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Poe cottage---my room The first rays of sunlight just shoot into my window and my eyes snap open with them hitting my face. My legs then spring me to standing up and the meditation mat I was just sitting on gets kicked back under the bed. 'Great it's finally Saturday, that ride I have been waiting for is here now!' are the only thoughts running through my brain. After I had run down the hall, got a quick shower then came back to my room. I was dwelling over what to wear today! Way too many choices to make! I knew I was going to wear my new riding suit most of the day? But what to have under it was the question at hand! Most of my clothes, were laid out all over my bed and my top choices were stacked in a small pile at the foot of the bed. What my current needs that had narrowed that list down was, fitting under my riding leathers, comfort and then me wanting to be a little 'nuts' in what I wore for today's fun! With only minutes to spare before the bike meet began, I pulled on a set of tight gray workout shorts, and then a hot pink evil hello kitty belly top, to match the small 'evil' emblem showing on the shorts rear pocket. If I needed more to wear for some reason, a set of sweats was then tossed into my close at hand storage. The leathers were pulled on top of my other clothes and then add the boots as a last step. I zip the top of the leathers most of the way up and port to the parking lot of Kane. At the parking lot, I find most of the other riders busy pulling their bikes from the roll-up doors, that lead back to the labs garage down stairs. As I walk across the lot to see what others are riding today, I can just see Skids rolling out her bike from the roll-up doors, it's a highly modified blood red Honda and she rolls it over toward me when she spots me "Hey ya made it, so go get that Italian bike of yours out!" With her 'egging' me on, my bike pops from it's storage and I go to sit on it. My hand picks, my helmet that was resting on the tank, the helmet gets turned on, warmed up and synced to the bikes on-board computer. "Well I am ready! So lets go ya slow pokes!" "Aren't-cha going to check your fluids out?" she warns me. "Did it all last night and my storage is in a null time bubble. So I can leave something there for nearly EVER and it will be good as the day I stored it!" A rather tall nearly six foot four, lanky but built, girl with a milk chocolate complexion walks up to us both and I can see that she is more than interested in me by her staring at me? "Hey Skids? she asks smiling at me, while not even looking AT 'Skids' "Who is this lovely elf you found?" "This is Rohanna, one of the new kids in for this semester. She is going to be riding with us to Kent's for the fun!" "Good to hear! The bike club needs new blood and new blood that can afford a great bike too!" she adds while looking over my bike with a little bit of drool forming on her words. "Thanks, I just love the idea that I will have others to ride with?" "I may not keep up on with all you 'sporties' on my 'hog' but not for my trying!" the new girl adds. "Hogs are great, I just like to go fast and stupid fast at that!" I giggle back at her. "I heard some about you? You hang your hat at Poe and with Sara or Roz?" she drools out in a accent I am not sure of?...mid-west I think. "Yep I do?....why?" I state then ask "And you are?" "Ohh my goof....Dashboard or Bridgett." "Nice to meet ya!" "We will talk later....Ask Roz about me?" "Can do!" I shot back to her, as she walks away back to her pack of Harley's. Over the next few minutes I meet up with most of the group and find we number about fifteen so far? I am told more may come later. After all the bikes are checked and any issues taken care of, the mass group of leather covered kids heads to Crystal hall to eat. When we get to Crystal, I notice that this early on a Saturday morning, we have most of the place to ourselves and the group takes over a set of tables as we eat. Dashboard is the leader for the ride and she goes over the rules for us all. "We have to stay under the speed limits!" and the group laughs at that one! One voice is heard yelling "only if your going to get caught! That is!" "Please have your MID's ready incase and you newbies? Please team up with a older rider, so that when we get to Kent's your paperwork will go easier!" After I hear that, I lean over to Skids across the table "What paperwork?" "Kent's is a members only club, that is so we and they can keep out the MCO assholes!" "Ohh...will my prelim card work?" "Yep its in the MCO data base it will, I will getcha the rest when we get there!" "Okay?" Dashboard gets my attention back to her with more on how this ride will go. We are to stay all together as a group on the way up, so us new riders are sure to get there safe and after? That is up to us all! Once everyone has eaten their breakfast fill, we all go back to the parking lot and suit up. As we do, I lean over to ask Skids, as I am not sure if I should wear my illusion charm now? "Skids? When we get there? Should I put on a disguise or something? As I know I really stick-out!" I say to her in a more than worried voice. "NAW! this a mutants only bar on weekends! If anyone gave you problems...they get tosses out or worse!" she sings back to me over the revving of engines. "Ohhh this is going to be fun! I finally get to be out and be ME for a change!" I smile back at her. "Yep...acceptance that is what this is about! I may not know what you sorta GSD types go through? But we are in the same boat!" After I grin back to her, the bikes file out into a long line. I am placed midway along the line of the group, so I can be led a bit and have someone behind me to help if needed. As we roll slowly up the guard shack at the main gate, Violet ends her hovering next to me, flutters down to the bikes gauge pod and sits on it. I lean down to her and warn her "Hang on, this will be fun and fast! Then add ya got the best seat there, just behind that windscreen!" Violet yells back at me over the roar of motors "This might be the fastest I have ever gone!" "Have fun my little one!" I smile down at her. Skids rolls next to me and gives me a small kick to my leg, so that I notice her "Hey is that a real thing or a illusion?" she nods toward Violet on the gauge pack. "Nope Violet is real! And she protects me!" I boast for her. "Cool.... a ride mascot!" "Ya I guess she could be one?" I say back to her, as we roll-up to the guard shack and the guard checks my pass to go off campus and my ID. Just as the guard examines my ID, plus paperwork, Everheart walks out of the guard shack and takes the paperwork from his hands. That worries me greatly.....too greatly. "Well Rohanna going for the ride today too?" "Ahh yep if you let me...ma'am?" "I am...but have fun....no blood please?" "That depends on the outside world!" is the only answer I can give and not lie. "Well try to do so and retreat instead of fighting....then?" "Only if those with me are safe.....as Carson said, one of my jobs was to protect the students?....was it not?" "Yes it was...but have fun." "I will!" I sing out and she hands me the papers back. I roll off to the rest of the pack, just outside the gates and wait for the rest of the group to clear the guard shack. My tongue pops out to just touch a switch to close the visor on my helmet, as my eyes can't do it....I don't have eyeballs for the system to see me look at the right button and do that! The super dark visor closes and the heads-up display comes to life, then shows me the bikes gauges and a map to where we are going to. Once that last bike clears the checkpoint, the leaders gun it hard and off the pack roars down the road. As we all hit the main road, the pack strings out to a single file line of bikes and only tops out at a speed of fifty or so? As we all ride, one thing I am noticing