The truth revealed, anarchy ensues

Tien didn't understand this new person, but she liked him. Few humans called her interesting; weird, odd, strange, little freak, tiny annoying brat, yes, but not 'interesting', and he'd already called her Naka's friend. This was a title that Tien was deeply proud of; Naka was her very first Friend, and though she seemed to do things wrong sometimes and make him disappointed or reproachful, he still seemed to like her. Her dorm-mates had also taught her the names of all the pieces of furniture in her house (not to mention the word 'furniture'), and this had been the very first time she had been taught by someone other than herself. She beamed to herself as she watched the newcomer do something completely inexplicable, crafting a tool out of smaller tools. Tien was learning not to ask too many questions at once, because then some of them went unanswered. Humans also got cranky about it.

"Miles." The fairy's nose wrinkled in confusion. It only had one syllable. Ti-en, Sor-cha, Na-ka, Ni-lo... Names came with two pieces to say. It was just How It Was. "Tien," she answered, still looking perplexed. "Why is your name only one bit long?"

Naka, meanwhile, was answering Tien's questions, because he was very good about that. Her expression of bewilderment, a frequently seen one, didn't fade, and to avoid tipping over she held on to a piece of his hair as he moved. It was part of the trouble with standing on shoulders; humans bent down a lot, something Tien didn't need to do all that often. She scrutinised the picture carefully, and this time her nose wrinkled in disgust. "Drinks blood? Like a giant leech? Yuck! I hate leeches." No clue what electrocution was, of course, but she'd focused on the first, grossest part.

The mystery of the rizzard solved, she jumped onto the next topic. "What did you do with all that... stuff?" she asked Miles, lamely. "What's it all for?"

“This stuff, little fairy, is so I can make your friend Naka a present to give to Sorcha and I like my name the way it is. It just seems to roll off the tongue.” Miles shifted onto one of his knees to make the next step with the sword easier. Opening up the bottle of Illithids blood Miles said, “Bottoms up for you sword.” Miles began to slowly pour the blood onto the blade of the sword. Once the blade was covered, Miles reached down to touch the hilt of the sword. A black magic circle appeared around Miles and the sword as Miles began to use his power. Miles started to focus his energy on the blood of the sword.

A red light spread out onto the magic circle from Miles as the illithids blood started to sink into the sword, like it was drinking it. A green light started to glow from the edges of the sword. As soon as the blood was all gone from the blade of the sword, Miles began to withdraw his energy. The magic circle began to fade from around Miles as he stood up. The sword still had the green glow around its edges. “Hmmm, it glows green, have to make note of that. It seems to have worked Naka, but you should probably test it out so I can take notes on the results.” Miles turned and picked up the compendium and opened it to a glowing page. “Let’s see if what I was doing worked Tien,” Miles said smiling at the fairy.

Sorcha walked back into the courtyard after showering and quickly changing clothes. She looked around trying to see if Naka was still out there. She slowly walked around and then she noticed a glint coming off of something that was being swung through the air. She squinted to see better, was that a sword? She headed that way, forgetting for a split second she was looking for Naka. She loved weapons, especially slashing ones, she practiced with them quite frequently and enjoyed the feel of them in her hands.


She went closer and was surprised when she realized it was Naka swinging the sword. The other boy was still there, along with Tien. She walked up to the trio,"Hey Naka and Tien," She then turned to the new kid and held out her hand,"Hey, I'm Sorcha". Then she did what she wanted, she stared at the sword that Naka was holding trying to figure out where it came from and why she seemed so drawn to it.

Holding out her hand, she asked Naka,"may I see it?"

When the new boy said his name rolled off tongues, Tien stuck hers out and went cross-eyed trying to test his hypothesis. There was nothing different about it, and she couldn't very well say his name with her tongue out like that. Releasing the expression, she filed it away under Senseless Human Stuff and watched Miles working on what he called a sord. She'd already learned what presents were, and thought it was nice that Naka was getting a present for Sorcha; it would make her happy, which was something Tien hadn't yet managed to do. Though the redhead had been the cause of Tien's tearful exit back in the library, the fairy had suffered five minutes of utter depression before being distracted by a bees' nest being repaired four trees over, and had since forgiven and forgotten. What she did remember, though, was that she wasn't Sorcha's favourite person. That was okay. Tien had never been anyone's favourite person, so she had a lot of practice.

The boys continued to do and say Senseless Human Stuff, and Tien grabbed the tip of her left wing to get some fibres out of it. She liked sleeping in her dollhouse bed, but it meant teeny tiny little hairs stuck to her. How humans put up with it was a mystery. Grooming industriously, she glanced up to nod at Naka's sentence, adding, "All humans like presents," with a touch of pride at this new knowledge.

Then - speak of the hornet! Tien felt the air change, a tremor in the ground beneath Naka's feet, and spotted Sorcha immediately. Being so little, it was natural to feel the tiny signals in the world around her, when on a human-sized person they'd have gone amiss. Slightly nervous, which showed in her twitchy wings, Tien knelt down on Naka's shoulder and gave Sorcha an anxious wave.

