Robert
Out on the campus' outdoors, in a small field of grass between walkways, a young blonde boy was crouched, holding his hands out, and breathing rather heavily. Across from him a snake coiled in the grass. It was an odd looking sort of serpent, its scales a strange, mottled assortment of greens. It brought to mind some sort of toxic animal with the coloration...

Should one draw closer, they would be able to hear the young man speak. "I... It's okay." He said, the worried tone and stilted manner of speaking a sign that he quite clearly was not what he said he was. Still, he slowly, carefully began to move forward. "I'm not... It's fine... Nothing's going wrong..."

The snake hissed and opened its mouth at him, revealing a many toothed maw, with sharp fangs running down it. "Don't..." The young man stuttered, halting in place. "It's... No, don't do that..."
Charles
◆ "Ooh dear..."

□ Who would have thought that falling out of a tree would have some after effects? Sure, she hadn't broken anything, but gosh darn it her body still ached something fierce from all the bumps and bruises she'd picked up on the way down. Groaning lightly as she walked outside, River had expected a pretty quaint scene – bright sun partially obscured by clouds, brisk yet bearable weather, peace and quiet – but instead she saw a lad in the grass, his head bowed lightly as he seemingly tried to charm a snake.

▪︎ What the heck...? Maybe it was just part of her powers.

◇ Rather than say anything, though, she simply took a seat in the lawn about ten good paces away, crossing her legs at the ankles like a pretzel and looking on with curious eyes.
Robert
Upon closer inspection, it seemed one of the young man's fingers was missing, his index finger in particular, something far more evident now as he reached his arm out to the snake. "Don't... It's fine... It's not going to hurt..." He said, his eyes completely focused on the snake. "I'm just... It's just... A little prick, and-"

The snake's hissing grew louder and louder with each passing second, until finally, as the young man held his four-fingered hand out towards the snake, as if to touch it, the creature lashed out, launching forwards from its coil and biting his hand!

The boy cried out in a short, painful gasp, before silencing it and grasping at his wrist. The snake wriggled to and fro as he held his hand up, its long, sinuous body keeping itself on the boy's hand as he eventually fell to the ground, still holding tightly to his wrist.
Charles
◆ "Eep!"

□ When she'd sat down to watch this impromptu snake charmer do his thing, she hadn't noticed a lot of details. His murmuring, the missing finger, the snake's fear; these were all things she'd missed, and it was only in the moment before everything went wrong that she noticed it all at once. It was a bolt from the blue, and once she realized it she wasn't even allowed a moment to process before the guy's hand was bit and a wicked yelp let loose from his lips.

▪︎ And, so her body began to move on its own.

◆ "Stop that, you!" She bellowed at the snake, though she couldn't stomp it like her instincts told her to do. Curse of being defensive of people and just wanting to ease pain: she was stuck across from this kid with a snake latched onto his hand, and she was powerless to help. Unless... "Dude, what do I do? Are you okay? Is this just part of your power? WHY IS THERE A SNAKE BITING YOUR HAND‽"

• Needless to say, she was freaking out.