Cold body, warm heart (Akira)

[Cianna "Cici" Rivers]

Cici walked around school. Finally, class was finished for the day, and she had quickly gone to the dorm to drop her bag off, before deciding to take a walk around campus. Sure, she had a bunch of homework to do, and yes, she probably should have been working on that instead of wandering around aimlessly, but she wasn't known for her dedication to the academic side of things.

Finding her feet leading her to a small pond, she sat on the snow a few meters away from it, staring at the small fish swimming around, and wondered what it would be like to be a fish. That, of course, lead her thoughts to drift into what she would look like as a fish, and the sudden mental image had her laughing softly. She shivered, and pulled a face at the cold, but brushed it off; at least it wasn't snowing at the moment.

Standing up, she walked to the edge of the pond, and peered into its depths.  It was a pretty good view from here, but she wanted to be able to see all of the fish...And so, she used her ability to lift herself off the ground in flight, and slowly, so as not to startle the fish, flew out so she was hovering over the center of the pond. Peering down, she changed her position, maneuvering herself in the air so that it looked like she was lying horizontal on her stomach, except she was in the air.

Feeling her hair fall past her face towards the water, she brushed it over one shoulder, and looked more at the small koi. There was one staring right up at her, almost curiously, and she reached out her arm, slowly to the water. The fish kept looking at her, until her fingertips touched the ice cold water, at which point it darted away quickly, and Cici giggled. She must look like a scary giant to them. Wow, for once she was the giant. Straightening her position so she was back to hovering vertically, she hummed softly, and returned to the side of the pond, and sat on the snow once again. At least she was wearing some warm clothes. But, she realized her butt might get wet, and blushed, quickly standing. She didn't want to leave anytime soon, though. Yes, it was a bit random what she had just done, but she did odd things all the time. Besides, weren't koi good luck? Maybe now her maths teacher would give them a whole bunch of free periods. Yeah, right.   

[Akira Koizumi]

After classes Akira was outside. It was still cold and there was still snow on the ground. But Akira can't wait for the warmer weather that was on its way. Even though it was still cold Akira went for a walk around the school grounds. After his walk he would go back to his dorm and do his homework...maybe. Akira didn't even bother going to his dorm to leave his backpack. The teen wanted to be outside.

He was on the path that led to the pond with the koi fish. I wonder how my buddies are doing? Akira thought to himself. He had a few drawings of the koi fish. He had his sketchbook in his backpack. Maybe he'll do a few sketches.

As Akira approached the pond there was a girl standing by the pond watching koi fish swimming around. Akira walked up to the pond to peer into the water to see his koi fish friends. The colorful fish swam around in their environment.

Akira turned his attention to the girl. “Hi.” He said to her with a warm smile.

[Cianna "Cici" Rivers]

Stamping her feet to shake off the cold creeping in on her, Cici leaned in to look at the fish again. So pretty...she wondered if they ever realized how small their world was, limited to a pond. She remembered reading somewhere before that goldfish had memories of up to 3 seconds, but did that apply to koi? Wouldn't that suck...then again, you wouldn't know it did...

Jumping slightly when she heard a voice, Cici turned to see a boy that looked around her age. Blinking at him for a moment, she suddenly remembered her manners and blushed. "Ah, m' bad, hiya!" Returning his smile with a bright one of her own. "Cold, neh? Even afta all these years, imma not comple'ly used ta snow. You?" Blowing on her fingers to try warm them again, she shuddered to think how cold it would be for the fish, not that they would notice. Or would they? "But they got i' a thousan' times worse.." She said, nodding to the koi.

Smiling again as she watched them swirl in patterns, the short girl unconsciously found herself moving her hands  in tiny, circular motions, almost as if to copy the fish. Then, she realized what she was doing. Uh oh, the boy wouldn't think she was a weirdo, right? Ah well, it was kinda fun, and felt almost like an odd dance...nevertheless, she stilled her hands.