Fire in the hole

Hali nodded. <span style='color:red'>What feeling is that? lonelyness? no. belonging? Definitly not. Desire? That has possiblities.</span> She continued to list emotions in her head and then dismissing them. However she kept coming back to desire.

She realized she had been quiet for quite some time. She looked back at Socho. <span style='color:red'>"Okay i think your emotion at the time was desire, but I'm no empath so I'm probably wrong, but it's still worth a shot. So what do you really want? Nothing stupid like a material possesion, those aren't worth anything for what you need to think about."</span> She said. She noted that she probably didn't make much sense to him at the moment, but he would figure it out all in good time.

<span style='color:red'>"So extinguish that flame and give it another go when you have what you want in mind,"</span> She finished.

 

Hali nodded again. <span style='color:red'>"Yes, that's what I thought."</span> She said. It was true. The way Socho had been going on about her, she had figured that the thing he really wanted was her.

<span style='color:red'>"Okay now that we've figured that out, can you set things on fire?"</span> She saw he was about to say something and cut him off. <span style='color:red'>"I know you said you could already set stuff on fire and then call it off, but i want to see. Now then, I don't want you to ruin anything...hmmm..."</span> She thought for a moment.

<span style='color:red'>"You're going to set me on fire,"</span> She said, the words ringing through the cavernous space.

 

<span style='color:red'>"Have you not been listening!?"</span> Hali yelled in frustration. She was tempted to slap Socho for his idiocy.

She took a deep breath and counted to ten, calming herself.
<span style='color:red'>"Now then, let's get a few things straight. No matter how illegal I am your teacher, you should do as you are told, secondly I am a pyro and an independant one at that. This means I draw my power from a closed-off part of fronima, in other words only i have access to it and therefore it is just a bit more powerful. Third I don't care about your ethics in the real world the 'dragon with less ethics is better off when it comes to saving their skin..."</span> She stopped.

<span style='color:red'>"God I sound like my mother."</span> That was the last thing she wanted to do.

She looked Socho in the eyes and clearly stated the following; <span style='color:red'>"You are going to set me on fire. I will be just fine and heck you might even get to see a fireworks display if I feel like putting one on,"</span>

 

Hali shook her head. <span style='color:red'>"Fine, just don't burn the place down."</span> She said.

She went over to the door and stepped through. She was in a curtain of mist and then she was once again standing in the clearing. She spread her bat-like wings and rose into the air. When she broke through the canopy of leaves she saw that it was approaching dawn.

<span style='color:red'>Have i really been gone that long?</span> She thought.

She flew due East and a bit north in the direction fo Janarden academy. She figured that was where she was most likely to meet this 'Katarri'.

A good twenty minutes later she landed at the front gates. It was still early so she had to show the gaurd her student ID. Once she was let in she went to the dormitories, she'd be able to ask the secretary where Katarri was.

Upon entering she thought she heard faint screams from far off.

<span style='color:red'>Oh no</span> She thought with dismay. She sprinted off to dorm 964. When she arrived she put her hand in her pocket to retrive the key Leah had given her. Her hand went right through a hole in the bottom of the pocket.

<span style='color:red'>Shit</span> she thought. She rattled the doorknob knowing that it probably wouldn't do any good. She was about to set the door on fire when a tan 'dragon opened it. She pushed past her.

<span style='color:red'>"Leah? Wake up!"</span> Leehara continued to scream. She place one of her finges at the base of Leah's skull and sent a jolt of electricity to it. Leah was silenced, she woke up a few minutes later and introduced her to the 'dragon she had passed on the way in.

<span style='color:purple'>"I think you've met my new room mate? Her name is Katarri."</span>

Hali acted as though she had only heard of Katarri briefly. Then leah shoved her and she gave her almost the full story, but she ran off before she got the chance to finish. Hali ran after her eventually giving up and flying.