Quiet

Steps echoed down the dusty halls, making her already dirty sneakers even dirtier. She didn't mind, she was used to getting her things dirty. (Most of the time because soeone else was washing it for her.) There was not a person here; she frowned. An almost social butterfly, she wondered what she was doing here.

Out of a random impulse, she decided to visit the third floor. She heard from a little voice that this place was just short of being forbidden, but also pretty deserted. Anything could happen in here and no one would notice.

She leaned against one side of the halls, staring into one spot on the opposite side. She sighed, thinking, and kicking up more dust.

Aoi was bored; bored enough to be even boreder (if that was a word, she asked herself).

Her eyes flashed to the newcomer. Oh, company.

"Yo," she replied happily, taking several steps towards Alex. A hand was placed on her head to prevent the cat eared hat from falling off. The younger girl flashed a small smile at her. "I'm pretty bored, are you bored? I'm not usually here with no one else around, but neh." She shrugged, and stared out towards the opposite end of the hall.

She nodded, understandable to not have anything to do on the first day but explore.

"'Bout a week or so, yah." Her eyes searched the ceiling. Yes, she was bored enough to look at the ceiling. "Hai, hai, I am bored. Buuut."

Blankly staring and trying to concentrate on one of her hands a picture of something, a plush toy of a leaf popped up. Sparkling with adoration she mushed the leaf plushie around. "Awwww, cute! Isn't it cute?" she questioned excitedly, shoving the brown threaded plush toy at Alex. "There's no leaves outside at this time. Winter is kind of not the season for me, y'know."

"Eh?" She blinked. "Why wouldn't it? Plush leaves, neva made them before, really." She poked it with a stick that came out of thin air.

"Yah, it really is. Too much snow, white, and really, really cold," she replied. "I'm more of spring, neh. Ah, so, you can use water to do..."

Closing her eyes in the act of thoughtfulness, she tapped her cheeck slowly trying to remember. "So, what do you practice? You manipulate water? You can go by the lake, y'know."

Oooh, wings.

"Wings are cool, and you can fly too?" she asked interested, hugging the plushie against her chest. "You're powers are really cool. I mean, freezing water. You can act like an ice maker or something. And you have a weapon too! Cool, cool! I wished I could do something other than create small little things out of thin air!" She giggled to herself.

"Have you ever tried freezing... snow?"