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Post by CODY SALEM on Mar 7, 2010 0:39:28 GMT -5
 ------------------------------------------------------------Okay! Her last class had been dismissed, she'd had a snack, and the day had ended for the rest of the school as well. Cody could think of only one thing to do as she made her way through the crowd. The professor was quite excited, barely stopping to reply to the occasional greeting she passed; if the hall had been clearer, she might have been running.
For now she could play hide and seek!
It was a completely legitimate cause that somehow would provide her playmate companion with training essential to all Touleane students.
The physics teacher came free of most of the students milling toward the school's exits, stopping briefly to tug her jacket straight before darting back into her search. After all, she couldn't spend her afternoon in a thrilling outdoors game if she couldn't find her partner, goodness no! She'd have to find that girl and quickly, before she could retreat to her dorm and start to do something as silly and motionless as meditating! With this in mind, the shapeshifter trotted toward what she knew was the last class her student-slash-buddy had. With a quick glance into the door, she realized that the teacher hadn't released the students quite yet - "Whoops. Don't mind me~!" - and plunked into a spot next to the classroom, leaning on the wall behind her as she waited.
It took forever! Days, even! But finally the teacher waved his group off and the students began to barrel for the exit in attempts to regain their precious time. Cody bounced up onto her feet and started to skim the kids rushing by her, spotting the girl she was looking for after a moment. "Mariii!" She slipped easily into step next to the student, expression almost glowing as she continued to speak. "So so I figured out a new form to shift into this morning, well during my second physics class but hey I think best around that time the students are used to it anyways - but you wanna play hide and seek again? Do you do you do you?" She stopped to breathe and just might have noticed the rather overbearing way she'd started the conversation, seeing as she tacked a small, "...Please?" onto the end of her request.
Really, it would have seemed odd to anybody watching. Nevertheless, Cody's fascination with Marietta's ability let her insist that the two test each other's abilities with almost weekly games of Can You Find Me. The campus's natural outdoors terrain was well suited to this activity, being so large and varied; anyways, Mari's light manipulation let her become invisible. Quite astonishing, especially to Cody when she'd first found out, but the professor had retaliated with a quick shift into something with a keener sense of smell than her own; with this to make up for Mari's camouflage, Cody had found that she quite liked hide and seek. Hadn't played it since she was a kid, but oh how she loved it!
Hopefully Marietta didn't have much homework. She hadn't gotten much in Cody's own physics class, anyways! note : whoo, a thread~ of course marietta is expected here, and i left a slot for ezio as the teacher cody sort of interrupted? of course ezio doesn't have to have been that professor. |D; also open to anybody who'd like to play hide and seek! >8DDDD or chat. chatting's good. |
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Post by MARIETTA CALLIAT on Mar 7, 2010 1:29:54 GMT -5
... i'm so happy [sigh] I could cry.  Professor De Luca really was interesting. Seriously. No sarcasm intended. Who else could wear a bolt, within their cranium, as a fashion statement? Getting away with it? Like it was the most normal thing in the world? Exactly! That's what made him so unique. However, his classes? They weren't exactly her best. Self-defense she needed tudoring in. Because, fending off attackers; physically. Without any powers. It was difficult on her end. Yes, she was tall. Slender, and athletic. Still that didn't mean anything. Looks were very deceiving. This school's existance was proof! They all appeared like normal teenagers. Ordinary. When that couldn't be farther from the truth. Just like her assumption over Healing. Thinking this class would be her easiest within the semester. 'Oh, how very wrong I was.' It was a thought that made her cringe. Perhaps she could be biased. When it came to the semester, that is. Her curriculum no longer childs play. Going into this new year she kept positive. Last year showed very little challenges. The only fear she had, for this one, would be Physics. Class dearest father lectured her into taking. Albeit having a good reason. Which was the only playing ground, he had leveled with, allowing her to cave in and request it. Ironically despite the dismay... Physics held her highest grade. Healing the lowest. Both professors were awesome. Actually, all of them were in her opinion. Still, it couldn't be helped. Glancing to her paper after receiving it, she frowned. Noticing the C- on her latest Botany test. One they took yesterday. Who thought biology combined with herbs, could be so difficult? She certainly didn't. But, no