<div class="floatleft">(http://oi67.tinypic.com/30rp8i0.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Shizuma Nori (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=257738.msg12729551#msg12729551)<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Cafeteria<br/><strong>Time:</strong>Flashback - a few days before school starts, a little after 7am<br/><strong>With:</strong>Taro + Open<br/><hr/><br/>Shizuma looked dubiously at Taro as he talks of the cameras. "They're exactly the kind of set up as we had in the Institute," she replied, sounding pretty sure of her observation. "... you didn't have Abnormals here before. Are you sure that normal parents wouldn't demand that the school do everything they can to protect their normal kids?" she asked as he welcomed her to the 'normal world'. "The comet changed more then just us. The 'normal world' isn't what it once was," she said sadly.<br/><br/>"Exactly my point. Someone like me should be with someone so charming and handsome as you,   Taro," Shizuma said in a warm tone that could be 'serious' or a very subtle way of teasing him as he gave her that sweet lopsided grin. She was happy to see his mood lighten as they moved on to less weighty subjects. "I'd rather not know that I'm where they wished to be," she said then leaned a little closer to Taro then brushed her fingers over his shoulder. As she did so she gave him a quick wink then blushed a little as she said, "if they're going to talk, let's give them something to talk about, Taro?" She said, her voice going up like she was asking if it was ok for her to make that intimate little gesture.<br/><br/>"Pretty much got it on the nose. They live their lives, doing what they do for their reasons. The way the birds do, insects and everyone else. Honestly, this is nothing but me bringing to the forefront of your mind the implications of the Animism at the heart of Shinto beliefs," Shizuma said in a detached and intellectual tone. "And yes, a lot of what I have had to learn is how to translate human desires and purposes to something they can understand. In some ways it's been a fun puzzle to solve," she added with a crooked little geeky smiled on her face. Then she added, "if you'd like we can load you up with sensors and gather all sorts of data on the day you decide to be guinea pig for my experiment."