halcyon_houses

Who: Davia and Rafe
When: Early Sunday Afternoon
Where: Terrene Common Room
What: Chess is not a solitary game

The weekends were always the worst. There were no classes, no club meetings, to distract her. It was so much easier being here during the week. She had a routine. Wake up, get ready, go to class, go back to her room. It worked for her. That was how she liked it. Davia was not, after all, a very sociable person. She didn't even know how to be. But she was attempting to make a conscious effort to change, it was just turning out to be a slow process.

This Sunday, however, was an improvement from the last. She was not going to sit in her room all day, hiding away in her bed behind some books. Though she might not make it much further, she had at least made it as far as the common room where she sat in a chair positioned on one side of a chess board, looking down at the knights and rooks and pawns. This was a game she knew how to play. Her father had taught her and she was rather good at it, though she had only ever played against him.

With a sigh, one long leg crossed over the other as a hand brushed back through blond hair. Her aqua eyes scanned the room around her with mild curiosity and moderate boredom. She recognized a few people in the house from her classes, but there was no one that honestly stuck out in her mind just yet. Names were never something that she was good at keeping track of. Faces she could remember, but not the names that went with them.

Her attention soon moved back to the chess pieces, her hand reaching out to take a pawn in hand and thumb the figure lightly. She placed it back down, making the first move though she had no opponent and she certainly wasn't planning on playing by herself. It was more of an invitation though she honestly didn't expect anyone to notice nor to accept if they did.

When: Afternoon
Where: Their room
Who: Jasper and Micah

Jasper had spent the weekend going over the information he had picked up from Janos. Really he was still confused on just who had put his name out there to so many schools. He’d asked a few teachers but so far no one was really admitting that they were the ones who had. It wasn’t that Jasper was angry for it he just didn’t understand the need. He’d never had any human schooling so why did they think he’d be able to sail smoothly through such advanced education? He had never seen the basics of what humans were taught or expected to know when arriving.

All the information that had been sent out was falsified; there was no other way for it to be done. Jasper had no past really, nothing legal that gave his name some sort of worth in human society. Yet somehow it had all been down and now he had packets of schools that said he could go to them. It was…confusing….and overwhelming. He could not deny that a part of him really wanted something more but…he had not entertained the thought of leaving because of Micah. He didn’t want to take Micah away from somewhere where he was happy. He deserved to be.

Jasper wasn’t really sure what to make of all of this.

All weekend he’d debated it. He spoke with nearly all of his teachers and spent a good deal of time talking with the librarian as well. Trying to understand the details of all of it. Everyone of them told him it was a great opportunity and he really should consider it. He always said thank you for their opinions but it still took him completely back that his grades had appealed to so many. Jasper wasn’t the sort that ran around thinking himself smart. He just loved to learn.

He had gone over it all with many that he trusted the opinions of but really the only opinion that mattered to him was Micah’s.

After classes Jasper went back to their room, waiting there for Micah to show. He wasn’t really sure when he would or if he even would for that matter but there was a good chance. Normally he dropped off some stuff before venturing out for the night. If anything Jasper could message him on the computers and see if he’d get it. For now he was okay with just waiting a bit though.

He was seated to his bed and all around him were various piles. Everything was of course in complete order and the piles were arranged by name and locations were written in dark ink to the bottom of the brochures. He had tabulated exactly how far they all were from where the island now was, even if he knew that the islands location shifted with time.

Of course small flags stuck out from the pages of the booklets as well, marking any fact about the school that had appealed to Jasper in some way or another. No he wouldn’t lie and say that they didn’t appeal to him at all or that he saw no point to going. But he was scared of it just as much as intrigued. Even if he didn’t know if he was going he had to pick the information apart…it was in his nature. He wanted to make sure he understood every last bit of it.

Sighing Jasper shifted on his bed, leaning against the near by window then as a cigarette was put to his lips and lit. He really didn’t know think right now.