May 11 22:27:24 <LipstickThespian>	Hunger had set in, and Alys had nothing she could do about it.  Standing in the kitchen of the dorm building, she stared at the counter top and wondered her luck.  Hunger was the worst, and Aryn was still in class so she couldn't exactly help.  So instead Alys stood there, staring at the counter.  Dressed in her dirty mud stained jeans.  The button down that had a few blood stains on it and was wrinkled. Those socks, no shoes, that were more than worn out.  Hair frizzy and pulled into a pony tail, eyes bloodshot, lips chapped, skin pale and marked with small scars.  Really, looking at her, eating seemed to be the least of her worries.
May 11 22:32:43 <Knave>	Callum walks in, generally giving off the impression of 'down'. Eyes on the floor, shoulders slumped, back slouched. Even the little robot bug following him through the air and filming him was pointing down. And this all worked against the natural physicality of his body, which generally was way up. He glances up at the girl, then double-takes, coming up with a mix of horror and concern. After a moment's hesitation, he issues out a blankly curious, "Hey."
May 11 22:36:29 <LipstickThespian>	"You look sad," Alys says as she watches the boy's body motions and his general attitude.  When a normally strong and straight backed all-American hero is down in the dumps, well, it's hard not to notice.  I mean, no one really ever expects Superman to have a bad day, ya know?  "That's uncharacteristic of you, are you having a bad day?"  Her voice could best be described as soft monotone, very dry, in need of a drink of water.
May 11 22:38:57 <Knave>	"How would you know?" The tone shifts from petty and accusatory halfway through as he realizes it is entirely possible that she does know what's characteristic of him. He rifles aimlessly through the cupboards, the bug staying a few feet behind his shoulder.
May 11 22:43:48 <LipstickThespian>	"You're usually happy," she says as she looks him up and down like one might inspect an object to see if it's worth patching up or throwing out.  "Or at least solemn, never down.  It's different, or at least I haven't been the one to see it."  She watched him digging through the cupboards and pulled herself up to sit on the counter and watch.  Though her movements were a little fluid, and unsure.
May 11 22:45:26 <Knave>	He looks at her distractedly over his shoulder while he continues rummaging, "I'm Callum, by the way. Or did you already know that, too?" He shuts a cupboard definitively and turns around, leaning back on the counter and looking at the girl with a slightly sardonic expression.
May 11 22:49:08 <LipstickThespian>	"I think I knew that," Alys was often unsure of herself in matters like that.  Sometimes that uncertainty melted into her words and made her almost sound sad, or at least down on herself.  Her eyes glance over to the little robot bug hovering along and stayed on it with a dull expression. "I'm Alys," pronounced like Elise ya know, "I like your pet."
May 11 22:51:13 <Knave>	He hops up onto the counter, "Thanks. It's my boygirlfriend's, actually. I'm just borrowing it so it can keep an eye on me at all times." He looks back from the robot to her, "You don't seem all that chipper yourself."
May 11 22:55:22 <LipstickThespian>	Alys was small, malnourished, compared to the large quarterback sitting on the counter opposite her.  "I'm very chipper, I'm just hungry.  Today is a very good day, I watched the students in the courtyard, they were laughing."  She pauses, "boygirlfriend?"
May 11 22:57:05 <Knave>	"Yeah. Cass, they're my girlfriend, but sometimes they're my boyfriend." He smiles, "So they're my boygirlfriend." He shrugs pleasantly.
May 11 22:57:52 <LipstickThespian>	"Oh, them." Pause, "I'm too scared to talk to them. But they have very nice... hair."  She nodded her head, she liked the color a lot.
May 11 22:59:14 <Knave>	"They're not all that scary." Callum says with a reassuring smile, "Just don't take what they say personally. It's all meant in good fun."
May 11 23:01:36 <LipstickThespian>	"They're joking?"  Alys seems relieved to hear this and nods her head with a smile.  "So why are you in the kitchen with your boygirlfriends' pet bug?"
May 11 23:03:05 <Knave>	"I'm in the kitchen because I was thinking about eating, but..." He shrugs, "I'm with the bug because I've learned I need proof I'm not raising hell to avoid getting punished in this school."
May 11 23:51:50 <LipstickThespian>	"You should eat,"  Alys is projecting her own desires on those around. As if hanging around the kitchen wasn't enough indication. "Well, it's a good idea if you need proof I guess.  I don't ever see you doing anything bad."
May 11 23:53:45 <Knave>	"Me neither, but I've seen someone who looks a lot like me doing it." He plucks an apple out of a bowl on the counter and inspects it critically, "So if anyone wants to frame me again, they can try." He takes a bite, then flicks it into the side of his mouth, pointing at the robot, "I'll have an alibi."
