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Newarva gave a chuckle, but nodded her head in agreement to the young girl.

"Of course, you take care now, Kristina"

She waved goodbye to her student who did not seem all well amused by her teacher's antics. Still, it was interesting to know that her behavior extended beyond the classroom setting. When she was out of sight, she sat down at the water fountain and looked up at the statue.

"Pela, what would you say of times like these? The air feels so different..."
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"You're welcome, Saya" She replied to the other girl. It appeared she was in a hurry about something, she didn't even have time to make conversation with her. Maybe she wasn't the talkative type?

"See you in class too." Nala waved goodbye to Saya. She headed towards the bus stop, she lived across town on the west side. While she waited for her bus to arrive, she took notice of the changing pattern in the sky today. It was ominous.

What was making it worse was that she could see a fog coming in soon.

"This weather is so strange, today was supposed to be sunny..."
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"You're welcome!"

The children smiled and scampered off, knowing that El was probably very busy, or tired, or hungry! Eleanor was the one the kids wanted to grow up to be like, courageous and smart, and grow up like that they eventually did. Some grew up to be warriors and maidens to fight the Phantoms head on, while others looked for ways to counter the problem without the need for brute force.

The little boy that had his head patted by her had the widest of all the smiles in the group. He stayed behind and waved her off.
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Meanwhile, Lancelot was heading on home. Before he would however, he stopped by the local bakery and purchased three dozen sugar cookies. The baker always did wonder he Lancelot purchased that many week after week, but a sale was a sale.

He bought them for Nebula. She had a bit of a sweet tooth, well saying a bit wouldn't be the half of it. Lancelot practically trained the slime on cookies, it worked though. Somehow he felt that girl was patronizing him all that time.

El followed the girl curiously. She stayed in her house for awhile, then came out again. She looked almost forlorn. El could tell she was marked. It was hard not to notice when you were one yourself. She couldn't quite recall if she could always sense the other. Most likely.
It didn't seem that this elf was going to announce that she'd been chosen. Most would be proud and showing it off. Yet she wasn't. El smirked. She seemed like a smart girl.
Unfortunately she couldn't allow her to stay hidden. Her help would be needed very soon.
Walking up beside the girl she placed a hand on her shoulder. "Excuse me. I was just on a walk. Will you join me?" she asked as she looked the girl up and down.

El blinked and looked down at her tummy. She forgot sometimes that she looked this way. She looked about three months along, which was how she kept it.
"Anytime." she said and shrugged. She'd looked like this while carrying Brenna in her. "I've been this way for a long time. Don't tell me you haven't recognized me yet?" she said surprised. I was actually kind of refreshing to met an elf who didn't know her right off the bat.

"Not really. Everyone else just seems to." she said, rolling her eyes. "My name El." she said. She never liked being called Eleanor. It was such a horrid name.
"I'm the vessel for Brenna the Water Pandora. Which means I'm Marked. Like you." she said bluntly. She waited, gauging the girls reaction.

Kristina continued to wander down the street until she came to the address she knew was Lancelot's home. She stepped up to his front door, raised her hand and rapped the wooden frame with her knuckles gently. She hoped she was home so they could get their study session finished and she could go home and think. Ms. Newarva had slightly freaked her out with her words.

Inside Lancelot's home was Nebula, she was watching cartoons at the time. She heard the door being knocked, but Lancelot had strict rules for her not to open the door. She knew very well that Lancelot always used a key to get in by himself. It took her a long time and quite a lot of sugar cookies, but she stayed loyal to listening to that command.

Lancelot however, did come home a few minutes later. He was surprised to see Kristina was true to her word and was actually there waiting for him at his front door.

"Wait a minute, you mean you were serious about that, Kristina?" He asked her, had he known, he would have tried to do his day to day activities faster.

Lancelot began to look for his front door keys why Kristina was talking. It ran across his mind, why did she insist on calling him Lance? Only his friends called him that, and his friends don't act like her. "Lets get inside and in the living room first."

He unlocked the door and walked her inside his home. With a master bedroom, five other guestrooms, 3 bathrooms not counting the master bathroom and finally his room, the house was quite large. He offered her a seat on the couch next to him.

"Okay Kristina, what do you possibly have to tell me that's so important?"

Kristina stepped inside the house and for a moment was shocked by the number of rooms she could see from the front of his house. It was a big home. She closed her mouth though to hide her surprise and said, "I've been feeling uneasy. I saw Mrs. Newarva on the way here and we talked about the odd statue in the center of the park. She told me it would make you pregnant if you touch it and I kind of believe you. That said, I probably can't get pregnant not yet, anyway, because of what I am. I hate to tell you this now, but I've only been pretending to be human."

She paused for a moment and let the information sink in. Then she continued as she slowly lowered her hands, "I'm a slime, like the ones discussed in our History classes." As she said these words her skin began to turn a bluish purple and she started to grow taller and longer. Her body filled the room, pushing back a couple small tables at the front entrance until she became a giant half serpent creature. The only thing that had not changed much was her hair and her clothing, Kristina had bought specially made clothing to be able to transform comfortably between her different forms.

OOC: Sorry about dropping this on you Shade.