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 Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2015 6:13 pm
 It Takes Two Your world opens up and swallows me…Dmitri’s mind was still on his divination class as he saddled the weight of his backpack onto a shoulder and moved down the university halls. The combination of symbols he had ‘seen’ — if it could be called that — made little sense put together, but given that it was a class and a teacher-approved and facilitated activity seemed to suggest that it ought to have meant something. Unless he had done it horribly wrong. Though he wasn’t especially skilled with magic, the thought of doing poorly at any subject was distressing in its own right. The sound of music winding down the hall, however, pulled his mind off from its current track, and he slowed his pace. It wasn’t a music class, surely, since that was in a separate section of campus. What, then—? On coming upon the class itself, the door open a crack — which explained the volume overall — his question was answered: a dancing session. He ought to have moved on at that, he supposed. He had his own things to do, after all, and another class of his own later in the day. Something gave him pause, though, between the music and the rhythm of their current exercise, and he found himself listening and watching instead — picking out chord progressions, key, and instrumentation while he studied the choreography. When the song ended, he did prepare to pull away—but then he spotted Tyas, and from the way the students were mulling about and the instructions their professor was giving, it seemed the class had ended.
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Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2015 6:42 pm
Tyas let out a small huff of breath as she gathered up her things and said her goodbyes to a few classmates. The dancing class was hard work but then Tya had expected as much. This wasn’t some ammature, little kid deal. This was the real thing. She was training to be a professional dancer. She closed her eyes and let that settle in for a moment, savoring the feel of actually being here and working towards her dream. She jumped, jerked back to reality, when she felt a hand on her shoulder.
“Heya, Ty. Great class today, hm?”
Tya shrugged the guy’s hand off and picked her water bottle up. “Don’t call me that. My name is Tyas. Or if you must shorten it, Tya. Please.” She took a sip from her water, delaying the inevitable. From the first day of class, the male geist had been trying to get closer to her. Normally Tya would have been all for getting to know someone — she loved making new friends — but this guy gave her a weird vibe. He was too pushy — even for her. So each day she tried to slip out of class before he had a chance to pester her.
“Aww, c’mon. It’s just a nickname.” As Tyas’ lips thinned, he backed off slightly. “Ok, ok. Jeez.” He raised an eyebrow and looked her up and down. “Wanna go grab something to eat with me today?”
Tya felt her body shudder at his look and she shook her head in response to his question. “Not today Loris. I...I have...plans….” She frowned, knowing that it was a lie and not being a good liar at all. As she looked anywhere but at the nightmare in front of her, Tyas happened to glance towards the exit. Her face instantly lit up when she saw Dmitri peaking through the door. She pushed past Loris, waving at her roommate and calling out his name. “Dmitri, there you are. You didn’t forget.” Tya only hoped that he would go along with her ruse.
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Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2015 7:23 pm
Dmitri expected to catch her on the way out, perhaps. Explain he’d been watching only a moment due to catching the tail end of it after getting out of his own class early, and so on—
Except that, before any of his own explanations came to be, she was coming for him, waving him down and calling him in. ‘Remember…?’ He opened his mouth, confused for a moment and fully ready to ask—but then, the combined factors of several things clicked into place: Tyas’ look in particular, as though begging him to catch something, the disappointment or frustration in the look of the geist who had been near to her a moment before, and the body language and exchange between the two of them just prior to her approach.
Arching his eyebrows just a fraction of an inch, Dmi tilted his head. “Of course not,” he said easily. “It’s a good thing your class ends when it does, or we’d be late. Are you ready to go, or would you like to head back to the dorm to clean up first?”
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Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2015 7:31 pm
Tyas felt relief wash through her as Dmi seemingly caught on that she needed his help out ofthe situation she was currently in. She smiled at him, mouthed a ‘thank you’ and turned towards Loris. “Sorry, Loris, but I already have plans.” She waved at him. “See you next class.” She turned back to Dmi and tucked her arm around his. “I’m ready to go.” She didn’t relax or breathe out until they had exited the classroom and away from prying eyes. She huffed and let her arm slip out from around Dmitri’s.
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Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2015 7:54 pm
Dmitri observed in silence, eyebrows still half arched, but she waved to her ‘classmate’, he ventured an extra smile and a slight nod of a bow. He only just managed to not look openly surprised when she slipped her arm around his. Instead, he moved with her, walking until she seemed to breathe again—and pull away. He tilted his head, eyeing her curiously.
“So,” he said after a pause, “you’ll have to remind me again what this grand and immediately pressing excursion is that we’re going on—or is this the point where we decide ourselves? A theatre showing, perhaps? Or a local music venue…did you know Black Magic is in town and has a show coming up? Though I think I might rather have my ears bled out slowly than listen to their lead give another demonstration of what they consider to be ‘singing’…”
He ventured an assessing glance to her, and then back towards the dancing classroom. He was curious, of course, but also uncertain if it was appropriate to ask about the ‘Loris’ character, who at least seemed to be expressing fairly direct interest in his roommate.
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Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2015 7:59 pm
Tyas eyed Dmitri as he spoke and stuck her tongue out at him when he was finished. She couldn’t help but laugh and shake her head. “We don’t have to go anywhere if you don’t want to. I just had to get away from him.” She ran a hand through her hair, fluffing it out away from her face and stretched her wings out. “Though, now that you mention it, a show would be nice. It’s been ages since I’ve went and seen anything.” Tya raised an eyebrow, a small smile curling up the corner of her lips. “Shall we, then?”
