Study Buddies (Elina)

[Danielle Cooper]

Dani slipped her laptop into her backpack, and zipped it up. She was officially all packed for the long journey to across the hallway. She had been paired up with Elina for a school assignment, and they had decided to meet in Elina’s dorm at five that evening. Now that Dani was all packed for it with various school supplies, she figured she’d head over, even though she’d be a couple minutes early, ah well. Dani hopped off the common room couch and left the dorm. She took about five steps and landed herself right next to dorm 203.

She was honestly a bit nervous about this project with Elina. They were in the same class, and had been in some other classes together two, but they had never really hung out or even talked before. But that was okay! School projects were fun! (Yes, Dani had a somewhat weird sense of what was considered ‘fun’.) She sucked in a quick breath and knocked gently on the door three times before dropping her hand back to her side.

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Elina was not eager when it come to this school assignment. It was quite alright to be assigned to another girl, but she tended to prefer doing it by herself because then no one could blame her if she hardly did anything productive. Being blinde did form a problem when it came to using a computer and even when it came to doing research in books. So as long as Dani could tolerate that, she would do her best to tolerate the other girl as well.

When a knock on the door could be heard, Ellie rose off the couch and moved over to open up. She was happy about the fact that her room mates weren't around. Let people to witness her inability to do some decent research. It wasn't rare for the girl to pay someone to do it for her. Anyway, putting a hand on the handle, she opened the door as a small smile showed itself.

"Dani?" Didn't plan on letting a stranger inside. In the meanwhile she also tapped her feet on the floor to cause vibrations and to get a general 'image' of the body shape in front of her.

[Danielle Cooper]

“Hey, Elina!” Dani chirped in reply, fingers fumbling with the strap of her backpack. “Are you ready for this awesome project?” She couldn’t help but to be excited about school projects, and she tried to share her enthusiasm with Elina. It would be fun! Really!

Dani glanced down, catching on that Elina was tapping her foot. She knew about Elina’s powers, and was honestly amazed by it. She wanted to ask her more about it, but she wasn’t sure if she would offend Elina because a lot of Dani’s questions had to do with how Elina could ‘see’ with her power. Curiosity killed the cat, after all, so instead she just tried to keep a good conversation going. “How’re you?”

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Was Elina supposed to reply with just as much enthusiasm as Dani was radiating? Because, honestly, she wasn't feeling it. "Um, yeah, sure." The young brunette eventually mumbled, assuming the other girl's excitement would help them get this finished sooner. Moving aside, a hand motioned for her to enter and then she closed the door behind them. By know she knew the location of the furniture by heart, not even having to apply her power and to focus on it to avoid bumping into stuff.

"I'm good. It would be better without any assignment though." In which case she could have been occupying herself in a more interesting way. Figuring it was only common courtesy to retort the question, eyes drifted to Danielle. "You?"

She then sat down on the couch, not sure if Dani would need a desk. Elina tended to tape classes, given a notepad was only a waste of money since she couldn't read what she had written later on, so yeah. Ellie wouldn't be a lot of help and she didn't know if Dani had reasoned as far or not.

[Danielle Cooper]

Dani frowned slightly, clearly Elina wasn’t as excited about the assignment as she was. Then again, Dani was your typical nerd, and Elina wasn’t. She walked into the room when motioned in and took a seat next to Elina on the couch. She had a feeling that this would be a long night. It was never easy when half the party didn’t want to do the assignment. Dani knew it must be hard to do assignments and whatnot without sight, but Dani was determined to make it fun.

“I’m well, thanks!” Dani chirped, “Don’t worry; it’ll go by quickly! Biology is fun!” Yeah. Like that was a good argument. But it really was fun. She pulled out her laptop, setting it in her lap and opening it up. “Did you have any ideas for what to do?” She inquired, really hoping that they would be able to work together. It wouldn’t be the first time that Dani ended up doing a group project by herself, after all.

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Ugh. Biology was not fun. Where on Earth did this girl get that idea?! She must have been brainwashed. Dragging a hand through brown locks, Elina heaved a small sigh and shrugged her shoulders. The first random idea coming to mind filled the room. "I don't know. About hearing or sight or something?" At least she wouldn't need to do any research for that since, hello, she was a walking example of what could go wrong (or good) in that department.

"I can't use a computer. I can't read most of the books in the library and I can't note things down." Summing up the impossible was always easier than doing the opposite. When it came to school stuff, Elina had grown used to probably getting more points than she deserved given the impairment. Oh well, not like she would complain.

[Danielle Cooper]

“Oooh, that could work,” Dani nodded, ideas running through her head on how they could narrow that down. She couldn’t help but to think that Elina was the perfect example. That would be. So. Freaking. Cool. Maybe they could use that and look at different situations, “How do you feel about bats?” She asked as she logged into her laptop.

Dani frowned as Elina mentioned about being unable to use a laptop or the library. She knew it was true, but she felt like there had to be a way to get—wait. “But…you have super hearing right?” Yeah, that was a bit blunt. Dani could be like that sometimes, “I bet you can hear the difference between different keys I press on the keyboard, right?” After she asked the question, she opened a word document and typed into it randomly, sort of as a test. Who knew where this could go. They might be able to do their project and help Elina out at the same time.

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Um, yeah, perhaps it had not been such flawless idea to suggest that for she should have expected Dani to react so overly excited to something this boring. Elina pondered about the suggestion made, not too certain what bats looked like, other than a lot of people being scared of him. She liked to be compared to such animal. Then again… ”What about a mole? Apparently that’s my spirit animal.” Unless Dani would really prefer to talk about bats. It might get this assignment over with faster.

Frowning, the brunette shifted to lay a bend leg on the couch while the other dangled off it. ”If you want to call it like that…” Everyone interpreted it differently, and she had stopped caring to explain it. But then Dani hit a couple of keys and Elina found herself pleasantly surprised upon realized that some letters did appear to have a different sound. She couldn’t even explain how though. It was quite miniscule.

”Do that again.” She mused, suddenly sounding more interested, but at the same time demanding as well. Excitement could be blamed for that though, but mainly because she didn’t want to risk having to do this assignment by herself.

[Danielle Cooper]

Yes, Dani was exciting about doing this project, especially now that they had an idea to go off of. Ooh, moles were also a good idea, plus, they were cuter than bats. “I like moles! I had no idea that was your spirit animal, that’s really cool. Tak told me I was a hedgehog.” She grinned, remembering the conversation with Tak that had lead to Dani finding out her spirit animal.

Dani frowned slightly, unsure if she was actually helping the situation, and she was sure that she couldn’t label Elina’s ability spot on, but it was worth a shot, right? Suddenly though, the other seemed interested in what Dani had been doing, and Dani happily continued to type random sentences into her computer. She paused after a few moments of typing. “If you can hear the differences, and can memorize each key, you would be able to type in no time. And essentially read what others are typing.” Oh. This was exciting, very exciting.

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"A hedgehog?" Elina questioned, slowly starting to wonder why on earth that would be her spirit animal. "What makes it a hedgehog?" She eventually asked, assuming that either it had something to do with her personality or her appearance. Ellie couldn't help but assume the first option seemed more reasonable.

"There's a slight difference." The brunette concluded as the typing stopped, yet she wasn't sure if she was interested in memorizing all the different keys. If one typed fast, it might be impossible to even get a clue of what was being written. Then again, since when had her hearing bailed on her? "It won't help me with my assignments though. I should be able to do that myself. I can't memorize both the location and the sound of a key." Or it might be easier than she perceived it to be.