dull moment."

"The snakes are bigger around than a tree trunk, so maybe not the best for in door use. They're actually more aquatic, but they work most places. Just not small ones."

His thumbs hang from his pickets as he follows Janie. He shuffles Gavin's hair with a grin. "Don't worry man. It'll be fun."

"Giant aquatic snakes? Oh, this is gonna be fun....and you obviously don't understand the scale we have to work with here....we have to go to the swimming pool now...."

The fallen star thinks for a moment, his mouth wiggling a little as he mulls it over for a sec. He stands and takes a swig from his soda before following.

"Sure. Sounds like it could be fun. Just let me know if you want any giant snakes or tigers." He grins as well, the same troublemaker's glint in his eyes as Janie has.

"Ooh...possibilities....and here I was just planning on turning the third floor showers into a snowstorm.....but now that snakes and tigers are on the table, well...that changes everything," she said happily as she contemplates the best way to make use of the available resources.

"It'll be fine, Gavin. Just some minor harassment. No big deal. You worry too much," she said, putting an arm around his shoulder and ruffling his hair before jumping back, laughing.

"Hey, you're welcome to come hang out with us too if you want, Rakki. I'm sure we can find some way to keep ourselves entertained," she said, a hint of mischief in her smile.

Janie wrote:

Gavin Trell wrote:

"Sure! Janie says I should listen to more types of music, I can listen to yours too, I guess?"
I typed that, now have Jane says stuck in my head...

"Yeah, sounds pretty awesome to me," Janie agrees. "Learning new music styles is one of the best things about this school."

A not so subtle wind raced through the cafeteria, discouraging a rowdy group of boys from sitting down next to Gavin and Janie. She gave them some definite side-eye, but was at least attempting to avoid an actual fight. For now.
"Gavin, you been having trouble with Helt in classes and stuff or is it me he's trying to irritate?"

"Sure. If there's one thing I have, it's albums. And some other stuff if you end up liking it."

He takes a swig of the bright orange soda.
"So, weather, huh? I've got a little nature stuff myself, but it never kept a concert from being rained out. There was a month or two it happened so often I was almost afraid the tour dates on the Sun would too." He laughs at the irony of raining on the Sun.

She shrugged. "I don't think I could do much in big weather conditions like that. Big weather means big consequences. You can start a drought, cause floods, accidentally trigger a natural disaster. All for a sunny day. I only do little weather. Indoor rainstorms, that sort of thing. Being a weather witch is mostly about not doing stuff, which kinda sucks. But I could probably accidentally destroy the continent if I really tried, so there's that," she said half joking.

Janie wrote:

"Gavin, you been having trouble with Helt in classes and stuff or is it me he's trying to irritate?"

"Huh?"

He blinks, and turns to look at the boys who just got warded off.
"Oh, him. No, at least I don't think so. If it is aimed toward me, he needs to try harder...is he being a jerk to you?" He gives the group another look, as if he's examining them with different eyes.
"...yeah...albums..." is all he gets out concerning Rakki's comment, distracted as he is.

"A little bit, but nothing I can't handle. I'm just glad to hear that he isn't taking it out on you. Pretty sure it's nothing serious anyways. Just the usual. I made trouble so that makes the troublemakers think I'm competition," she said with a cocky grin.

"But we should probably go now, yeah, before this ends with more detentions..."

Rakki Okane wrote:

"That's ok..." He tries not to seem disappointed but his shoulders fall just a little bit on hearing neither of them actually knew him. "I've got some music crystals back in my room if you guys wanna listen some time."
He takes a leaf out of the wallet thing and stows the wallet as he shakes the maple leaf with his other hand much like a developing polaroid. With a puff of white smoke the leaf is gone and replaced with a bottle of pale orange soda he immediately stops shaking. It seems to come from the leaf already chilled and he pops the top of it with his thumb that for just a moment is topped with a bottle opener.
"Well, an autograph is a signature of someone famous, usually to prove that you've been in contact with them, but sometimes of value on their own. I don't know why people want them, I just sign it."
Apologies for not taking the weather witch intro. Rakki just really likes to talk about himself...

"Sure! Janie says I should listen to more types of music, I can listen to yours too, I guess?"

I typed that, now have Jane says stuck in my head...

"Yeah, sounds pretty awesome to me," Janie agrees. "Learning new music styles is one of the best things about this school."

"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?"

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.

The saucy guitarist winks back to his impromptu drummer. "Sneak preview just for you." He smiles and chucks the guitar carelessly into the air. Before it starts to fall, it vanishes into a puff of white smoke and a leaf flits down through the air in its place.

Janie's eyes got wide. "Whoa! Neat trick. Bet that makes traveling easy. Now I'm jealous. Traveling with a drum kit is never easy," she joked.

