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Ame was taken out of the trance almost as soon as she was put in it. She blinked her eyes several times, for she had no idea what had just happened. One minute, she was talking to Bijou, and the next...

She looked down at the large leather book she was holding and realized it was very heavy. She swayed under it, and nearly fell over trying to put it onto the shelf. She stared at the cover, "Combining Magicks" it said.

"What did you do to me Bijou?" she asked curiously. "Did you get the effect you wanted?" She went from one foot to the other, shuffling about like a excited kitten. "Did I really help you Bijou?" her eyes had taken on a glassy, almost trance-like look. She got this way when she was excited about helping people.

Sakura gave Orthae a nervous smile, not sure whether or not to be comfortable yet with the sitaution. She listened intently on what the two of them were saying before answering any of their questions. Putting her hand on top of Raine's, she had noticed a few moments ago that Raine had grasped her hand quite hard and wanted her to loosen up just a little bit.

"My name is Sakura Railey," Sakura said looking from one brother to the other and then motioning towards Raine with her free hand. "This is Raine Starwind. I'm afraid you must have given her quite a surprise shouting like that. She has never been one to particularly like such confrontations."

Raine looked up at Sakura for a moment, then slowly unclasped her hand from Sakura's. "Sorry Sakura," she said softly, running her hand through her hair nervously. "I almost forget sometimes that I have my own temper that I cannot control. Yours was so overwhelming Orthae, I wasn't expecting something like that...especially on my first day here."

Sabrina smiled."Oh yea there pretty cute."Sabrina said as she pulled her hood back to revle her know white cat ears along with her short blue hair.She smiled and looked at him brushing her hair with her fangers."Thanks thow..No one has ever said anything about my ears you know...people just normal stair."Sabrina said as she looked at him and kept a good grip on his hand now after her moved her hand down a bit.

Sakura looked over towards Raine, making sure that she was alright before the two of them decided whether or not they wanted to go out to the courtyard. "Perhaps we should wait a little while until Raine…" Sakura was cut short by Raine's small voice, "No I’d like to go back to the courtyard. It's nice outside, and it’s a perfect place to play around with simple magic spells."

Sakura nodded, "Then that' what we shall do. Verin, Orthae, I hope you two don’t mind if we keep you company. Perhaps there are other things the four of us could talk about while we're there or something."

The two girls stood up, putting their packs on their backs and pushed their chairs in against the table. Fixing her pants, Sakura looked up to make sure everything was in order before she left. She quickly returned the book she had borrowed to the shelf and prepared to leave.

With the green light from the other two, Orthae and Verin got to their feet, stretched their wings, and began walking. They had nothing to carry, they hadn't brought anything to Ria High except the clothes on their back, their miscellaneous items, and their fiddles. But no one except them knew about the fiddles. Sort of a trade secret...Actually, Verin was just embarassed that he knew how to play the fiddle, and it was even more embarassing that he was forced to learn by his own brother. Orthae turned around, walking backwards, and consulted Sakura on something. "Miss Sakura, you seem well prepared, could you answer me a question? Would you happen to know if the school has any upcoming events to display one's talents?" This caught Verin's attention. "Orthae...you're not thinking about—" "Oh yeah. Think about it this way, Verin, at least we won't get disqualified this time." Verin slapped a hand over his face. He knew what Orthae meant by 'talents' and it wasn't showing off what you could do ability-wise...

Orthae opened up the library door and welcomed the cool breeze, thankful it was there after being the library (which was a bit stuffy to him). They began their short trek along the cobblestone path to the gateway of the northern courtyard...

Bijou looked at Ame. "I used your confusion to control you. I wanted to see if I could do it. But now I'm tired. I haven't tried to do it before. And I did get what I wanted." she said. Then she noticed Lancaster watching her. He was giving her a look. Like what happened to him last night. Nothing had changed yet. His hair was a little longer, but nothing noticeable.

"It's ok..." she whispered to him. Then she looked out the window. The sky was just turning a golden color. There was still some blue in there too. She took a dep breath and curled up into her chair a bit more. She would wait for more reactions. She was too tired right now.

Lancaster sighed. He was trapped and there was no where he could go. He couldn't just leave a woman who asked for him to stay. Women and children his weakness and a grave one at that. He sighed as he walked out with Cat blinking several times. 'You'll know in just a few minutes' An internal answer to the question that Cat had asked about the girls hating him. 'Watched the sunset? I live it everynight.' His iner thoughts answering again.

He watched as the sun slow sank lower and lower in the sky. He covered his face with a hand as he sighed. His hair became daker and darker and his eyes became brighter and brighter. As the sun finally fadded from the sky. So did the Lancaster everyone knew. Bijou thought of it best saying that it would seem that his eyes and hair had switched places. His hair was now brushing just against his rump in length and a deep dark blue. His eyes a pericing bright yellow. Not to mention he had another brand new accessory, fangs. His skin was even paler now if that was even possible.

"You've gotta love the sunset eh?" He spoke but...where was that normal warm soothing, mesmerizing voice that was known as Lancaster's. This voice was hard, cold, distant, and mysterious. A bad boy would be the best way to discribe this Lancaster. He did not even seem like th same person. He took his hand away from his face, staring down at Cat blinking slowly with his cold yellow eyes.

He did not even talk the same the blonde Lancaster was very proper and spoke articulately. This one, spoke with slang. Where Blonde Lancaster would say 'Do not' this one would say 'Don't.' Could this man really be called Lancaster? They just seemed too different. No these had to be two different people.

Lancaster looked at Cat and laughed. Even that sounded dark and dangerous. "Heh, sweet 'eart you don't even know the half of it." He grinned wickedly, his eyes flashing danger as he exposed his fangs.

He stuffed his hands into his pockets, his posture straight still but in quite a more threatening mannor. "I assure you if you knew everything you'd be as mixed up as he...I...we are. Hell, there are things even I barely know about myself." He laughed cooly as his eyes trailled back in the library, it was only a matter of time before the other girls would see him. Talk about your make overs.

He looked up at the sky staring at the stars for quiet some time as she talked. Bah this guy was never good at consoling women. He blinked a few times and rubbed the back of his head. "Yeah well do what you want, I can't stop ya."