<span style="color: #000000">"It's fine, Cass. I'd much rather hang behind right now."</span>Erika had never been to school in her long life, ever. She'd been inside several educational institutes, sure, but only as a visitor and not once as a student. And honestly, it made her very nervous that she would have to stick to a strict schedule and live so closely with others. Not to mention that not talking could prove very hard. Not that she didn't<span style="font-style: italic">want</span>to talk, she was just afraid that her rude nature would put people off immediately. She followed the dark elf mindlessly into the shared dorm room and immediately hid under her blanket with the thoughts still floating lazily around in her head like debris that refused to sink.<br/><br/>The shrill alarm was not the wake-up Erika had expected. She poked her head up, bleary-eyed and with her white hair sticking in all directions, her usual scowl replaced by a confused, disoriented expression. She dragged herself to the bathroom like a zombie, and came out with her hair still in wild disarray, but at least wearing a clean shirt, skirt and tie.<br/><br/><span style="font-weight: bold">"Oh God, I'm tired."</span>It was that almost-human kid with the brown hair, again.<span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-style: italic">A weird brown,</span></span>Erika somehow managed to notice even in her sleep deprived state. She thought she spotted faint streaks of mossy green in it, too, but she was far from certain.<span style="color: #000000">"Tell me about it,"</span>she yawned at him, covering her mouth with the back of her hand.<span style="color: #000000">"I don't know how I'm supposed to stay awake through the day. Anybody know if there'll be coffee or something somewhere?"</span>Contrary to what she had observed in humans, Erika tended to be much, much nicer when she was tired. She simply didn't have the energy for any kind of conflict.<br/><br/>With only the faint hope that a possibility for caffeine would show up soon, Erika fell in with the others towards her first class of the day. It made her calmer that there were only the five of them to begin with.