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Posted: Mon Dec 14, 2015 10:52 am
Dmitri eyed his company — the flick of her hair and stretch-flit of her wings — and wondered, not for the first time, what fey body language entailed. At least most of it was self explanatory. He hummed, the corner of his lip twitching faintly up with amusement.
“I have another class in two hours,” he said, “but if we were both quick and lucky, I suppose we might catch something worth seeing. I take it you are feeling like a gambling woman this morning? And if so, you’ll have to let me fetch my wallet. Unfortunately I go to class woefully unprepared for spontaneous outings with apparently overly eligible fey girls.”
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Posted: Mon Dec 14, 2015 11:10 am
Tyas snorted and laughed at Dmitri’s last comment and waved her hand at him. “Not overly eligible. I’d just rather not go on a date with a creep like Loris.” Her smile faded some and she shook her head. “I don’t usually dislike people but he gives off weird vibes and I never feel one hundred percent comfortable around him. It’s not so bad if others are around. But…” She shrugged. “Enough about him, though. We should get moving if we’re gonna make the show before your class.”
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Posted: Mon Dec 14, 2015 11:23 am
“No?” Dmi said. “I thought that I had read somewhere that the more colors a fey sported in their wings, the more suitors they were likely to have chasing them about. Then again…I don’t suppose that would necessarily apply to geists.”
His lashes flicked low for a moment, almost a squint before he dusted the thought away. Geists were certainly not, in his personal opinion or experience, the most trustworthy sort to begin with, but he didn’t suppose that needed extrapolation. Instead, he nodded without further comment, consenting to let talk of her classmate drop for the time being and slipping in instead when they arrived at their dorm in order to pick up necessities.
It didn’t take long to get to the local theatre after, but the difficulty with spontaneity, of course — something he was generally not used to, being a planner for the most part — was that, especially with movie showings, a random visit limited one’s options. Severely.
“Daylight, Part Two: Breaking Dusk,” he said, voicing the title warily, as though it pained him even to speak it aloud. “It’s the only thing starting within the next fifteen minutes. How fond are you of quietly mocking a show beneath your breath with someone and laughing at inappropriate intervals when the moment is supposed to be dramatic but comes off painfully cheesey? I’ll pay for candy.”
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Posted: Mon Dec 14, 2015 11:41 am
Tyas opened her mouth to comment on what Dmi said but quickly closed it. She watched as he slipped into the dorm and crossed her arms. He seemed to know an awful lot about fey life and culture — he had apparently done his reading at some point. Tya didn’t mind it. She just had not expected it down in Below. It was true, what he had said about colors. Back home her colors would have attracted many different feys. Down in Below, though, she didn’t have to worry about that as much. Though, apparently, that didn’t mean she wouldn’t have to deal with idiots still.
When Dmi came back out of the dorm, she smiled and moved next to him as they made their way to the theater. She raised an eyebrow and tilted her head at the movie choice. She’d not even seen part one of the two part movie. The series had been a hit in Above as well and she’d gone to see the first movie in a long run of films to come. It had been a disappointment, to her, though and she’d not been able to jump onto the bandwagon as her friends had. “Sounds like a plan,” Tya said as she grinned and moved past him and into the theater.
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Posted: Mon Dec 14, 2015 12:12 pm
The movie did not disappoint.
Or, rather, it was so grossly ‘disappointing’ that it filled exactly the role Dmitri anticipated it would. Despite its popularity, he had never been able to personally stomach the series all that well, and managed thus far to avoid actually participating in it—other than what he knew of it by reference and pop culture. Still, having a like-minded individual to bear through it with improved the process greatly, and candy had never tasted sweeter.
They made it out with their minds intact, and with just enough time to catch a return ride to campus before his next class. It wasn’t until they reached the public transit stop, however, and were waiting at its terminal, that another thought occurred to him in regards to the earlier morning experience. He debated a moment before voicing it.
“If it is, as you said, ‘easier’ to deal with your friend when others are around, I could make a habit of stopping by your dancing class after divination. It is on my way, regardless, and it would save you from making up excuses each day.”
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Posted: Mon Dec 14, 2015 12:28 pm
Tyas blinked, completely surprised by the offer, currently on the table, from Dmi. She’d been extremely thankful for him being there at the right time but hadn’t expected this kind of offer. She chewed on her bottom lip, debating. On one hand she didn’t want to inconvenience him. But on the other...he was offering. She glanced towards him, a small tilt to her head. “If it’s not out of your way or causes you any trouble...I’d love that.”
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Posted: Mon Dec 14, 2015 12:58 pm
“Certainly,” Dmi said. “I passed your classroom on accident on my way back to the dorms and only due to the music noticed that you were there at all. It wouldn’t be any extra trouble. You may eventually need more of an explanation than my mere presence, but…” His lips gave a small twitch, “…I’ll leave that for you to decide if the time comes.”
And so, it was settled. It truly didn’t inconvenience him in the least, and meant that each morning, after a whimsical session of one sort or another with his divination professor, he would spend the next minutes listening to the tail end of whatever song was being performed to in Tyas’ classroom and watching the choreography to accompany it. It became routine with ease, and a simple excuse to catch lunch with her on most days, if not always anything as spontaneous as a mid-day theatre showing.
Nonetheless, it was an easy habit to keep.
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Posted: Sun Dec 20, 2015 3:17 pm
oops, I posted that reply in the wrong RP
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