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After meeting her Secret Santa giftgiver and getting her first gift, if in a somewhat unusual fashion, it'd occured to Maddy that she should probably make some attempts at getting to know her own Secret Santa.

So, after some spiffing recon work (if you asked her), she'd found Kashmira Maker and silently stalked her for the rest of the day, trying to catch her alone.
Which wasn't easy, mostly because as it turned out, Kashmira was a twin and went nearly nowhere alone - and as if that wasn't bad enough, Maddy had found out very quickly that wings was, in fact, conducive to spying. At all. She'd be pretty surprised if Kash hadn't figured out that someone was stalking her by this point in time, or at least gotten informed about it by one of the alarmed bystanders.

But it was lunch now, and she'd finally caught the other girl alone for a moment.
Plopping down in the seat next to her, Maddy stuck out her hand and tried to channel the confidence of Wisp or Kaimi.
"Hi, I'm Maddy. Wow, that's some nice looking sandwiches you've got there." Lamest. Into. Ever.

"Probably not," she readily agreed with the other girl, "I tend to like sweet things mostly. It's the wings and the feelers, see?" She flickered both to show what she meant.

"Yeah, I have." The smile was slightly weary - today had been an emotional rollercoaster, peaking with her fear of Austin. Really, all the fight had gone out of her.
"Sure, I guess. You draw?" There was definitely some potential gifts there, if she did.

"Yeah, I'm fine. I just.. had a bit of a scare earlier." She waved it off, feeling infinitely more comfortable with the more down-to-earth Kash.

"Thanks, though. I'd love to get drawn, really. I don't think anyone's done so - well, except Wisp and I did some zombie-outbreak pictures, but a picture of a normal me that is. But I can totally roll with it if you want to do something funky like that." Really, she was just extremely flattered that anyone wanted to make art of her, period, which showed in the brilliant smile she sent Kash's way.

"No, er, some kid named Austin." She blinked before shuddering for the second time that day. Damnit, there were more scary kids in school? Great, just great.
"I've never seen him around before, but I guess he goes here - not very big though, just.. scary." She'd have added something about him being her Secret Santa, but that might give away her own agenda for being here.
"But.. I'll try to remember that if I run into your Chris."

"Er, Madeleine, but you can call me Maddy," shrugging, she presented herself a second time. It wasn't like her intro had been very good, so she figured Kashmira'd been justified in not noticing it, "That's a very pretty name, though. Kashmira, that is. It sounds like the name of a heroine in a storybook, you know?"

"I've never heard of either of them before, sorry. Still, that's all kinds of awesome," she wrinkled her nose, slightly envious of the origins of her new friend's name, "I think I was named after a great aunt or someone, not something as cool as a song."

"Rhye's your sister, right? I saw her earlier, when I was, er, stalking you." She'd never actually learned the name of Kash's twin during her mission, but it seemed a good guess.

"Here," Maddy held out the little handkerchief her mom always made her put in the pocket of her jeans and smiled awkwardly, "you can use this."

"I guess boring for some people is interesting for others. I like turtles, but Mom says they're the most boring animal to ever grace Gaia, ever." She rolled her eyes, displaying how much she thought her mom's opinion on that mattered.

"I think I saw that, once. It was on TV, but we didn't get to record and I can't remember it very well." Her wings gave an embarrassed little flutter, "Still, I think I liked it."

She eyed Kash contemplatively for a little while after that statement, "If you don't mind me asking.. What exactly are you and your sister? I've been wondering, but, well." She gave a helpless little shrug.