is that we are taking a different path than the one Hardhead showed me yesterday. This one is a bit gentler on the curves, but is just as long as my ride the other day. I hear over the roar of the bike, a small scream of excited joy and look down at the faring over the bike's gauge pod. To see Violet howling in joy, she is loving every second of the ride and A smile comes over my face at seeing that.....sharing this fun with her! The whole group finally pulls up to the bar's front after a good fun ride, I see the whole front parking lot is filled with bikes of various types. As we all come into the lot, our small pack of seventeen bikes is guided toward the rear of the bar, an area I had not even seen from my just barely seeing this place from the road yesterday. This new parking lot in the bar's rear, is a fully fenced-gated one and has two guards at its entrances. One stands at where we come in from the road and he nods to each of us as we come in. The other watches over the walk-in gate to and from the bar. As my bike leans on its kickstand, I notice that there are two parking lots like this one and the other one is for cars. As I look over to the other lot, I can just see a girl or guy I recognize from Whateley. "Hey Skids? So we all come from Whateley...the bikes and cars?" "Yep for the most part, some are grads and some are from around here. But anyone in this parking lot is a mutant....and boy that messes with the MCO, a gathering of us this big in one spot!" she giggles to me. I zip my leathers down a bit, then as I am taking off my helmet, my long hair falls out of spell that holds it in tight and drops loosely onto my shoulders. I start placing my helmet on my tank when Skids stops me "Nope keep the helmet with ya, till you get your picture done!" "Why?" "You'll see and its too cool!" As I walk with my helmet in hand to the gateway out to the bar, a hansom young man steps in front of me and surprises me by speaking in Elvish "Good re nessa Drow! lle i' yeste' Amin caela oio elee e' person, amin neice Constance nyare amin en' lle ar' lle older ways? amin naa Arl Qinceran." ("Good day young Drow! Your the first I have ever saw in person, My niece Constance told me of you and your older ways? I am Arl Qinceran." His using Elvish, instead of english, it nearly stuns me on the spot! As my eyes blink in some confusion at him, then I can just see his ears peeking out from his hair. He is one of US!....A Sidhe.....too cool! My almost stunned to silence voice is finally found by my brain and I introduce myself "Quel re a' lle! lle fiose amin ed' speakien Elvish! amin naa Rohanna Leigh ri' Shadowsblade, amin tanaka Constance nyare lle tanya? (Good day to you! You surprised me by speaking Elvish! I am Rohanna Leigh or Shadowsblade, I am sure Constance told you that?) "Why yes she did" he begins in english now "I had to come see you today when I heard you might take this ride to here today." "May I ask your age and how many in your family?" as I am more than curious at how old he maybe? And how large his family is! "I am nearly five hundred and family size? We don't talk of such things in public" he winks at me. "Ohh I understand that! So what did you want to talk about today with me?" "I am here to show you....you're not alone here. We have some numbers. But sadly....so far...you're the only Drow that I know of?" "Did your people want anything of me?" "No anything you can do for us, it can wait till after you graduate....We have time on our side!" I knew what that meant deep down, we Sidhe could make plans that could take hundreds of years to come true! Something humans could never do, with that limited life span of theirs. "Well if anything is needed by you?" "No please settle yourself and have a life before the world weighs in on you....We will talk much later....perhaps a year from now is good? I will tell you when or where, via Constance?" "Fine by me...good day?" I say, he then nods back to me and fades into the crowd. Skids saw me stop and talk for a bit with him. But now she drags me to the main doors and now I can really see this place! It's huge inside! The front we passed by has stone covered walls, for that 'old house' look, but the sides and this rear section. They are modern stucco covered walls, with modern accents to show a kinda art deco look? At the main door she stops at a HUGE man there, who shakes her hand...or WHOLE arm! "Hey Ro...this is Dozer as in Bulldozer, he is cool and a teddy bear..." she beams up at him, while slapping his side in friendship "Well at least till some moron tries to hurt one of 'us'!" she then winks at me. "Hiya Dozer...Rohanna, glad to meet ya!" I introduce myself. "Glad to make your acquaintance my lady?" he says in a slight english accent "Nice to meet another Sidhe?" "You know the right name for us? My kind.....Now that shows you're smart...indeed!" Skids laughs at Dozer a little "He maybe huge, but not dumb! This guy has three Harvard Doctorates to his name in physics!" "Really? I might call you when I have math class soon?" "That would be cheating and not cricket? So I will pass Miss?" he smiles at me a little evilly. Like he is saying ...'call me' anyhow? Skids pulls me into the door and waves over the room to me "That section up front is for the tourists, they come here to see us mutants 'in our natural habitat'.. and pay for over priced booze and snacks!" she laughs. That room was very nice, with various motorcycle memorabilia all over the place and the general 'theme' seemed to be a roughhouse fifties bar style over all. She turns me by dragging my free arm to the next room "Now this is our spot, you can go out with the morons. But most of us stay in here, its safer and more fun!" Now this room was nice! We had a one way mirror to watch the 'humans in their natural habitat' and the bar theme was more modern, fixed up! along the lines of true club. I barely get my bearings in the room when she drags me to the next spot "Now this is Kent" she waves at a man standing behind a bar. Who is helping out another first time rider. "This is his bar and he is one of us. He makes enough money via us and 'other' things on the side" she whispers to me. That one new rider is done, she shoves me up to Kent and his bar "We have a new fish Kent.....a Drow this time! This is Rohanna!" "Heya so lets see that MID please?" "Why?" Didn't she tell ya?" he sneers at Skids now. "Nope?" my head shakes back to him. "Well to keep the MCO out of the back side of the bar, we made it a private club and the list for getting a membership is.... A valid MID card...aka you're a mutant of some sort? Some other member vouches for you? You have to be part of one of our lists of potential members....Whateley or one of the other mutant schools or there are a few other ways? Then we give you a new codename...just for use inside here. A new MID style card for use here and your fee to get in?" "What fee?" Skids bumps into me "That will come later, just give him your MID and school ID?" I slide the required cards to him and he slides them through his scanner, Once on his display, he hands them back to me "That is fine....and a code name?" "Well at WA some called her cuisineart?" she laughs at him "After a Sim run she did?" "That name sucks!" Mr. Donner the vehicle lab teacher barks at us, as he stomps into this part of the bar. "I got a better one for her 'Ginsu!' like the knife! she slices, she dices, she carves them up! All for a low price of laughing while doing it!" "What the heck is Ginsu?" I ask not even knowing at all! "It's one of those weird commercials form the late seventies or early eighties? They sold a sharp knife on TV? You never heard of that?" Donner now asks me, like I lived under a rock and I did! "Ahhh nope....I was out of it for the last 30 years. Cable TV, video tape, DVD, CD, Cell phones and the net is all new to me!" "Okay...that's a new one?" Skids