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Bix was studying. HARD.

Ever since they'd come back from their first undercover mission to Halloween, Bix had been lurking around the library. He was loitering in the section with information on monsters, demons and miscellaneous Halloween species. Most of the books were pretty standard but he was determined to learn all about the species he'd encountered. He'd always liked that sort of thing.. especially when it came to D&D or Lord of the Rings. He'd had a book called 'The Tolkien Bestiary' back when he lived home. It was his favorite as a kid and he now regretted it being stuffed in a corner under his bed because it totally escaped his mind when he'd packed to come to Deus.

What he wasn't good at was staying in the library. It was much too quiet and there were alot of people in white coats and gold scarves who were shooting him dirty looks because he had a hard time staying still in his chair. Bix, instead of hanging around, checked the books out (actually he tried to steal them until someone pointed out it was a LIBRARY and you could borrow them) and went out onto the grounds to read.

He walked along the trimmed lawn and looked up at the never-quite-blue sky. At least the breeze here was nice and always sort of smelled like the ocean. He headed towards the farthest edge of the lawn where the mist just started to gather heavily. He hadn't quite gotten the balls to just go out into the mist for fun or training. Instead he hung around the edges and let the mist play tricks on his eyes if he stared too long. Bix found a tree, none in particular, and plopped himself down with a few books. One of the books was a text book but the rest were comics.

Thankfully his weapon was taking a break. He wasn't sure if they slept but every once in a while he received a nice calm, a time where she didn't interject her two-cents.

Bix was actually in the process of putting a comic book INTO the center of the text book and reading that instead. He glanced around guiltily and spotted Tika, which was enough to snap the larger book shut hastily.

"Hey Tika!" He'd briefly hung out with the girl on their mission and he seemed to think that his friend Before was into her. Of course that was reason enough to talk to her. He waved his hand for her to come over. As per usual he was analyzing her as a 'chick' and would be mentally scrutinizing her on behalf of his best bro, Before.

"Just uh. studying." He shook the text book but the comic book slid out from the middle. "Studying hard."

Of course Tika, not knowing Bix very well, had no idea that once the introduction phase of the relationship had been passed and once the young man deemed you okay enough, you would probably be getting full force Bix all the time. Bix at his finest was talkative, odd and rather eager.

He shifted position, tucking his feet underneath himself, as he turned more directly to talk to Tika. "Library is really stuffy. Too quite and I have a hard time sitting school. You know back in grade school I used to get in trouble for 'sitting wrong' in my chair?" Weird stupid fact.

"I don't mind." He didn't let slip that his studying had been interspersed with comic reading. "What book did you get? I have something on folk monsters of the US.. it's pretty cool. Do you think there's a Jersey Devil in that Halloween place?" If Tika wanted to get away he didn't seem to notice. He was pretty happy with the company.

Bix also snickered at the title of her book. "Don't learn too much from that book. You think there's pictures?!" Typical guy....

"I totally made up a whole bunch of crap about yetis when I was there. No one seemed to notice. I guess the cultural stuff only matters if you come across something of the same species. I'd hate to bow to someone and find out we were engaged or something crazy." He'd also not been prepared for being a yeti and especially not a FEMALE one. He did alright though, in his opinion.

"So what did you think of it over there?" He leaned forward now, his voice dropped to a whisper as if instructors were hiding in the trees waiting to hear their REAL opinions. "Kinda caught me off guard how NORMAL some stuff was."

"Well I meant.. not normal." Bix rocked back on his butt a little and put his hands down in the grass behind him to prop himself up. "But I wasn't expecting to see booths for student council elections. I also met a 3 reapers.. yeah that's what they are called.. and they looked like normal kids. They dressed funny but kind of like us, they summoned weapons for themselves. One guy had this guitar-scythe thing and one guy had a wicked magic book.. it was like world of warcraft book or something."

Bix made a face though as if he was thinking. "But.. they will all be trying to kill us at some point." He nodded to this definite fact. "Even the ones who might seem 'sweet'." The weird undead girl, Amrita, didn't seem at all like a killer. If she hadn't been a zombie monster he'd have thought she was just any sweet girl.

"I reeeaaaally need to learn how to talk like a Halloween person though.." he let out a sudden laugh. "Ghoul? Boil? I dunno whats supposed to sound normal and whats supposed to have some weird name."

"Oh my god.. speaking of cheap laughs. How about that dou.. err.. guy Robert ? In the undead gnome thing? Flying all over the place?" Bix clearly didn't like the guy. He had no reason actually. He just looked at him and instantly disliked him. He was so amused to see him booted, thrown and punted all over the mission.

Bix adjusted his posture again. He untucked his legs, spread them out and stretched. He'd already sat in several different position since Tika walked up minuted ago. It was no wonder his school teachers would be annoyed. Could you imagine that for 8 hours?

"I hope they do some instructional courses.." He didn't mind homework and it would keep them busy, keep them thinking. "There's just too much information. Did you know one of the kids in Halloween told me that they went on a trip to Christmas Town?"

Bix couldn't let that go for some reason. Christmas Town, he imagined, WOULD BE AWESOME.

"Robert is the big guy.. he's got red in his hair and he's always arguing with his girlfriend?" Bix snorted derisively. "He's got.. like.. muscles and stuff? EH. Doesn't matter. He was a gnome during the mission and people were just kicking and throwing him around. Apparently that's okay in Halloween." Bix snickered. That could be useful in the future.. gnomes were completely disrespected.

"Santa... could be REAL." Bix got starry eyes a bit. It was easy to believe that Santa wasn't real. That was kids stuff... but what if everything adults told you was completely wrong? He was learning day by day that the things that went bump in the night were completely real. Maybe the good things were too?

"I wonder if the Easter Bunny is real? I mean that seems kinda ridiculous. Giant bunny giving out eggs?" He shook his head and tugged on his bangs a bit. "It's kind of overwhelming. How did all of this stuff come to be?" Weren't holidays created by people.. for celebration purposes?

Bix shifted slightly away from the tree he was leaning against and flopped onto his back. He looked up at the sky but it was a consistent grey-ish blue and every once in a while a tendril of trippy mist would loop out from the mass that covered the island. His studying seemed to be momentarily forgotten. He moved with antsy motions, someone who couldn't sit still for more than a few minutes. He rolled back over onto his stomach with a dramatic sigh and put his hands under his head.

"Soo... I'm gonna be all invasive and stuff.. Why are you here?" He flashed a grin, hoping she'd open up on their first meeting. He was an open book of course and even if he'd try to lie he would certainly fail. His open nature seemed to be obvious in the easiness he conversed.