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Post by Aritha Bianca Kairavi on Oct 2, 2009 1:46:30 GMT -5
Aritha sighed, tapping her colored pencil on the table. She put her chin on her hand, looking at the sketch in front of her. Now, she wasn't the best artist, but she could get a fashion idea across. Except this one. This one refused to work.
She huffed a sigh, still tapping her pencil on the table. What was wrong with this outfit? The colors all worked well together, the pieces were well-designed... so why didn't it sing to her?
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Post by Zephyros Aetai on Oct 2, 2009 1:55:22 GMT -5
Zephyros looked around and spotted Aritha in the corner, recognizing the frustrated expression on her face. He slipped his tray next to her and put his head on hers. "What's up, Lady White?"
He fingered a red streak in her hair, grinning. "Been irritated all day, I see. You forgot to wash out the blue from yesterday before adding the red."
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Post by Aritha Bianca Kairavi on Oct 2, 2009 2:03:22 GMT -5
Aritha jumped, her dark eyes wide before she recognized the voice that spoke over her head. "Oh... Zeph... Don't DO that. You know how focused I get."
She twisted to look at him, shaking her finger in his face and pulling it away before he could playfully bite it. The bells in her ears rang as she shook her head at him, narrowing her eyes. Suddenly she jumped up and tackled him. "A new focus huh? How about making you up rather than that silly drawing, hm?"
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Post by Zephyros Aetai on Oct 2, 2009 2:06:32 GMT -5
He fell back in surprise, finding himself pinned by the much stronger vampire. Chuckling in surprise, he tried to get her to let him up. "No, no... not me, oh please!" he laughed, still pushing ineffectively against her shoulders.
"But how about if I offer you a trade? Let me up... and I'll help you make over my boyfriend."
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Post by ianharris on Oct 2, 2009 12:42:31 GMT -5
Compared to other days in recent memory, Ian was having a fairly good day. Jonathan had been gone since the night before - he had gotten up and walked out of the room without so much as a word to Ian, probably still feeling a bit burned by the whole "Natalie's-foot-of-doom" incident. When Ian had woken up, Jonathan had still been gone. So Ian went down to get lunch, and discovered - oh joy of all joys - that the mess hall was serving ham.
After loading up his plate, Ian scanned the mess hall for Natalie. When he failed to locate her, Ian turned his attention to just finding someone to sit with. Not that he didn't like being alone - but he had been away from Jonathan for almost ten hours straight, and that made him feel like actually having some decent company.
That's when he saw Zeph with some girl that Ian didn't know. Ian hesitated, remembering the courtyard incident. But that was Jonathan's fault, not his. So Ian took a deep breath and approached the two. "Mind if I sit here? I can't find Natalie anywhere..."
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Post by Zephyros Aetai on Oct 2, 2009 12:46:26 GMT -5
Zeph waved a hand at him, still lying on his back with Aritha pinning him. "Sure, sure, take a seat... and help me get her off!" he laughed, pushing on her shoulders again. "Aritha, get off!"
He tried to roll over and get her pinned... and didn't get very far.
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Post by ianharris on Oct 2, 2009 12:50:27 GMT -5
Ian settled into his seat and took a bite of his ham - the more he had here, the more he liked it - and watched the entertainment going on in front of him. Considering that the last time Ian had seen Zeph, the boy had been about ready to kill Jonathan, this was a welcome change. But he was less than willing to join the fun in front of him, so Ian just smiled and took another bite of ham.
"Why would I stop this?" He asked, his poor attempt at a joke. "This is lunch and a show. Good entertainment is hard to come by."
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Post by Zephyros Aetai on Oct 2, 2009 12:51:48 GMT -5
Zeph narrowed his eyes at him. Then he turned his attention back to the girl pinning him. "Aritha... get off or I'm going to give you a taste of your own medicine," he threatened, still pushing on her shoulders.
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Post by Aritha Bianca Kairavi on Oct 2, 2009 12:53:10 GMT -5
"And what would that be, hm?" she asked, grinning at him with her hair falling over his face. She kissed his forehead, still grinning. "You can't flip me."
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Post by Zephyros Aetai on Oct 2, 2009 12:55:38 GMT -5
Zeph wrinkled his nose and then grinned. He kissed her on the nose and then nipped it, grinning as she pulled away and rubbed at her nose. Wiggling quickly, he got free and sat at the table again. "That medicine. I'm with someone, Lady White. And it would never work between us."
He flashed her another grin and turned to Ian. "Nice to see you. Sorry about... earlier..." his grin turned embarrassed as his face flushed. "I didn't hurt you, did I? With um... that storm?"
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Post by ianharris on Oct 2, 2009 12:58:27 GMT -5
Ian shook his head, his eyes focused on his ham. "No... I'm okay. I'm sorry I had to lie to you... it was the only way to stop it." He didn't want to go into too much detail, as Zeph may not have told this other girl about the incident.
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Post by Zephyros Aetai on Oct 2, 2009 13:00:03 GMT -5
"Completely understandable, though... I was going to stop in time. Anyway, today's a whole new day. And it wasn't your fault anyway," he grinned. "Gone back to the library yet?"
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Post by Aritha Bianca Kairavi on Oct 2, 2009 13:01:57 GMT -5
Aritha took her seat as well, still rubbing her nose. "That was low, Zeph. You know I'm ticklish."
