Today's Assignment: Stay Hidden

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| Lily
| Age: 18
| Mythical Creature: Unicorn
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Lily brushed off food for now, preferring to meet her roommate. Henry looked a bit alarmed when she went off with Ace, but she smiled to tell him it was fine. He didn't look entirely convinced, but then again, neither was she. She had to be incredibly skeptical now, or else risk danger, and the fact that Ace was so insistent upon introducing her to her roommate as to forget that she had been in line to get food... Usually she wouldn't have cared, but... she was hungry. And she would have preferred to meet her roommate later, when she could handle it better. Then he started asking her questions about her unicorn-ness, which, again, she wouldn't have minded before, but...
"I only found out I was a unicorn today," then let her sadness on the subject show through, saying nothing more. She didn't want to mention her parents and put them in danger, but more importantly she didn't want to talk about it anyway. Her being discovered was extremely dangerous. Actually, she just barely restrained herself from crying again. Suddenly she really didn't want to meet her roommate, or talk to this nice young man, or do anything but go home and hide and cry, leave this entire place far, far behind, forget about college, forget about magic, forget about it all. But instead she bit down hard on her lip and just made nice to a complete stranger to go meet another complete stranger with more questions to tear her apart with.

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| Mairianne
| Age: 18
| Mythical Creature: Griffin
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She couldn't help laughing in reply to his small happiness. She hadn't really been prepared for his thanks, so it was delightfully surprising. "It's fine, but I'll need your student ID," then it was their turn to order. Mairianne completely ordered her own food, then told them Kyle's order, turning to him to retrieve his ID.

[Guardian-Angel]

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Name: Ace Gilbert
Age: 19
Creature: Dragon

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Ace gave her a sympathetic look. "That must be hard, to just find out that your not actually a human but a unicorn...I'm sorry," he said, although he was a little confused as to how she had not known she was a unicorn. "I know this isn't much, but if you ever need help with anything, whether it's with homework or trying to understand something about us mythical creatures, I can try my best to help you." He lightly placed his hand on her shoulder in a friendly way, although he was a little hesitant, unsure if physical contact would make her uncomfortable or not. "I promise that I'll do everything I can to make sure you enjoy yourself here and don't have problems with anyone." He looked her straight in the eyes, for once being completely serious. While he couldn't exactly relate to her, he knew she would need some friends or, at the very least, someone her age that could guide her through the monster world.

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Name: Kyle Merrill
Age: 18
Creature:Manticore

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Kyle handed Mairianne his ID, looking up at her with admiration. She was really nice. Some of his previous friends would have made fun of him instead of helping, but she helped him without even questioning why he couldn't do it himself. "Thank you," he told her again. He heard what sounded like Ace's voice, so he turned around to see Ace talking to a girl. He frowned, looking at the unicorn and realizing it was Lily. "Do they know each other? He's standing awfully close to her," he mumbled.

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| Lily
| Age: 18
| Mythical Creature: Unicorn
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Lily was overcome by his sincerity first, hearing his words, and then. everything. Grand must have known to block himself, known how, or it came naturally, or it could have been a special case for Ace.
Ace... well, she learned pretty much everything she could ever know about him in that single moment, flying, his family, his concerns, his worries, anything he had thought about or felt or alluded to in what seemed to be the past hour or so. Her eyes had glazed over the moment he touched her, as his words and sincerity burned into her, then a thousand memories slammed into her mind in a few seconds, and once the transfer was apparently over, released her from his hold; she staggered backward into a table, catching herself just barely, gasping, her head throbbing like it was going to explode. She shut her eyes against the pain, white sparks of light dancing before them, trying to shut out memories and thoughts not her own. Her magic that she had spiked up into the air came crashing down upon her, surrounding Ace as well, showing her what it had been sensing and trying to alert her to since they began speaking. Her eyes flashed open to fixate on him; an evilness, something against nature and wrong, clung inside him, draining power from his very lifeforce with an urgency and speed which she knew from sucking lifeforce earlier, would kill him, likely in weeks, if not less.

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| Mairianne
| Age: 18
| Mythical Creature: Griffin
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Mairianne smiled more brightly under his thanks, gladly accepting his admiring looks, as she finished his order. She turned to where Kyle was looking, just as surprised to see Lily and Ace speaking. "Strange..." And then Lily fell back at Ace's gentle touch to the shoulder, and Mairianne's jaw literally fell open. "What on earth...?" She asked in a dumbstruck tone.

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Name: Ace Gilbert
Age: 19
Creature: Dragon

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"Are-are you-" Ace struggled to talk, confused and overwhelmed. They had been talking when all of the sudden she had backed away like something awful had happened. What really threw him off was her magic spontaneously surrounding him, making it difficult to think clearly. "Are you okay?" he finally gasped out, trying to fight against her magic, trying to stay in control of his thoughts and emotions. But, in actuality, he wanted to give in to it. Just like before, he wanted to let go of everything and let her magic tell him how to feel.
A sharp pain in his neck brought him back. He focused on the pain, although it did worry him, and slowly made his way towards Lily. "What happened? Did I...do something?" He asked, making sure he didn't get close enough to touch her.

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Name: Kyle Merrill
Age: 18
Creature:Manticore

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Kyle's eyes widened, confused as to what happened. It almost looked like Lily had been pushed back, but Ace had only lightly touched her. "He didn't push her, right...?" he asked, trembling in fear. Instinctively, he darted behind Mairianne and tried to hide behind her, scared that Lily and Ace were actually fighting each other. After all, unicorns and dragons in the past hadn't liked each other.

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| Lily
| Age: 18
| Mythical Creature: Unicorn
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Henry was beside her soon, and she just let her thoughts wash over him so he wouldn't harm Ace. Ace had done nothing wrong. Henry helped her up, able to touch her just fine, which led her to believe that it was Ace, and specifically the unnatural, thing, that clung to him. "A-ace." She swallowed the bile rising in her throat, not entirely sure what to do about the unnatural thing, just knowing she had to, and soon, now maybe, but that thing was dangerous. She walked closer to him. The thing was more terrible than Henry. Her sympathy showed on her face, and she had a terrible urge to touch him again, but the thought was also frightening and she didn't know what it would do. She turned to Henry and thought all her questions at him, including the thing, since it was far faster than speaking.
Henry's concerned look turned to one of almost fear and complete seriousness. He looked around the cafeteria, catching all the looks all around, and carefully walked to them both, he gripped both of their arms and led them off to the room Lily had been in before. If Henry was scared. This was serious.

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| Mairianne
| Age: 18
| Mythical Creature: Griffin
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Mairianne squinted at the scene before her as she sought to understand it. She absentmindedly covered Kyle, "He didn't push her. It looks like..." she shook her head, not quite understanding, but guessing, "it's, magic, but, not angry, not fighting." Then Lily seemed to recover and seemed very... sad, and approached Ace, looking concerned. And Mairianne was even more confused. "Something's wrong. But it's not between them." She shook her head again.