<span style='font-family:arial'>Xhankis watched in astonishment at her strange acrobatics skills. <span style='color:red'>HmmÂ…</span> He laughed at her exaggerated cheeriness. <span style='color:red'>Jeez. This must be pretty fun to her. I wonder if sheÂ’s had anyone open up to her like this in a while? ...Come to think of it, neither have I.</span> Reluctantly he made his way to class, in good spirits. He was excited for later, he had to admit. Yet at the same time he had doubts. The responsible part of him, the Xhankis that had brought himself back together after such a hard fallÂ… was wondering if he was making the right decision. <span style='color:red'>Oh, come off it.</span> he thought, and with only five minutes to spare, retrieved his books from his dorm and jogged to his next class.</span>
<span style='font-family:arial'>Before heÂ’d left, Xhankis had straightened up his house just a bit, and set the pie out on the table to cool. Everything was perfect, for their little two-Â’dragon rendezvous they were about to have. Now, all that he neededÂ…was Squeal. He hoped sheÂ’d listened, and didnÂ’t bring fireworksÂ…or at least if she did, she wouldnÂ’t set them off randomly in his living quarters. Hoping for the best, he walked to their meeting spot, eager to see what the nightÂ’s events would lead to.</span>
Squeal was waiting there, for sure. And she was most definitely prepared to party, though it wouldn't seem so. The only thing that looked different about her from their meeting an hour or two earlier was that now she was carrying a big instrument flight case on a strap around her neck. She was standing around, idly nibbling on one of her claws and staring lazily up at the sky. She was humming something to herself - something simple but catchy. Suddenly, she burst out with lyrics that seemed to make no sense whatsoever. Something about... a cat? And finding it? Bizzare. Of course, the lyrics were mostly indecipherable as she was mumbling them under her breath in her typical drawl. <span style='color:#199AF5'>C'mon, ki's less 'op intew th' staysh'n wag'n Less g'find th'cat!</span> ...Whatever. She began tapping her footpaws, then began stepping about, casually swinging from side to side. Soon her movements erupted into full-on rump shaking and hip-swaying, her tail swinging about happily behind her. Distracted, she began to wander off, dancing off into the distance, still mumbling out lyrics at the top of her lungs.
<span style='font-family:arial'>Xhankis belted out in laughter as he saw her boogying around in the middle of the Courtyard. It wasn’t as populated as before, but there still were a handful of teens staring at Squeal as she continued her act. After a moment of watching, Xhankis decided to notify her of his presence.<span style='color:red'> “Hey, Squeal!"</span> he called out,<span style='color:red'> “I’m here! Let’s go to my dorm."</span> A fey dragon a few feet away raised her brows at him - he didn’t care. He was actually pretty hungry for that delicious apple pie he’d baked up. Yeah, he did cheat, and use the fake crust. And even canned apples. But ah well, what really mattered was that it smelled delicious. Eyeing the case draped around her neck, he wondered what she could have stuffed in there. I mean, it was possible that there was an actual instrument inside, but you never could be too sure with Squeal. Xhankis had figured that out by now. Grinning, he awaited a response from her.</span>
Tee was way too engrossed in her current activity to pay attention to Xhankis. She continued to groove around the courtyard, wagging her tail happily and singing the nonsense lyrics to her song. Suddenly, the shoulder strap on her flight case snapped and the whole thing crashed to the ground with a loud thud and the faint, muffled rattling of glass and plastic. Not phased, she hoisted the box up by the handle and began walking quickly over to Xhankis as if it was what she had intended to do all along. <span style='color:#199AF5'>W'lless go! S'much t'do 'n' s'little time, eh?</span> She walked right into Xhankis and began pushing him through the door in the direction of the dormitories quite unceremoniously. She continued to drag him along until they reached the dormitory building where he lived, at which point she got confused and stopped mid-step, blinking and looking around. <span style='color:#199AF5'>Now 'ow in th'bloo'y 'ell 'id w'get 'ere? An' whurr in th'hell are we?</span> She glanced around the lobby aimlessly, blinking, bewildered.
<span style='font-family:arial'>Xhankis laughed. <span style='color:red'>"Here, this way."</span> And so he lead her to his dormÂ… ooc: Continued http://shadowlack.com/forums/index.php?act=ST&f=50&t=5071here</a>. </span>
