“Babe, we disagree about a great deal of things. Sometimes I think its all that you can do to keep from exploding whenever we talk. The blush that you have on your cheeks 90% of the time we talk attests to that.” Xander said with a chuckle and a shrug of his shoulders. As for the other, he called all women babe, all guys dude, it was just how he was.
“Don’t you read poetry?” He asked with an arched of an eyebrow. “Edgar Allen Poe.. he was all about the evil Raven. Not to mention that witches often roamed in the disguise of the bird.. and in Stephen King’s the Stand, the big bad Satan dude turned into a raven too. Raven’s always the big bad evil bird. Especially easy to believe when they’re staring at you on a windowsill… so easy to believe that they’re smarter than normal birds with those big black eyes of theirs. Vile things.”
He then shook his head a little. “But no, I can’t change it. I’ve been trying for the past few minutes. Looks like we’re stuck in whatever hole your mind wants to stick us in. Best I’ve been able to do so far in most people’s dreams is change what I look like. Not much more than that, sadly.” He shrugged his shoulders a little bit.
When she stopped and stared at him, he just grinned at her. “Why is it that every virgin I meet at this school is always I’m never going to have sex and that’s that. Like there’s something wrong with it or something. Ha. Especially when its so easy to tell all the feelings are there too. Anyway, lets test something..” He turned toward her again and offered her his hand, with nothing covering it. “Let’s see if this skin to skin is only for real.. or if my gifts translate it over into your dream as well..”