matter how much she studied... no results were showing. She couldn't get above that single grade. One that was on all of her assignments. She was grateful they weren't D's or F's. That didn't make her any happier, though. Midterms would be soon. Those were usually, without a doubt, harder than any other quizzes or test. As for the final in the future? She paled at the idea of taking it. Mumbling to herself. "Why can't I understand the genetic compounds, to healing wounds?" Brow giving a very light twitch. Feeling a brooding moment about to stir. Overdramatic rain cloud, puffy and grey, mentally above her head. Thunder crackled in her mind. Expecting the downpour of emotions. Until the bell resounded. Echoing within the classroom. Motioning towards not only, the end of last period but to the school day as well. Causing her to instantly perk. Expression doing a complete one-eighty. Leaving a smile on her lips. That couldn't be anything closer to perfect. The brunette stretching her arms over the desk. Gathering all her papers. Neatly placing them away; orderly, within her binder. Standing up and tucking it beneath her shoulder. "Professor De Luca!" Calling his name aloud, making her way to the front... she froze. Eyes widening as a sweatdrop trickled, on the side, of her forehead. Giving a double-take into the others direction. Looking to the woman and giving a very sheepish, trying-to-hide-it, nervous laugh, free hand rubbing behind her neck. Listening to the rambling of her Physics instructor. Wishing she could shape shift as well. Cause she'd turn into a mouse and scurry away without any second thought. Honestly, she enjoyed her presence. She was pleasant to be around. Surely. But, hide and seek? Now? "Sorry, Professor Salem." She lowered the hand, from her neck. Bringing it to her adjacent elbow. "I have studying to do. Not to mention, it's a rather... frustrating afternoon. So, i'm probably going to meditate." Glancing to Ezio, she chirped. "Sorry, too. Forgot was I was going to say!" Deciding on that little white lie. Chosing to ask for extra tudoring, from him yet again, tomorrow, she slipped by the pair. Trying to wiggle her way to freedom. Even if she knew it most likely would be futile. |
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Post by EZIO DE LUCA on Mar 7, 2010 2:28:30 GMT -5
Often enough, he was always keeping his class over the bell usually by a mere minute or two. He made sure they got every word in their heads, even if it wasn't retained simply because they were bored of the subject. If only he could dissect the child mind and figure out why such things were so boring to them. Was learning how to keep someone alive in their time of need really that boring? Sure there were various things to take into account like the procedure to create a sanitary wound, and whatever other procedures but it was all for a good cause. The Professor lifted his hand and twisted the screw that was lodged in his head and shook his skull side to side slowly. "Class dismissed. I'll see you all tomorrow." Watching as all the kids emptied out of the room he sat down when one of the students; Marietta Calliat approached sheepishly. She was shy but intelligent. She was the one flower in the bunch that let all the others blossom before her and that way she could stand in the back and remain unnoticed. To each their own though; he nodded for a moment and then watched as the girl wandered off towards her other professor. Was the other woman really a professor? She was so child like it couldn't be possible. He wasn't too familiar even now with every other faculty member yet as most tended to stay away from him. He was weird, or scary to them. He really couldn't understand them, so scared of something that had nothing fierce about him. Listening in to the conversation outside, it was hard to miss. Wheeling himself over in his chair slowly, he kept spinning until he reached the door and came to a crash as the wheels came to the frame of the floor and caused him to tumble out of the seat and into the hallway. For a moment he laid there waiting to be trampled by numerous students, but thankfully the last of them was leaving and they were kind enough to go around his huddled heap. He simply layed there, hoping no one had noticed him. Especially the two he was trying to eavesdrop on... |
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Post by CODY SALEM on Mar 7, 2010 18:53:21 GMT -5
------------------------------------------------------------ She might have whined - the kicked puppy kind of complaint, not the human version. Somehow Cody refrained from doing so when Marietta explained her purpose, but upon the word "meditate" she seemed to jump right back into the conversation. "Ahah! I knew you were going to say that because you always, always go to meditate~" The shapeshifter stopped and tilted her head, raising a hand to tug meaninglessly at the stray end of her hair ribbon. "Playing a game would be so much better for relaxing than sitting in one spot though! For one, there's sunshine! You need vitamin D, Mari, and I don't think that's one of the perks attaining nirvana has to offer!"