She grinned at Ian, though she was dying to know what they were talking about. "I'm Aritha Bianca. Call me either name," she said, kicking Zeph under the table. "Since my friend here is too rude to introduce me himself."
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Post by ianharris on Oct 2, 2009 13:06:54 GMT -5
"It's nice to finally meet you, Aritha." Ian said, smiling. "Natalie has mentioned you before. She always talks quite highly of you, of course. I'm Ian."
He turned his head back to face Zeph and took another bite of ham. "Yeah, I've... er... been back a few times. I haven't been there long enough for that librarian to catch me. I don't... um... feel like running into him again."
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Post by Aritha Bianca Kairavi on Oct 2, 2009 13:10:06 GMT -5
Aritha beamed, "Ah, so YOU'RE her Ian. I've heard a bit about you as well."
She glanced around. Natalie wasn't going to be late again, was she? Oh, probably really into some project and she'd find out that it was lunch time almost too late. Like usual. Aritha shrugged, returning to her sketch while letting the boys talk. She'd pester Zeph about what storm he was talking about later.
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Post by Zephyros Aetai on Oct 2, 2009 13:14:50 GMT -5
Zeph rubbed his shin, wincing a little. The girl could break bones if she wasn't careful.
"I don't blame you. I've been avoiding it too. I don't think Fable is going to be happy with me for sending him on a wild goose chase," Zeph grinned. "Which is making it difficult to return my books. I'm afraid he's going to come tackle me or something."
He looked at Aritha with interest, surprised she wasn't begging for him to explain. Then he noticed her glance sidelong at him and he covered his eyes. Oh, she was going to ask LATER when they didn't have an audience. Great. Just great. At least she was going to give him the peace right now. He didn't want to talk about it right now, especially with Ian right there. The guy was too edgy, for good reason.
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Post by ianharris on Oct 2, 2009 13:29:39 GMT -5
Ian spit out his ham at the phrase "her Ian". He didn't know why, but that simple comment made him a bit... he didn't know how to describe it.
"Don't they make you get spellbooks?" He asked Zeph. "I don't know what the Academy classes are like for mages but for us they're always making us look up some new spell or another. Even if it doesn't concern our area of practice. Like me... uh... most of my stuff is nonverbal, but they still make me get spellbooks... it's unusual..."
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Post by Zephyros Aetai on Oct 2, 2009 13:36:39 GMT -5
"Yeah... I steal them from my brother," Zeph grinned. "We're in all different classes... or at least different times so we can use the same books for classes. We just swap in the halls on our way to class."
"I'm just lucky like that I guess. If my brother is going to keep me up all night he can at least help me get through the day."
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Post by ianharris on Oct 2, 2009 13:37:47 GMT -5
Ian nodded. "That works, I guess. Who's your brother? I didn't know you had one."
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Post by Zephyros Aetai on Oct 2, 2009 13:43:30 GMT -5
"I have three. I'm Zephyros, the West Wind. If you know your Greek myths, I bet you can guess the name of my brothers. And you might even be able to guess which one I am rooming with," he grinned. "Seeing as I've only created two major storms here so far..."
He had no idea if Ian would know... after all, the winds didn't feature in that many myths. His own namesake had more mentions than any other... except Boreas. Zeph thought for a moment; Nope, Zephyros had more mentions that Boreas even.
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Post by ianharris on Oct 2, 2009 13:47:45 GMT -5
Ian thought for a moment. "My guess is Notos." He said finally. "The south wind. I'm a literature major. I've read the Greek myths."
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Post by Zephyros Aetai on Oct 2, 2009 13:51:39 GMT -5
"Yeah, I room with Notos," Zeph nodded, grinning. "My parents thought they had a sense of humor."
His tone grew dry, "I mean, it makes sense to name your quadruplets after the Greek winds, one of the only sets of four in the myths. The fact that they end up being magical with the control of the winds is just coincidence."
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Post by natalieburns on Oct 2, 2009 13:57:52 GMT -5
Natalie hurried into the mess hall, flustered. She had been practicing her monologue for the Halloween play auditions again and only just now realized what time it was. This was becoming too much of a habit. She quickly grabbed her food - ham. That would make Ian happy - and scanned the mess hall for a place to sit. That's when she saw Ian sitting with Zeph and Aritha.
Interesting.
Natalie walked over and set her tray down next to Ian's. "Hello, children." She said sweetly to Zeph and Aritha. "Are you playing nice with the older boy? Not damaging him too much, I hope."
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Post by Zephyros Aetai on Oct 2, 2009 14:06:14 GMT -5
Zephyros flinched, remembering the fact that he COULD have damaged Ian the day before. He didn't know Natalie very well; mostly she was just one of Aritha's friends which made her okay by him. They'd spoken a little but he didn't, surprisingly, know very many werewolves. That appeared to be changing, but...
Still the only thing going through his mind was that stupid wind storm he'd made the day before. Not that he was sorry for WHY he'd made it just... Ian seemed to be the fragile sort and he'd not been very careful.
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Post by Aritha Bianca Kairavi on Oct 2, 2009 14:07:52 GMT -5
"Hi Natalie. One of these days you are going to forget to eat entirely, you realize that?" she grinned, looking up from her sketch. She looked at Natalie again, and her picture, flipping back and forth a couple times. A sly smile grew on her lips. "Hey Natalie... would you be willing to try on something for me please?" she asked sweetly.
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