The College Years - The Writing on the Wall

by **Nailah Weaver** » Sun Jun 24, 2012 4:13 pm

"It's more than just a hook-up, I think. But that's not even the point. I know it's not surprising, it just... sometimes it makes everything feel so pointless."

by **Samantha McManus** » Sun Jun 24, 2012 4:20 pm

"But for the bad stuff, maybe it's more like a warning?"

by **Nailah Weaver** » Sun Jun 24, 2012 4:31 pm

"Good or bad, I can't change it. I tried."

by **Samantha McManus** » Sun Jun 24, 2012 4:34 pm

"Maybe you just need... help, if you can't change it on your own."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Sun Jun 24, 2012 4:59 pm

"I don't know. Maybe. I have no idea how this works."

by **Samantha McManus** » Sun Jun 24, 2012 5:01 pm

"I just can't believe that it's completely unchangeable, aye?"

by **Nailah Weaver** » Sun Jun 24, 2012 5:08 pm

She just shrugs helplessly.

by **Samantha McManus** » Sun Jun 24, 2012 5:11 pm

"Is it bad that the thing about meeting someone has me curious?"

by **Nailah Weaver** » Sun Jun 24, 2012 5:46 pm

"Of course not. I'm curious too, I just... well I'm trying not to get anything built up in my head too much, you know?"

by **Samantha McManus** » Sun Jun 24, 2012 5:49 pm

"Well, what do you know? I mean, it's got to be someone who doesn't mind mutants, aye?"

by **Nailah Weaver** » Sun Jun 24, 2012 6:10 pm

"I kind of figured that part, yeah. Otherwise I only know that I'll meet him soon and that it's something that'll last a long time..."

by **Samantha McManus** » Sun Jun 24, 2012 6:11 pm

"Didn't give you much to work from, then?"

by **Nailah Weaver** » Sun Jun 24, 2012 6:28 pm

"Not really, no. Which is kinda nice because otherwise I'd be trying to figure it out, whether I want to or not."

by **Samantha McManus** » Sun Jun 24, 2012 6:29 pm

"Is it like a poem or something?"

by **Nailah Weaver** » Sun Jun 24, 2012 6:39 pm

"It... said I'd meet my other half at the dawn of enlightenment after I leave my shelter. It's a bit longer but I don't have it memorized."

by **Samantha McManus** » Sun Jun 24, 2012 6:41 pm

"So... right at the start of the semester, I guess."

"Though... your other half isn't even as specific as 'him.'"

by **Nailah Weaver** » Sun Jun 24, 2012 6:43 pm

"What do you mean?"

by **Samantha McManus** » Sun Jun 24, 2012 6:46 pm

"Well it's kind of an odd thing to leave out, aye? Not the man of your dreams or anything, just your 'other half.'"

by **Nailah Weaver** » Sun Jun 24, 2012 6:51 pm

"Odd language is kind of how those things go..."

by **Samantha McManus** » Sun Jun 24, 2012 6:53 pm

"But from the sound of it... maybe you've already met them?"

by **Nailah Weaver** » Sun Jun 24, 2012 6:56 pm

"I might have, yeah. I haven't really noticed anyone who hasn't looked at me at least a little oddly but I've been trying not to fret about it too much."

by **Samantha McManus** » Sun Jun 24, 2012 6:58 pm

"Well I'm sure whoever it is will count themselves lucky," she smiled, turning towards the corner of the room what passed for a pantry was.

"I was thinking of making some cocoa in the microwave, you want some?"

by **Nailah Weaver** » Sun Jun 24, 2012 7:01 pm

"Thanks, I guess." she smiles faintly. "And yeah, that sounds lovely."

by **Samantha McManus** » Sun Jun 24, 2012 7:05 pm

"Good," she said as she walked over to prepare it. "You need to relax, as rattled as this has you."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Sun Jun 24, 2012 7:08 pm

"I just... it feels like I'm not in control of anything. And to make it worse I'm literally not in control when I have those visions and it just... it sucks."

by **Samantha McManus** » Sun Jun 24, 2012 7:10 pm

"Well we didn't any of us ask for this, aye?" She said, her back still to the sphinx as she got the milk out of the mini fridge and started mixing.

by **Nailah Weaver** » Sun Jun 24, 2012 7:19 pm

"No... But some of it I don't mind, you know? I can be proud of the tail and the wings and the fur, even if it's not easy sometimes, but this..."

by **Samantha McManus** » Sun Jun 24, 2012 7:26 pm

"I'm not saying you have it easy, just that I can't help but think there's some way you can turn it around."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Sun Jun 24, 2012 7:31 pm

"If there is I haven't found it yet."

"God, I must sound so whiny right now. I'm sorry."

by **Samantha McManus** » Sun Jun 24, 2012 7:32 pm

"It's okay," she said as she pulled the two mugs from the microwave, carrying them over.

"It's just... you've got my sympathy on uncontrollable powers, aye?"

by **Nailah Weaver** » Sun Jun 24, 2012 7:38 pm

She nods as she takes one of the mugs from Sam and blows at the hot liquid inside.

"I'm glad you understand."

by **Samantha McManus** » Sun Jun 24, 2012 7:41 pm

"Comes a time when you don't feel so helpless. I know it's hard to see it now, but it was for me, too."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Sun Jun 24, 2012 7:45 pm

"I'll be fine. It just... gets overwhelming sometimes. And it's hard to talk to my parents about it because they're just so... thrilled about it."

by **Samantha McManus** » Sun Jun 24, 2012 7:47 pm

"I think that's the case with a lot of people that want to be mutant-positive. God knows I picked it up a bit from going to school in Salem."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Sun Jun 24, 2012 7:50 pm

"Nothing wrong with it, certainly better than the other end of the spectrum but sometimes being a mutant does suck. At least a little."

by **Samantha McManus** » Sun Jun 24, 2012 7:54 pm

"Aye well... I should be honest with you about this."

"Can you keep a secret?"

by **Nailah Weaver** » Sun Jun 24, 2012 7:56 pm

"Of course."

by **Samantha McManus** » Sun Jun 24, 2012 7:57 pm

"Shapeshifting... isn't my only power."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Sun Jun 24, 2012 8:01 pm

"What else can you do then?"

by **Samantha McManus** » Sun Jun 24, 2012 8:02 pm

"Well, part of the reason it was so hard for me to control my body's shape was because I read minds, too..."

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