Pick a Room! Any Room!

La'Hi was walking nowhere. It was almost pacing, a constant circuit around the dorms. If anything, it was procrastination, giving herself more time to wish she'd listened to the instructions of the man at the office. Where was she supposed to go?

She wished she had sheet. Instructions that she could read over and over, absorbing every detail, every clumsy word. She wondered if humans did that on purpose. In her native tongue she could say things in a few words that required multiple sentences in English, so surely they couldn't have accidentally been that inefficient. Maybe it was so their books would last long and be entertaining, but then what about educational books? Why did they need to be so long? Clearly they needed a language for entertainment, and once for communicating important things, she had it all figured out.

She sighed as her train of thought reached an end. The damnable english number system that each room was labelled with irritated her and made it impossible to keep track of where she was. The number ten was a rubbish number. Stupid beyond belief. Especially since it was making things even more impossible for her to work things out and find her room.

Unless of course... She was meant to choose one! Duh! She felt like an idiot, obviously that was how it worked. Why else would they put her in the midst of so many! That one over there looked like it would do just fine!

She walked over, and finding the door unlocked, fearlessly threw it open.

"Jie'Lo Uhve'Iej! Are you becoming my new room'mate?" She asked cheerfully, examining the room. It was filled with various statues that all piqued her curiosity. Why did they all seem to resemble animals? She'd barely seen any before, but the resemblance was clearly there. Was she some sort of magic user who specialized in animals? Could she bring them to life, and command them to fight or do chores?

She shifted her attention to the muscly person in front of her. They were really tall (compared to her) and really beefy. Did they carve the statues themselves? Where they some sort of craftsman? Would she learn to do something like that? She could barely hold back the endless stream of questions that wanted to be asked.

La'Hi looked surprised. "Na'Jie, how do you do that? You were so small! Wait, are. Are so small."

She grimaced. As if her slips into her native tongue weren't bad enough, now she had to go and mess up her tenses. Oh well, it wasn't as if the person across from her was any better at english either. She was pretty sure you weren't supposed to repeat words like that.

"Yes, I'm new. The man in the office tell, er, told me I could pick a room." That last part was a lie, but she told it without even a moment of hesitation. "Is it OK if I go with this one, and be your room'mate? Or do you already have one? He didn't tell me what to do if that was the case."

La'Hi was almost nervous. She had a sneaking suspicion that the office man hadn't meant for her to just pick a room, and that that was why the girl in front of her was so upset and nervous. It was too late to back down now though, and the girl seemed to be mostly OK with the idea of the two of them being roommates. Even if she was acting all cute and nervous about it.

"Your brother? Does he have an ah-bee-lee-tee? And you can borrow it? That must been amazing! Can you borrow all abilities? Or just his? Or from your families?" She paused her torrent only to breathe and wait for Ai's answers. She was practically buzzing with curiosity and excitement, like a little hummingbird.

"I uh... Sorry, just fast, er, quickly, Jie kind of means... Me. Iej is the word I think you're looking for. It doesn't really matter though, it's really nice that you tried to learn my language a little!" She smiled cheerily.

"I don't have abilities, but I am magic user. I use two styles, Ozzu'Ro and Ro'Ih. They are kind of not strong, but I'm still learning, so I will be better. Eventually. You have such an interesting ability though. Is it why you have horns?" She asked, and reached out to grab them. They made her really curious, were they warm or cold? Hard or soft? Did they have some sort of skin over them?