Jaren was tired of the warm-ups. He asked the teacher if he would release him and he said yes. I went down too the park, he thought he would see and get on some action. As he moved along at quite a quick pace he passed razma and then he saw riples. He heard too word "duel" and was ready for a challange.

Ken finished off his sword exercises and replaced the sabers, panting a bit.

He walked back, grabbed his coat and bag, and waved to Raphael as he left. Not having any more classes for the day, Ken crossed the commons and returned to his dorm. There, he dropped off his bag, and grabbed a fresh shirt before he went and took a quick shower. The pants weren't stinking, so he just re-used the same pair.

Back in uniform, and feeling better, Ken left the dorm and went to the Library to do odd jobs.

Kiros glanced up at Alex's voice and stopped walking when he saw her, but he didn't bother straightening or even mantaining eye contact. In fact, his head slumped down and he went back to staring at the floor almost immediately. "...Yah. Me..."

He let out a low sigh and shrugged. "Listen... sorry about earlier. I was a jack ass. Was just having some fun... I'm going to go lay down..." He started shuffling off again, dragging his feet as he walked, and, as an afterthought, said, "Oh... and don't worry about Mr. Silorian... just pretend you're a victim infront of the committee... I have a... sorta friend on it... I'll get him to just let me take the blame. Doesn't matter if I get in any more trouble anyway," but he continued walking as soon as he said it.

The library for the SGI is a very large building, composed of several stories and built in a strange, futuristic style. While unconvential looking, it served its purpose remarkably well, since the design actually appealed to students as opposed to the old stone column approach.

Jonnas walked in, and checked the employee schedule. He was in charge of the front desk today, which meant he got to not only check books in and out, but also deal with the people who can't tell the main desk from the Information desk. Despite the large signs.

He waved as the previous employee left the desk, and began work. Specifically, marking his book as being returned and taken out again, giving him exclusive rights to it for the next few weeks.

"Mail call!" A mind-bogglingly high, but scratchy voice called out, and Jon peered over the counter. At little less than three feet in height, Bek Stonelurker was your typical mail goblin. She was pushing a mail cart that looked more like a child's toy than something used to carry post. She quickly flipped through the somewhat disorganized bin, and pulled out several envelopes of varying size. "Mail today, not much there is. Slow day is today. elf sir have any for Bek?"

Jon reached over to the outgoing mail bin and handed three standard "return the book or we break your fingers" letters. "Thank elf sir, good day," she said, and began pushing the cart back outside to deliver mail to the other offices, when she stopped short and ran back. "Er! Almost forgot, Bek did. Fish lady give package to Bek, say 'give to elf sir, Bek.' Bek give now." Bek held a yellow envelope out to him.

"Oh, thank you. See you tomorrow then." Bek gave a little bow, and returned to her duties. It wasn't until several minutes later that he realized something was up. It was a few seconds later that he decided to just take it in stride. He was in the middle of opening the package when someone walked in. Still distracted, he greeted the visitor with the standard "Hello welcome to the library, how can I help yo-agh papercut!"

"So... tonight's still on?"

She didn't know why she said this. It was like some uncaring author had taken the script of her life and decided to make some amendments which pleased him.

" I mean, I've never really done this before, so... might as well, ya know?"

Kiros just shrugged and stopped, just long enough to speak, "Not like we have a choice, anyway... Mr. Silorian said it is... it is. I really don't feel like talking right now, though. See you."

There wasn't really any reason for him to be so depressed anymore, but right at that moment he didn't want to feel better. There were times, most times really, when he WANTED to be happy. He really tried. Sometimes he thought that was the only reason he ever was happy.

But, there were other times too, like right then, when he just wanted to swim in his depression for a little while. Give in and let himself flow into it. He just wanted to surrender himself to the pain.

One of his hands slipped out of his pocket, and he waved it in the air without bothering to turn around, before jamming it back in and beginning to shuffle down the hall again.

Ken watched the man papercut himself.

"Ouch. Anyways, I'm that student Ken, the one that pops in for the odd jobs. Anything you guys need help with?"

Nora looked over at Clara, and shrugged. "There was nothing to do, so I was looking through your stuff. It's not like you need these today anyways, it's Naked Wednesday." He said as he pointed to the banner.

Of course, Nora was no hypocrite. He didn't assume Clara and Jess would be naked by themselves.

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Jhael looked around the arena. His entire class was there, along with many other sutdents. Heleron also looked around to find that all of his students were there as well. He also knew that there were students there who did not intend to use a weapon, and were human.

"Anyone who is human and intends to fight hand-to-hand, leave!" Heleron yelled out to the students.

A couple of groans and complaints were heard as students began to leave, among them, Kilik.

Razma got bored and had wandered in some outside reacreational area. It seemed it was quite empty, so Razma decided it was a good place as practice with the halberd. He then formed one and started practicing a few manuvers. He saw Mr Calvin come up. He then heard him say somethings along the line of "Your halberd needs to be perfect level with the ground, the back end is up to high." And stuff like that. Razma then said "Any particular reason why you followed me?" Calvin responded "Your a bit to cocky about using that weapon, so I thought you might want my help in getting better." Razma replied "Cocky? You think I'm cocky?" Yeah "Yeah" Said both the demon and Mr. Calvin at the same time.

Walking by the rec area, Brent heard Razma and Mr. Calvin, and saw an opportunity to train. Training... That may be just what I need to take my mind off of the prospect of Saturday evening with that Hailey girl. Which reminds me, I still have to kill my roommate. He frowned for a moment, then walked into the arena. "You can practice against me if you need to train."