Mítico Criatura Academy discussion

Teacher: Katie.

The classroom is paneled with mahogany wood, and all students sit at desks in rigid backed wooden chairs. Every flat surface is covered with books, and motes of dust swirl through the air.

Lincoln gave Katie a smooth smile as he slid into a desk, eyes rimmed with red from his latest feed.

"Good morning, Sunshine," greeted Katie, pleased by her pun. The red around his eyes really grossed her out, she couldn't imagine sucking another creature's life force. She tried to not let her disgust show.

Lincoln's smile widened. He let his fangs come out. "Don't knock it till you've tried it, fish face"

"So you're a mind reader now?" asked Katie, "That's awfully rude, just sticking your nose in other people's private thoughts."

"I can confuse your mind too, but that would be mean" He thouht about blood, life force being sucked out. His eyes went completely red. Corner to corner. "It isn't my fault, Katie" He says softly.

Katie's gaze softened, "I guess it is a kind of big thing to have thrust upon you. The rest of us grew up with our gifts, but you didn't. And yours is one of the more... unsavory."

Lincoln shrugged. "Thrust upon me... Understatement of the year..." He smiled softly at her.

"How did it happened?" asked Katie, without even thinking that this might be too personal.

"I was in Argentina with my parents, on our ranch there. I just turned 17, so a few friend and I went out for a few drinks... In Buenos Aires" He took a breath "I met a girl there, she looked about my age. We had a few drinks, she led me to a back room, away from my friends. There were four of them, in the room. They held me down, she sat in front of me and gave me two choices. Join them or be killed. I hesitated. She changed it all round. She asked me if I wanted to be powerful, strong, beautiful. I said yes. She... Kinda kissed me, then bit me, it hurt, more than anything else on earth. But then, I started liking it. Wanting to hurt more. I felt better, stronger already. They let me go, saying the 'Ritual' was almost complete. I went out and was inundated by the scent. My friends came up to me, I led them out side, saying I needed air. I killed them, you know, my friends... The rest, as you say is history"

Katie winced at the thought of this, trying to think what it would be like to wake up one morning and not know it, but that was the day that everything about your life would change. And then it dawned on her: Katie and this boy shared the same history, they truly weren't that different after all. She offered him a warm smile.

He smiled warmly back. She thinks out loud. He couldn't help but hear her. "Umm... I swear I didn't mean to hear..." He stumbles over the words, afraid she would get angry at him reading her thoughts.

Skye walked into the room. She saw that weird boy from the forest. "well, well, well. We meet again..."

"I wasn't thinking anything secret," said Katie, much more her normal self than the angry girl he had brought out in her earlier, but she made a mental note to not think about anything weird or embarrassing while he was around, which she knew he probably heard.

Lincoln smiled an nodded at Katie. He heard. He looked at Skye "Well, Skye, if I didn't know any better I would think your following me" He smiled.

"Watch out," Katie warned, "he can hear your thoughts."

"In your dreams, honey. I dont follow. Especially not people like you." Skye sat down and took out her book and started reading.

"People like me, eh?" He smiled at her warmly.

Laura
I laugh as I hear them. "You ever heard of putting up barriers guys?"

"Laura has a point" Lincoln laughs.

((A good Kate Nash song is Birds. Just letting you know... :D))
Laura
"Thanks Linc." I laugh.

Skye looked up from her book. "I bet he's thinking shallow thoughts..." she said.

Cam
I walk in and look around, bored.

Laura
I grin at Skye. "Oh, I know..." ((Are you planning on having Skye be roomies with anyone?))

Katie checked her watch. "It is time to begin. This class is an advanced exploratory seminar in all manners of abnormal life, in hopes that we all learn to respect each other more. We all have our flaws and weaknesses and strengths and gifts. There is both something good and wicked in all of us. This is a place for frank and open discussion, with no judging. None of this goes outside the classroom. Who would like to choose our first conversation topic?"

"How some creatures are wrongly judged" Lincoln brings up a topic that he is very verbal about. He was judged before about being a vampire.

Laura
"Or... How demons are evil." I glare at Cameron.

Cam
"Or how angels are all pussy, and too weak to do anything about us." I snarl at her.

"And this is why we have to do the thing about judging each other..."

"I think we'll go with Lincoln's topic," interjected Katie, really not wanting to break up a fight in her first five minutes of teaching, "Who here feels that they have been judged, negatively OR positively, because of what they are?"

Lincoln raised his hand, an ashamed. "I was"

Laura
"Me."

Cam
"Me." I snort and shoot a pointed look at Laura.

Laura
I smile innocently.

"Me too," Katie said, raising her hand, mostly because she didn't want him to be alone.

((I am roomies with Katie, I think...))

Skye smiled back. "He seems the type."

((ignore last comment))

Skye raised her hand. "me too."

((Oh ok...))
Laura
I lean back in my chair. The front feet off the ground. "Where are you heading with this Katie?"

Lincoln looks at Skye. His eyes narrow a little. "I can't help what I am"

"I'm leading to the fact that we all end up feeling like the weird ones out. Sure, Laura, you have wings and Lincoln drinks human blood and I've spent about eight ninths of my life in the water,but none of us chose to be this way. Does anyone want to go into a little more depth about your kind?" said Katie.

Laura
"Actually... I kinda did choose to be this way. I would never change it." I say just to be difficult.

Cameron
Something like an admiring spark ends up in my eye at what Laura said. It vanishes quickly. "Me too. I'll go into more detail if you wish."

"Okay, Cameron. Let's hear about the trials and tribulations of demonhood. And Laura, this is an open environment but it is supposed to be a positive one." said Katie, turning her gaze to Cam.

"We aren't affected by the sun or garlic. Our eyes go completely red before and just after feeding. And we have fangs. We're immortal and have to be changed by a bite" Lincoln offers, barely scratching the surface.

Laura
I just glare.

Cam
"Our main aim is to take over everything, and kill everyone. But when we have time off we normally come to places like this just to torment angels." I grin evilly.

"Thank you, Lincoln," said Katie gratefully, giving the evil eye to Laura and Cam.

Lincoln let's Cameron finish. "We don't always kill" He says bluntly, loudly. For everyone to hear.

((Francois. Comment on War that Hell Fears and the Footy oval.))
Cameron
I chuckle.

Laura
I grin. "I'll be serious now if you want. I'll tell you about angels."

"Would you mind enlightening the class on your feeding? As long as you're comfortable, no one is going to force you to do anything in this room, but i'm sure we're all very curious," said Katie, thinking that Lincoln was possibly her favorite sentient being in the universe.

"We umm... Kind of lock on to someone. And well, charm them. Flirt and so on... Them we kiss and well, bite, I guess. Although you sometimes lose yourself, it's an odd thought, draining someone's life force for your own..." Lincoln smiles,

Cam/Laura
Since we are two of the oldest creatures in existence we shut up and zone out. Knowing this already.

Skye looked up. This was all very interesting. She felt sorry for these people. All the hardships, all that misconception. She even felt sorry for Lincoln. That was weird.

Shit. She just remembered he could hear thoughts. She quickly tried to cover up her mind.

Lincoln stared at Skye blankly. He heard that. He shrugged and looked at Katie.

Katie smiled sympathetically at Lincoln.