The Tanuki looks up from his absent fretting on the guitar to the new accompaniment he had. Not exactly what he was looking for, but he had given up on being paparazzi-d about 20 minutes ago.

He smiles slightly and his tail flicks behind, an affectation he had taken to displaying after his conversation with Florence and the realization that people here see a LOT weirder stuff daily.

With table accompaniment he starts into a song: Right here.

Differences: Male vocals of course, "human man" in first line changed to "Hey there man," it's acoustic, and there's less struggling in the solo.

Janie laughed in pure enjoyment when the song was over. "That was awesome," she called out.

Rakki has adjusted to Avalon for the most part. He spends a lot of time by the lake as a tiger, sunning himself. That was something he missed. So much of tour life happened at night and he'd gotten used to sleeping during the day. Being able to be out and in the sun was pleasant.

At the moment, he's in the cafeteria, playing a guitar. He's leaned up against a wall strumming tunes and pretending to not be obvious, hoping a fan or someone will recognize him in his incognito obviousness, so that he can pretend to be casual about being recognized when it was really the reason he wasn't somewhere else actually trying not to be noticed.

A girl sitting at a nearby table has started drumming along on the table in time with his playing. There's no sign that she recognizes him. She just seems to like the music.

Much to Janie's annoyance, her audition kept getting put off and put off. Hard to join a band when they're all too busy dealing with their own personal crises. So she just went about her business as usual. Practicing drums. Calling down a rainstorm in the cafeteria (so worth the detention). Hanging out with Gavin.

Janie wrote:

"Minor indoor thunderstorm. I was bored. Basic Arcana is not the most energetic class ever, ya know? It's hard to pay attention during lectures. At first it was just making a little cloud....and then I may have gotten a little carried away. Just a little," she said unrepentantly, tucking her drumsticks into her back pocket. "How about you? Your day going less eventfully than mine I hope?"

He laughs "With rain n' everything? No wonder you got detention."

Janie wrote:

Janie glanced at the weird guy posing in the doorway of the cafeteria.

"You know that guy?" she asks, pointing at Rakki. "He looks kinda familiar, but I can't quite remember who he actually is."

"huh?" he says turning toward the door.

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"Isn't he a musician? He looks kinda like that one Okane guy..."

"Oh, yeah, I remember that I used to love his music when I was a kid. Wouldn't have expected him to end up at Avalon. Maybe he got sick of music or something," she said as she piled her lunch tray with pizza and french fries.

THE Rakki Okane enters through the door to the cafeteria, striking a pose and expecting to be rushed by fans.

Janie glanced at the weird guy posing in the doorway of the cafeteria.

"You know that guy?" she asks, pointing at Rakki. "He looks kinda familiar, but I can't quite remember who he actually is."

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Gavin Trell wrote:

Janie wrote:

Janie twirled her drumsticks and beat out a rhythm only she could hear as she stood in the lunch line.

"Hey!" he says walking up to Janie. "How's your day going?"

"Well, I got detention for 'disrupting class' so could be better. But nothing too awful," she said with an irrepressible grin.

Gets a serious look, but her grin is semi-infectous. "Oh my gosh! What did you do?"

"Minor indoor thunderstorm. I was bored. Basic Arcana is not the most energetic class ever, ya know? It's hard to pay attention during lectures. At first it was just making a little cloud....and then I may have gotten a little carried away. Just a little," she said unrepentantly, tucking her drumsticks into her back pocket. "How about you? Your day going less eventfully than mine I hope?"

Janie wrote:

Janie twirled her drumsticks and beat out a rhythm only she could hear as she stood in the lunch line.

"Hey!" he says walking up to Janie. "How's your day going?"

"Well, I got detention for 'disrupting class' so could be better. But nothing too awful," she said with an irrepressible grin.

Janie twirled her drumsticks and beat out a rhythm only she could hear as she stood in the lunch line.

"HA! Doubtful. Maybe happy-dramatic is ok to hope for this time."

She laughed. "Yeah, that would be good. See you around, Gavin," she said, picking up her bookbag and tucking her drumsticks back into her pockets before dropping off her empty tray and heading to class.

Looks at Janie, and sighs.

"Well, we should probably get going or we'll be late for class."

"Yeah, you're probably right...and it looks like the show is over anyway," she joked. "I'm hoping that lunch will be less dramatic."

"I hope so. It sure is weird being around this many people, and still feeling alone..."

"Hey!" she said, giving him a friendly 'punch' on the arm. "You're not alone now, remember? You've got a friend, right here."

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Janie grinned. "Me too. And I will do my best to live up to the honor of being the first official friend," she said with a mock formal bow, and then giggled.

He laughs when she giggles along with her.

"The duties aren't too involved. Just warn me about the dumb monsters now and then."

"Can do!"

"You seem pretty cool. I bet you'll have lots of friends here before you know it," she said, encouraging.

