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 Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2013 4:00 pm
A dryad stood in front of the bathrooms. She knew why they were there and what they were for, but something just didn't quite make sense to her. Why were they separate?
Locker rooms were separate, too. And dorms, if she remembered correctly. Most animals, unlike most plants, seemed to have only one gender or the other, but Catreena didn't quite understand what the big deal was. Why did they have to be separated? During school, in class, and most other places genders were allowed to mingle - even in the cafeteria - but why not those specific places?
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Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2013 9:29 am
She had been there for a while, hadn't she?
Secretly, Jack couldn't help but watch the strange miss ponder life's mysteries in front of the washrooms, as if uncertain about which one she should go to. It was obvious - from his location, that being a sheila, she should go towards the woman's room, wouldn't it? Less she was expecting a shock for the poor lads who happened to be in there at this time.
Figuring he should lend a hand, he lightly slung his sitar behind him, figuring that playing time was over, and started to slink towards her, heeled shoes clicking on the floor softly.
"I hope you're not expecting the answer to the universe to pop up between the washrooms," he joked with her lightly, glowing eyes smiling to her as he stopped beside her, giving the spot a good look over. "Seems like a wall to me, if anything." Chortling softly, he peered down, becoming a little more serious.
"Can I help you with something, though? You seem lost."
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Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2013 12:16 pm
"Eep!" The girl started badly, giving a small cry of surprise before almost instantaneously reverting to her stiff tree form. That voice! Those glowing eyes! Both had appeared out of nowhere!
A couple of seconds later she had calmed herself enough to realize what had happened and that her defense mechanism was, in this case at least, pointless. Whoever had come up behind her had obviously seen her transform, so why would they be fooled?
Slowly, timidly, she melted back into her more humanoid shape with a humiliated look etched on her bark brown features. The dryad peered meekly up at the boy through her long, green hair, keeping her head low as if she feared meeting his eye. "I-I'm so sorry, I was thinking. I didn't hear you coming," she said, wondering if that was an adequate explanation without saying just what she had been thinking of. Would he have thought her stupid for questioning such a fundamental idea? Then again, maybe he knew the answer.
"U-uh-um..." To ask or not to ask? He seemed like a nice boy; most likely one of her schoolmates. Catreena eventually decided to risk it. He had been sweet enough to offer his assistance, after all. "I was just wondering...do you know why there are two bathrooms? And not...you know, two cafeterias? For the different genders, I mean," she quickly clarified. "It just seemed kind of silly to me."
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Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 6:18 pm
At her initial reaction, Jack stood there for a moment looking a little dumb-founded. He had never truly seen that reaction before. Of course, he also had never actually met a dryad at this time - he had heard of them - but this was literally the first time that he had startled someone so much that she had turned in to some kind of . . . tree. . . girl.
"Forgive me, I am usually the kind to just appear - it's kind of a cat thing, I like to believe." He answered, giving her a dubious face, he took a couple steps back as she calmed herself, looking around to make sure that he had been the one to spook her, before she started talking again, green eyes returning to the green girl, finding her. . . not as leafy this time.
Bathrooms?
"That's a very good question." He answered, tentatively, looking up at the signs a little curiously, eyebrows raising as he scratched his chin lightly, wondering how to answer that, tail swaying lightly. "I guess some people are very sensitive about their genders - I know that some societies are very . . . haughty, whereas some are touchy feely. It's a comfort, I guess?" He offered up finally, looking down to her, blinking lightly.
"Gets confusing when we get gender neutral people here." He mused, smiling.
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Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2013 11:20 am
"O-oh. Yes, felines can be rather quiet, can't they?" she agreed, smiling a little at her foolishness. This young man was quite a contrast to the wolfos boy she had only recently met; he was as black as that ghost had been white, with green accents instead of the other's blue. Perhaps the cat boy's dark coloring had allowed him to blend in with his surroundings better. "Are you a cat in your true form, then?" Ooh, those ears...and that tail...she wanted to touch them.
Reaching for his swaying tail as she listened, Catreena froze when the other student mentioned 'touchy-feely'. "Do some not liked to be touched?" She thought on this a moment, as if it had never occurred to her before. "But bathrooms aren't separated by society, are they...?" That sounded almost stranger than separation by gender. "And I could be wrong, but...there is no touching necessary in bathrooms, is there?" She knew the boy was trying to help, but somehow the dryad felt more confused than ever before.
"Do they look different inside...?" As she had been directed to the girls' bathrooms multiple times before, Catreena decided to check out the boys'. Pushing the door open, she leaned in to peek inside.
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