says, as her eyes roll at me and then pulls out her cell phone. She finds a video on the net for Ginsu and shows me the commercial. When I see the spiel of the commercial, all I can do is laugh at it "Yep that fits me to a 'T'! I'll take it!" "Okay it's yours! Now the membership fee? One hundred thou...please?" he grins to me. "I DON'T have that!" I nearly shout back at him. Skids jams me in the ribs and whispers into my ear very close "See the penny in the 'take a penny' tray by the register?" "Ahh ya?" "Give it to him." she says flatly. "Okay?" I whisper back and take the only penny in the tray. It's a steel penny I am sure! I can tell by the slight 'buzz' the iron in it gives my fingers, when I grasp it. I hand it to him. Kent now, looks it over in the light. Like it's worth something and says "That will do!" then he places it back in the tray with a clink. "That penny was one of like ten ever made and is worth over one hundred thou easy!" Skids whispers to me "Kent uses it as a locked door to the MCO getting in...that high fee keeps the morons out. If they do pay in real money? He throws a party for us all, then finds a way to toss them out of the club with legal reasons!" "Ohh that's cruel! But I like it!" Kent waves me to the end of the bar and points to a set of little painted duck feet on the floor "Stand there please and place your helmet on your head?" I do as he asks, my helmet goes on me and Skids zips up my jacket for the picture he takes. After I take all that off, he fishes out a MID like card from a slot on the computer and hands it to me. It's a MID style ID, with my photo in helmet and leather on it. My code name at the top, with WA 2011....my class I guess? "Well there ya go 'member' have fun and so ya know, all credit card uses here are untraceable! We keep who comes here in complete confidence!" Kent adds to me best he can, as Skids drags me off to a large room full of rowdy kids. The new ID card goes quickly into that wallet Jade gave me and I zip the top part of my leathers off. Then roll them down, tie the arms around my waist and now my pink belly top shows that evil hello kitty logo proudly. As I enter the room of kids, Dashboard and one other yells at the room "SHUT UP YA GOOFS!" The room falls silent at her command. "Here is the latest member of KENT'S...Ginsu! or Rohanna to us regulars! SO raise a soda or booze or slice of pizza to the newbie!" she shouts over the pack of mostly kids. Most of the kids raise some item of food and scream "Ginsu!" at me, then shout "Hi" more often than not. After shaking a few hands, Dashboard points out a table for me. "This is the 'kids' table for today and meet Brandon...he's a gadgeteer for optics and such?" I take the thin boys hand already sitting there, as I greet him "Hey Brandon....Rohanna here. Nice meeting ya!" He gives me a good shake in return, while trying to answer me through a slice of pizza in his mouth "Hey Rohanna...you're that elf with the crazy blades!" "Yep....nuts and sharp pointy things! My specialties!" He smiles at that line from me and starts laughing at the thoughts "Yep Nuts! And you sure crunched Truck's nuts the other day! I saw that!" "Yep...I did." No sooner than I got seated, when a waitress brought over to me a tray full of food piled high! Potato wedge fries drowned in cheese, cheese and veggie pizza, and a large salad! "Who ordered this?" I ask the waitress, a little stunned at the vast pile of food. She points across the room to Arl sitting at the table and he holds up a glass to me "Him! The other Elf, he wanted to be sure you had enough to eat? Said something about tradition? Elders make sure that the warriors always have food...or something?" After she sets a glass of soda down for me, I raise it to Arl in salute and get a nod back from him. Before the waitress can go, I stop her "Can I get something in a orange soda and a glass of ice?" "Sure" and she is off. Once she gets back with that soda and glass of ice. I take a quick sip of that soda, between gulps of food. Then pull that out bottle of great scotch I 'liberated' from Mr. Falk. I start to pour a glass, when Bandon notices me doing the pour "Hey you can't do that here?" "Are ya sure? As this is a private bar? And I brought my own!" He watches on as I take a few slow sips from the glass "Awww good stuff that! And real smooth!" Just as I finish that glass up, the waitress comes past me and notices my new drink with some shock "Hey honey! You can't drink that here!" "Why not? It's not like I am doing it to get wasted? I can't get drunk, my body has a high....heck very high tolerance for poisons!" "Well unless you're over twenty one that bottle has to go!" and as she reaches for it. I snatch it first and toss it back into my storage. "Fine then, I will have it later!" I say in some victory and finish that glass off before she grabs that too! Brandon laughs at my small issue and bangs the table a little "You tell her Rohanna! Some of us kids, need to be treated as adults!" "Some of us 'were' adults!?" I say back as the waitress walks off in a huff. He gasps at me "Nawww? Really?" "Yep and in more ways than one!" "Wow...now that kinda sucks?" "A little...but I am so out of date, I might as well be a teen now a days?" "I don't get it?" "I lost the last thirty years...just plain skipped them. Then add to that, the Drow part in me is far older...kind of avatar style?" "So how old are ya?" "A girl never says!" I giggle at him. When I have had some of my fill to eat, Skids grabs me and gives me the nickel tour. She shows me how this place stays in business. It has several rooms on the lower levels, that range in size of a room for five or six to meet in, all the way up to nearly two hundred in the biggest! Then add to that, all of them are 'bug' proofed by the latest tech and some spell wards! Then she takes me out to were the 'tourists' are in the front main bar room. She points at the menu board "See they pay way more than we do!" And she is right! My cheese pizza is like ten bucks, theirs is way over twenty! The beers are six each! For cheap ass domestic swill! IN a SMALL glass TOO! Imported beer ranges up to fifteen a glass! ooooch! In shock I just had to ask her "They pay that...willingly?!" "Yep...they do! Just so they can say they 'rubbed' elbows with dangerous mutants or sexy ones like you and me!" she says with a evil little smile and tilts at her waist to pose in a sexy manner. As we both 'worm' our way through the pack of tourists, a hand grabs at my butt and pinches it hard! I spin toward what I think is a threat and meet eye to eye with a young guy standing there, he is dressed like a pretend biker "Hi babe, nice ass you got there and I love the ears!" he slurs a bit and he tilts his head to see my ears better "How bout you stay awhile?" Then he makes a move to grab me once again and I slip away to gain a few feet in distance. "HOW about?" I question him "How about?...I shove that arm up your ass! And then beat you to death with the other one!" "Ohhh babe, no need for violence and I love the red eye glow you got there?" I feel a hand on my shoulder and with a small glance I see that it's Skids. She yells at me "NO Rohanna you're in enough trouble at school now!" and she pulls me back a bit more from a fight that is about to start. I go with her suggestion, as Everheart told and warned me "No blood!" So I have to try to heed her warning as best I can. This moron so far, has done no damage to me. A new yell comes from just behind me where Skids is at "Curly need help here!" my head does not turn to see who yelled, as I don't dare take my eyes off this moron. Within a second, a large PAW of a hand come from nowhere in the crowd, grabs that man and heaves him up into the air "Sir we don't do that here! You have to go!" then he gets tossed out of the now open front doors of the bar, via a large bald man. The man who grabbed