Apr 05 15:14:45 <Knave>	On a bench, in the gazebo, in the courtyard of Sunnybrook, a boy sits. He is wearing a green hoodie, jeans, and a serene smile. His shaggy, mussed-up hair is swept back over the top of his head. He is playing the ukulele. Terribly.
Apr 05 15:20:34 <WhisperLily>	Her neck twitches as she hears the God awful sound of a ukulele being played horridly. She followed the noise into the courtyard and finds herself staring at a boy in a gazebo. She walked up and sat next to him. She wore black tights and a red dress that went down to her knees. Over the dress she wore a charcoal sweater draped over her shoulders.
Apr 05 15:20:34 <WhisperLily>	"Hello...I'm Tara...you...umm....are tuning it yes?"
Apr 05 15:21:46 <Knave>	Austin chuckles, then stops the strings, "Punishing it, more like." He sets the ukulele down to one side and offers a hand to shake, "I'm Austin. Pleasure to meet you."
Apr 05 15:23:57 <WhisperLily>	She shakes his hand quite enthusiastically, "likewise. But why are you punishing it? Was it a bad ukulele? Is it secretly a transformer ukulee...you know? A robot in disguise? And you are making it suffer for its wicked decepticon crimes?"
Apr 05 15:28:16 <Knave>	Austin grins wickedly, "That's just the kind of relationship she and I have." He shakes out his hair, his eyes gleaming, "So, you new around here? Don't remember you from back when I was around."
Apr 05 15:34:16 <WhisperLily>	"I just arrived the other day...I umm well am still getting around, so I haven't met everyone yet" she smiled softly as she spoke, her soft blonde hair falling around her face. She brushed it away to reveal beautiful blue eyes sparkling in the depths.
Apr 05 15:37:45 <Knave>	"You never meet everyone." Austin says with a laugh, "Mostly, in my experience, those people you do meet tend to just be people in the same dorm."
Apr 05 15:49:08 <WhisperLily>	"I guess your music is a good way to meet people too, I mean...it might drive them away also..." she sighed.
Apr 05 15:53:12 <Knave>	"I find morbid curiosity brings people in more than not." Austin pushes off the ground and rises up to sit on the bench's backrest, "So Tara, what makes you anomalous enough for the G-Trips to cart you into Sunnybrook Asylum?"
Apr 05 16:01:05 <WhisperLily>	"I...umm...well...i...umm talk to squirrels." She mumbled and admitted reluctantly.
Apr 05 16:03:37 <Knave>	Joy spreads across Austin's face, "That. Is. Awesome." Then his brow lowers, "Wait, does that mean squirrels are sapient? Do they talk back? What doesn't talk in this world?"
Apr 05 16:07:36 <WhisperLily>	"Well...it is sort of like instincts, and natural basic concepts. They understand tasks presented to them...it is sort of like a hive mind, so the squirrels I'm linked to...they can grasp functions far more complex than just storing acorns for hibernation."
Apr 05 16:11:13 <Knave>	Austin sighs with relief, "That makes sense." He casts a smarmy look to Tara, "It's getting harder and harder to be a rational anomaly in a rational world."
Apr 05 16:52:17 <WhisperLily>	"People lately are irrational. They treat us like we are freaks...no wonder the GWU hides us."
Apr 05 16:54:39 <Knave>	"Really?" Austin's eyes flash up and down Tara, "You get a lot of the mutant treatment, a cute thing like you? Not that I can talk, I mean look at me, it's not as if I'm anything but a vision of physical perfection myself."
Apr 05 16:56:13 <WhisperLily>	"You...you think....I'm cute?" She blushed feverishly.
Apr 05 17:00:49 <Knave>	Austin makes a 'pffft' sound with his mouth, and raises an eyebrow, "Do you think you aren't?" He leans forward, crossing his arms over his knees and grinning impishly.
Apr 05 17:06:52 <WhisperLily>	She smiles giddily, and squeaks in delight. "Well...sure...but...yeah...but like...it's different from a boy thinking you are cute." She blushed.
Apr 05 17:08:51 <Knave>	"Oh, I hardly count as a boy." Austin says impenetrably, turning up his palms in a small shrug and sliding slickly back down into the seat of the bench, "So, is it just the Doctor Doolittle thing, or do you have the proportional strength of a squirrel too?"
Apr 05 17:13:56 <WhisperLily>	"I have all the qualities of a squirrel, I can even turn into one?" She said nervously.
