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Amber Krasenski
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Let It Snow! (Open) Dec 30, 2012 20:51:30 GMT -5

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Post by Amber Krasenski on Dec 30, 2012 20:51:30 GMT -5

Amber hadn't gone home for the Christmas break, partly because his family didn't celebrate Christmas and it seemed kind of weird, and partly because he had actually wanted the independence. He loved his family, but he was becoming more and more uncomfortable pretending he was a normal cisgendered girl. And while most of the time he could forget about it, it was really hard when his mother kept giving him clothes and taking him to the mall, or both parents referred to him incessantly as their darling baby girl or, worse, princess.

At least he liked Hammel, despite his power. He had plenty of friends, and not all of them had gone home. And, better yet, Vermont had snow, a fact that still excited him even after several years of living there.

And so he had gotten up Sunday morning and tramped out onto the training fields, bundled up in the least feminine jacket he had been able to find at the mall, hoodie pulled over his face to obscure long hair, and plopped himself into the ground, flailing arms and legs in an attempt to make a snow angel and throwing up flurries of snow as he did so.

Lani Hunter
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Let It Snow! (Open) Dec 31, 2012 14:29:56 GMT -5

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Post by Lani Hunter on Dec 31, 2012 14:29:56 GMT -5

Lani was glad that the visit home hadn't ended in absolute disaster but he was glad to be back at his real home. He had no idea what he was going to do when he graduated. Since he would, he had checked his grades the other day and if they stayed as they were he would graduate no problem. Hell, Lani wouldn't graduate with honors, not even close but he would graduate. He had come to the realization that if he wanted to get out of here he needed to not only have the control but the grades so he had gone to class... more than he had in the past. But they were on break at the moment and Lani, always slow to wake found himself and he enjoyed the feeling of his warm bed too much to make a quick exit out of it. But exit he did. He smiled a little bit as he pushed aside his curtains to look at the outside world. It was snowy, as usual. He loved snow so he didn't mind. He dressed himself for the weather and with a second thought grabbed the skateboard he had fixed without wheels.

It was about time he tried this again. He opened the door and tossed the board onto the snow. Stepping up with wariness. The last time he had done this he had nearly taken Odion's head off. He didn't want a repeat of that. But he was not going to give up on his dream of flight. He had had wings in some fluke of an accident and ever since he had tasted the freedom of the upper atmosphere he hadn't been able to get it out of his mind. He stepped up on the board and lowered his center of gravity so he was crouching on the board and his power lifted him via the board the they gained altitude and speed. He laughed cheerfully. Maybe Odion's help with training was working. He still hadn't tried to lift the redhead but he had no such concerns for his own safety and hell he had fallen off enough rooftops to be alright with that. At least the snow was relatively soft.

He speed off toward the training field with the idea that not many people would be out since it was Sunday. He needed a lot of space and a lot of chance to fall, preferably without witnesses. Well as per usual Lani wasn't going to get what he wanted. If he hadn't been looking down when he passed over the person he probably never would have seen them. The shock caused him to lose balance and his power got excited by the sudden appearance of a person and the board very promptly left Lani behind. He yelped as he found himself face first in the snow. On the bright side snow was soft, on the not so bright side it was also very cold. He straightened and gave the person a startled half frustrated and half struggling not to laugh face. "Geez, don't do that, you scared the living daylights out of me." He pressed a hand against his heart trying to get it to calm and looked off into the distance his power crawling over the snow searching for the wayward board.

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Amber Krasenski
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Let It Snow! (Open) Jan 4, 2013 20:05:56 GMT -5

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Post by Amber Krasenski on Jan 4, 2013 20:05:56 GMT -5

A shadow passed overhead, startling Amber into jerking upright. His first thought was that it was far too early and sudden for nightfall. His second was that perhaps there was another shape shifter in the vicinity, maybe one who could turn into a hawk or something else large and flying.

But whatever it was, it plummeted to the ground, only to emerge covered in snow.

