fandomhigh | Defying Expectations, Tuesday, Per 3

An email had gone out to the class the night before informing everyone to dress nicely and to wear something warm as they'd be meeting by the Causeway today.

"Depending on your destiny, odds are good that you're going to be personally responsible for the well-being of others. Some of those people will be easy for you to remember: the vocal, the well-off and powerful, those who serve directly beneath you that you see and interact with frequently. But those aren't the only people who depend on you and sometimes it's very easy for people to slip between the cracks, to go unnoticed and become forgettable. Those people are, of course, usually the ones who need your support and concern the most. It's a sad truth that the people who need help most are usually the ones in the least position to ask for or receive it."

She began passing out maps of Baltimore with several buildings marked off. "Today, however, we're going to be remembering those people and doing our best to assist them. Your next hour is going to be spent volunteering--though I'm sure you can feel free to stay a little longer if you don't have class immediately after this. As a reminder though, today isn't about you and and how good you feel about yourself afterwards. These people aren't learning experiences or character building exercises. You're there to see how you can help make their day better. It's a very different mindset to go in with, which you can feel free to think about for next week's class."

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"She's a witch like I am--A Healer, a Black Widow, and a Queen, as well as the usual Craft than any member of the Blood has access to, regardless of caste." Karla bit her lip, uncertain how--or even if--to explain what Witch was and meant to the Blood of Kaeleer. "She's special. Quite literally the embodiment of dreams and given human form. That's why she's so damn powerful. But her heart, the person she is--that's all Jaenelle."

"The only ones of those I understand are Healer and Queen," Kaylin said. "The rest, well, I don't know how that can happen, being a dream and a human, but I get that she must be pretty special and you seem to like her, so she must be pretty good too."

And that was enough for her to decide this Jaenelle person must be okay.

If given the opportunity, Karla would be happy to indoctrinate Kaylin into the Church of Best Jaenelle is Best.

"A Black Widow is a mind-Healer," Karla explained. "Also the caste of dreams, illusions, and prophecies. And those of us who are born to the caste are also, quite literally, venomous."

She held her palm out to Kaylin and extended her snake-tooth out from under her ring finger nail.

"Black Widows can metabolize poisons and use it to make our own."

"You're like part snake-person?" Kaylin asked. There was no censure or shock in her voice, just honest curiosity. "We don't have those in Elantra."

Lion type people, bird type people, terrifying horrible people with tentacles on their forehead who could rip your thoughts and memories from your head, yes, but no snake like people.

Please excuse her if she was looking to see if she could see any scales. She's a curious thing.

"Nope, I'm fully human," Karla said with the easy acceptance of someone who was friends with tigrekin and satyrs and other random non-human types. "I just metabolize and create my own...what are you doing?"

You know, with the peering and the searching and stuff.

"Looking for scales," Kaylin said with complete honesty. "Because, you know, I'd thought maybe you were a snake-person so, but you said you weren't so..."

She sighed. "Now I feel a little silly."

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