Oct 16 17:47:09 <Knave>	Gloria had toyed with the idea of jumping off the roof. She expected it wouldn't hurt her. It might damage her. It definitely wouldn't kill her. It probably wouldn't benefit the ground. She didn't feel like explaining why she'd done it to an angry adult, so she decided not to jump off the roof. Instead, she swung herself out over the edge of the roof of the dorm building, then climbed down the side of it, stone
Oct 16 17:47:09 <Knave>	claws gripping the brickwork. She let herself drop from about fifteen feet up into the main courtyard, and didn't leave much of a dent.
Oct 16 18:00:42 <Cezar>	She would then see a Caspian starting back at ber when she looked up. He looked down at the ground she landed on, then back up at her. He waved.
Oct 16 18:08:41 <Knave>	Gloria's amber eyes scan over the boy, then focus on the waving hand. Ponderously slowly, but with an idleness that makes it seem like a comic thing, she fixes the hem of her shapeless dress from the climbing and the fall. "Hey." She rumbles out, then, "You're the mute one."
Oct 16 18:15:26 <Cezar>	Caspian nodded at her and smiled. He pulled out a dry erase board and a black marker, drying them off with his power before writing. 'Hey, Gloria!'
Oct 16 18:19:04 <Knave>	"Very clever." Gloria nods, taking a few lumbering steps up towards him, each one seeming like gravity brought her foot down as much as intention. "How have you been?" She asks, rather casually. Through the almost unmoving grimace and the perpetually coarse snarl of her voice, it's possible, perhaps, to guess that she is in a good mood.
Oct 16 18:20:44 <Cezar>	'Good!' He wrote, then floated over to give her a quick hug. 'I can talk a lot better with this. It feels better.'
Oct 16 18:22:50 <Knave>	Once again, Gloria freezes in place at the hug, but was already pretty motionless. She grunts when it's over, then nods in response to his words. At this point, she seems to run out of ideas for how social interactions go.
Oct 16 18:24:00 <Cezar>	'What about you?' He wrote to her. 'How are you feeling?'
Oct 16 18:25:30 <Knave>	She shrugs one stone shoulder. "Fine." Her face tilts down, and her pupils scan the ground around them.
Oct 16 18:28:33 <Cezar>	'The ground is broken.' He wrote. 'Why did it break? Did you break it or was it already weak?'
Oct 16 18:29:36 <Knave>	She shrugs again, slow rise and sudden fall. "Don't know." She takes a few steps away, "Didn't drop that far."
Oct 16 18:32:59 <Cezar>	'Far enough to break the ground.' He wrote and then looked at the ground. 'Do you think I can break the ground too?'
Oct 16 18:36:04 <Knave>	Gloria grumbles at length, then says, "Probably not." She shakes her head.
Oct 16 18:36:37 <Cezar>	'Why not?' He wrote. 'I'm strong and tough.'
Oct 16 20:43:54 <Knave>	Gloria glanced at the board, then looked away with a tut that sounded like gravel falling onto sand. "You don't look strong."
Oct 16 20:49:09 <Cezar>	'So? Why do appearances need to govern ability?' He wrote. Caspian was actually rather strong. Considering those weights helped a lot.
Oct 16 20:49:26 <Cezar>	The weights he wasn't wearing at the moment.
Oct 16 20:51:20 <Knave>	Gloria turns to face him, and puts one claw on her hip, bowing it out ever so incrementally. After some time of looking Caspian up and down, she says, "Go on then."
Oct 16 20:52:28 <Cezar>	'What do you want me to do?' He was slightly afraid she wanted him to hit her. He wouldn't do it. Hit the ground... he might.
Oct 16 20:54:19 <Knave>	Gloria inclines her head towards the floor. "Break the ground if you're so strong."
Oct 16 20:57:12 <Cezar>	He looked down at the concrete. He floated down to touch it and then out of his palm came the powerful and extremely pressurized stream of water. When he lifted his hand up there was a nice, clean hole in the ground and a lot of sediment.
Oct 16 21:02:17 <Knave>	Gloria grunts acknowledgement, then claps - three times, slowly. "All right." She folds her arms, and shrugs her shoulders, "Bet anyone here could break cement."