Oh. Another student.

"Don't do what?" He was genuinely confused as to what he had done. "I don't suppress powers or anything!" He added hastily, in case the other student was another shifter and had shifted back into human form mid-flight. That was awkward for anyone, of course, and he certainly understood how shocking it could be when unplanned. That didn't mean he wanted to take credit for it.

"I was just making snow angels." He attempted a look of innocence, gesturing at the disturbed snow behind him. He hoped this was believable, given that this really was all he had been doing. "I didn't mean to scare you!"

Only then did it occur to him that the other student had fallen out of the sky, at which point he added, in a much more sympathetic and less defensively panicked tone, "Umm. You aren't hurt, are you?"

Lani Hunter
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Let It Snow! (Open) Jan 5, 2013 2:42:56 GMT -5

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Post by Lani Hunter on Jan 5, 2013 2:42:56 GMT -5

Lani sighed and realized he was jumping down the poor girl’s throat as if she had intended to be laying there waiting to startle him. Lani help up a hand to stall her argument. “I’m sorry,” He scratched at his head and then waved both of his hands in a downward gesture pleading for calm. “I know, I mean I just didn’t realize anyone else was out here and well, you were well hidden.” He offered a smile, flight had been going relatively well until he had lost focus on a person laying in the snow. Partially if relieved him to hear that she was making snow angels and not just out in the cold. Lani was overreacting and he recognized that with a sigh. It was a flaw of his that made him jump to offensive when startled or frightened. He didn’t even stop to think that someone flying overhead might have startled her as much as seeing her in the snow startled him.

Lani shook the snow out of his hair and did the best to dust it from his jacket. Already it was melting down his neck and seeping in like cold fingers. He shivered a little bit and nodded at the girl. “I’m sorry, I overreacted,” he said apologetically, “Buy, why are you out here alone?” He asked the thought just now occurring to him. If this girl had wanted alone time she probably wouldn’t take kindly to someone literally falling into her solitude. Was she training? Or really just making snow angels? “Now where did that pesky thing go…?” He said to himself scanning the white landscape. He was going to snap that thing in half if it kept doing this. True, he knew that it wasn’t the board’s fault, his power controlled it and his emotions controlled his power. So in truth in was wholly and completely his fault that he had ended up falling. But it was so much easier to blame inanimate objects.

He was about to spread out his power across the snow and seek his board when she asked if he was hurt. To be honest Lani hadn’t thought about it until she said something and then he realized suddenly that he did hurt. Lani rose to his feet dusting off his pants and winced a little bit as he hit his side. There would be a bruise there later, nothing severe and nothing he couldn’t handle. That wasn’t a pleasant fall but it wasn’t the worst he had ever had. His elbow panged from where he had flung out his arms to break his fall. He should know better by now that rolling was the best solution but sometimes instinct just took over. He moved his elbow a little bit and felt the pain trace all the way up his arm from his fingers to his shoulder. He rolled his shoulder and did his best to hide the wince. Ok, maybe it was worse than he thought. But at least his head was fine and the pain was focused on his arm. He smiled at the woman though hiding it spectacularly, or so he thought. “Yeah, I’m fine, not the first time I’ve had an unpleasant meeting with the ground.” He laughed at his own joke.

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Let It Snow! (Open) Jan 6, 2013 20:52:54 GMT -5

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Post by Amber Krasenski on Jan 6, 2013 20:52:54 GMT -5

Amber hadn't realized how anxious he was until the other student apologized, and suddenly all the tension in his back and shoulders melted away. He had, he reflected belatedly, actually been rather afraid that this confrontation would lead to a full blown argument, perhaps one with teachers involved. Of course, that probably would have lead them to Dr. Neville's office, but while he had faith that the telepath would immediately know he hadn't intended to startle anyone he still didn't want that on his record.

His discomfort with his powers was bad enough.