me! He rolls to a stop in a cloud of dust, from his short flight into the lot and he barks back at the still open bar doors "I am going to sue you!" "Go ahead SIR, we have tape of you molesting a girl under fifteen or under and in this state, that is a felony charge" the bald man states in a very calm voice, then tosses a business card to the man "And there is the attorney to call...he's on retainer." The doors close, now the bald man goes to that man's table and warns the rest of his group "Any more trouble out of you all and OUT! YA GO!....got it!" he gets nods from the four other young men there. Curly comes over to us both standing there watching the show and smiles at me "If you need any more help? Just call me and all your soda is free today for having to listen to that moron!" "Thanks...but I think I can take him?" Then I toss a dagger across the room behind me, to the dartboard forty feet off and bull's-eye it. The crowd sees that and mostly cringes at that action on my part. As the dagger fades to smoke with a wave of my hand at it, the four guys left at that table just look away from my harsh stare. One whispers to the rest of his group "Charlie is lucky...she would have killed him!" One other at the table whispers back to him "Nice way to die thou? She is an exotic cutie." Curly leans over to me, as he laughs "Hey I got them handled and chalk outlines are hard on our business here!" "I would not know about that?....No one has ever found a body from when I get nasty!" I laugh back at him. He laughs with me, then takes note of my evil grin of fangs and stops "Ohh you're serious? Maybe you should come by on recruitment week? We have recruiters from all the alphabets, CIA, NSA, and others like the Syndicate." "I'll think on that? But thanks for the hand thou." A hand from Skids grabs me again and we go back to calm her nerves. Me, I am eating like a pig! Just wolfing down this great food, Crystal hall is good....this place is great! After a few hour of great fun, hanging out, chatting about bikes I have never heard of, and classes at school to come. I meander out to the lot with a few of the other riders, I was going to leave alone? But I am told "Not on the first day, there are too many nuts that try to get at one of us!" As I hop up on the bike, get it warmed up and my helmet on. Violet takes her place behind the windscreen and she gives me a very human thumbs up! The pack of us roars out of the parking lot at high speed....the run back to Whateley is not going to be a slow one! Along the way back, one of the guys who knows this road better takes the lead and we start hitting curves at his direction at over one hundred all the way back. Hardhead, he gives us all locations to all the local cops, by way of who has spotted them!....Gaea I love this sneaky pack of kids! Several times on the way back, Violet folds her wings down real far and sticks her head up into the winds to scream like a maniac. She is loving every second of this ride back and I am glad she is having fun. The last few days, they were rough on her and me. Not long before dinner time, the group rolls into Whateley's long driveway and then passes the Guard gate with a quick check. When I pass those Nightgaunts, man that spooks me every time....I used to hunt those damned things and I am sure they know it! One of the guys shows me where the fuel fill station is at and it's nice...it takes credit cards! Then add, they have race gasoline in several flavors! After the bike is full, the fluids checked and all the bikes parts checked out. I slide the bike into storage with a wave of my arm. The guys that are still there filling up, they wave to me as I port off to Poe for a shower. -------------------------------------------------------- Sunday, March 4 6:15 am Poe cottage---my room When all the fun was over and had dinner. I turned in early to mediate. My mind was trying hard to ready myself for a week of school to come. After midnight came, I ported out to the Grove and spent five hours with Aunghadhail tutoring me in the old Sidhe spellcrafting ways. When she had to leave to be with Nikki for a little, I left for my room and began that meditation yet again. Now my ears hear a pounding at my door, when morning came and my eyes snap open to the nasty sound. "WHO is banging on my door this early!" I yell at the closed door. "It's me Everheart!" 'Oh...shit Everheart, what did I do now!' is my only thought! I slowly cross my room as I listen for how many others are in the hallway and I find it's only her? Some of the other Poe kids are in the hallway, but she is alone? My door opens a just crack to her "What is this early morning call for Miss Everheart?" "Well it's Sunday, I am off and that shooting range we wanted to make is done! So, lets go use it!" she beams at me. "Okay...let me get dressed then?" "Be quick!" "Want to come in and sit? While I do that?" "Sure...why not?" She comes in my now opened door and I show her over to the far bed to sit on. "So all's good?" I ask her, as I kick my meditation mat back under the bed. She leans her large rifle bag by the door and sits. "Yes the school is fine...how was the ride yesterday?" "Great! had lots of fun and great food!" "Anything else?" "Met another Sidhe...an older one, who was related to Constance" I add as my closet opens, to grab a shirt and jeans from it. "Now that is good news!" "I hope so? I have now idea why a older Sidhe would even care I am here...unless?" "Unless?" she asks in a voice that shows concern at my words. "They...like all Sidhe of the past...see a Drow to use?" "Ohh I understand a little? You're worried they will abuse you like in the past?" "Yes...there are reasons why Drow and the dark court. They never mixed with Aunghadhail and her court of light or bright some call it" I mumble to her, as my shoes get tied on my feet. "Can you explain that to me? As there are very few real books on that subject?" "I would bet, No I am sure? I actually own more books on that subject, then are available to you humans to read over. But telling you the whole story would take days!" "Well you are here for four or more years! So lets start today shall we? Just give me the basics, then I will ask you to fill in the rest as I need it?" "I am not sure that's a good idea Everheart, but please let's go outside and try out this new range of yours or should I say ours" I now giggle to her. "Your sure you don't want to talk over the differences between the courts?" "It's kind of hard to talk about things like that Everheart, it's just that the two never mixed really and you have to realize I did not really volunteer for what happened to me" I sigh as I more than stare at my own feet instead of face her. Sam glances out the window away from me, as she asks "So was it them taking you or something else?" After I pause to think about it a little and sigh heavily. All I can do is mumble in reply to her "Well all the human memories I have? They are all there and for the most part, they seem to keep me grounded somewhat? Even thou at times they fade or slip away, when I am stressed out." "And the Drow part?" she encourages me. "Well all the memories from when I was young....a small child.....they are gone? Why I don't know? The only ones I have, are of mom singing and that's it? My father.... zero ....all totally erased?" "Hummm sounds bad?" "I guess...they...Aunghadhail's sisters, they got me and my mates somehow? In trade or sale, who knows? All I am really sure of, is that Drow know how to fight far better than regular Sidhe, like Nikki and Gwen are and we are built sturdier to begin with." "Sounds like a experiment in making a better weapon or soldier out of a Sidhe...." she looks me over while thinking about the subject "to me anyway? Not unheard of here in human and modern times.....Look at Jobe and his DNA mixing crap! Then all that it got him.. " she laughs at the