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A calming park near Rosentale Academy that's great for morning jogs or a nice walk to enjoy the fresh air.

Akito Kurosuke



Akito was just taking a jog. The school was administering a week's vacation and Akito was included as well. He didn't really know the reasons, but he didn't mind a nice break. Akito soon reached the park where many families were having picnics and many couples were walking with each other. It was a peaceful atmosphere and Akito was certainly enjoying it.

The peace was shattered when he heard a loud splash. He paused and backtracked from his jogging. Someone had jumped into the lake? Was it an accident? Was someone drowning? Akito started to head for a lake when a boy burst from the water and into the sky. His scales and blue haired glistened due to the water. He was splashing back into the lake.

'A merman? What's he doing here in a lake? He seems oddly familiar...' Akito thought as he reached the banks of the lake. "Enjoying yourself there?"

Akito Kurosuke



Akito recognized the boy. It was that one student. If he recalled correctly, it was Kamil. Of course it was. Akito felt ridiculous for not figuring it out. It was pretty obvious.

Akito also took note that the boy looked a lot healthier than the last time he saw him. He seemed kind of pale and his skin was dry. It was understandable since Kamil was a merman. Being away from water just wasn't something he was made for. "Homesick, huh? Do you miss your home or something. It's a vacation! You definitely have time to go out to see the ocean."

After carefully putting away her precious books, Angela had changed out of her uniform and into casual clothes. She decided to head for the park, with a tote bag full of her drawing supplies. It would be probably be quiet there, and she was less likely to run into other students. She still wasn't ready to face the student body. Especially if the blonde fellow was any indication what the rest of them were like. She had no idea why her father had thought she would fit in here--though, at the very least, she knew one of the professors was nice.

She smiled slightly as she passed through the gates and into the park. It was lovely. There were a lot of trees over by the lake, so she headed that direction, stopping under one with low, wide branches. Adjusting the strap in her back, Angela jumped up to grab the lowest one, before carefully swinging her feet up. Pulling the rest of her body up above the branch, she she went up a few more before settling in a crook between two branches that swept out away from the trunk. Reaching into her bag, she pulled out a hair tie, and scraped her hair into a loose bun before fishing out her sketch book and a few pencils.

One immediately took up residence behind her ear, while she propped her sketch book on her knees and set about sketching the scene in front of her. Her tote bag, she left to dangle from a nearby branch, to keep it from falling.

This...this place was much more comfortable to her than that stodgy school. She had a feeling she would be spending a lot of time here.

(( D; I hope you feel better soon, Emily~ Goodnight))

Angela was very much absorbed in her drawing, staring for one moment at the lake before sketching furiously. When someone nearby suddenly called out, she started violently, nearly toppling out of the tree.

"Gyraaaaagh!" She slipped partially out of her perch, teetering dangerously before she managed to latch onto the branch again, heart pounding. Her sketch book and pencils had plummeted to the ground, but at least she hadn't followed them. She sat there for a moment, willing her heart to stop trying to leap out of her throat and greet the world.

She looked around wildly, for whomever it was who had sneaked up on her, only just biting back the urge to snap his head off at the neck and hurl it into the lake for the fish to use as a play thing. Must. Be. Nice. He hadn't done it on purpose. Hopefully. "Please...do not do that again," she said, her voice slightly shaky. After she thought she could do it without breaking her neck, she grabbed her tote and swung herself down out of the tree carefully.

"The view was lovely until I managed to nearly pitch myself into the lake. Did you...happen to see where my pencils went?"

Angela stopped looking around for her things and tilted her head to the side as she stared at the boy. She blinked. And again. Before she quite realized what had happened, a small snort of laughter escaped. "Did you just say fishsticks?" she asked. "That's...um...that's interesting. I've never heard that before. What on earth is a fish stick?" For some reason she kept thinking of walking sticks, except the fish version. Little twiggy fish, all swimming about stiffly under the water. She didn't think there was any such thing, though she wasn't particularly an expert as far as marine life went.

Angela stood as Kamil quickly located her lost items and returned them to her. She took her sketch book and pencils from him, giving him a slightly hesitant smile. Well, at least he was helpful and friendly and all that. She glanced out at the lake again when he mentioned that he'd been swimming, though. "Isn't it a bit chilly for a swim though? I can't believe you aren't freezing after a dip in this lake. It's already a bit late in the year for it, isn't it?"

"Oh, right! Wait just a moment." She dropped her things in the bag quickly, and rummaged a bit, pulling a small hand towel out from underneath the rest of the items. "Would you like to use this for your hair? I actually keep it for drying my brushes and things if I'm doing watercolor sketches, but I haven't used it today so it's clean."

"Oh yes, I'm Angela. I'm a student at Rosentale."

Oops. He looked sort of embarrassed that she'd laughed. Drat. "I didn't really mean it in a bad way or anything. It's sort of cute, really? I'd just never heard it before. I didn't realize you were a mer. You don't really look like one. You know, with proper legs and all."

"How did you manage that, exactly?," Angela asked. "I know there are some water spirits that are able to come to the surface as Humans--like Selkies and Asrai and such, but I thought regular merfolk were generally completely bound to the water. There were a few that used to always come to the court but they only stayed in the pools there."

She supposed that he did have the look of a merman--everything about him was the color of water, from his hair to his eyes. That also explained the 'fish sticks' remark. It seemed like the school had a rather interesting group of creatures and races amongst the staff and student body. That might make for an interesting school year.

"At any rate, it's a pleasure to meet you." She held out her hand to him.