“Hello, I’m Miles and I just got here and I guess I need to do one more thing with the sword before you get it.” Miles said. “Let me see the sword Naka.” Miles said as he slid the sword out of Naka’s hand. Miles placed the sword on the ground again and put his finger on the hilt. Instead of sending his power to the blade he sent it to the claw. The magic circle appeared again and started to spread red again while Miles focused on the sword. Once the claw gave a faint glow Miles withdrew his power back into him. “There you go, Naka,” Miles said as he started to stand the circle disappearing like it did last time.
Miles slid the sword back into Naka’s hand.

Looking at Tien, Miles saw her stick out her tongue he said, “When I said it rolls off the tongue I meant it is easy for me to say and it sounds good.” Miles wondered what a fairy eats, “Hey Tien, What do you eat?” Miles asked the question realizing that he was starting to get hungry. He wondered where he could get a quick bite to eat around this school. He started to rub his stomach as it let out a little growl.

Cyan was bored, and he couldn’t sleep, so he had decided to go to the third floor roof for a thrill. Cyan, a small blue-green weasel-thingy, had tried jumping off a roof before, but never one this far from the ground. He wondered why he hadn't thought of doing this before; just in the past hour or so he had seen at least two other people do it. Being indestructible, he knew no harm would come to him, but he couldn’t help but close his eyes as he fell toward the ground. During that brief moment of weightlessness, Cyan’s thoughts reflected back toward the events of the past month.

Starlight Academy was a strange place indeed. After making some new friends, both seeming like characters from a shonen manga, he had ended up as Nakata’s roommate. He had not seen Naka much, since he often tended to wander outside. Then again, so did Cyan. His other roommate, Tien, he had seen but never really talked to that much. “I need to get to know that little fairy better,” He thought to himself. After all, she was the main reason he got to live in their dorm room. Cyan’s assignment to the room had been partially by chance, but when he met the lady who told him the room assignments, he was assigned to the very room he was currently sleeping in. Strange.

He hit the ground hard. As his body was too resilient to crumple from the impact, the force merely caused him to bounce a meter before landing at the base of a small tree. Cyan began to laugh. Hitting the ground had hurt a little bit, and it had knocked the wind out of him, but it was almost a good kind of pain. “Woo!” he exclaimed as he caught his breath, “Onemoretime.” Lying on the ground, he thrust his tiny arms upward, fists clenched. He let them fall back down as he heard voices. He had been hearing them the entire time, but was only just now noticing them.




(I hope my entrance isn't too...je ne sais pas...I hope I'm not messing up the tone here.)

Sorcha looked around at the assembled group, she looked at the kid Naka called "Miles" eating some of her friend's often lunch leftover. She acknowledged Tien again by briefly inclining her head, but her eyes were for the single edged longsword that Naka had in his hand.

When he handed the sword to her hilt first, she grabbed it with her left hand and slowly wrapped her fingers around the handle. The immediate sense of rightness was surprising, it was as if the grip had been made for her hands alone. The weight of the sword was perfect for her as well, not too light, and yet, not too heavy either. She would be able to swing it well. She glanced up at Naka,"A knight's elitist sword, correct?" she then stepped away from the group and asking Naka"May I?". She didn't wait for an answer as she proceeded to swing the sword and bring it up and down and from left to right in a series of practice moves.

She was just bringing the sword down when she thought she heard something to her left. She stood and looked, squinting her eyes, but saw nothing. Shaking her head she walked back to the group and handed the sword to Naka, "It's an awesome sword, it feels great in my hands, and the balance on it is good on it as well. I wish I had one for my own personal use like that one ".

Wings still fluttering, Tien thought carefully about Miles' question. She was rapidly learning to pick her words with care around humans, who seemed terribly keen on thinking that words were the same as thoughts and intent. Nobody let their mouth talk for the sheer joy of listening to it, and the fairy thought that maybe that was what was wrong with the world. "I eat berries," she said, eventually, each word carefully pondered. "A strawberry a day in summer. And nuts in winter. Nuts keep very well. They don't... I'm not sure what the word is - rot?"

The humans all talked about the sord for a while. Uninterested - at best, she could imagine it to be a very large thorn, as she used thorns to cut things when necessary - she returned to grooming her wings, content to sit on Naka's warm shoulder and remain oblivious to the Senseless Human Stuff. When Sorcha remarked on how she'd like a sord, though, the fairy's violet eyes lit up and she took instinctively to the air, hovering before the redhead in happiness. "But this is for you!" she trilled, and while she had absolutely nothing to do with the present, she felt very proud. "Naka is giving you a present."

Then, realising that she had been completely irrelevent in this joyous occasion, she hastily added, "I saw it being made," as though she had been Grand Supervisor.