new thoughts "...now her into!" "So I really was never told why the court of Dark never mixed with the Bright one? It was a mostly....differences on viewpoints. They just did not? And it was not a evil verses good thing? As Aunghadhail and the evil she did to me and others shows that alone!" "Well you can chat with me on that as we go? But for now, lets shoot up that range and see who is the better shot!" she grins evilly at me her challenge. Everheart takes the lead and drags me from my room out of Poe. She shows me a nice new path across from Poe just south of Melville, as it goes on for a bit, a clearing comes into view and she waves her arm at it. "Here we go!" "What? there is nothing here?" I state to her, as I start asking the 'earth' and the plants what maybe hidden to view? Everheart goes to stand over a small rock in the clearing, then waves a hand over it with ID card showing and it rises up on a pole. That shows a small control panel when it flips open. She pushes a few buttons and a very large rock next to it. Shifts its shape via grinding and sliding parts of it about into a shooting bench with extra seats. At the large rock, now a bench. She lays her rifle case down and opens a new panel with her ID card. Once it opens and powers up. Everheart points to the large hill over a mile off "Up there is the range...I am sure you see it. Even thou, I asked to keep it looking more natural and blend in to the site?" I easily spot what she is talking about, over a mile up the hill nearly at the top, as the rocks up there are all wrong for the area. What is can see is a long, large, very fake to me? Fallen tree, that is over fifty feet long and about five feet tall and it must be hiding some of the mechanics of the range. Then add the sand and pebbles area just behind it, make it stand out a bit more. Next she goes over how it works with me. "What we have here is a magnetic launching and holding system. It can toss a target into the air or hold one rock still at nearly thirty feet in the air and the sizes range from a dime...to a pizza pie plate!" The next list she goes over with me, makes me grin at the challenge! The system can toss a target over two hundred feet up and very fast! Or dozens the same way. Then it can move them, side to side...shooting gallery style. Or skeet style arch's. The size can vary up or down, as we go and randomly. If a metal plate gets tossed off the range area, a small bot goes to 'fetch' it and recycle it for later use. The plates themselves, can be very thick to simulate armor and take a large hit! Or thin to show where you hit....so you can train a person better. It can even 'paint' a hard light 3D target of a person, or object and tell us a 'score' via the built in system. The whole system is heavily armored, to standup to my magical blasts and Everheart's large bore rifle shots! There is even a camera system that shows down here on the video panel for those that can't see that far! "How much did this cost?" "Lots! But most of it was moved from us paying for all of it? To the schools training budget. As I needed a new place to train and the school needed a better one for the students" she grins at me. "So what's the damage on my part?" "A little over ten K? As most of this was paid for....then add the kids who built it, did it for a grade too and that kept the cost down!" "Well I guess I pay my share of that?" "It can wait....just toss in about five k for now, the rest can wait for later." I give my credit card to Everheart and her internal computer links to the card. Then transfers the amount off it. She warns me "You're getting a little low in funds there, You might want to get up to ARC and give those guys something to chew on?" "Ya I guess so?" my eyes go down at the thoughts of that place and I pace a bit in my nervousness at them. "Hey it's good, go when ya want to....the money can wait for a long time to come!" Everhart sets up the range for us both, as she opens that case of her's and pulls out a really highly customized fifty caliber rifle. As she does that, My best bow snaps into this world with a flip of my hand. She smiles at that and nods "One day I have to learn how to do that 'poof from nowhere' stuff?" "I am not sure ya can? But we can try?" I suggest to her. "So what to try out first as a challenge?" "Your deal....you dragged me here!" "Okay target size first!' She starts a chain of targets going down in size from a pie plate to a dime, then adds after that phase is done by both of us speed to the equation. At a very fast left to right slide of the targets, Everheart's rifle starts to show it's limits and starts to miss. Then we switch to a pop up target style and after some time, the rifle and its inherent mechanical slowness shows again "Everheart you're good, but you really need a machine gun to keep up!" I tease her. "Hey let me try that bow out then?" "This bow? Ahh no way would I ever do that, the string is....how can I say this.... bad for the human techy stuff you're made out of. It might hurt you with a spell or worse?" "Humm?" "I do have a smaller one you can try?" "Okay!" she yelps "Let me try it!" After my main bow is back in storage, the smaller one is pulled out and I hand it to her. "Hey this is heavy as heck!' "Yep eighty pounds!" "Arrows?" she asks. "Ohhh my mistake....making arrows and storing them, is the first lesson you learn... before you even notch an arrow in my class! So I expected you to already have them?" I smile to her. As she watches me, ten arrows come from my quiver storage on my leg's side and I place them on the bench for her. "Don't drop one on your foot! It might go right through! They are very sharp!" I warn her next. After she picks one up from the table and weighs it in her hands a little "Hey even this is heavy?.....Like nearly three pounds?" "Yep heavier metal and a spell to make it even more so....basic physics! The heavier the projectile, the more amour it bashes through!" Everhart goes to notch the arrow and after she is done, she notices me shaking my head at her "What?" she asks. "You're doing it wrong" I say flatly and to the point. "This is how I learned? What is wrong about it?" "Let me guess you learned archery in the scouts or at some summer camp?" "Scouts...of course!" "Well they taught you to hit a target....Where as, I teach you how to KILL one and several real fast!" "So what's wrong with what I am doing?" "Notching up an arrow on the left side of a bow, it adds several unneeded steps to the action. So try the right side of the bow and you will lose the step of having to tilt the bow and crossing over it....trust me it's faster!" She gives it a few tries and I give her a few points on how to get faster, Then she draws the string back as she asks me "What is the draw weight on this...its insane!" "Ohhh about five hundred or so? My main bow is even more!" "Sheeesh that's nuts!" "And how else should I get an arrow to fly that far, without that kind of power on the drawstring" I test her. "I thought you used some sort of magic, to get all that distance and power?" "Magic is detectable! But a arrow in fight rarely is.... till it hits the target anyway!" "That makes sense to me" she draws the bow fully and loses the arrow. I watch as it goes several hundred yards, but comes nowhere near the targets at the top of the hill. "Good try?" I praise the effort "Maybe with some work you can make the targets?" "You try now? I want to see if this bow can even make it up there!" "Okay?" I say as she hands me the bow back and I take an arrow off the bench. One quick motion, the arrow is gone......and the target falls. "Not the bow...it's all you?" I play with her. The scowl I get back is priceless and comes with a dare "Now try my rifle! show off!" I shrug to her and sit at the bench, just behind that BEAST of a rifle. A cartridge gets pulled from her box of them and placed in the rifles