Her First Day

Hal snickered. "You could have knocked me out and you would have to answer for injuring a senior student." he jested. He might have passed out from probably hitting his head, or that force could have knocked him out of his body temporarily. Quite literally. It was one of the other. It usually left him at least 30 minutes before he could return. He still had to work on that. Yes, that was why he was here in Starlight too.

He was quiet for a moment. "Ann, then." a pause, "I'll be frank to say sort of. But I'm pretty sure my family doesn't miss me at all." he scoffed, "I haven't heard from them for years and it's like they just dumped me here." he paused.

He probably shouldn't have rambled on about that. He fell quiet; only the sound of their footsteps in the hall could be heard between them. He spoke: "Sorry. You didn't need to hear that."

Hal hummed. Responding calmly, he said: "I'm an only child. It was always just me, my mom and my dad." he began trying to recount days before he moved out. He was barely 13. It's been nearly two years since then and he hasn't heard from his parents at all.

He continued, "I don't know any of my other relatives but my mom told me before that she has a younger sister and my dad mentioned to me that he had an estranged sister."

He paused for a moment, letting his gaze around while they walked, making sure he was on the right path and he hasn't missed the room. He proceeded, "Honestly, I wouldn't have thought they'd leave me alone like this. Dad and I were pretty close; as far as you can get with his busy schedule and all. And my mom was really nice. But when this academy cropped up, it's like they were in a hurry to kick me out of the house."

Hal listened to her while she went on to talk about her family. He couldn't deny he was a bit envious. He wasn't sure himself if his parents were happy they could send him to a school where he could develop his skills or if they were happy that he'd be out of their sight. The thing was, his parents hadn't told him about any of this magic business. He was really sure that he was normal until he found out he was... not normal at all.

His parents seemed to look startled, or probably even alarmed, when he brought it up the first time. And then it was only after that when he was told that his great grandparents were rumored to have been telepaths.

He laughed as Wind quickly recovered from her ramble, "Nah, it's fine; we all have our quirks when we're nervous or something."

He continued: "I've been here for about two years or something. So far, all my classes are the same and the training class I have for mine is really just dull." he said glancing back at her for a moment while they walked.

"And well, the plainest explanation is that I'm sorta part-ghost, I guess?" he said, putting his arms behind his head "Astral Projection or something like that. It's pretty useful sometimes but I don't actually have a good grasp of it yet." Dropping his body out of nowhere, not being able to get back to his body soon enough and a limit of places he could get to. He still wasn't sure how bad he is at the projection thing. "What about you?"

"Oh and," he turned around and began walking backwards, "Don't ever let me hold any of your gadgets — things tend to short-circuit when I hold'em."

Hal laughed, "I'll deal with that 'adventure' when I finally get a grip with the first one. I still have accidents here and there, you know." he said almost jokingly as he spun around to face where he was going. Almost. But he was more than half-serious because he'd really like to be able to get to master projection first before hopping onto other things.

"Ice and wind. Cool." he hummed looking around at the designs on the hall. "As far as I know, this school's been up for decades already. And if I wasn't even... far from normal as I am now, I wouldn't really believe that with how well maintained this place is. As if it's built with magic." Hal seemed to space out for a moment before turning his gaze towards Wind; nodding his head to the side a little. Something he's associated to him smiling at people. He wasn't particularly sure if others saw it that way though, and he hasn't thought about that too much.

"And to be fair, elemental magic sounds pretty cool." he said turning to face front, "I think shape-shifting is pretty fun too but I haven't really met interesting shape-shifters around yet." he added.

Hal chuckled slightly, "Always. We always feel a little freer in alternate forms really. Like gravity doesn't exist. Or dumb eyes on the walls or that kind of bull." he said absentmindedly. He always did feel less restrained in his astral form but he wasn't completely comfortable because his physical body was always left unprotected and if anything bad happens, he could really die.

He stops in his path as a familiar sign passes his sight. Taking a second glance on the door's sign to confirm it, he then turns to Wind. "When you're nice to someone, I guess that just means you're not a complete lowlife yet. That's what I think." he shrugs. At least that's what his mother told him. He always had a little more room to be the nice guy anyway. If people were just going to treat him as any other stranger afterwards then why not?

"Here's your room then, I guess." he says, nodding towards a room to his left, "While the hallways are pretty confusing at first, it'll be really easy to get accustomed to walking around. Your body would remember where to go eventually." he adds, looking towards the room. There were already students inside but all of them were just idly talking and laughing.

"By the looks of it though, I don't think your class is starting any soon."