Apr 17 15:29:47 <SarahH>	Sam stood on the rooftop. The wind blowing through the blood red ribbons which fasten her hair into and elegant braid. She is dressed in what looks like leather armor and armed with her sword and bow. She looks out over the school with a calculating gaze.
Apr 17 15:31:55 <Knave>	Callum steps up onto the roof, looking around with a blank face, until his eyes light on Sam and specifically the weapons she's carrying. "Sorry," He blurts out, "I didn't realize anyone was up here."
Apr 17 15:34:38 <SarahH>	Sam turned and offered him a small smile. Her eyes are sapphire swirled with storm grey, unlike the last time he saw them. "It's fine...Callum, wasn't it?" She turned to face him fully. The tall girl was beautiful and the armour just makes her look intimidating on top of it.
Apr 17 15:37:08 <Knave>	"Yeah." He says distractedly, putting a hand in his pocket and rolling his shoulders, "I just came to scope the roof out for... stuff." He says vaguely.
Apr 17 15:39:27 <SarahH>	"Stuff?" She smirked a little. "Do tell."
Apr 17 15:40:24 <Knave>	He puts a hand through his hair and looks off. "Thinking about where to bring my girlfriend for a date later."
Apr 17 15:42:02 <SarahH>	"Ah. And here I am using it to strategize." She gave another smirk. "IF you do it...Wait for sunset and enjoy the time you have to be happy here...Glad some folks are still oblivious."
Apr 17 15:43:05 <Knave>	Callum folds his hands across his vast chest, and says, unmoved, "And what are you talking about, exactly?"
Apr 17 15:45:48 <SarahH>	"EVer had a friend go missing here? Or maybe you were brought here by force?" He might be huge but she doesn't seem intimidated by him. (Since he has seen the back of her neck...he totally saw: http://www.tribal-celtic-tattoo.com/New_Folder/norsetreeoflife.jpg tattoed there)
Apr 17 15:47:16 <Knave>	"Well, I didn't exactly have a choice about coming here. None of us did." He shrugs slightly, "That's how it is."
Apr 17 15:48:16 <SarahH>	"You're lucky to still feel safe here...All I'm gonna say...Unless you feel murder and captivity underforce is a bad thing."
Apr 17 15:49:31 <Knave>	"Well, obviously." He says, rolling his eyes although no emotion really seeps into his tone.
Apr 17 15:53:36 <SarahH>	"So would you act against it, or go with the flow?" She eyed him appraisingly. For a 14 year old she has confidence for days.
Apr 17 15:54:24 <Knave>	"What do you want me to do?" There's a hint of anger and indignity now, his brows setting over his eyes.
Apr 17 15:55:37 <SarahH>	"What if I told you someone from here was missing -right now- and I wanted to fix it?"
Apr 17 15:56:37 <Knave>	He levels a hard gaze at her, and when he talks, he's clearly a little irritated, "I'd ask you /again/ what you expect me to do about it."
Apr 17 16:05:05 <SarahH>	"Help...If you have the stomach for it." She spoke evenly, her face half unreadable but her eyes the swirl of sapphire and storm grey settling towards the grey slowly.
Apr 17 16:07:27 <Knave>	"What do you mean, help?" He pulls one hand out of his folded arms to gesture with it as his tone grows harder, "What's your plan, here?"
Apr 17 16:10:01 <SarahH>	"Find him...Save him." She looked at him earnestly. "Intelligence first, obviously."
Apr 17 16:12:39 <Knave>	Callum shuts his eyes, exhales from his nose, counts to five. When he looks back at Sam, he talks a little gentler, "And then what? Sneak him off campus? Let him live as a fugitive?"
Apr 17 16:14:22 <SarahH>	"I don't know...Maybe...At least he'd be free...Can you honestly say you'd rather be in a cage? Rather -him- be in a cage?" She was calm, eerily so.
Apr 17 16:15:53 <Knave>	"A roof over my head, meals provided, nobody hunting me down? Yeah, sounds fine." He shrugs, "Sounds a lot like what we've got going on already."
Apr 17 16:17:29 <SarahH>	She gives a derisive snort. "I guess you'd rather live in a cage...Your loss, really."
Apr 17 16:20:24 <Knave>	He steps up to her, looking down at her levelly. "Look, I care, okay? We're not in a good situation. But it's the best we can get right now. If you go around looking for this guy, the best you can hope for is to find out what happened to him. The situation like it is, the worst you can do... Look, just remember, a lot of people have lives here, okay? For some people, here is the only life they've got."
Apr 17 16:22:29 <SarahH>	Sam stand 6' tall so he would have to be TALL to look down at her. "And some lost their lives in coming here...Why not help them?"
Apr 17 16:24:36 <Knave>	"Because we can't. There's nothing we can do right now." He holds up a hand against interjection, "I know. It sucks, but that's the way it is. I'm sure if we got everyone together, they couldn't keep us here. But then where would we go?"