When the other boy began casting about as if looking for something he was mystified, still under the impression he was in the presence of another shape shifter. But then attention was turned to injuries. More relief washed over him as Lani pronounced himself fine; he was neither observant nor cynical enough to look further than the words spoken to him, and so he smiled back.

"Oh, good. I'm glad." The comment about prior meetings with the ground cemented the idea that the other student shifted into something that flew, and he asked in curiosity, "But you fall out of the sky often? Wow, I never thought I would be glad to just turn into something creepy. Falling all the time would hurt."

He winced at the thought; he wasn't a stranger to bruises, but those were brought on by soccer club, not by power related accidents.

Usually. Except the time that Dani had trapped him under her mug and he had shifted back that way, but having a mug fall on your head was much different from falling from a height.

"I was alone because everyone else is busy or visiting family." He explained. Gosh, so many of his friends were being responsible and studying! "So it was either study or play in the snow, but I figure that studying when it's snowing is practically a crime."

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Let It Snow! (Open) Jan 6, 2013 22:17:29 GMT -5

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Post by Lani Hunter on Jan 6, 2013 22:17:29 GMT -5

Lani had enough troubles, he didn’t need to add fighting to it. He had gotten called on that enough times. He needed to figure out some new things to get detention for. Lani was working on getting creative with his delinquency. It didn’t just satisfy Lani to be a thorn in Hammel’s side, but he wanted to be remembered. Rebellion wasn’t just in Lani’s nature it was his definition. Authority was not a friend of his. It had occurred to Lani belatedly that if his goal of becoming a trainer were to come to fruition that he should make amends with the school but he was in deep and he had a reputation to uphold. Even if he had the gall to fight with someone who had done nothing but startle him, and on accident no less! Then he would be a sad shadow of the person he once was. But even if they got into shenanigans and were caught this girl was on her own because Lani had enough detentions piled up to prove that he wasn’t interested in what lessons they were trying to teach him.

In the momentary silence Lani reached out with his power. Spreading it over the plane of white he could close his eyes and ‘see’ in his mind the dead branches of nearby trees, the clothing that the girl was wearing and he spread his power out letting his walls fall away as he expanded his radius. He glanced at the girl and gave her a smile. Part of Lani wished to hush her for silence but in part Lani welcomed the conversation. Everyone always said that telekinetics couldn’t multitask. Moving things with one’s mind took a lot of concentration and blinding oneself with the headaches certainly didn’t help with working on more than one thing. Even as he let his power out to search he was careful only to let a fraction of it loose. He was still rather freaked out by the oneness he had felt with his power when he was training with Odion. He had tried a few other times but he wasn’t working anything extreme at the moment.

Lani laughed his concentration breaking a little as he turned to the woman. “Often enough,” he joked. He cocked his head confused for a moment about what she was talking about. A shifter? “Why what do you turn into?” Lani asked with veiled skepticism in his voice. There were any number of things that she could turn into that would be rather unpleasant. Lani shrugged. “I guess you get used to it after a while. I shouldn’t be falling so much! But this damn thing just keeps dumping me. I know what’s going wrong but I… I know I can do it.” He didn’t realize he had digressed so much in his frustration and with a bright expression suddenly flashing across his face. “Ah,” he uttered and pulled the board to his side. He turned to the snowscape and his eyes caught the board and he caught it as it came flying in. One would think that a telekinetic that can keep a board stable and level would then be able to stand on it and fly. But it changed the balance and air resistance.

A smile flashed across Lani’s face and he squatted on his heels so that he wasn’t towering over her. “A crime indeed,” Lani agreed with enthusiasm. Well, in Lani’s case studying at all was a crime. Lani was far more interested in a different type of crime. "I’m Lani by the way,” he extended a hand, “How come you’re not visiting family?” He asked his mind backtracking. He dropped the board into the snow leaving it there with half an intention to leave it there until spring’s thaw. Damn board.

Last Edit: Jan 6, 2013 22:17:53 GMT -5 by Lani Hunter

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