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"I certainly can. I am not saying it would be easy, but with a little work and the proper encouragement, you certainly could." Anei smiled and nodded," Is it not curious that only Seijin has a full control of her skills? I find that suspicious. Meanwhile, I have worked to get my students control of their cards. It's a fairly complex yet simple project, and if its what you want, we will work to achieve it."

"No more hiding them, no more being scared of them; control and confidence," the teacher leaned a bit closer to Samantha," All it takes is knowing the truth to the cards and finding someone to foster your skills with no fear and only faith in you."

"I started no fire. If you saw, once Tabitha came under my wing I put out the fire she started. The one Seijin could not put out and got burned by," Anei responded calmly, paying only the smallest of glances to the murmur and a small thought of 'perfect.' "The other flares students are not my fault, and I admit what I had to do with Heidi is far from my pride, but the beast is dangerous. Far more than you or I."

The teacher sighed," I have to earn better control of my students, I will be the first to admit. They do still have small slips and errors with their cards, as do I Or anyone for the matter. Even Seijin fails at times. It is not easy specially not for young children as you or Farona. I am sorry to say their small misbehaving is nothing to what would have happened if they had been under Seijin's treatment." She tapped at her wrist idly with a finger," But in the end you will chose to believe the slander she has told you, I am sure. If that is the case, however, I know I tried my best to aid a student."

"Give me a chance to find the control of your abilities, and give you what you lack;" self efficiency, full control, and all of your potential," Anei stated, then smiled again," As a Sign of good spirits, I will show you to Heidi, and even let you both stay together, while we wok both of your skills fully~"

She absently began to fix her tie," And if don't like it, you may leave and go back to Seijin." The teacher raised her eyes to Samantha's ,"Does it sound like a deal?"

"Ah, yes, that is the spirit," Anei smiled encouragingly. "I will show you to the location, she is in a location within in the school, actually, not far from her old room." The teacher stood, moving to walk to the dorm building, stopping long enough to gesture for Samantha to follow her.

She lead them into the main lobby, and taking her staff key, opened the door to what seemed to be the basement floor. The doors opened to not a flight of stairs but another floor in itself, formed of the space that the hallways left in the buildings core.It was truly a square cut out.

There was a small counter in the furthest right corner, with a respectable looking fridge, a portavle skillet, and a water dispenser. It seemed that they were using an old, seemingly refurnished filing cabinet to store dishes, as the tabs on the drawers were jokingly labeled "glasses," "dishes," "silverware," and "Other." They had a small sink, another apparent handicraft from one of the members, as it consisted of a table, cut to fit a tub , all over the single drain in the room. At the side was a tattered couch, and a blonde girl with roundish glasses was sprawled across it, flicking a butterfly knife quite idly, someone who had not been with the allegiance of Anei before. To the right of the couch was a mockingly well organized pile of miscellaneous broken appliances, some with a tag of "Coming Soon" written on yellow post-it notes. There was also a small table in the remaining corner with three chairs, a humble rug at the center and what seemed to be a tv and radio, both apparently just recently repaired, though neither made a noise at the moment.

The dominating feature was between their "kitchen" and "dinner table." Next to the sitting Karine was a trap door. The also blonde girl was leaning with her back to the wall, a set of beautiful crimson bat-like wings with intricate black patters stretched lazily. Her knees were slightly bent, and it was noticeable that she was inspecting the wings and its workings quite curiously. As Karine's ruby eye looked to Samantha, the trapdoor next to her opened, letting Farona's slender visage inside the room. She flicked her hair over her shoulder, which had earned quite a few inches in length over the last week, and smiled at Anei. "I trust that she is still doing well?" Anei asked locking the door behind her.
"Oh yes! It took a bit of my persuasion, but she is eating once more," Farona smiled her enchanting gesture," Tabi is speaking with her right now."
"Good to hear she is more willing to listen now," the teacher nodded,"I see the tv and radio were repaired. Do they work?"
" 'Do they work' " The glassed blond scoffed sitting up and stabbing the knife into the couch. "It was only the circuits that were fried from water damage. I just took a few from the junkyard over there and I was easy." she had nodded to the pile of appliances.
"Most impressive, Ms. Hazumi."
"Speaking of, shorty," Karine pipped,"The delinquent is hard to find, but, on a hunch of Tabi, we looked into the closest she has: Yuuka Kazami, the bio teach."
"Definitely the place to start!" Farona smiled at them.
The students exchanged a few words before Anei cleared her throat. "oh dear, excuse our manners, hello samantha! nice to see you again!" The drama student was first to greet.
"The white hair suits you," karine mumbled enviously, averting her mysterious gaze.
"Yo, glad to see I won't be the only short one." The one called Hazumi responded.

