Welcome to Gaia! ::

Cici sighed as she looked over the book list for her class. Having come into her powers later she had to take the Basic Braining course before she could work on her power courses. But this was.....difficult. Cici's schooling came from life experience in the commune. She learned math by counting seeds in the garden, by measuring ingredients in her mother's kitchen. Now she had to learn from books and it was proving a challenge. Because of this she'd arrived at the library early so she would already have the books ready when her partner arrived. Their teacher assigned a partner project to better learn how to work with each other as a team.

She looked back at her instruction sheet which listed the books they would need as well as their partner. Sebastian Horn was her partner, a boy she'd not met yet. Their teacher had paired up students who had different powers and asked them to write a paper on how they could compliment each other. The blonde sighed again and returned to looking for the study books. She wondered what the boy's powers were? Her own involved reading auras on objects and light manipulation. Finally she found the books she required and went to choose a study table big enough for the two of them.

Cici pushed a lock of platinum blonde hair from her golden eyes, her tan skin still warm from her earlier walk around the campus. She wore her usual purple outfit but carried a hair tie in case her hair became too unruly at the table. Now she just awaited her partner.

Partner assignments were the most common place thing back in Celine's home. Older students always helped teach the younger, passing knowledge from one generation to the next. It was considered proper even if the younger child wasn't a sibling. And lessons came in so many forms! Celine blinked as a voice spoke to her, she'd been buried in a book about plants she'd found while searching the shelves. She beamed up at the boy, not at all bothered by his looks. She's heard some girls comment about Sebastian's "goth" or "emo" look, that he looked dangerous and moody. To Celine's innocent eyes he just looked like he needed to get out in the sun more.

"Hi! You must be Sebastian!" she smiled, pronouncing his name in proper french. Her parents both spoke french, in fact her father's name was Bastian! She pushed a large lock of hair over her bare shoulder, "I'm Celine, though you may have already guessed that!" She giggled a bit and motioned to the chair next to her, "I've already gotten the books we were assigned. It was difficult, I've never seen such a big collection of books." She looked around at all the shelves, thinking the place could use a few plants to brighten it up. Her face did show some discomfort, as her hands rubbed her arms. She felt almost trapped by all these books. How could anyone really learn in here? "Do you have our assignment paper?" she asked as she held it up. She wondered what kind of powers Sebastian had, of if he was much better at controlling them than she was of hers.

Celine glanced at his bag curiously. She'd never heard of any bands the patches advertised. Her own bag was on the floor next to her chair. It was obviously hand made from purple dyed cloth and decorated with embroidery. Sunflowers were the main them. Instead of a folder she had a pad of paper and a leather bound binder made for her by one of her old instructors. Pressed into the front was Celine's name and a sunflower symbol.

His question confused her, she was still getting use to slang the other kids used and wondered if this was yet another phrase she'd not heard. Perhaps he was asking why she was here? That seemed logical. "Well I began developing powers recently. i'm pretty good at manipulating light, " she said as she demonstrated by producing a small ball of light in her hand. "I'm also pretty good at reading objects. I could tell if an object belonged to someone because their aura was still on it. What about you?"

She glanced at the book on powers but didn't seem apt to open it. She felt better learning from the person she was teamed with, or seeing instructors perform it. But she supposed she would have to learn what the powers could do without instruction at times. "Sorry," she hid one eye with a lock of hair, "I'm not use to this kind of school. It's...so different from home."

Celine did notice the slight almost smile and smiled back. At least he wasn't condecinding like some of the others had been. She couldn't help where she was raised and didn't see anything wrong with it but others seems to think she was weird or presumed she was uneducated due to her lack of formal schooling. When he pointed at a pencil she blinked and watched, gasping a little when it wiggled. Back home there were psychics but none with telekinesis. "Wow! You almost moved it! I haven't seen that before! I've seen other kinds but not that!"

She was genuinely excited and even more so when he told her his other abilities. Wow he had three! Well she supposed she'd learn her others sooner or later but his comment made her her think. "Hmmm, well you can read auras and I can read auras on objects. Maybe we could do something....like showing how we can pinpoint what someone has recently touched." She twirled a lock of hair on her finger, "Maybe have some other students come up and touch objects then I read the aura on it and you match it to the person?"

Again Celine was more use to physical learning than writing a paper on it. She suddenly realized that as she glanced down at her paper with a sigh. "Or maybe just...write a paper on it," she pushed at the pencil Sebastian tried to move. "Seem's like a waist of paper to me. I mean isn't it better to learn by doing things. Least that's how all my teachers taught us. We used our hands, we saw with our eyes. All this writing seems pointless." She pouted a bit but tried to act mature about it. This was a new experience and her parents told her to try and learn more.

Celine smiled as the boy didn't act like she was weird for her comments. She usually got some strange looks talking about how she was raised. She thought about his comment and nodded. "Yeah I think I can do that. I'm great with kids since I always took care of my two younger sisters. Also I helped with the other children in the village being older."

She smiled as a plan began to form in her head. "I can get some of the younger kids to bring in an item they use everyday. Nothing overly special, just an ordinary object! Then I can read it's aura and you can read the kid's aura so we can match it to the person!" She clapped her hands together, "Or maybe we can have a bunch of objects and with our backs turned each child can touch one, then we determine which object the child touched?"

She looked to her partner for agreement, "Though I'm not sure how we can write a paper all on that." She twirled another lock of hair, "I'm not exactly good at essays. Mira was always the writer, teaching the other kids how to read and write."