Past the overly exclamation-mark-abusive tone she was using, the professor seemed quite eager for something as simple as hide and seek. Maybe it had been her own school day; even if she could exude an almost suffocating aura of 8DDDD there were students who could successfully trip her mood up. The class she'd taught after lunch might have been it, though she wasn't very keen on remembering something so irrelevant.
She did have Mari's best interests in mind, though! Even if hide and seek took away from the time her friend had to study, Cody always tried to help in ways more than just lessening the amount of homework she herself assigned. Though she was not as well versed in other courses than she was in her own subjects, she knew enough of the conversation that went around the teachers' lounge to let Mari off on the more crowded days. ...Eventually.
Marietta seemed to be apologizing to somebody else as well; Cody glanced both ways in attempts to see who the student was talking to. Finding no other students left behind for her to recruit into hide and seek, she piped up. "Maybe you forgot because there's nobody - there?!" She had an excuse for jumping back and almost yelling the last word, seeing as the Mari's teacher had apparently just catapulted out of the door face first. Upon closer inspection, the shapeshifter crouched quickly to poke at Professor De Luca's head - or, more specifically, the screw wound through it. "Hi. Do you have a really big screwdriver to match this?"
Cody was perhaps the queen of conversation starters. She had a medal for it somewhere in her desk drawers. |
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Post by MARIETTA CALLIAT on Mar 8, 2010 7:57:58 GMT -5
If only I could predict the future instead.  Trying to sneak away, it failed. Of course she predicted that. Too bad she didn't have the gift of insight. That could be valuable in a situation, like this. Now, if anyone was reading her thoughts; because, hey. In this school it remained a possibility. they'd be confused. Wondering why she wasn't soaking up all this attention. Especially from a professor! One who didn't have light manipulation but something else. Power that was totally different. Such as shape shifting. Yep~! That was one-hundred percent unrelated to each other. That meant she should've felt flattered. Grateful. In some generic way, wanted more and desired the spotlight. But, she simply didn't. Being in the center stage. Spotlight shinning on her...? If anything scared her, secretly, it was that. Atleast concerning her powers. Besides it wasn't very much her style. That didn't mean she was arrogant, or selfish. Didn't think of herself highly or above a single person. In all reailty she was rather a relaxed person. Mellow to a sense of comfortability, within her skin. Yet, grounded enough to understand the world-- the universe, didn't circle around her. No, she wasn't axis that kept rotating. Wasn't the gravity that kept everything balanced. She was Marietta Loraine Calliat. So, even if her analogy made no sense, that's how she felt. Although she never spoke of it aloud. Since the metaphor she knew, wouldn't be entirely accurate. She did make a mental note to find a better way, to compare, the two scenario's. Until then, she would continue to flee and hide, whenever possible. Silently cursing science was usually her weakness. ... Until Physics. "Professor Salem, Meditating is good for my powers. It helps me keep the energy within focused. Properly balanced. So, it doesn't overwhelm my senses." Hoping the blonde would get her excuse, as a reason, she offered a bigger smile. Less nervous. More anxious. Mostly due to resisting the urge to dash and run. That wouldn't be entirely polite to a instructor. To one that was as kind and nice as Cody was. She really didn't want to hurt any feelings. Just wanted to sulk over her grade in her room. Only person she would consider letting, see her actually pout, would be her roommate Mattie. "It's rather healthy meditation. Even people without powers, practice it's rituals, of inner peace and balance." Giving a nod, using her index finger and pointing, to the ceiling, she suddenly stumbled. Expression deadpanned without any haste. Leaning her shoulder against the wall. Posture slumped in a dramatic fashion. Little wisp of air exhaling from a single nostril. Giving a ghost-like apparition of white, as it floated into the air, before popping. Disappearing from sight. Head hung low in what seemed to be shame. Bangs overshadowing her face as blue lines squiggled, along her cheeks and nose. Eyes widened and pupilless. Staring at the floor. Lowerlip poked behind and curled into her mouth. Theatrically smoothing fingers throughout ebony