Oh Yes, We are Gifted.

[ashiko]

Jacob grabbed the notebook and held it open, wondering how the teacher was going to splint the wound with Mat in such a mood. Although, it did look really bad.

René stared. The teacher was so sure of herself. He felt he really didn't want to watch, so he turned his head.

(I got no time now, sorry!)

[anarchyheartless]

"Wha..? Don--don't bother with it." Mat mummbled looking worriedly at her. Splinting a wound with...paper? That was ridiculous. " I'll...be...fine until we get to the school." She said. They just didn't get that she couldn't be touched, did they? Mat pulled her harm back underneath her other arm and turned so her back was sort of to Eevy, but she was still sitting. "Just don't touch me." Her voice was weak from the pain, but it was serious.

[NiaZen]

The carriage holding the two boys was finally moving, and Tashai sighed with relif. "Finally!" he told, still clutching the wound, which was /still/ bleeding.

"It won't take long to get to the school, will it?" Talon asked.

"It shouldn't...and I'm so betting that Dien is outside, waiting...she worries for /everything!/" Tashai exclaimed.

[GIR]

"No. I am definitely going to fix this before we get to school." Eevy told Mat, "Do you think these gloves are thick enough so you won't be affected? I'm a teacher, I should at least know a little about the students." She turned around to look at the notebook. It was a songwriting notebook already very full. She flipped a page back while Jacob was still holding it to look at a different song. "Alright numbing or loss of consciousness?" She asked Mat, "Not sure it really matters, but I have to have permission."

[anarchyheartless]

"I hope so." Mat mummbled, meaning the thickness of the gloves. She really could last the two or so miles to the school left so Areire could deal with it. She was much faster, and didn't have to touch her.

"Just numb it." Mat grumbled. There was only so much arguing she could do with the teacher and get away with it. And besides, Mat just wanted the pain to be OVER. Mat winced terrible as she brought her hand back around to Eevy, slumping back in her seat she looked at the top of the carriage, tears still leaking out of her eyes every now and then.

[Icefire]

((Who else is in the carriage with Blair besides Kida, Vincent, and Art?))

Blair sat quietly, bored from the long train ride, and getting more bored by the minute. "How long exactly is it until we get there?" she asked no one in particular, as she studied the scenery out of the window. ((I'm guessing there is a window...?))

[anarchyheartless]

(just them four)

"Nice to meet you Blair. I'm Kida. Well that is just what everyone calls me." She said with a shrug of her shoulders, " It is good you caught the carriage then. I am sure walking through the three miles of solid woods would scare a first year. Not to slur first years. The woods still creep me out sometimes." Kida said in a sort of hurried way. There she went, again, she hoped she didn't offend anyone.

"Well, I don't really know... maybe ten minutes? The carriages are going faster than usual. We must be late." Kida said, tapping her lip for a moment, "No matter. We will be there in no time!"

[Icefire]

"Ok, great. Nice to meet you too. I've never been up much for car rides, or in this case, carriage rides." Blair smiled. "And yeah, walking through a bunch of woods doesnt sound like too much fun for anyone. Is there anything special in these woods, like, anything that would really creep out somone who doesnt get scared easily? Or are they just really dark and well, wood-like?"

[anarchyheartless]

"Well, there is a wolf pack or two.... you can hear them at night. And other woodsey things that hang around, because this is well, a rather undeveloped part of Maine." Kida said looking out the window," I bet you might meet a bear if you went in far into the woods away from the path. But the animals tend to stay away from the main campus so there isn't anything to worry about close to the school." Kida said, slightly rambling. She slid her hand into her pocket and messed with her notepad for a moment before she took it out and flipped it open. There were a few short sentences other than the one she wrote not long ago on the same page, as well as a few other sentences on other pages, things like hairbows, brushes. There was a bus ticket on one page. Kida smiled lightly at the page, remembering how she had to think up a bus ticket or she would have missed her plane and would have been stranded in Cork, Ireland.

[ashiko]

Jacob stared at the open pages. They were songs, he could tell. And what did she mean by Mat being affected? He glanced around the carriage, René was staring out the window, avoiding looking at Mat. Jacob could tell that he still felt guilty. He sighed.

[GIR]

Eevy memorized the tune quickly and went over it a few times in her head. "Hey," She said gently to Rene, "Do you want to help? I don't have bandages. Can you go over two carts down and ask Kida, um. Third year girl, if you don't know her. Tell her Miss Aria needs a bandage. Sturdy, long enough for an arm splint." She turned back to Mat and told her that it would feel a bit strange before gently singing the wordless song.

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"Wow!" Art said, "That sounds really cool. I've seen some pretty cool woods before." He sat back comfortably

[Icefire]

Blair sighed thoughtfully. "I've always lived on the coast. It was awsome, with cliffs and rocks and clear sparkling water. You could stand in Neck deep water and see the fishes swimming around your feet. The cliffs, they were so awsome. I loved to go rock climbing on them. They had loads of caves. This place up here is so different. It was atleast 70 in the winter down where I lived, and here its so cold. And no beach or soft sand. I've never seen woods before. There were a few scattered palms and oaks, but nothing near like this." Blair explained, an expression on her face that mixed great sorrow with loathing.

[GIR]

"That sounds nice..." Art said, almost to himself. He was nodding off again. "I never really went outdoors. Pretty boring. All perfectly manicured gardens....At least while I was awake...."

[Icefire]

"You like sleeping, dont you?" Blair grinned. "I used to have a dog, until an experiment with my powers went wrong one day..." Blair felt her eyes sting a little. "Thats when my mom and dad found out I had it. They sent me to this school at the first chance they got. We used to spend lots of time playing fetch at the beach." Blair remembered those days like they were yesterday. She longed for them, although she was still happy to be here, where she could master her powers and make sure one of those unlucky accidents didnt happen again.

[GIR]

"Heh. That's what they told my my power was. What about you?" Art said, "Sorry about your dog..."