Where to go from here? (open)

So she dragged her trunk through the student lounge realizing it's quite heavy. She had no idea where to go but had been directed to this room being told someone would help her find mher way. She had no idea who to ask. She had never been around this many people before and it's was quite intimidating. Frightening really. She finally dropped my trunk and to wipe away the sweat pouring down her forehead. She had no idea who to ask or who to talk to, so she pulled out the paper with instructions on it but her English reading was not very good. She can speak it fine but read it not so well. She bit her bottom lip and tred to keep a strait face and tried not to panic. Oh dear, she hoped she wouldn't start to cry in front of everyone. That would be bad. So Astial stood there paralyzed just humming an siren lullaby trying to calm herself. Her face had started turning red in embarrassment and hoped she was not making a scene. She wished i could have just jumped into the ocean and swim back home to her mom and dad.

Astrial was just about to explode into tears when a young man came over to her with a smile on his face and kind eyes. She wasn't sure if she should be scared or relieved that someone had noticed her. She chose relief the instant he started talking to her and introduced himself. She shyly smiled back at him when he called her Miss Stormwater knowing he was definitely here to help her out. She was told to greet others with a hand shake. She grabbed his hand firmly and pumped his hand vigorously, almost frantically hoping she was doing it right. "Astrial, please, I only get called that when my mom or dad is mad at me." She drops his hand looking concerned, "Am I in trouble? Did I not greet you correctly? Did it do the shake hand thing right or was that the wrong greeting?" Panic flooded her eyes again hoping she hadn't done something wrong already.

"i did get a letter but I don't understand much of it," Astrial replied to Murphy handing him the letter and the map. "I can speak English fine but can't read it very well. Maps I'm not good with. My mom said once I get to the island that people will point me in the right direction. But if not then i was to not be shy and ask for directions. So I was told to ask for Starlight Dorms and there I would get assistance. My parents also said that once I got here i'd be here for a long while to learn and make friends but they didn't explain and said I'd get my answers when I got here." Astrial smiled weakly. "My parents are my friends so I don't know why I had to come here. There is way too many people for my liking if you ask me. How can anyone learn stuff in all this noise and all this distraction anyways?"

Then she sighed and looked around really clearly for the first time. This place...was...odd. People were flying with wings, someone was running by with a suitcase following him...in the air behind him. This one girl had fangs was talking to a guy with feathers and a crow's head. This one girl left trails of flowers in her wake. She rubbed her eyes to clear them. Surely she was seeing things. This...just...can't...be...real!!! She turned to Murphy who might have noticed her noticing her surroundings. Dumbstruck she finally asked, "What is this place I've been sent to? What's going on?" Astrial looked completely lost and afraid and not sure how to take any of this. She was trying to decide weather this was a good thing or something to panic about. So she searched the eyes of the nice guy trying to talk to her.

"Yes, I'm not human. I'm part Elf and part Siren. My mother is a Siren princess and my father very powerful Elf Air Elementalist, and I have powers from both sides. I can hold my breath for hours at a time, heal fish, only salt water ones, and I can swim very very fast." She sucked in a breath and kept going ticking things off with her fingers as she went along, " And i can sing and it tends to hold peoples attention, I can't fly yet but will be able to in time. I can also talk to birds and fish, only salt water fish, and can heal them and birds as well. I can dance in the wind and cause gusts of air and walk lightly in the air like I'm levitating." She took in a large breath of air to fill her lungs. Then she smiled at him and said, "my Da and mum said I could talk about my abilities and specialness and use them once I got to the island and that I would be safe here. I used my powers to save a drowning friend once by getting a wave of water to push him to shore so I could grab his hand. He freaked out and I was never allowed to use my powers outside the yard again." Astrial sighed and blew a some bangs out of her eyes and looked up into Murphy's eyes. "I see things are much different here."

"Now that you ask," Astrial said to Murphy, " have my dolphin friend that followed me here and I need to be in water fairly often, ocean water. Like about 12 times a moon cycle, 28 days. I also have a hawk. Calisto, is his name. He comes and goes and feeds himself." She thought about what she keeps in her room. "hmmmmm," she thought, "where would I string my hammock, and is there a bathtub in the room so I can sleep in water some nights.?"