loches. Scratching the tips against her scalp. Repeatedly. In a back and forth motion. Causing her hair to frizz because of the frictional static. "Only she could compare Nirvana to Vitamin D."However, that crashing sound making a echo, without waiting, she regained her composure. Turning around. Noticing the other instructor... on his back. Laying flatly on the floor. Eyes glancing from his face, to the chair, to his face again... she smacked a palm to her face. "Professor De Luca..." Approaching over as she brought the hand to her hip. Giving an almost sour look. Having a feeling he was attempting to eavesdrop. Finally caving in. "Alright, Professor Salem. I'll play with you."There wasn't any escape. Maybe she would get lucky and a couple of students, would wander by, getting swept up into the game as well. |
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Post by EZIO DE LUCA on Mar 8, 2010 17:34:20 GMT -5
The Professor quickly rose to his feet, uprighting his chair in the process and sat down opposite the normal way you should. His arms rested against the back of the chair and his head resting atop his forearms."No, my hand works quite well. A screw driver is less practical." He rested his right hand against the screw, and twisted it a bit. An ominous cranking sound could be heard, as if it was twisting the inside of his skull around. He huffed a bit and looked over at his student Marietta.
"Ahaha, sorry I must have tripped on my way out. I'm so clumsy sometimes!" His smile a bit shaky as he scratched the back of his neck in a bit of a nervous fashion. So hide and seek was it? He wasn't too good at games really. He was such a work-a-holic that he didn't get out in the terms of game time. To him games were experiments, science, and calculations. Boring to some, and a world of wonder to others. He figured that the fellow professor would fall into the 'games' over 'science' category.
"So... what's going on Marietta? You aren't in trouble are you?" She was a good student; albeit quiet. He couldn't guess she would ever be in trouble, and even now it was really just a connector in the conversation. He knew she wasn't in trouble obviously. It never hurt to attempt conversation though. |
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Post by CODY SALEM on Mar 9, 2010 19:42:26 GMT -5
------------------------------------------------------------ Ramble ramble ramble ramble ramble meditation ramble ramble~ In one ear and out the other, it seemed, as Cody bounced back up onto her feet to allow Ezio some room. "But you're always so in control of your powers, Mari," she tossed behind her in reply to the student's explanation, green eyes glinting in the hallway's light as she did so. The look on her face was perhaps the slightest bit feline; apart from the shadows crossing her face at areas meant to accentuate a possible muzzle and whiskers, she seemed to be hiding a smile. Though she didn't drop fully into an animal form, her intent was more or less clear in that she was trying to encourage her student. Silly, sometimes, that Marietta couldn't stand to have her power out in the open for others to see. It was a school for the gifted, was it not?
The physics teacher found the longer end of her hair ribbon with one hand, twisting it in her fingers as Marietta's other professor righted himself. "Sounds like my spine after I shift," she remarked as Ezio wound the screw further into his head. "But we're playing hide and seek now! Do you want to join?" It almost looked as if Cody would grab De Luca's chair and wheel him out of the building no matter what he said, though she seemed to be holding back since she was not on as familiar terms with him as she was with others. It hadn't ever stopped her before, but there was a certain protocol she followed when persuading strangers, or those who she was not on regular playing speaking terms with, to join her in whatever act of spontaneity she had thought up.
She just might have turned into a bird and sang for joy, though, because Mari had agreed to play! Cody spun around to beam at the light manipulator, mind shifting gears almost faster than was considered sane. "You willll~! Yay! Let's go let's go let's go let's go let's go!" Whipping around to lead Mari, and Ezio if he would consent to following, to the closest exit, the teacher bounded down the hall with a gait similar to that of some fleet quadruped. The edges of her form seemed to flicker for a moment before she turned to wait for the other two to catch up, seemingly revealing her excitement. Apparently she couldn't wait, and the excess energy was showing in the occasional melding of her fingers into a more hoof or paw shape. |
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