Janie wrote:

Gavin Trell wrote:

"Umm other than the pipers I dunno that I've heard other music...that I remember, anyway. I guess I'll know when I hear it."

"Oh....well...maybe I can make a music crystal for you...a mix of some different types of music and you can tell me which ones you like," she offered.

"That'd be really cool. Thank you!

I'm glad you sat with me today. You're my first official friend here!"

Janie grinned. "Me too. And I will do my best to live up to the honor of being the first official friend," she said with a mock formal bow, and then giggled.

"Umm other than the pipers I dunno that I've heard other music...that I remember, anyway. I guess I'll know when I hear it."

"Oh....well...maybe I can make a music crystal for you...a mix of some different types of music and you can tell me which ones you like," she offered.

Janie wrote:

She giggled at the shared joke.

"Hey, do you like music much, Gavin?"

"Like bands and musicians? I do! One of the few memories I have involve some kind of village festival with dancing and pipers! Why?"

"Because I love music. I play the drums. It's my favorite thing to do. So I was curious if you liked music at all...do you know what kind of music you prefer or do you just know what you like when you hear it?"

Janie wrote:

Gavin Trell wrote:

"Well.." he says looking the kids who were watching the duel "..some more than others, it seems."

She shrugged. "All depends on perspective..." she leaned closer so she could speak more quietly. "I mean, not all monsters are intelligent as such."

"Yeah, true..." he says quietly.

She giggled at the shared joke.

"Hey, do you like music much, Gavin?"

"Well.." he says looking the kids who were watching the duel "..some more than others, it seems."

She shrugged. "All depends on perspective..." she leaned closer so she could speak more quietly. "I mean, not all monsters are intelligent as such."

Janie wrote:

Gavin Trell wrote:

"Like called witches in a bad way, or are your abilities respected by your people? Where I come from, a witch isn't a good thing, but I've already figured out you're not one of those witches."

Janie snorted. "If you lived around people who could summon hailstorms and tornadoes, how do you think you'd treat them? Definitely with respect...but it's not a lot of fun when everybody treats you with respect all the time. So it's nice to be here where I'm just another weird kid, and not really all that powerful at that."

"Oh, or feared, I guess, too huh? I'm just getting used to being the wierd kid, but I see your point. I don't want to be feared. I don't want to fight. I just want to learn and grow up, I guess."

"Well, then you've come to the right place. If everybody's a monster, then no one is," she joked, making a sweeping gesture to include all the other kids around them.

"Like called witches in a bad way, or are your abilities respected by your people? Where I come from, a witch isn't a good thing, but I've already figured out you're not one of those witches."

Janie snorted. "If you lived around people who could summon hailstorms and tornadoes, how do you think you'd treat them? Definitely with respect...but it's not a lot of fun when everybody treats you with respect all the time. So it's nice to be here where I'm just another weird kid, and not really all that powerful at that."

"Ha! Define 'bitty'. I'm sure it'd still hurt a bit. Anyway that's really cool. So are witches like druids, here, then?"

"I'm pretty sure the depends on the witch. I don't know exactly what I am really. We call people like me weather witches at home, but the other people I've met here who call themselves witches have very different abilities from me."

Janie wrote:

Janie laughed again. "I have to hand it to you, you're pretty funny," she said with a wink.

"I'd show you what I can do, but I promised, no more funnel clouds in the cafeteria," she joked.

"Wow! You can do tornados?!"

"Just bitty ones. A proper sized one takes hours to stir up. Great if you know trouble is coming and have time to prepare, but not so useful in a pinch."

Janie wrote:

"Wow, that's totally awesome! And I bet you can get better with the extra set of arms if you practice with them more. I mean, forget fighting...think of all the times in life when you wished you had just one more hand," she said, grinning.

"Thanks! Oh, yeah you're right! I'll have to work on that, too. That could be handy...uhh no pun intended."

Janie laughed again. "I have to hand it to you, you're pretty funny," she said with a wink.

"I'd show you what I can do, but I promised, no more funnel clouds in the cafeteria," she joked.

Janie wrote:

"Whoa! Talk about impressive! That's quite the intimidating look there, Gavin," she said, admiring his display of ability.

"Thanks! I can adjust it a bit..." his armor shrinks in size to normal, medium sized, his sword changing to a bastard sword...then the armor shrinks to skin tight, and the bastard sword changes into 2 short swords. "...so I can be useful in a variety of ways. I can even..." His armor swells back up to medium, and grows another pair of arms, now all four arms have a shortsword in them. "...grow another pair of arms. I'm not very good with them, but if I ever need to fight while reading a book...I'll be good to go!" He dismisses the armor and sits back down...looking a wee bit tired...but it fades quickly.

"I'm still trying to figure out what all I can do with it. Pretty much, if something cool occurs to me I'll try it. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Same with the swords."

