Shadow wasn’t adjusting well. He almost wished someone would tell him what to do, he couldn’t take care of himself, he didn’t know how. Without guidance, he had stuck mostly to his room. Apparently, there was supposed to be a tutor coming but they had asked him to attend a class. He hadn’t. The idea that all of the people in that class would know what was going on and he didn’t was too much of a burden on his already fragile mind. So, naturally Shadow hadn’t gone. He was afraid they would punish him for it, so he stayed in his room and was for a while too afraid to leave. It was a few nights ago when someone slipped the mail under his door that he got several things of interest.
Firstly, a letter from the Mersing’s, they wrote a lot of letters and they were all beautiful, but Shade hadn’t had to read English in a long time and had forgotten a lot. So he bumbled through their nice words and felt a stab of jealousy for whoever this Daniel was that they thought was him. Poor Daniel, he thought, his parents thought they’d found him. This was the first letter they’d left that seemed to mark a change in their hopefulness. They were sorry, they said, that they’d scared him. They were going to give him some space and be back in a month. As terrible as it may seem, this gave Shadow a breath of relief. Secondly, there was a notice from a person on Manta Carlos who wanted to talk to him. He immediately threw that letter away when it became clear that they were fascinated by his state. His strange, freakish state. He wrinkled his nose and tossed it.
Thirdly, and perhaps scariest of all was a request from the school. They made no mention of his missed classes, he supposed, in many ways it didn’t quite matter. He was just going to be behind his whole life, maybe that was just his lot. No this one was different. Another test. Shade sighed and wondered what he would have to do to get these people to leave him alone. They wanted a baseline for his power. Thrust immediately back to the tests and experiments he balked at the notice and tossed that as well. He fell back on his bed, everything here was so confusing, so different, so new. It was too much, things used to be so easy, terrible, but easy. People told him what to do and walked him through things, he did nothing that was not directly ordered and did everything that he was told. These people with their polite letters left an opening to run and Shadow took it every time.
Shadow peered out the window to see that darkness had fallen. Outside. He’d never been allowed outside before, but here… He pulled on his hoodie and pulled his beanie over his ears. All black and ready to hide in plain sight from the world. He drifted down the familiar corridors silently, a moving shadow. He emerged into the dark night, the washed out colors and lack of light soothing to his eyes, which glowed as they surveyed the world. He took a deep breath… outside. The air was so fresh and the wind soft on his face. Shade glanced over his shoulder half convinced someone would stop him, but he set out to explore a bit. He stopped at a tree and looked up in wonder. Who knew trees could grow so large? Oh he missed the outside. The warm, grassy places. Shadow moved on, moving like a wraith in the darkness, only barely perceptible in the night.
Firstly, a letter from the Mersing’s, they wrote a lot of letters and they were all beautiful, but Shade hadn’t had to read English in a long time and had forgotten a lot. So he bumbled through their nice words and felt a stab of jealousy for whoever this Daniel was that they thought was him. Poor Daniel, he thought, his parents thought they’d found him. This was the first letter they’d left that seemed to mark a change in their hopefulness. They were sorry, they said, that they’d scared him. They were going to give him some space and be back in a month. As terrible as it may seem, this gave Shadow a breath of relief. Secondly, there was a notice from a person on Manta Carlos who wanted to talk to him. He immediately threw that letter away when it became clear that they were fascinated by his state. His strange, freakish state. He wrinkled his nose and tossed it.
Thirdly, and perhaps scariest of all was a request from the school. They made no mention of his missed classes, he supposed, in many ways it didn’t quite matter. He was just going to be behind his whole life, maybe that was just his lot. No this one was different. Another test. Shade sighed and wondered what he would have to do to get these people to leave him alone. They wanted a baseline for his power. Thrust immediately back to the tests and experiments he balked at the notice and tossed that as well. He fell back on his bed, everything here was so confusing, so different, so new. It was too much, things used to be so easy, terrible, but easy. People told him what to do and walked him through things, he did nothing that was not directly ordered and did everything that he was told. These people with their polite letters left an opening to run and Shadow took it every time.
Shadow peered out the window to see that darkness had fallen. Outside. He’d never been allowed outside before, but here… He pulled on his hoodie and pulled his beanie over his ears. All black and ready to hide in plain sight from the world. He drifted down the familiar corridors silently, a moving shadow. He emerged into the dark night, the washed out colors and lack of light soothing to his eyes, which glowed as they surveyed the world. He took a deep breath… outside. The air was so fresh and the wind soft on his face. Shade glanced over his shoulder half convinced someone would stop him, but he set out to explore a bit. He stopped at a tree and looked up in wonder. Who knew trees could grow so large? Oh he missed the outside. The warm, grassy places. Shadow moved on, moving like a wraith in the darkness, only barely perceptible in the night.