May 11 23:55:59 <LipstickThespian>	"How odd, to see yourself doing things."  Alys looks at him inspecting the apple, juicy.  She was thirsty, she crosses her arms over her stomach.  "You've given a lot of thought to this, haven't you?  Someone trying to destroy your reputation?"
May 11 23:59:04 <Knave>	He shrugs, "I don't know. I just think people should know the truth." He eyes the apple a little sadly, "And I'd hate for any of this to hurt Cass." He takes another bite and chews thoughtfully.
May 12 00:00:49 <LipstickThespian>	"You're a very good boygirlfriend," Alys says as she watches him eat the apple with odd fascination.  "They talk about you two, in the restroom sometimes. During class.  They are not nice."
May 12 00:01:44 <Knave>	"Yeah?" He cocks an eyebrow over the apple. "Sounds like you keep your ear to the ground."
May 12 00:05:29 <LipstickThespian>	"It occupies my time," Alys says, "the girls talk a lot when they think they're alone. The stalls have a lot of really mean notes.  The boy's room isn't as bad, but they don't like talking in there."
May 12 00:06:54 <Knave>	Callum takes another thoughtful bite, looking at Alys with consideration. He shakes his head slightly, then swallows. "It's good to have a hobby, I guess."
May 12 00:08:14 <LipstickThespian>	Hungry.  Her stomach growled.  "What are your hobbies? Besides you and your boygirlfriend staying up late making noise.  That and class is all I have ever seen you do."
May 12 00:09:46 <Knave>	"I read. I jog. Used to play baseball." He gives a little shrug, "What about you? Do you watch everyone, or did you take a special interest in me?"
May 12 00:12:21 <LipstickThespian>	"I watch a lot of people, sometimes I watch the television.  People are more fun than movies, they're more harsh to each other."  She swings her legs a little bit on the counter edge.  "What do you read?"
May 12 00:13:50 <Knave>	"Novels, mostly. Just, whatever, really." He takes a big bite and chews, to make sure he doesn't accidentally say 'a lot of trashy romances'.
May 12 00:14:41 <LipstickThespian>	"That's nice, you don't seem to be the reading type. Or the sad type. But you've proven me wrong twice."
May 12 00:15:27 <Knave>	"I'm not any type." He shrugs, swallowing the last of the apple in his mouth, "I'm just me."
May 12 00:17:24 <LipstickThespian>	"You ate that quickly," Alys says as she leans forward. "You shouldn't consume that much sugar instead of real food. You know."
May 12 00:18:45 <Knave>	"You've got an awful lot to say about me." He tosses the core into the trash, "Maybe I like sugar."
May 12 00:20:22 <LipstickThespian>	"I've heard that you like sweet things," Alys says, "they say in the bathrooms that many girls give you sugar."
May 12 00:21:42 <Knave>	"Uh huh." Callum says humourlessly, "Don't believe everything you read." He hops off the counter, "Only sugar I need is my Cass."
May 12 00:24:25 <LipstickThespian>	"Well, I can understand that.  But isn't she the one who is consuming in your relationship?  A lot, I think, from what I've heard."  Alys is deadpan as fuck.
May 12 00:25:20 <Knave>	Callum turns red, and glances self-consciously at the bug. "Yeah." He chokes out, "I guess so."
May 12 00:27:25 <LipstickThespian>	"See, I've brightened your day." Alys says with a smile that is reminiscent of a child looking for approval.
May 12 00:28:19 <Knave>	"Yeah." He nods slowly, blush beginning to fade, smiles back encouragingly, "Well done."
May 12 00:29:09 <LipstickThespian>	"What do I get?"  Alys says in what might be a joke, but her tone is pretty terrible for those.
May 12 00:29:48 <Knave>	Callum, on the spot, looks up and down, then gently pats Alys' head, with a look on his face like even he can't really believe he's doing it,
May 12 00:45:09 <LipstickThespian>	Well. Okay.  Patting her on the head might be nice.  Except for the whole 'incorporeal and can't be touched hand goes through her instead' part of that.  "That's it?"  She seemed like it might actually be enough, nobody ever tried to pat her on the head.
May 12 00:46:51 <Knave>	"Do you want anything else?" He shrugs slightly, a dopey look on his face. He doesn't really react to the incorporeality of the girl. Sanctum. What else is new?
May 12 00:48:45 <LipstickThespian>	"Can we be friends?"  Well, she was trying pretty hard.  Friends were hard but her therapist said she should try.
May 12 00:50:09 <Knave>	"Sure. Can always use a friend." He gives a little smile, and briefly offers a hand to shake before he realizes that won't work, will it?
May 12 00:55:04 <LipstickThespian>	Alys reaches out and mimics giving him a tap on the hand.  Though it's only for show, anyway. "Can you be my Sister's friend too?" Then she address the robot bug, "don't worry. She likes girls."
