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« Oct 28, 2015 15:36:34 GMT -6 »
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The clock had just struck three and the campus was nearly silent. The moon was full, and silouted in the light and shadows was Fiona. Laying on her back on the pavement with her dress hiked up just enough to allow her feet to bend over the side of the fountain and kick the water gently as she hummed a soft melody to herself.

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« Oct 28, 2015 18:54:31 GMT -6 »
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Fiona might eventually have noticed the night getting much darker not too far away from her, a section of the courtyard blotted out by shadow as if something were actively snuffing out any moonlight that approached it. Aaron wasn't doing it on purpose, and his power usually didn't react to his emotions, but with so much on his mind it just sort of creeped out of him in a haze. He didn't even notice. He was usually asleep by now but had spent so much time tossing and turning, thinking and mulling, trying anything he could think of. Warm milk, a hot shower, a quick bodyweight workout, calming music. Nothing did anything.

Eventually, well, maybe he just needed a walk. Cold, fresh air. Maybe a heavy snack in the cafeteria if there was still anyone there right now.

He didn't see anyone at the fountain.

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« Oct 28, 2015 22:44:38 GMT -6 »
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Fiona just kept gently splashing her feet in the fountain. Now and then her humming was interrupted by a giggle.

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« Oct 29, 2015 20:55:37 GMT -6 »
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Hm?

Aaron hadn't heard the noise from the fountain at first, and the surprise of spotting another person there, splashing her feet in it like it was a bathtub in her pod, took his mind off things long enough for the darkness around him to suddenly vanish. Except for the regular old dark of it being 3 AM, of course. He took a few steps closer, curious, looking at the agent(?) he'd never seen before, and let the moonlight shine on them for a few moments before he thought to say anything.

"You couldn't sleep either?"

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« Oct 29, 2015 20:57:49 GMT -6 »
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Her head rolled to the side as she gazed up at Aaron. Her eyes almost glazed over like she was spacing out and seeing something far away.

"There is too much going on."

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« Oct 29, 2015 21:06:34 GMT -6 »
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"You're telling me."

Something about the look in her eyes gave him the feeling they weren't talking about the same things, though. Was she on something? Though it wasn't like a glazed-over, spaced-out look couldn't be from a power or something.

"Mind if I sit?"

Maybe it'd help. Feeling the cool stone underneath him, the slight breeze through the courtyard, hearing the water rushing to and fro. If she didn't refuse him, he'd take a seat on the fountain's edge near her. Not too close though, that'd be weird.

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« Oct 29, 2015 21:08:36 GMT -6 »
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A hand lazily raises up motioning that he can do as he likes.

"Tell me."

Her feet began to kick rapidly in the fountain.

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« Oct 29, 2015 21:10:05 GMT -6 »
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"Tell you what?"

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« Oct 29, 2015 21:10:43 GMT -6 »
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"Why..."

She gasped.

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« Oct 29, 2015 21:11:52 GMT -6 »
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"Uh?"

Why what? Something unpleasant, by the sound of that gasp...

"You okay there?"


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« Oct 29, 2015 21:14:16 GMT -6 »
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"I'm always okay."

She said as her head rolled back to get a better look at him.

"Are you afraid?"

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« Oct 29, 2015 21:16:17 GMT -6 »
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"Everyone's afraid of something, but not right now, no."


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« Oct 29, 2015 21:17:01 GMT -6 »
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She pouts.

"That's not true Paul."

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« Oct 29, 2015 21:17:54 GMT -6 »
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Aaron would frown, slightly confused!

"That's not my name."

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« Oct 29, 2015 21:20:10 GMT -6 »
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Her hand moved up and started trying to pick at the stars in the sky. She seemed confused as to why she isn't grabbing them.

"Hmph."

She tries for the moon.

"It doesn't matter though, does it? It's the name worth knowing."

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« Oct 29, 2015 21:23:16 GMT -6 »
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"Excuse me?"

A quick clench of the fist, a narrowing of his eyes. No, calm down, Aaron. She wouldn't know why that annoyed him. He took a breath and said more slowly, more calmly, "My name is Aaron."

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« Oct 29, 2015 21:24:38 GMT -6 »
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She continued to pout that she wasn't able to grab the moon either.

"Does it matter though? There is a reason the shadows cling to you. Inescapable."

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« Oct 29, 2015 21:25:17 GMT -6 »
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"I'm not sure I follow."

Except that that's literally his power.


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« Oct 29, 2015 21:29:01 GMT -6 »
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"You do. You just don't know it."

Her arms fall back down to her side as her feet start to gently move in the water again. Her attempts at capturing the light proven futile.

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« Oct 29, 2015 21:32:46 GMT -6 »
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Maybe he did. The way some people looked at him in the halls, the way people emphasised his last name, not his first, how teachers in his early days would always hear who he was and only see his parents. What they had done, their strength, not what he could do, how strong he could become. It had settled down some now, but every once in a while...

But how would this girl know all that from just looking at him?

"Do you know who I am, then?" Curiosity, not invocation. What was her deal? The "shadows cling to you" thing could've been just about his power, but everything else? Hm.

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« Oct 29, 2015 21:35:32 GMT -6 »
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"Do you?"

She asked him, her head tilting quizzically.

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« Oct 29, 2015 21:37:04 GMT -6 »
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"Obviously."

Although, he said that as one unsure what the girl was even trying to get at. "And what's your name, then?"

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« Oct 29, 2015 21:42:19 GMT -6 »
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"There's nothing obvious about it."

She ignored his second question.

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« Oct 29, 2015 21:44:37 GMT -6 »
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"What?"

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« Oct 29, 2015 21:44:52 GMT -6 »
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"Exactly."

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