"Wow, that's totally awesome! And I bet you can get better with the extra set of arms if you practice with them more. I mean, forget fighting...think of all the times in life when you wished you had just one more hand," she said, grinning.

"Ok cool...umm." he looks around, and get up, and moves away from the table a bit, making sure there was enough room. He then in a split second is floating off the ground, surrounded by large purple-ish red translucent armor. A split second later, he has a large glowing greatsword as well. He asks in a tinny voice... "What do you think?"

"Whoa! Talk about impressive! That's quite the intimidating look there, Gavin," she said, admiring his display of ability.

He smiles at her laugh, pleased that he made her do so.
"Yeah, well it's not that impressive. I mean I can't do what the other guy was accusing that shiny other guy of. I can go days without eating or sleep, shake of some stuff, like mind over matter. That's besides the armor and swords. Nothing mesmerizing or anything, or lasers. Wanna see?"

"I'd love to see," she said eagerly, apparently not at all put off by his claims of not being that impressive.

"Yeah I'm in the other PE class...I don't know why, really. When I came too...I uh figured out that I can surround myself with magic armor and summon swords. I couldn't do it before I got messed with, I'm pretty sure. So I have to take classes to understand how my mind powers work, and I think meditation is so I can learn to maintain my 'focus' whatever that means. But sounds like we may have study hall and meditation together. We can share our boredom!"

She laughed. "Yes, exactly! Well, you know what they say, misery loves company...and having to stay still for an hour contemplating a pebble is definitely misery."

She finished off the hash browns and went back to working through the pile of toast on her tray. "Mind powers, huh? That's pretty neat. And probably pretty alarming sometimes. New powers always seem to be."

Janie wrote:

Gavin Trell wrote:

Janie wrote:

"Wow. That's some seriously heavy stuff. Sorry, Gavin."

"On the bright side, at least you can't remember anything embarrassing you might have done in the past," she said, trying to put a good face on things. "And it's not a bad face, so at least there's that...Yeah, I'm not helping, huh?"

"Yeah, nice to meet you." he says with a joking weak smile

"Me? Do anything embarrassing? Never!" he says, referencing his awkward pouring his heart out to a complete stranger. "It's not? I'll take that compliment!"

She laughed. "Well, it was meant as one, so there's that."

"So now that you're going to classes, which classes do you have? It would be cool if we had a class together."

"Well, I have History of Agartha, PE, Mathemagics, Psionics 101, Philosphy, and Meditation. Oh, and a study hall after lunch."

"Well, I have PE, of course, the basic one. And Meditation. Last class of the day. I have basic arcana, music, study hall, PE, nature magic, and meditation. Nature magic stresses me out. I mean, I'm a weather witch. Why do I care about all this other crap with plants and animals and so on...I can't do anything with that stuff....and I tend to summon thunderstorms when I'm stressed out, or at the very least high winds, so I guess that's why they thought I needed meditation. I still haven't once seen the teacher either. There are instructions on a blackboard at the front of the classroom when we get there. Usually something weird like contemplate a pebble."

Janie wrote:

"Wow. That's some seriously heavy stuff. Sorry, Gavin."

"On the bright side, at least you can't remember anything embarrassing you might have done in the past," she said, trying to put a good face on things. "And it's not a bad face, so at least there's that...Yeah, I'm not helping, huh?"

"Yeah, nice to meet you." he says with a joking weak smile

"Me? Do anything embarrassing? Never!" he says, referencing his awkward pouring his heart out to a complete stranger. "It's not? I'll take that compliment!"

She laughed. "Well, it was meant as one, so there's that."

"So now that you're going to classes, which classes do you have? It would be cool if we had a class together."

Janie wrote:

"So," she said, dumping ketchup all over a big pile of hashbrowns before taking a huge bite, "why were you not in classes? Were you sick or something?"

He looks down at his plate for a second and just mutters "Yeah, kinda." He takes a deep breath. "I don't remember things I should. I'm 16, I think, but I don't remember much from my childhood. All I know is I was kidnapped by a group to be experimented on, kinda. I was brought here, I guess, as a way to start over. Well, then my dreams started to get really bad...bits and pieces of the past would come back...I guess I had a kind of emotional breakdown. I was in and out of the infirmary, and in some SIM rooms talking to people when those got up and running...some days I think I'm ok...and others I'm only hanging on by a thread...I've just learned to keep going, keep living, but...it's alot, you know? How do I move forward when I don't know who I am? My own face isn't familiar to me some days..."

"Wow. That's some seriously heavy stuff. Sorry, Gavin."

"On the bright side, at least you can't remember anything embarrassing you might have done in the past," she said, trying to put a good face on things. "And it's not a bad face, so at least there's that...Yeah, I'm not helping, huh?"