action, just as I had watched her do. I line up one of the larger targets on the hill and fire. My shot lands over thirty feet off, but at least I got close! She nods to me "Not bad for a first shot? You have some firearm experience?" "Yes...my human part has lots!" I boast to her. "Well keep trying!" "Okay!" I say as new magazine of cartridges is rammed into the rifle. On the next shot I take my time, feel the wind out more and breath slower...... both my hearts stop and the rifle bucks as the trigger is pulled slowly home. This time I was ten feet closer! The next shot was almost on top of that, then the next five feet closer to target and with five more shots the magazine ran dry. But I was almost hitting the large plate, as I was only off now by three feet on the last one! A huff comes from me as the rifle leaves my shoulder "I will stick with my bow! Your way has too many variables and is LOUD!" "Well it is how us humans do the job?" "That darn thing is too loud...I can kill off twenty targets and the last one will not know that I have been shooting and killing its friends...till its dead!" "Well let me get some more time on that rifle, I have got a little rusty and need sometime practicing!" She asks me as she regains her spot. "Fine by me" I say as I stand-up to give her the spot back and my bow comes out. So I can shoot at the far end of the target range, from where she chooses to start shooting at. As Everheart gets set and starts to blast away. I feel something watching me? Something all too interested? My free hand waves a small signal to Violet via it's fingers and I hear a bird chirp that tells me she is off. Violet flies straight up, as her magical invisibility takes hold over her and she starts to fly circles around me. She spots something off to my rear and zooms toward it. When she gets close, it spots her...somehow? Then she sees a small teen boy, who runs off at very high speed from her. She tries to keep up, but can't and after a good try at it. She gives up and flies back to my shoulder. Violet whispers in my ear, as Everheart fires her rifle yet again "I spotted a boy, but he saw me somehow and ran off. Boy he was fast! Faster than I can fly and he lost me at the main quad in a pack of other students. One thing thou...he had a long bag on his back? Like a guitar case, I think humans call them?" "Humm maybe a boy spotted two beautiful girls walking out here and thought to see what we were up too? It's probability nothing?" I say to her. "I shall keep watch none the less!" she states and flies off at speed to start her circling us. After Violet leaves me, my mind thinks this over. That one thing she said 'He spotted her? How does a kid here spot my Pixie? As I know Violet is too good to have some 'kid' spot her?' I watch on as Everheart keeps to her shooting and think even more 'Maybe he had a mutation that made Violet stick out?....that makes some sense to me...lots of strange kids do go here?' -------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday, March 5 3:25 am The Grove Most of Sunday was spent gathering my books and supplies for the next week. Making sure I had the right books, the right programs on my laptop and knew how to use it better. As I sit on Monday morning and study what Aung has been showing me, she stops her teaching to stare at me "Something is bothering you? I can feel it....Even Nikki felt it all day yesterday? What is it?" All I can do is keep to my book and not look up at her. I feel so embarrassed at what is on my mind. "Please tell me? Avoiding this maybe a bad idea?" she asks me, as she sits next to me on the large stump. "It's that today is the first day of classes. I am more than worried?" "Why are you worried? The other students already know of you...good or bad" she giggles at me. "I just am is all." I mumble out softly. "Well going to school this time will be like no other in your past? In your human days, you were expected to pass a class, to graduate, on a path to get a job later? That is already set. You have the promise of Carson, that you will graduate...one way or another?" "I don't know?" "Then it must be that Drow in you worrying! DO NOT!" she almost orders me "This time for a change, it is not pass or fail! Live or die! You just do the class and move on with what you learn or do not learn?" "That might be the issue then, but I am not sure?" "Well we will find out then, shall we? You have others here that care and with that...support!" "Yes...I do." "Then add the fun this week!" Aung beams at me.... I look at her more than puzzled "What is that?" "You get to show these human 'teachers' what real archery is!" I laugh back at her "Yes I do!" Aunghadhail takes my book from my lap of my crossed legs and closes it for me "Maybe you should go to your room and rest a little. Then get ready for this day? As your mind is most certainly, not on this book now....or my teachings?" she smiles at me. "You're right, it is not. I am off, I will cya in class!" "Yes you will, first class 'Intro to Magical Arts' and Nikki is the TA for it...So do well!" she waves to me as I fade off into the Groves surroundings. -------------------------------------------------------------- Monday, March 5 4:45 am Poe cottage After a short hours meditation to gather my thoughts, I trudge down the hallway to the showers and inside I find Bunny, along with Rip just getting finished up showering. "Hey there...morning!" I grin at both of them. "Hey girl!" Rip sounds out to me "First day! and you just know I am going to force you to go get me a double double burger fix, from cali come Friday!" "Sure why not? Your buying anyway!" "Gladly!" she smiles back at me. I pick a stall to shower up in and get it warmed up a bit. When it's ready I jump in, but this time the Hydroflux is turned on! I need what it gives me badly! When I am done with that and almost stumble out of the stall. Bunny is still there, getting her hair set into her trademark twin pony tails. She grins at me when she notices my pink hued glowing eyes "Well that should get ya going!" "That it does!" I say to her with a sloppy grin on my face. Once I get a spot at one of the many sinks, my morning ritual begins. The long hair is dried, then brushed out and then the 'fangs' get their cleaning. As I grin into the mirror after brushing, Bunny leans over and stares at my teeth as she asks "You ever bite yourself with those choppers?" "Nope...but I do leave a mean hickey!" "Ahh yep! Ever thought about more make-up?" "Nope...the color would just wash out on my dark skin?" "Try pink?" "AND look like a Jobe clone! No thank you!" I shriek at her idea. When all that is done, I speed back to my room and pull out the outfit of today. A full blown Whateley uniform, with long skirt, white shirt, long tie, then a dark blazer with school patch and lay it out on my bed. The last I add to that, is the now hated 'UV' armband. Once it's all laid out and my underwear is on me. I just stand there.....staring at it...my uniform and the skirt. Then look over shoulder, at the mirror on the doors back. That mirror is now showing me, my profile and it hits me like on Saturday at Nikki's house. Three weeks ago....I was a guy...a human. Now I am a Drow, teen girl and I am going to school. Dressing like one...a girl, being one? As a Drow, I never had to! That was not allowed, the Drow never had nice clothes...really? Never had a dress? Make-up...what's that! Long term relationships...why? The other Drow....like me, will be either dead soon or reassigned! All changed in three short weeks. My head is shaken out of the dark thoughts with a toss of my head and I get back to my chore...getting ready for this day. The uniform is pulled on me, piece by piece and soon a new student looks back at herself in that door mirror. My body just stands there again...thinking. A bunch of banging hits on my door, that startles me a little and Gwen