May 12 00:57:35 <Knave>	"If you like." The smile strengthens, then he glances at the bug, "But you don't need to worry about that. Cass knows I'm theirs, and they're not watching the footage anyway. I don't think. They can if they want."
May 12 01:00:28 <LipstickThespian>	"Okay," Alys says as she glances down. "I'm not into girls. But it's okay, because you have a boygirlfriend." And Alys can't do those kinds of things. Ever.
May 12 01:01:51 <Knave>	"Exactly." Callum nods in agreement. The conversation seems to have perked him up a little. He's standing straight, at least.
May 12 01:06:43 <LipstickThespian>	"Can I ask something from you, as a friend?" Alys seemed to be on the edge of asking it for a while. Or maybe social situations were hard for her.
May 12 01:07:24 <Knave>	It seemed like everyone was asking things of him lately. Callum barely lets out a sigh in response, smile not faltering, "Go ahead. What is it?"
May 12 01:09:10 <LipstickThespian>	"Will you cut yourself for me?" Alys asked like one might ask to borrow some sugar.
May 12 01:09:56 <Knave>	"Uhhhhh..." His mouth hangs open while he takes the question in, then he gulps down and cocks an eyebrow, "Why?"
May 12 01:12:41 <LipstickThespian>	"I'm really thirsty!  And that apple looked really good!"  Alys says as she pleads just a little bit.
May 12 01:13:32 <Knave>	Callum looks from Alys, to the bug, to the trashcan, then back. Cogs turned, "I'm guessing blood is all you can drink?"
May 12 01:17:05 <LipstickThespian>	"Yes, sorry." Alys seemed embaressed, "I should start with that.  It's just, my sister is in class and the infirmary gives me tasteless stuff."
May 12 01:18:10 <Knave>	"I should warn you, it's probably not the stuff you'll be used to." He says as he walks over to the counter to retrieve a knife, "And you'll have to be quick. My body heals fast."
May 12 01:19:57 <LipstickThespian>	"Really?" Alys seems surprised anyone would be willing to do this for her, but she nodded.  "Okay, I'll be really quick." She moved off the counter and went over to stand, well float, next to him.
May 12 01:22:21 <Knave>	Callum poises the knife by his wrist, and smiles at the bug's camera, "Viewers of a frail temperament may want to look away now." He offers the wrist and goes for a slash, the knife blade glancing over suddenly-hard skin. "Sorry. Give me a second." He breathes out, forces the reflex not to kick in, sinks the knife into his skin with a small wince.
May 12 01:27:47 <LipstickThespian>	Callum's reality show was taking a really weird turn, but hey, views were views right?  It was weird to watch skin just say no to a knife, but well, Sanctum.  With the pierce of the knife Alys was down by the cup, trying to turn her head to let it drip into her mouth.  Which ended up being her kneeling in front of Callum, behind the kitchen counter, sucking his blood off.  You know,
May 12 01:27:47 <LipstickThespian>	teenage things. Thank goodness for bug cameras.
May 12 01:29:55 <Knave>	It's mere moments before the skin starts knitting itself back together and the blood well runs dry, slashed veins reconnecting. He flexes his hand with a slight nod to confirm it's all fine. "Is that enough?" He asks.
May 12 01:33:46 <LipstickThespian>	It was better than drying out.  Alys was more animated now, like there was a new life blood in her.  It was so sweet!  Compared to her usual fair, it was amazing.  "Thank you," she said as she wiped some off her cheek and sucked it off her lips. Every drop, you know.
May 12 01:36:44 <Knave>	She might notice something a little off, in addition to the blood's sweetness and richness, like the blood is more of an approximation than anything. All the right ingredients, put together slightly wrong. "Don't mention it." He shrugs, taking the knife to the sink to wash it, "I have plenty."
May 12 01:39:15 <LipstickThespian>	Maybe it was the spirit that counted, but it would probably give her cramps later she would complain about. For now? A sweet treat.  "I should let you go, I'm being annoying."
May 12 01:40:03 <Knave>	"No you aren't." He dries the knife off and puts it back where he found it, "But I have studying to do. So I'll see you around, okay?"
May 12 01:44:43 <LipstickThespian>	"We're friends, right?" Alys says as if she isn't sure if they could lose that fact in a moment.
May 12 01:45:23 <Knave>	"Yes," He smiles reassuringly, "We're friends." He points to the bug, "It's on tape. You can prove it."
May 12 01:47:08 <LipstickThespian>	"Thank you," Alys says with a nod as she shifts. "Bye." Sudden, abrupt, and she was floating down into the floor.  Gone, she didn't like slow goodbyes.
May 12 01:47:15 <LipstickThespian>	Wait, was there a basement in this dorm?
May 12 01:48:00 <Knave>	Callum watches the girl go, then says to the air, "Well later then." Then he remembers the bug is recording and looks at it self-consciously
May 12 01:52:48 <LipstickThespian>	-Scene Bugged-