In The Next Life (Me, Wormy and Were!)

[Moonlit Dream]

((Okay!))

Alex nodded and followed Chimere, rather reluctantly, as she took his hand and started quite literally dragging him in the right direction, and Alex briefly wondered how she knew the way as he reluctantly trotted along behind her. "Y-yeah," he responded to her statement as he tried to keep up with her. "Really don't, like... Wanna be late either... Really..." he laughed nervously, then added a second later; "You seem... Eager about this...?"

Turning to wait for Annika and Inle for a second, Lance grinned at them broadly as he saw that they were following, tilting his head to one side as he saw that they didn't seem very pleased to be swimming in next lesson; well, not as much as Lance, anyway. Giving a throaty rumble, he looked confusedly at them, burning grey eyes sparkling. "What's wrong?" he asked curiously, still walking as he spoke, mostly just following the other class members who seemed to be going the same way as them. "No problems, I hope?"

((And, Wormy, just so you know; if Javed misses next lesson, he'll be missing a great opportunity to make Alex's life a living hell later on. XD))

[Wormgod]

((Sorry, but there is no way in oblivion that Javed will ever come back to the class. He's just not the type. The only way he can rejoin the RP is for the characters to have the same dorm, where he is currently moping/plotting death to all.)) ((EDIT: No, Weredrakka. Why would he know about her in a bikini when he is busy worshiping himself in his dorm room? He's not coming out for sh**.))

Annika looked down, away from Lance's prying gaze. She shrugged with her hands in her pockets, thinking about the possibilities. It could be a three-foot deep pool, if this school has had too many drownings. It could be an insanely expensive, fun-filled pool like at the Y, but she seriously doubted that. It could be a simple ten-foot deep pool with black crap on the bottom and no heater, like her old school. At least they didn't force a swimming class, like here.

"Nothing." She signed, "Just thinking."

[miraphoenix]

((Dangit.... Not even for Chimere in a bikini? XD))

"'Course I am! I don't get very many chances to swim, and I rather enjoy swimming!" Chimere replied with a grin, eyes sparkling. "Oh, come on, Alex! You've got to like some aspect of swimming; at least a flirt like you would like the whole 'girls in revealing swimsuits' piece of it!" she said in a softer voice, noticing his reluctance to walk to the pool.

"No, there's nothing particularly wrong, Lance," Inle murmured, sounding strangely distant, like her mind was a million miles away. "I just don't like to swim for fun, that's all....." Deep brown eyes swirling, she looked up at the boy, a strange and disconcertingly empty look was in her eyes; it was as if she was seeing something beyond what the other two could. "Rabbits don't swim for fun...."

[Moonlit Dream]

((Sorry...I know Alex would... But then again, he'd flirt to death any girl in a bikini, so... XD))

Alex swallowed a little, then forced a laugh. "Haha... Good for you..." he said with a fake grin, still being rather pale. It didn't take enhanced senses to smell the chlorine now, and Alex could see a door painted blue up ahead, and he felt his stomach drop, barely comprehending what Chimere was saying now. "G-girls in revealing swimsuits? H-hehe, I guess I'd like that..." he said, the first genuine positive thing about swimming that Alex could remember saying.

Lance nodded a little at Annika's signs, only half understanding; but it was enough for him to get the general gist of what she was trying to say. Turning to Inle, he blinked at how distant she seemed all of a sudden. "Aam?" he asked curiously, listening to her speak. "Well, I wouldn't think so..." he shrugged a little, folding his arms and using hooked talons to scratch absentmindedly his forearms, where the flame-like markings were. "Not exactly a fish myself, krosis, but I still try my best, and I get along."

((Do either of you guys want any heart tattoos for your pets? (Minus the small black, red and pink ones) I have hundreds of the things...))

[Wormgod]

((Hmmm....Sure, why not?

Once I get Javed out of his damn shell, he will... ))

Annika chuckled when Lance started using his funny words again. Aam, krosis...She got the gist, but it was pretty clear he had no idea he was saying those things, "You're doing it again." She teased, glad there was something to distract her from her nervous-excitement.

[miraphoenix]

((I'll take some, if you want to get rid of them.))

"Oh, come on! I'm going to be one of them!" Chimere said with a grin, poking Alex in the side with a finger. Seeing the door up ahead, she slowed down to match Alex's pace, almost stopping before the door. "Ready to go in? We're not late yet, and they probably won't make you swim too much on your first day...." she murmured, stepping closer to Alex.