Oct 16 21:03:12 <Cezar>	'Maybe not.' He wrote. 'There are some people here who are not physically strong. Instead, they have something different.'
Oct 16 21:04:38 <Knave>	"Y'used water." Gloria says, rough and garbled, "S'not strength, is it?"
Oct 16 21:05:18 <Cezar>	'Water is one of the strongest forces of nature.' He argued.
Oct 16 21:06:13 <Knave>	"Being clever about it." She murmurs irritated, beginning to walk down the path she'd meant to.
Oct 16 21:08:16 <Cezar>	Caspian floated with her, feeling like she didn't like him at all. He really just wanted her to like him. That's all.
Oct 16 21:10:30 <Knave>	Gloria's arms move very slowly down to her sides, then slide back up to be crossed over her chest. It gives the impression that she wishes she had pockets. "Not going anywhere?"
Oct 16 21:11:25 <Cezar>	'Wanted to be with a friend.' He wrote to her. 'You are my friend.. right?'
Oct 16 21:12:06 <Knave>	Gloria turns her face away, looking at the ground by the path. "Yeah. Yeah."
Oct 16 21:13:56 <Cezar>	'You do not like me. Do you?' He wrote, asking.
Oct 16 21:16:26 <Knave>	Gloria shrugs, then says guiltily, "Don't dislike you."
Oct 16 21:17:41 <Cezar>	'That was only an evasion of the nature of the question.' He wrote. 'If you do not like me, I would rather know than for you to hide it or lie. Please...'
Oct 16 21:17:56 <Cezar>	'I do not want false hope. I have had enough sadness.'
Oct 16 21:18:48 <Knave>	"You're all right." She says, rubbing the back of her claw against her cheek, "You're quiet and you don't wind me up too much. You can stay if you want."
Oct 16 21:26:30 <Cezar>	Caspian touches her wrist and looked at her. He went to write on he board again. 'Are you always mad? Or upset?'
Oct 16 21:29:22 <Knave>	Gloria pulls her arm away, but not violently. She growls. "I suppose. Yeah."
Oct 16 21:30:12 <Cezar>	'But why?' He asked her.
Oct 16 21:32:19 <Knave>	Gloria stops in place, and shrugs again. "Dunno." She looks down at the ground between them, "Just am."
Oct 16 21:33:51 <Cezar>	'Can I help you be happy?' He asked her sincerely.
Oct 16 21:35:15 <Knave>	Gloria shrugs, and starts walking again. "You can try, if you want."
Oct 16 21:37:35 <Cezar>	'How do you think I can do that? What makes you happy?'
Oct 16 21:40:15 <Knave>	Gloria holds up a finger as she comes to the front of the school building, then beckons him to follow as she begins climbing up the wall. She perches on the edge of the roof, legs over the edge.
Oct 16 21:41:39 <Cezar>	Caspian just floated up with her, using the wall as a way to climb easier. Felt more comfortable. Then, he settled next to her once they got to the roof.
Oct 16 21:42:15 <Knave>	Gloria made a low grumbling sound from her throat, possibly just because she was thinking. "Try saying something interesting." She says at last. "Or funny."
Oct 16 21:44:20 <Cezar>	He instantly blushed. Caspian wasn't good at this. He hardly knew how to be social with humans, let alone make them or land creatures laugh. He desperately tried thinking of something, but came up with blanks.
Oct 16 21:45:07 <Knave>	"Yeah, thought not." Gloria says drily. She rolls her shoulders and looks down at the school, "Just sit with me."
Oct 16 21:47:23 <Cezar>	'Sorry. I'm not good with social stuff.' He wrote, pulling up his knees and putting aside his board.
Oct 16 21:48:35 <Knave>	Gloria looks back at his board, then away again. "It's okay." She coughs like gravel, "It's really okay. Thanks for trying." Then, after an awkward moment, she says, "We're friends."
Oct 16 21:51:14 <Cezar>	He picked up his board again. 'I heard kisses make people happy. But only boyfriends/girlfriends do that. I don't know what I can do. I'm thinking.'
Oct 16 21:52:14 <Knave>	Gloria turns her head at the squeaking of the board marker, then watches the words appear with growing horror. "Really." She says, "Don't worry about it."
