On the Beach: Ellie & Bayani & OPEN
"Well tha's jest it," Ellie said as she propped her head up with her hand. "Losin' control. I get tha'. I still lose control of me fire sometimes, but I wouldn't leave a room ta burn after doin' so. Ya say he jest left Leon there ta die." She shook her head.
"Not everyone's cut out ta be a scholar," she said as she rested her head back down. Most everyone thought she was weird for all the research and "useless" facts she absorbed like a sponge. She enjoyed learning more than anything when it came right down to it. "I'd like ta go on. Go ta college. I jest dinna know if it'll be possible seein' as I haven't any money ta speak of." And she'd learned by now that higher education was very expensive.
Bayani's reassurance about the others left in Anton Castle made a wistful smile haunt her face. "I hope so," she said as she stretched her fingers out enough to brush his shoulder.