Apr 17 16:32:03 <SarahH>	"I don;t know...Home? Whever people want? I'm just...Cages drive me batty...I've lived in one too long, I suppose."
Apr 17 16:35:08 <Knave>	"Yeah." He says, taking a step back, "We'll walk past the crowd of protesters and I'll hitch-hike to Kansas. Just leave the people with nowhere else to go to get picked up by the government for study, I guess." His arms are at his side and his lips are a thin line, "Solid plan."
Apr 17 16:37:43 <SarahH>	"I'm not saying it's perfect...I'm saying I'm trying to from a plan...And the protesters don't scare me...The people wanting to study me do."
Apr 17 16:42:52 <Knave>	"Exactly. But you don't have a plan - you have good intentions." He leans heavily against the wall, "And I appreciate that you want to help people, but not everyone will thank you for it." He puts his hands in his pockets and his voice grows progressively softer, "While we're in here, doing as they say, we're relatively safe. We know where we stand. If we start rebelling, they'll start pushing back. If they push
Apr 17 16:42:52 <Knave>	back too hard, that gives the government and the protesters an excuse to tear everything we've got here down." He puts a hand over his chest to indicate himself, "I could go home. I've got a loving family and I look normal. But there are plenty of students here who don't have anywhere to go and can't pass for normal humans. They're better off here, where they can live a half-normal life and get an education,
Apr 17 16:42:52 <Knave>	than thrust out into the cold." He turns his eyes on her, and sounds quietly impassioned, "I know it sucks that the bad guys are the best choice we have right now, but that's just how it is."
Apr 17 16:45:44 <SarahH>	"You mean people like me?" She LOOKS so normal...Just taller than average...and the eyes that change that he can see right now.
Apr 17 16:47:59 <Knave>	"What, you don't have somewhere to go?" He raises an eyebrow.
Apr 17 16:50:48 <SarahH>	Sam grinned at the question and closed her eyes. She glows brightly and he hears A LOT of movement. When the glow dissipates the girl has 12' span iridescent monarch butterfly wings and a ruby in the middle of her forehead. "Not only that but I only -pass- for normal with the use of one or two of my gifts." She looks at him steadily...even as the wings flap the fold into a cape-like
Apr 17 16:50:48 <SarahH>	form on her back.
Apr 17 16:53:05 <Knave>	Callum looks at her deadpan for several seconds. "You're a shapeshifter." He says blankly, "There are people on campus who'd kill for that."
Apr 17 16:54:31 <SarahH>	"No...The wings are always here..The gem I use a gift to cover...this is me pretty much au naturel...I wouldn't pass for normal...not here."
Apr 17 16:56:17 <Knave>	"And what's the point you're getting at?"
Apr 17 16:58:43 <SarahH>	"That as much as you're right...There has to be a thrid option...Somewhere between no hope and all hope...Wouldn't you agree?" She glows and the gem disappears, the noise heralding her wingd folding as she puts them away.
Apr 17 17:01:41 <Knave>	Callum looks at the girl dubiously, not following the lack of logic from 'I have wings' to 'There must be another way'. "Look, just don't go getting anyone hurt, all right?"
Apr 17 17:05:05 <SarahH>	If anyone's gonna take the risk...I will." She looks at him steadily. "I don't fear death...Or harm...I've lived through too much of the latter to care." She speaks honestly and clearly.
Apr 17 17:06:51 <Knave>	"No. You come under anyone." He points at her, like an older brother giving a lecture, "Nobody gets hurt over this, understand? Because if it comes to fighting, nobody's gonna win."
Apr 17 17:08:51 <SarahH>	She sighs slowly. "And what if I'm willing to be hurt?"
Apr 17 17:09:36 <Knave>	Callum sighs right back through a slight frown, hand on his temple, "You haven't listened to a word I said, have you?"
Apr 17 17:10:56 <SarahH>	"I have..Doesn't change the fact that me getting hurt isn't something I care about...I've been hurt my entire life...One more sacr or injury isn't something to fear for me."
Apr 17 17:12:37 <Knave>	"Not the point." He says, "Letting it come to a fight at all puts everyone at risk."
Apr 17 17:14:47 <SarahH>	"WHo said fight?" She almost laughs. "If it comes to a fight I haven't planned well enough."
Apr 17 17:16:56 <Knave>	Callum looks exasperated beyond belief. Finally he shrugs, deciding the only way to teach her that the stove was hot was to let her burn her hand. "Fine. Try not to do anything stupid. See you 'round, Sam." He steps for the door to the stairs with a small wave.
Apr 17 17:18:30 <SarahH>	Sam nodded and looked back over the school. "Enjoy your knowingly blidfolded bliss...And be glad you can." She speaks softly then looks down
Apr 17 17:19:14 <Knave>	"Whatever." He mutters, striding down the stairs. /Was I that insufferable at 14?/