Fandom High Welcome Picnic, Front Lawn of the School, All Day: Part I

[nomoresportscars]

It was a new year, and with the new year came the new spring term, and Fandom High was all set to welcome its new students, along with those just returning from holiday trips home. It was a familiar setting for the latter bunch: there was the requisite bonfire, with tables and chairs scattered around it, as well as the buffet table with moddable warm food and drinks.

And of course, name tags and lists of Big and Little Siblings as well as roommates. Yep, the weather was okay (if snowy) for early January, and Fandom was all ready to celebrate the start of a new term.

[OCD up! This is part one of the picnic, specifically for meeting siblings, roommates, and teachers. The rest of the picnic is happening here. Since it's outside, the picnic is open to all students, teachers, and townies!]

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Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Spring 2014] - NFB please!

[nobloodymessiah.livejournal.com]

"I'm sorry," she said, quickly, feeling oddly exposed. "I shouldn't have panicked like that."

She swallowed past the growing lump in her throat.

"I only just escaped," she added, in a softer tone. "I broke out, and then we healed the little ones. Mother's looking for me. I thought ..."

Silly, really. It was a common enough name. But she hadn't been thinking rationally.

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Spring 2014] - NFB please!

[tigerundercover]

"You don't have to apologize. You went through something terrible, of course you were scared. If anything, the world should be apologizing to you."

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Spring 2014] - NFB please!

[nobloodymessiah.livejournal.com]

Eleanor shook her head. "The world doesn't owe me," she said. "It'd be too easy to think like that. To go around demanding revenge. But suffering just causes more suffering."

Father would be proud of her. There was the dull ache in her chest, again, but Father was in the past, now, and this was her future.

She bit her lip for a long moment. "It's ... left me with some ... abilities," she said, very carefully. "Not like yours, though."

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Spring 2014] - NFB please!

[tigerundercover]

"Can I see?" Raven asked. She disagreed pretty much entirely about the demanding revenge thing, but figured it wasn't the time to argue about it. "If you're comfortable with showing me."

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Spring 2014] - NFB please!

[nobloodymessiah.livejournal.com]

Eleanor flushed, finding herself oddly flattered by the request. "All right," she agreed, smiling a touch shyly.

She positioned herself so that most of the crowd could only see her back, then held one hand out in front of herself. She pointed one finger up towards the sky, concentrated, and a lick of flame curled up from the tip, as though her finger was a candle.

Incinerate was always showy.

She turned her hand over, palm-up, and curled her fingers in, letting the fire spread from her index finger to the rest of them, engulfing her palm. The flames licked higher, and as she focused, a rounded sphere started forming itself.

A ball of flame, just about the size of a baseball, hovering just about her burning hand.

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Spring 2014] - NFB please!

[tigerundercover]

"Oh my gosh!" Raven exclaimed. "And it -- it doesn't hurt you? It doesn't burn?"

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Spring 2014] - NFB please!

[nobloodymessiah.livejournal.com]

"No," Eleanor said, a giddy laugh escaping her. "It's real fire, though. I could fling it at someone else and they would burn."

There had been people who didn't want Eleanor to escape. Fire had helped to convince them.

"I can also teleport, some," she added, in an undertone, "and I can pick up large items and fling them around. And I heal quickly. If this was burning me, it wouldn't matter."

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Spring 2014] - NFB please!

[tigerundercover]

"That's very impressive." And might be very useful for her, here, at least on occasion. "If I could do things like that, I'd never let anyone boss me around at all."

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Spring 2014] - NFB please!

[nobloodymessiah.livejournal.com]

"I don't any more," Eleanor said softly. It was possible Raven had been joking. Eleanor wasn't.

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Spring 2014] - NFB please!

[tigerundercover]

Raven hadn't, actually. She got the feeling this was something that Eleanor didn't want to talk much more about, though.

"Is there anything else you want to ask about?"

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Spring 2014] - NFB please!

[nobloodymessiah.livejournal.com]

"I think I'm all right, for now," Eleanor said, still trying to absorb everything that had gone before. She extinguished the flames and brought her hands back inside the sleeves of Jono's jacket. "May I ... am I allowed to bother you again, should more questions arise?"

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Spring 2014] - NFB please!

[tigerundercover]

"I'm pretty sure it's encouraged," Raven said. "And I wouldn't turn you down even if it weren't. I'm in room 306 in the dorms, and I can give you my phone number. They have portable phones, now, so you can reach me on it any time you need to."