Apr 05 17:15:26 <Knave>	"Does, uh... Does conservation of energy factor into that?" He raises an eyebrow, then makes estimations of size with his hands, "Are we talking little squirrel, or big squirrel?"
Apr 05 17:16:46 <WhisperLily>	"Both...I can be any sized squirrel." She smiled sheepishly.
Apr 05 17:17:58 <Knave>	"That... is surprisingly frightening." Austin nods, eyes wide focused on a spot in the distance, before snapping his attention and his easy smile back on to Tara, "Definitely some spectacular supernatural squirrel-mojo you're rocking."
Apr 05 17:19:56 <WhisperLily>	"It kind of is easy when you are bitten by a radioactive squirrel." She giggled.
Apr 05 17:20:55 <Knave>	Austin raises an eyebrow, then furrows them. For a few moments, his tongue is visible in the corner of his mouth. Finally, he asks, "Seriously?"
Apr 05 17:22:24 <WhisperLily>	"No joke." She nodded. "I was in the hospital for weeks on end. "
Apr 05 17:24:48 <Knave>	"Yikes. Okay. Not laughing." Austin rubs at the back of his neck, "Still, that's... very silver-age."
Apr 05 17:25:42 <WhisperLily>	"Silver age?"
Apr 05 17:27:24 <Knave>	"Y'know, like... comic book- never mind." Austin shakes his head, "The squirrel thing? I dig it. Very cool." He gives a thumbs-up.
Apr 05 17:29:03 <WhisperLily>	"I love comic books !" She exclaimed.
Apr 05 17:31:49 <Knave>	Austin's smile broadens in reaction, "Nice to meet a fellow four-color nerd." He leans in, "Before the G-Men picked you up, you ever do any superheroing yourself?"
Apr 05 17:33:16 <WhisperLily>	"I got snagged before I had the chance sadly."
Apr 05 17:38:53 <Knave>	"Sucks, but the guys upstairs aren't exactly interested in heroics." Austin says sombrely, "But what with the masquerade coming down, at least we know where they stand with us. Just outside the cell door, swinging the keys." He makes a sound that could be a bitter laugh.
Apr 05 17:53:04 <WhisperLily>	"I couldn't agree more." She nodded seriously. " I feel more like a trapped rat than a squirrel here."
Apr 05 17:55:03 <Knave>	Austin's eyes light up, "You've certainly got the quipping down to a tee"
Apr 05 18:08:17 *	Anti|Gone is now known as Antichthon
Apr 05 18:10:34 <WhisperLily>	"Thanks..." she blushed. "So...what about you...is it something as awkward as squirrels?"
Apr 05 18:12:38 <Knave>	"Oh very much so." Austin says with delight, "I make things slippery. That's right. My superpower is lubrication." He flashes a lopsided grin.
Apr 05 18:15:16 <WhisperLily>	"Oh mai..." and then she blushed so red. To make matters worse she even let out a squeek.
Apr 05 18:18:50 <Knave>	Austin's chesire grin is stapled to his face and clearly he's having too much fun. "You're cuter when you blush," He laughs, then stands up. Stood up straight and legs together, he slides backwards over the gazebo floor like an air hockey puck, by way of a demonstration of his powers.
Apr 05 18:25:11 <WhisperLily>	"Can...you....with me? You know....that?" She asked sheepishly.
Apr 05 18:29:11 <Knave>	"You mean," Austin moves up to her with sudden surprising fluidity for his lankly frame and takes her by the hand, pulling her up out of her seat. Against her, he seems composed, poised, for a moment. He might look dashing if he could stop grinning like an idiot. "Dance?"
Apr 05 18:36:34 <WhisperLily>	She beams with excitement, "Yes please, it looks fun." She smiles let out a soft squeek as he pulled her into him.  Her ruby red dress flows about her figure, she is rather fit and her curves fill out the dress rather nicely. Her blind hair curling around her lie in soft spirals dangling on the rim of her neckline. Her blue eyes sparkle as she looks into
Apr 05 18:36:34 <WhisperLily>	his. And she gives him a dopey grin that shares the excitement of his idiot grin.
Apr 05 18:43:13 <Knave>	"I live to serve." Austin says, placing a hand on Tara's waist, "Try to hold on to me." He suggests, but not leaving a whole lot of time before she finds herself being pulled across the floor, gliding effortlessly across the wood as if it were slick ice. The boy guiding her seems to have no trouble with direction or balance, even with a partner. Gentle turning, he takes he back and forth around the gazebo,
Apr 05 18:43:13 <Knave>	sometimes spinning into a burst of speed and sometimes slowing down.