"Aren't we the happy family," Anei laughed,"Make yourself at home! as soon as Tabitha comes up, I will take you down and let you see heidi. Given to her size, we gave her the basement. we keep guard up here, hence our small, humble outpost. Recently she decided to stop eating, hence my looking for you."

"Tsurai is the one who is closest to Heidi's persona," Farona replied, "Just like I am closest to Karine. Believe it or not, some normalcy and stability is actually brought when to card holders have similar personas.... or that is what we have deduced-"
"Well you have to add the card holders bonds," Hazumi was going backto the couch hands in her pockets,"Samantha here has a better chance if calming Heidi than Tabitha, in my opinion anyway."

"The real answer is we are not completely sure, and we are thrilled to have you here so as to try out what is more true,"Karine grumbled, annoyed by her companions," So here Sammy." She nodded to the trap door behind Farona, "Why don't you strut on in, uh? Try to pet her or something, cuse Tabitha hasn't progressed much, so what if these two are wrong? I mean. Maybe Tabitha's card person is a b***h, and Heidi's person hates her? Why don't you tell Tabi to come up here and have lunch herself."
Farona sighed and moved out of the way, "You need to be nicer, Karine."
'Can't help it, sorry," She blushed legitimately embarrassed, stretching her wings as. if that was any sort of evidence.

Farona blinked in surprise down at Samantha, but a second and her smile filled with a knowing smile. "It is like asking 'do we have names?' Samantha, Anei was not joking when she said this was far bigger than you, or I for the matter."
"They were people too." Karine added looking up at the ceiling. Though her face was shadowed by her bangs, it was easy to see her gaze was far past the roof above them, or even the sky.
"They are," Farona smiled almost sadly, hugging herself in the same manner. Her eyes were a honey color for a moment, looking to Anei and Hazumi, who both spoke in the privacy of the couch," I am sure Heidi will explain it to you far better than I could. She is a brilliant girl, you know? And she is very kind." Farona held the door open to the basement. It was easy to see a ladder going down. Past that it was difficult.
"When you get to the bottom of the ladder, there is a hand rail there to lead you down a small flight of stairs. Maybe six steps? Its one big room, no there is no getting lost, alright?" The black haired girl explained with a smile.
"Watch your step. And tell tabs that Anei wants her up here." Karine added

"Best of luck!" She smiled warmly.

"Something of that effect, yes," Farona tried to smile at that, but she allowed Samantha to leave.

"I didn't think Anei would get you to come here," Tabitha came from the side, grumbling as she went to the stairs."Good luck, whatever." If Samantha were to ask anything now would be her chance, for Tabitha stopped on the third step up. "If she starts shaking, or looking a bit bigger than usual, you come up here, and ring this bell right here." She tapped the side of her fist to a bell nearly impossible to see in the dark. "And I mean anything that looks suspicious or that hint at her becoming that beast, got it, shorty?"

After time to adjust the eyed was given, it would look that the floor there was a huge basement. There was stored desks, broken or replaced, that largely obstructed the already limited view but it was easy enough to deduce the "room " was at least as big as the base of the entire building. Pillars held the sediment of the building, large and powerful enough that a certain beast's attacks only cause dents and claw marks. "This place is bigger than it looks, but Hissori is all the way down. Go straight. There is a bed and a desk. The room is kept dark on her request. So watch your step."

"Any questions, comments, concerns?"

"If you aren't careful you will get lost..."

The voice came from behind a pillar, or well, one of the many. "That is a nice lighter...but you should go back, Samantha. While you can." The voice was weak, as if merely suggesting the obvious. "If you turn 180 , you will just walk straight to the stairs..." It appeared that someone, or something was moving between the pillars and the darkness, carefully out of the ligther's way. "Honestly, you are not made to see the way I am, you would be wiser to turn back now."

"What do you even want? What is it now?"