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Igneous stretched, her wings spread wide and her grey arms reaching for the skies. She gave a few slow blinks and looked around her in confusion. Where was she? She looked around her in dismay -this wasn't her dorm room! It looked like - no, it was! -an out of the way grove of trees behind the main building. What was she doing here?

Iggy took a step forward and promptly fell off the small pedestal she had been standing on. Beneath her hands she crushed assorted debris: feathers, pebbles, some shriveled up flowers, bits of colorful paper, a few nuts. It looked like something had been bringing things to her where she had stood. From the looks of it she had been there for quite some time.

"Chip?" Her voice was rough, more gravelly than usual. "Chip, are you here?"
It somehow seemed important that she find her little feathered friend. "Chip!" She was beginning to panic just a little. Chip has been with her as long as she could remember. He wouldn't have abandoned her, would he? She slowly got to her feet and looked around again. She could see students in the distance but not anyone that she immediately recognized.

(This is an open role play to reintroduce my student after a long hiatus. Why she became a frozen statue again after years of life is unknown at this time -the school just tucked her away as decoration until she hopefully awoke again)

Igneous looked up from the scattered bits she had been playing with. While this was someone she had never seen before, the ghoul in front of her was carrying books so she was most likely a student.

"Hi, I'm a little confused is all. I'm Igneous, a student here -at least I think I am. I use to be-I know that!" She started to stand up slowly, not sure if her legs were still gonna work.

"You haven't seen a little grey pigeon around, have you?"she asked almost plaintively. "I called him Chip and he is my friend. I think he may have been the one to put all this stuff here." Gigs gestured towards the colorful debris around her.

"Nice to meet you, too. I don't think you were here when I... well, when I did whatever I did that put me back to statue form." She tried to remember what she had been doing last but her memory was blank. Was it the band competition? No... there was the unfortunate incident with the pink elephants after that. What HAD she done last?

"He's usually somewhere nearby. He really likes to perch on my shoulder." As she spoke her voice became a little smoother - less like two boulders scraping together and more like rounded river rocks sliding against each other. "Chiiiiip!!" she yelled again.

As she looked around again for her little pigeon she took the chance to watch the graceful movement of the ghoul who was helping her. She was almost birdlike as well and Iggy found herself tentatively liking her from that alone.

"And I am sorry if I startled you. Since we don't know why I came to life the first time I guess maybe I am likely to go all statue at random."

"We think maybe I am but no one really knows for sure," Igneous went on to explain her strange history. Just as she was relating her first impressions of the school she heard a chirrup from the tree above her.

She stared upwards but couldn't see through the leafy canopy.

"Chip, is that you?" Another chirrup answered her. "Chip!"

A small grey pigeon hurtled through the leaves and began circling Igneous excitedly. After a few joyous minutes where the two old friends reunited, he settled down and perched on her shoulder, nibbling on her hair.

"Meixiang, meet Chip. He came here with me from the cemetery and has been my closest friend ever since!" The pigeon chirped a welcome.

"It sounds like you have had some adventures here as well. I would love to hear more about them sometime."