Oct 16 21:53:16 <Cezar>	'You're my friend. I want to worry about it.' He wrote.
Oct 16 21:54:21 <Knave>	Gloria nods. "Yeah, yeah. Okay, well..." She shuffles, "Never mind just now. We'll... I don't know, we'll go bowling or something later." She clears her throat, "Just sit now."
Oct 16 21:55:26 <Cezar>	'You're like me, right? Never had friends before here?'
Oct 16 21:56:15 <Knave>	Gloria shakes her head slowly. "Not exactly." Her unblinking eye glances at a passing cloud, "Just a long time ago."
Oct 16 21:59:27 <Cezar>	'What happened?'
Oct 16 22:01:12 <Knave>	Gloria's eyes trail from the board to Caspian's face, carefully settling on his forehead. It's hard to look sardonic when your face is an almost-unmoving stone visage of monstrous contempt, but she does her best. "Acne." She deadpans.
Oct 16 22:02:14 <Cezar>	'What is that?' He asked. Poor innocent boy.
Oct 16 22:02:59 <Knave>	"Nothing. Joking." She says like acid, then explains, "I turned into a stone monster."
Oct 16 22:05:10 <Cezar>	'But you are not a monster. Monsters are mean and scary.' He wrote. 'I like you.'
Oct 16 22:06:07 <Knave>	Gloria shrugs. "I look scary." She says levelly, without any particular sadness about it, "Anyway, parents took me out of school because of it. Didn't get better. Just never made any friends after."
Oct 16 22:06:52 <Cezar>	'What about now?' He smiled at her.
Oct 16 22:08:19 <Knave>	"Yeah, now, I mean." Gloria coughs, "Couple people who... know me..." She trails off. "W' about you?"
Oct 16 22:09:24 <Cezar>	'Some people do not like me. Some people are my friends. A lot of people I don't know yet.'
Oct 16 22:10:00 <Knave>	Gloria cocks her head and sucks in breath. "Good way to think of it."
Oct 16 22:12:50 <Cezar>	'Someone told me that I should not meet more people. Because if i don't they are kn a state of neither my friend or someone who hates me...' he showed her and erased. 'But I think it's more pointless if I do not know.'
Oct 16 22:14:24 <Knave>	Gloria tetches. "Yeah. Someone's gonna hate you, let them hate you." She makes an extended exhale sound, with a lot of rumble to it. It sounds uncomfortable. "I mean, if they're gonna hate you anyway, they're shitty. Fuck them. Go out, find them, know who they are. Might as well." She sits back, having puffed up and leaned forward while she was talking.
Oct 16 22:15:00 <Cezar>	'What do you mean?' He wrote.
Oct 16 22:16:11 <Knave>	"I mean," She swats at the air with her claw, "I mean if that's how you think about it, either they'll hate you or they won't, what's it hurt to find out who's who? They're already this or that, you just don't know which yet, right?" She shifts her shoulders uneasily.
Oct 16 22:19:41 <Cezar>	Caspian nodded and kicked the wall by accident. He floated backwards for a moment, but he caught himself and pulled himself back to sit next to her. 'Can I see your hand?'
Oct 16 22:20:18 <Knave>	Gloria makes a rough noise of confusion, then shrugs and nods, offering her left hand, palm up, to Caspian.
Oct 16 22:21:27 <Cezar>	His own hand was wet. Likely, she didn't feet it. Or maybe she did. He just examined the rock curiously.
Oct 16 22:22:50 <Knave>	A dark, blue-grey in colour, and cold to the touch. The shape of the hand is not so much unlike a typical teenage girl's, leaving aside the sharp claw that each finger ends in. Gloria watches Caspian examining her.
Oct 16 22:25:06 <Cezar>	He checked the sharpness of the claw and by now he was dripping. Jeez. Get a hold of yourself.
Oct 16 22:27:23 <Knave>	The claws are all sharp and strong enough to pierce brickwork - certainly sharp enough to give a curious boy a nasty prick if he wasn't careful.
Oct 16 22:30:01 <Cezar>	Which he wasn't! Caspian pulled his hand away in pain, and finally, for the first time ever, he saw the red drip down his hand. Caspian raised both his eyebrows.
