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Sekhmet had begun walking slowly back to her dorm room after class, not seemingly in any hurry at all. And really, she wasn't. She was hoping to run into another student alone. She wanted to get to know the students, but they often traveled in packs and were hard to start a conversation with that way, even moreso with Sekhmet's lacking conversational skills with mortals.

If I do not find one soon, she thought to herself, I will have to just force myself on one of their large groups. Or perhaps the loners frequent places where I do not go.

As Sekhmet was walking along, thinking about making herself more social and therefore more mortal, she was slightly surprised to see a dragon boy in her path. Her facial features did not show it however, which was lucky for her because the boy turned around and stared at her, yet said nothing.

His stare and the way he remained stationary told Sekhmet that he might not be against talking to her. So instead of walking past him, she stopped a few feet from him. "Hello," she said simply, her tail swishing slowly behind her. "What is your name? I have not seen you before."

Sekhmet stared at him, unblinking. He seemed a bit twitchy, or his tail did at least. She looked him over, keeping half an eye on that tail of his at all times. Was he untrusting of her? She didn't know if that would be a good or a bad thing. But she looked back to his face once his tail had settled itself. She then finally blinked, waiting for him to say something back.

When he did he didn't use many words, unlike most of the mortals she'd come across. "I am Sekhmet. I suppose one could say that I am new here. You are only the second student I have met." Her tail stopped its steady movement behind her and relaxed. Perhaps being antisocial wasn't seen as being odd in all beings. "Have you talked to many others since you arrived?" she asked, slightly slowly and without changing tone.

"I see," Sekhmet said, "I have only met a girl in the hallway. I do not yet have a roommate."

She watched Xyre with much interest, especially his tail. It puzzled her, as it seemed restless while the rest of the boy was calm. Her own tail curled slightly as she studied it.

She was going to wait for him to say something, but by his lack of words she figured that she would have to be the one to keep the conversation going.

"Do you like your roommate?" she asked, her ears moving slightly. "I fear that I may get annoyed with mine if I get one. I am new to this whole mortal thing, and I do not understand all of the ways of the different species here."

Sekhmet raised her eyebrow at the boy's comments about his roommate, but decided not to push the issue further as some of his body parts seemed as if the boy did not control them, and she didn't want anything to try to attack her.

"Yes. I had wanted to know what mortal life was like, so I chose to come here and live it for awhile. I have generally been forgotten amongst the humans, who once worshipped me extensively, so I do not have much to do like I used to. I can only take so much of the other higher beings," she said her eyebrow lowering and her face shifting into an almost annoyed face. "I am hoping to learn a lot about the different mortal races during my stay here. I had wanted to keep my identity secret, but I realized that it would not be possible. I am just trying my best to act as mortals do. It at times proves to be difficult, though at times is fairly simple."

Sekhmet again took the time to observe Xyre, by now quite interested in how the boy worked. He was a lot different than many of the other students, who generally seemed more comfortable and in control of their own bodies. She wondered if he would gain more control if he were more comfortable with his differences? But she could not say for sure, as she had never dealt extensively with altered humans.

"Everyone at the Academy is quite different from the mortals I have dealt with in the past, yes," she finally replied, "But I have not dealt so directly with mortals in many years, things were bound to have changed. I came here because it was the most interesting place I could find to try out mortal life. Most other places are quite boring, full of predictable people. At least here things are interesting, if perhaps not always enjoyable."

Sekhmet would have liked a review of the boy's past, which would be easy if she were not in her current state. It was one of those things that, although it was not all that important, annoyed her that she could no longer do. Perhaps when she returned home she would find out, if she could not do so before.

"It is possible that things will get better," she said, still especially intrigued by Xyre's tail. She watched it as it seemed to be trying to comfort him.

"Yes," Sekhmet replied, "And a good place for learning, too." She nodded once, slowly. She thought that maybe a change of subject might do Xyre some good. "What are you studying here?" she asked, "Which classes are your favorites? I am still trying to decide which classes to take next."

And that was the truth. Sekhmet wasn't sure exactly what classes to take next, though she definitely enjoyed the more creative ones. Mere facts generally bored her, as it took her little effort to retain the information. Creative endeavors took more brain power and were more interesting. Perhaps this boy would know of good classes to take that she would enjoy, or perhaps he would know of fact-based learning that wasn't quite as boring.