"Lance, you're speaking in other languages again," Inle reminded, her voice still distant, the edges of her form seeming to occasionally flicker as if they were made of mist. "Oh. There's the pool door, up ahead..." she murmured, head tilted at a slight angle, her eyes looking almost red.

[Moonlit Dream]

((Alright! How many? Which ones? Of the ones you get two of, I have 19-20 each. Of the ones that you only get one, I have 10.))

Alex perked up a little more at that despite his nerves wanting him to turn around and flee at the mere thought of swimming in something that was any higher than his waist. Even if it were less, Alex still didn't like getting wet, and he remembered reading somewhere that it was possible to drown in thirty centimetres of water. Not an encouraging thought to him, needless to say. "Um, you are?" he asked, trying to imagine Chimere in a revealing swimsuit and ending up blushing, but grinning madly at the same time. At least it distracted him from thoughts of drowning. He nodded nervously at her question, but looked as though he felt a little better as she said that they probably wouldn't make him swim too much on his first day. "I sure hope not..." he murmured, before pulling open the door and checking that Chimere was coming, then stepping through.

Lance blinked curiously as he saw Annika's signing, and then turned to Inle as she spoke to him. "I am? Kro-" He cut himself off, for once realizing the word he was about to say now that he was aware of it. He grinned apologetically at them both, blinking slowly. "I mean- Innumerable apologies." Turning as Inle pointed out the pool door, Lance watched that girl who had jostled him before and the strange blonde-haired boy entering, the boy obviously rather reluctant. Striding rather awkwardly forwards, as though he wasn't used to using his legs, with a draconian grin on his face, Lance turned to wait for Inle and Annika, the impatience shown in his stance, so eager to get forward was he.

[Wormgod]

Annika chuckled to herself when Lance almost spoke another word, "Maybe you should take the "English as a Second Language" class." She joked, then looked over at the green girl and the blonde boy. She was sure there was someone else in their group, but if there ever was, he or she was gone now. That was comforting. The girl was scary enough.

[miraphoenix]

((Don't mind which ones!))

Walking in behind Alex, Chimere nodded to the other group, catching the eye of the strange boy she had jostled earlier, a little bit sorry for her rough treatment. Noticing the other two quiet girls with him, she walked through the doorway, taking a good long look at the pool. It was an Olympic-sized affair, and was remarkably clean for a school pool, several students already in the water or lounging around on the pool deck. There was a mer-shark in the water, chasing after a selkie playfully, and other oceanic creatures were already in the water.

Smiling at Annika's joke, Inle didn't feel particularly inclined to enter the water, content to hang back behind Lance. She didn't particularly enjoy swimming...

[Moonlit Dream]

Alex looked at the swimming pool with thinly disguised terror, hoping that it looked like he was merely fascinated, but knowing that that wasn't likely. Jolting back as he saw the creatures already in the water, he looked up at Chimere and then mumbled an excuse of "Ah... I'm gonna, like, go get changed..." and then turned and scurried off into the boys' changing room. At least that would buy him a few minutes if he wanted to, or if he got changed really, really slowly... Shaking as he removed his clothes and pulled on a pair of pink, flowery swimming trunks that he'd never actually used before this, he used his arms in an effort to hide the scar that marked his stomach and chest to see if he could, but it was a little severe to hide completely. Growling under his breath in annoyance, Alex wondered if he'd be able to get a lifejacket of some sort, or maybe something to keep him warm in the water. Walking out of the changing room all too soon, he tried to cover the scar with his arms and look natural at the same time, but obviously wasn't very successful.

Lance gave a draconian grin as he looked at Annika. "That might help..." he joked with an amused rumble. "But I have a sneaking suspicion that they'd only end up in unslaad krosis, if they even try." He poked his tongue out at them as he said the last words, deliberately using the other-language equivalent this time. "I'd write the end assessment in runes, you know, just for the heck of it. Reason no. one of why I am here. Falling grades because the teachers couldn't understand my zul. That was their problem, not mine," he added, with a stereotypical couldn't-care-less kind of shrug and grin. Pushing through the door, Lance drew in the scent of the chlorine and raised an eyebrow in barely disguised surprise as he saw the creatures in the water. "...Vanmindoraan..."

Keegan padded slowly up towards his next lesson; swimming. After a rather unsuccessful, or so he thought, attempt to get that boy, Javed, to leave his dorm, Keegan had decided that he'd be fine on his own there, and so had left in his own time. Keegan's footsteps making barely a noise on the floor of the corridor, he went by his own sense of direction and by things that he'd seen when he'd first came. Pushing through the door, he didn't seem surprised at, or didn't notice, the rather strange creatures that swam through the water.