opens the door to see me standing there. "LET'S GET GOING! You will be late!" she shouts at me. "Ya I guess?" I sigh. She closes the door very fast and comes over to me "Is it like Saturday again? Nikki told me, you had...issues when you wore that dress for the first time and then add Josh acted like a moron!" "Ya....three weeks" is all I say. "I know I was there, it was only three weeks ago. But it gets better, trust me!" Gwen smiled at me "Remember my change, only took a few days to happen. So I know the feeling!" she states to me with a funny smirk. "Ya! If you got through this...I can do this! Lets get to class then!" I almost shout and grab my backpack off the desk. Soon enough, Gwen and I are walking into that first magic class. She grabs a spot at a large lab table, that another Sidhe is already sitting at and she happens to be one that I have yet to meet! The lab table itself it huge! It has space for four students and a large slab of black marble is its top. Carved into it, is a place for a bowl or cauldron to go and a large sink with several taps? As Gwen hops on a tall lab chair to sit and tosses her bag to the table top, she introduces me "Rohanna, this is Rhiannon Warrensby....or Sanctuary. Rhia, this is Rohanna Leigh or Shadowsblade. She is new this term to Poe." We both exchange 'hi's' then she asks me "So do you know magic well?" "Ahhh Sidhe magic....yes...to a point. Human style...not at all?" "Well that's fine, between me and Gwen. We will get you up to speed soon enough." "Bree is still coming! I will introduce you to her, then Rhia!" Gwen broke in with a grin. "So we are getting TWO! new elves this term! How neat!" "Yep, we might have to look into forming a training team of all elves soon!" "For the finals?" I ask. "Maybe? then add, we all can use the time together and have you train us too?" "I can do that!" "Train us?" Rhia ask me as she looks me over. Gwen answers for me "Yep! Ro, has lots of ancient knowledge on how to fight and some magic. Kind of like Nikki has in a way?" "That's nice! I need some help with that. As all I can do well, is heal and make several shields at the same time?" "Humm healing is always a good thing to have?" I was going to say more but Gwen jumps in and smacks my thigh to show a point "Ro will need you a lot! She seems to attract trouble!" "Yep I do! But making more than one magic shield at a time...that is very rare. You have to have the talent to do that....it's very hard to learn it!" "Nan' Rhia, lle're goien cael- yanw- i' esta en' lye ten' y' pizza party, amin veste Constance um- rato!" (But Rhia, you're going to have to join the rest of us for a pizza party, I promised Constance to do soon!) The look on Rhia's face is one of pure puzzlement as she asks me "What was that? I don't understand a word you said?" "Well then! We have found the first thing that needs to be taught! All us Sidhe should be able to speak our own language, shouldn't we?" "That was Elvin?" she asks me. "Yes it was and the correct term is Sidhe....not elf. I will and have learned to accept elf from most others....for now? But you should use the correct term...as you are one?" I say as my voice carries a little anger in it. "Okay?" she tones out slowly, unsure of my tone at her now. "You have to understand Ro...Rhia?" Gwen jumps in "She is for the 'old' ways and does not really like the new styles so much?" "New styles?" I say almost offended "Is it wrong to want to be MORE of what you are and covet that long history?" "Hey Ro! No need to get offended?" Gwen waves me off with both her hands up, showing surrender at the subject. "I was pointing out we three, are different from humans in so many ways....that we should learn the 'old ways' as you put them. So we can each share in that rich history we all have in common?" Rhia laughs a little at me "I don't think I am really that different from a human?" "Really?" I ask her "Then what do you think of this?" and I take out a large block of my stashed Mithril. Then place it in front of her. Her eyes all but glaze over at the sight of it, as the pull that 'metal' has on all Sidhe. It pulls on her now, she wants it bad, to hold it, to caress it and own it! And she starts to reach for it! I snatch it away from her reaching grasp quickly and smile at her "So you're not different from a human?" I finally ask her. "Can I have that?" she asks me stuck in a daze. "Why? No other human in the room, wants this simple metal so bad? Why if you're not 'different' from them, do you want it?" I wave the block in front of her face...enticing her with its presence "Crave it do you? Lust.....after this simple block of metal then?" "I just neeeeed it?" she drones out, enthralled by it mere presence. "Of course you do? We are creatures of magic, you and I.... and this metal is a solid part of magic...that is why you want it. You have to touch it....feel it?" and I put it away from her sight. "Awww?" she sighs when it's gone. "I will let you play with it later!" I give in to her. "Please? and now I understand what you're saying a little more? We are different!" As Rhia whines a little at me for taking the Mithril away, Bree just comes flying in the classroom door in a run and Mrs. Grimes is right behind her "You almost missed your first day? That is not a way to impress me Miss Peters!" she warns. "Sorry ma'am. I got a little lost is all?" "Well then tour the grounds more on your time off and come early till you know the school better?" "Yes ma'am, I will." "Have a seat then." Gwen takes that cue and waves Bree over to us. When she spots Gwen's wave, she rushes over and takes the last chair of four at our lab table. "Humm I see that my Sidhe have formed a coven?" Mrs. Grimes says to the class at large. We at our small table of four, all start laughing and giggling back at her statement, as we quickly look at one another. Gwen speaks up for us at the table, as she shows her leadership "I guess so ma'am...we have?" "Well then Miss Wylann, with you being the one who has the most class time of mine. You're that lab table's leader now." "Yes ma'am." "And since we are on the subject of Sidhe and your group?" she says as her desk-podium gets opened up and Nikki comes into the room via the teachers entrance at the front "Since Rohanna is there with you all, the lab final for your lab group, shall not have a charm or magic item as its shared goal." "Ma'am why?" Gwen questions her. "Miss Leigh is far too good and quick at making them, so unfortunately for you? That challenge has to be dropped for your group effort, but you can do them as a single student effort...as long as she does not help any of you?" "Yes ma'am" Gwen pouts at what I am sure she thought would be an easy grade, was just snatched from her grasp! "You still have the choices of potion, scroll, minor spell, and others? So work within the new guide lines...please." "Ma'am." she nods to her. "Then add Miss Leigh, I expect a class day or two? Of you teaching Sidhe style magic to the class?" "Ma'am I am not sure I should?" Aunghadhail's voice comes from Nikki, as she readies a few books for Mrs. Grimes class use "I will ensure that Miss Leigh is ready to teach that class myself....instructor." "Thank you Aunghadhail, I am sure you will" Mrs. Grimes smiles to her. "Jora!" I whisper (rats!) "more work!" And Gwen giggles at my pain. Mrs. Grimes then goes to the main lectern and the class video screen shows us all a list of books to read. "Well class this is your list to read, it will be in your inboxes soon and with it, is the main subjects of this term. To the new students here, this class runs with several levels of students within it, ranging from the very new, all the way to those about to be moved on to the more advanced classes. I expect all the more trained members of the class to help move the new students along!" As she begins, my notebooks come out and I start writing. Grimes