<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 found herself blushing a little as she favored Taro with a dazzling smile as he accepted her touch and agreed to her plan of stirring up a little trouble. There was just something about him that drew her out of her shell, making her want to be bold and confident as he was. She'd never had anything like this before, a friend who challenged and played and supported her. When he brought up the girls and others thinking ill of him, she frowned fiercely and adopted a protective air about him. A stray breeze plucked at her long, wavy locks of hair adding a wildness to her for a moment. Then she said, "no one should mistake your kind, open hearted nature for anything bad. It only serves to show how nasty they are as people."<br/><br/>All that dissipated when Taro cut another slice from his apple and held it close to Shizuma's mouth, in a sweet offer to feed her. Her face flushed darker, but she didn't shrink away, instead she leaned in closer, lips parted, welcoming the little morsel he'd prepared for her. She pouted when her teeth closed on nothing but air and shot him the most forlorn and sad look as he drew that slice back again before she could bite it. She laughed a beautifully musical laugh a moment later when he offered it to her to take in a more conventional way. "Meanie," she said in a playfully petulant way, then nibbled at it as he told her the explanations she'd gave of her powers had helped him understand things.<br/><br/>"What the school doesn't have, I can probably make," Shizuma said with some confidence. "I've always been into science and technology and I'm sure there's some sort of lab here. In fact, I was hoping to find the science club to join it. After that, we'll see. I'll make a research facility out of Danali yet," she teased. Taro spoke of parents and the government and Shizuma looked back at him dubiously hopeful. "Time will tell, and this place will have an impact on all that, I'm sure," she said then shyly adds, "you've already done a lot to make me feel so much better about coming to this school, Taro."