Today's Assignment: Stay Hidden

[Guardian-Angel]

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Name: Kyle Merrill
Age: 18
Creature:Manticore

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"Lily is a pretty name," Kyle said quietly, smiling to himself. Ace shrugged at his comment. "Oh...um...Ace...aren't you supposed to be my roommate?" he asked, staring at the floor once the question was out of his mouth. He felt stupid to ask, but his fears kept swarming through his mind. What if this wasn't his roommate? What if his roommate was actually some jerk who was going to pick and tease on him the whole year? What if, what if-all of the negative scenarios in his head terrified him.
"So you're the one who has OCD," Ace responded, raising an eyebrow again. Kyle's cheeks reddened in embarrassment and he quickly shook his head.
"I-I don't have OCD, I just...organize things," he sighed and his shoulders slumped, realizing that he had in no way disproved Ace's accusation. He glanced at Mairianne, hoping she wouldn't think he was crazy.

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| Mairianne
| Age: 18
| Mythical Creature: Griffin
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Mairianne shrugged. "I wouldn't mind if Lily was OCD... Oh my goodness, I just realized I know nothing about her!" Mairianne looked thoroughly alarmed, momentarily forgetting the two beside her, putting one hand to her forehead as though fending off a headache, "What if she's totally mean? Which I doubt. Or someone with few morals? Which I also doubt. But she could be!" She flung her hand out in exasperation, speaking animatedly, then chirped softly at the end of her little freak out session, literally chirped, like a bird, sounding quite upset.

[Guardian-Angel]

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Name: Ace Gilbert
Age: 19
Creature: Dragon

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Ace blinked in surprise when she chirped, his cheeks gaining a slight pink tint as he blushed. Why was she so adorable? He quickly regained his composure and said, in an attempt to comfort her, "I'm sure Lily is a nice person. You'll just have to talk to her for yourself and see. Besides, if you had any problems with her, I'm sure the deans wouldn't mind moving her or you to a different room." He bit his lower lip as he thought, wanting to ask her how she had chirped, but not wanting to sound rude. But, curiosity got the best of him and he asked, "How in the world did you make that sound? It was like...a bird."

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| Mairianne
| Age: 18
| Mythical Creature: Griffin
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She blinked, not quite understanding. "What sound? Like a bird?" She looked down at the ground, obviously thinking, her head snapping up once she had replayed what she had heard in her mind, "Oh dear, don't tell me I slipped into Gryphon again." The name of the language only griffins used, "That's a terrible habit I'm trying to get out of," she lightly tapped herself on the head, annoyed with herself, "If I had been talking to humans, that wouldn't have been a good thing to let slip." She glanced around once more, double checking that no one else was around to hear them, though she already knew there wasn't. She pursed her lips, thinking, absentmindedly answering Ace's question, as though it wasn't a big deal, "I'm a griffin, and my first language was of course Gryphon, not English, so I tend to slip, though my parents always chide me..." She snapped out of her thoughts, looking back to them, "Do you guys want to sit down? I think it looks strange for us to just stand here talking." She smiled brightly, "Not that weird, since some humans are doing the exact same thing, but for camouflage purposes." She rolled her eyes jokingly.

[Guardian-Angel]

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Name: Ace Gilbert
Age: 19
Creature: Dragon

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"Sure," Ace nodded, looking around the room for a table to sit at. Off to the side was an empty table where a lot of humans were away from, so he decided that would be a good place to sit. He led the way, Kyle following anxiously. "So you're a griffon," Ace said to himself, recalling the stories his mom had told him. She told him they were prideful creatures with the body of an eagle and a lion, and that they possessed large wings so they could fly. They sounded so amazing, he had always wanted to see one. He looked back at Mairianne, sighing. He couldn't see her true form. "I've always wanted to see, and meet, a griffon," he laughed softly. "I've always seen huge, scaly lizards fly, but never a feathered lion."

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| Mairianne
| Age: 18
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When they had sat down, at the edge of the table, Ace and Kyle on one side and Mairianne on the other, she laid inquisitive eyes on Ace, "Can you not see my form right now?" Ace had only been looking at her face, never at where her griffin self would be if he looked at it, which she found very strange. Then again, his magic aura surprisingly didn't feel that strong, though the air around him obeyed him, swirling around what she assumed was his massive, hidden true form, out of apparent respect, or so her own awareness of air currents told her. All griffins had a decent amount of air-related magic. It was just natural.
She'd known that magic was decreasing over the years in most species, especially dragons, but... that was pretty ridiculous.

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Name: Ace Gilbert
Age: 19
Creature: Dragon

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"Not really, no," Ace shook his head, frowning. "I guess I'm just different. I haven't been able to sense magic that well or see someone's actual forms for a long time." he shrugged, smiling. "I mean, don't you two also have trouble seeing true forms?" He asked. He had never really thought much about not seeing a creature's form instead of just their human form. It had just become a part of his life.
Kyle turned towards him with a confused look. "But...you're a dragon," he spoke quietly, Ace almost missing what he said.

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| Mairianne
| Age: 18
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Mairianne cocked her head to hear Kyle. He's a dragon!? Mairianne literally sat back a little further, awed. Well, that explained why the very air was head over heels in love with him, but made it all the more confusing that he couldn't see her true form. "Y-yeah, I'm just a griffin. We have very little magic ability... It's very strange that you're not able to see us." She bit her lip, eyes widening. She didn't want to hurt his feelings if that really was how he was, but... it was so. sad. Dragons were once as powerful, if not more so than the unicorns he had been in awe of. He should have been able to elicit awe out of her unicorn roommate, not only been swayed by her.

[Guardian-Angel]

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Name: Ace Gilbert
Age: 19
Creature: Dragon

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"Oh, well," Ace awkwardly cleared his throat, suddenly doubting if his lack of magic was normal or not. "Maybe I'm just...deformed? Humans can have abnormalities, so maybe I was jut born as a deformed dragon?" He could feel Kyle's and Mairianne's eyes boring into him, making him uncomfortable.
"I'm defor-I mean, I know someone who's deformed but he's still able to see what a creature actually looks like in human form," Kyle told him, after stuttering over his first few words. Ace bit his bottom lip nervously, his heart racing in fear. Was it really not normal to have difficulties sensing magic in others? Was there something wrong with him?

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| Mairianne
| Age: 18
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Mairianne sensed him getting a bit panicky so she searched for a way to end the conversation. "Maybe you just need to mature a bit. Maybe you just haven't tapped into your power yet." She shrugged, then smiled encouragingly, "Magic's weird like that. But hey, you said you've always wanted to see a griffin, yeah?" She grinned, leaning forward toward them, excited once more. "Kyle, I need your hand," she stated matter of factly, holding out her own hand to him across the table, "and yours, Ace," she smiled at him, her other hand proffered to him over the top of the table. "I can't do this on my own." It was a simple enough spell to make her griffin form visible to them, but still beyond her magic capabilities. She and Kyle alone could have done it, but she wanted to reassure Ace that he wasn't magically useless.