Apr 05 18:45:59 <WhisperLily>	She let's out a squeek of delight as she is twirled and hurled across the gazebo. "Weeee" she giggled as she went about, smiling and holding on tight.
Apr 05 18:52:41 <Knave>	The hand on her waist slides up her back and down her arm, taking hold of her other hand. Austin holds both their hands at their side, then brings them up and leans back. For a moment, the pair of them spin around the central point between them. Then Austin falls sidelong and winds up crashing onto the floor, both hands still pulling Tara down over him.
Apr 05 18:59:59 <WhisperLily>	She fall on top of him, but in a spry catch herself with his body way. "Owwww....are you ok?" She asked while laying on him. She was unable to move as she hurt her knee so for now she was sort of straddling him whilst wincing in pain."
Apr 05 19:04:43 <Knave>	"Totally fine." He winces, "Sorry about that, been a little while since I danced..." His brain appears to catch up with his eyes, and a soft blush begins spreading from his nose to his cheeks, "Um, uh, a-are you okay?"
Apr 05 19:09:00 <WhisperLily>	"I...umm think I hurt my knee, and.. well I'm currently holding my dress up. I think it ripped the seam or strap when we fell." She frowned her one hand placed holding his for support the other holding up her dress on her right side. She blushed too as she realized the potentiality of her situation and position involved with this predicament.
Apr 05 19:12:33 <Knave>	"Ah. Sorry about that." The blush intensifies and his smile, still wide, is visibly nervous, "Do you want to take my jacket to, uh, cover yourself with?" He offers, then anxiously chuckles, "Sorry again."
Apr 05 19:14:49 <WhisperLily>	"Really? You would do that for me?" She smiles at him sweetly.
Apr 05 19:16:32 <Knave>	This only seems to exacerbate the blush and the stuttering, "S-sure, no worries." He begins wriggling out of the kelly green hoodie, but clearly has incentive not to wriggle too vigorously.
Apr 05 19:17:48 <WhisperLily>	She smiles at him, and attempts to continue holding her position while releasing his hand so he can do what he nee do to do.
Apr 05 19:20:12 <Knave>	With both hands free he slips out of the coat with a minimum of... jostling. As he hand it over in a bundle, he shuts his eyes and turns his head away, presumably as a chaste deterrent to any wardrobe malfunction.
Apr 05 19:24:15 <WhisperLily>	When he opens his eyes she will be wearing his hoodie like anything oversized. It goes to her thighs just above her knees, and she is still wearing the black tights but not the dress as per it was now in her hands. She smiled again. "Thanks....I think even my knee is feeling better now." she smiles. she is now sitting beside him and leaning against him.
Apr 05 19:26:25 <Knave>	"You're welcome. Glad to hear it." He slides up into a sitting position, crossing his legs for PROBABLY NO REASON DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT. "So other than the crashing, was it as fun as it looked?"
Apr 05 19:27:24 <WhisperLily>	"Yes....thank you." She nodded, and then she leaned in to kiss him on the cheek.
Apr 05 19:31:45 <Knave>	Austin sat stunned for a moment as the blush intensified further, then lifted a hand to absently touch the spot she'd kissed, "Shucks, don't, uh, don't mention it." He has the look of any teenage boy who's just been kissed by a pretty girl, which is to say he looks like he's tasted some of the more enjoyable drugs.
Apr 05 19:35:56 <WhisperLily>	She brushes the hair out of her face and looks at him shyly, she can't believe she did it. She kissed a boy! She smiles like a dork, and let's out a little hum. "I....should....yea.....or umm no? Maybe to...go? I don't know. I have class" she sighed. " but I'd rather skip it and stay with you." She smiled as her hand patted his thigh. She then used his leg toregain balance and stand up
Apr 05 19:38:56 <Knave>	He picks up his ukulele and stands up too, "I probably shouldn't encourage others to be as under-achieving as I am." He says, then proceeds with a nervous smile and not a small amount of hope in his voice, "But I'll see you around, right?"
Apr 05 19:41:12 <WhisperLily>	"If...you'd like to....yeah. here....is my number...." she blushed as she handed him a scrap of paper with her name and number on it. " I need to run...ok....bye! " She runs off toward class with a slight limp.
Apr 05 19:42:23 <Knave>	"Bye." He says wistfully, staring at the number in his hand. He stands still looking at it for several seconds. "...I need to get a phone."
Apr 05 19:45:17 <Knave>	-Scene danced-