Lulu mouthed the word "Orias V" but said nothing aloud. She was ridiculously out of her element with all of this-despite knowing that this place was home to her. "He wasn't an animal...though, animals were part of him too. He was...he..." She shrugged. "I'll be honest, I never knew him particularly well. My mother says he comes to her-those few times he does, as a man with spectacular antlers, huge, and majestic...but the rest of him was very much a man." She spoke this unflinchingly, and unashamed-despite the implications of what very much a man meant. Her free hand, hat in it's grasp gesturely tall and wide to describe the antlers.
"I think he can change forms though. Aulalie has met him more than me...though she doesn't talk about those moments much. I think she blames him for things...I don't know." Lulu shrugged. "I never saw him as much of anything, so I don't understand her angst about it." With a practiced movement, the hat was back on, covering the antlers. "Whether they suit me or not...for now at least, I'll try and keep them out of sight. While there may be more like me...I'd rather be patient, and just see what happens with others here. You strike me as trustworthy, and you've said what burdens you, so I feel alright telling you about my father." Despite the seemingly offhand, and flat way she spoke this, it was very genuine, and spoken like a fact.
"You didn't seem like a bully to me, so I figured it was something like that." A grin flashed across her face. "You should try fighting other things. Strength and size are there for sure, but a fast, small target is harder to hit, and can manuever around you easier. Not that I'm a fighter, but I imagine fighting all kinds is how you get truly strong...right?"
"That depends entirely on different ways of how time, and time travel could work. What you suggest is something of a Schrodinger's cat. Today, you decided to help me. At the same time, in a separate and parallel reality, you never saw me. So there are infinite streams and paths. Since you came from the future, that is one possiblity-you upset what happened in your time, by being here, changing the course of history, and creating a new world. Or, if you look at time as a non-linear entity, you being sent back here always happened, and because it happened, your history remains unchanged."
She blinked up at him, and laughed. "I might have read a little too much science fiction though. Whatever the situation on your method of time travel...I'm at least happy you did so. Either that, or I'd get lost on the way here. And maybe a parallel universe me did just that!"
Lulu was rambling on as they crossed the top of the hill, and she blinked. The school was huge! It seemed it must have been-the letter claimed there was a section for all ages of schooling, but this was ridiculous! She knew her mouth hung open unattractively but she couldn't help it. This..this was her new home. Very quickly though, the need to get settled in overtook her awe. "Wow...ok. Do you know where the administrative office is? If you can take me there, or point me to it...that would be perfect. I wonder where I'll live in here...where do you live? I imagine not in the dorms for the students. Hmm, I wonder if they are separated by gender, and age group? Maybe I will be in an all girl dorm! Er. I guess you wouldn't know anything about that." She laughed, red faced after her burst. "I'm a little bit excited is all."