Oct 16 22:32:04 <Knave>	"Sorry." Gloria pulls her left hand back and balls it up, covering it with her right, "Should have warned you. Are you okay?"
Oct 16 22:33:21 <Cezar>	He watched it as it dripped down his arm, tickling his skin. He went to wipe it and it smeared. He blinked and shook his head for a moment. His water came back and did poorly to wash off the blood.
Oct 16 22:34:23 <Knave>	"What?" Gloria peered at him, "Never seen blood before?"
Oct 16 22:36:04 <Cezar>	Caspian shook his head. No. He hasn't. Not like this, at least. It always floated like a red cloud. This was odd for him.
Oct 16 22:37:33 <Knave>	"Well, never mind." Gloria said, shaking her head, "It's only a bit. Just put some pressure on it. Here." Slowly, she reached her hand to his finger and wrapped it in the cool stone, just tight enough to still be comfortable.
Oct 16 22:39:25 <Cezar>	He looked at it, then at her and smiled.
Oct 16 22:42:07 <Knave>	It's a quite muggy afternoon, and it must be a trick of the fog that makes Gloria's stone skin appear to glow gently for a moment. Perhaps the same is true for the brief flash in her eyes, but they glow anyway, so who knows. She tries to smile back without looking in his eye, and is working with a vicious maw that is never properly closed and can't really move much.
Oct 16 22:51:35 <Cezar>	He then looked at her with more curiosity than ever. Glowing stone? Why... he hasn't seen that since years ago. Back when the ship sank on top of him. He looked at her for a hot moment before looking at his hand afterwards.
Oct 16 22:54:36 <Knave>	After some time of awkward silence, Gloria loosens her grip and withdraws her hand. "That's probably enough."
Oct 16 22:55:11 <Cezar>	He examined his hand. Did she do something special?
Oct 16 22:57:25 <Knave>	Nothing but a vice grip around the prick to suppress the bleeding. His finger is left a little white, and certainly cold.
Oct 16 22:58:22 <Cezar>	He went to write on the board. 'Thank you so much, Gloria.' Another hug! Friends hug!
Oct 16 22:59:03 <Knave>	"Don't mention it." She mumbles, one arm gingerly patting his back as he hugs her.
Oct 16 23:01:06 <Cezar>	Caspian smiled widely as she /actually moved/ to acknowledge his hugging. He pulled back and kept bis smile at her. 'You're awesome.'
Oct 16 23:01:47 <Knave>	"Yeah." She nodded vaguely and slowly, "Suppose so."
Oct 16 23:03:15 <Cezar>	'There is no doubt. Only truth.'
Oct 16 23:05:28 <Knave>	Gloria nods, glances away. "If you say so."
Oct 16 23:08:09 <Cezar>	'What's wrong? You look away. Is that bad? I can't tell.'
Oct 16 23:08:58 <Knave>	"No, no." Gloria nods, and swallows with an awkward churning sound, "It's fine. You're nice."
Oct 16 23:10:59 <Cezar>	'Did I make you happy at all?'
Oct 16 23:11:30 <Knave>	"Yeah, I think so." Gloria nods more.
Oct 16 23:13:12 <Cezar>	He smiled at her. 'Good. I'm glad I was able to do that. Want to do something sometime?'
Oct 16 23:14:34 <Knave>	"Sure." Gloria taps her fingers against the roof, "You can find me... I'm usually on roofs, I mean. If you want. To find me." She says staccato.
Oct 16 23:15:34 <Cezar>	'I will find you. I love all my friends.' He wrote.
Oct 16 23:17:16 <Knave>	"Good." Gloria looks at the message and nods, "Good."
Oct 16 23:19:15 <Cezar>	'Should I leave? Usually I leave when people talk about seeing me another time.'
Oct 16 23:20:30 <Knave>	Gloria nods slowly. "Nice seeing you." She says charitably.
Oct 16 23:21:19 <Cezar>	'You too.' He smiled ar her and kicked off the roof, floating down and darting like a bullet through trees and into a building.
Oct 16 23:22:47 <Knave>	Gloria watched him go with a variation on the same expression she was always wearing. Then she turned her eyes to the horizon, making a hrmmm sound.
Oct 16 23:28:46 <Cezar>	~Scene Happy~