lectures on what is to be covered for the first two hours of class, then changes to showing us the basics of spell crafting 'human style' and this is a review for some in class. But for me, its all new! Gwen notes a very strange thing as I make my notes, she then leans over and whispers to me "Hey Ro? Did you notice you're writing I think in Drow?" she warns me. I suddenly stop and look down at the page at my pens tip. All the words I have written on the page, they all look to me? Like english? "Are you pranking me?" I whisper back. "Never on that stuff! I will never do that to ya! I promise!" she swears to me. "Ohh shit, I guess I am? I wonder if I will do that all day? Or only with magic classes?" "Try this out, write me a note on what's' for lunch?" she suggests. After a page of my note book is torn from it, I write out....I want the pizza and cookies.... and hand it to her. "Well?" I ask a little more than worried, that I am slipping again and that Drow is taking over! "This is in english! Maybe your magic, has to translate new things within that subject to Drow? Or you don't understand it?....You only learned it one way? Didn't you?" I am about to answer her, when Mrs. Grimes shouts at us both "Miss Wylann and Leigh! Why are you talking during lesson time and passing notes!" "Sorry ma'am" I cringe at the chewing out. "Mrs. Grimes? I was only helping Rohanna out with something?" Gwen tires to explain back to her. "What is it that your helping her with?" she questions with a little concern showing in her voice now. "She is having issues sometimes? But in this case...she was writing all her notes in Drow...not english and that worried me a little for her?" "Why is that?" "Can we talk in private about this?" I now ask her. She waves us all toward the teachers door, as we walk over to her and Nikki joins us at her insistence also. "Well Mrs. Grimes" Gwen begins "Rohanna sometimes loses herself all to that Drow part of her and forgets how to even speak english?" "Humm that is a new one for elves? But not unheard of among avatars." "Yes Mrs. Grimes I can confirm that, Rohanna and I have worked on this issue before. We seem for the most part have it cured, but it may raise again?" Aunghadhail's regal tone adds to Gwen's explanation. "Please let me see this notebook of yours? I want to see what written Drow is like. As I have never seen any before?" At her insistence, I hand over my notebook from today's class. As she studies it, she uses a few small spells on it and then closes it very quickly in shock. "Rohanna did you know some of your spell notations are in Mythos or GOO style magical notes?" "Yes I did, Sara noticed that a week or so ago and Aung confirmed it too?" "Maybe you should pick another way to make spell notes? As if the lower experienced students read that? Their minds could get corrupted by it?" "I don't know any other style? That is what I was taught in and it's all I know?" "I find it strange that you know the advanced spell casting and some of the making of the same level of spells....But none of the basics of lower level spells? Can Aunghadhail tell me why please Nikki?" "Mrs. Grimes with respect, that subject is between Rohanna and me. We try not to talk of the dark past too much. As it is done and we must move on?" Nikki answers in Aunghadhail's tone of authority. "Fine, we can fix this another way" Grimes turns to me and places a soft hand on my shoulder to guide me "Rohanna, please do not let the other students, ever read your notes from this class?" "I can do that. As it seems I only write my notes like this, when magic is involved?" "Okay! all settled then, off ya go! Back to work!" she shoos at us all. ------------------------------------------------------- Monday, March 5 5:45 pm Poe cottage My body flops onto my bed like a rag doll, as Is sigh out "That powers theory class has to be the most boring class ever! Then add to that! The lab part! How can a human tell me how to be a better Drow!" The class for the most part was a waste of time, but it show me one thing 'what the other mutants around me can do!' And with that new knowledge, attackers like 'TK' will not get the upper hand on me again! As I now know what to do in some small way! But the most important thing I found out during class was! My writing did indeed switch back to english on another subject that was not Magic! That made me very happy indeed! After my brain returned from being 'mush' from the slow pain lecture, I just went through. I leapt off the bed and went to Crystal to grab a quick dinner and then came back to my room. With being recharged and fed! I cracked my books and started studying hard! As the way human magic was being shown to me, it made very little sense and I had to study hard to even grasp it! ------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday, March 6 9:35 am Archery practice range Normally at this time of the week, I would be with Sir Wallace and Nikki learning magic, but he gave me this time off to tryout with the Archery instructor and see if I could 'TA' Teachers assistant this class. He did say "I will see you on Thursday! And we will work even harder!" sigh.... my work never ends! Then add to that, I am helping Nikki on somedays with Mrs. Hagarty, her martial arts teacher! The teacher told me to be here at 9:30 and I have been here for over twenty minutes? She has not said a word to me or even cared I was there? What I have done, is watch how she handles the class and how the students are being taught. The teacher herself, is Japanese by her looks and clothing choices for this class. Being she is wearing a traditional uniform of that style. Then she seems to be teaching most students that form of Japanese archery? I myself am wearing my school uniform, not knowing what she likes for the class to wear? And that subject seems to range from the Japanese uniform she has on...all the way down to regular workout wear in the students attire. As She goes about her starting the class, I watch on and pay close attention to everything she does. Most of the class flows into a set routine and goes into practicing at the range. She pulls the ones that seen to need farther attention aside and helps them. The style or form she is teaching is more of a Asian based one? I am sure it's more along what Japan might teach? Too unyielding for beginning students and far from useful in real combat! When it looks like the class is moving along well, she finally comes over to me "I am Kasai Tetsuko the teacher of this class. I was asked to let you try out for a TA in my class. So do you see anything you can do so far?" "Rohanna Leigh ma'am" I bow to her my respect. In the old days, I would be on the ground with a knee down, but that maybe going too far theses days? "Well there is one thing ma'am?" she nods to me to go on "The class should practice to get warmed up, then the more advanced students should work with the newer students. As I my class time, I found that when you teach someone? You see your own mistakes too and correct them faster?" "Anything else?" "The forms your using are too strict and rigid. A form has to mold to the body, not the body to the form? This makes allowances for differences in types of students, height, size, limb length and strength?" "Okay lets see if that will work with one of my newer students...shall we? Mary was new middle of last term, but has not done to well, even with more attention from me?" "Yes ma'am...at your lead?" She nods to me and leads me to the end of the line to a student standing there "Mary?" she asks her, while taping on her shoulder to get her attention "This is Rohanna, she is her to tryout for a TA spot. I want her to try to teach you for this class session and see what she can do?" Mary nods to her "Okay?" she says very unsure. "Well Mary lets start at the basics shall we? What do you want out of this class?" "I don't know?"