<div class="floatleft">(http://oi65.tinypic.com/10f2rdl.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Shizuma Nori (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=257738.msg12729551#msg12729551)<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Track & Field<br/><strong>Time:</strong>Flashback - a few days before school starts, very early morning<br/><strong>With:</strong>Taro<br/><hr/><br/>Shimuza rose before first light, wanting to taste a bit of the freedom that being at Denali Academy verses Abnormal Facility 201-JXD afforded her. Without giving it much thought, she crossed the room quietly and picked up her gym bag. She opened the door without making a sound as she slung the bag over her shoulder, not wanting to wake up her roommate. The halls of the dorm were silent and still, and she made her way across the campus on her way to the gym's locker room without encountering anyone. As she walked a little breeze played with her hair, tugging at it lightly, encouraging her to just jump up and join it in a game of tag. She laughed and said, "Not this time... I remember what you did to my skirt last time."<br/><br/>Ever since her powers expressed themselves the winds had been whispering stories of all she was missing by being so under the thumb of those with power over her. Once in the locker room she slipped out of her uniform and hung it up carefully in a locker before changing into the flying costume that had been provided to her. As she admired herself in a mirror she found she liked the color scheme, having always had a fondness for orange and black, but seeing how much of her body was on display she blushed a deep crimson. She wished they'd designed it more modestly, but an stray bit of wind played with the streamers flowing from her arms making her smile a bit. She could see how they'd help her read the winds and make corrections as she flew.<br/><br/><div class="floatright">(http://oi63.tinypic.com/10x95wk.jpg)</div>Leaving through the door marked, 'Track,' Shimuza left the building and stepped out into the field. She giggled as the wind pulled insistently at her, no longer brooking delay. A heartbeat later she was rising into the sky spinning and dancing with the wind that loved her so much. THIS was freedom, this was her joy, feeling untethered to the earth and all her cares, flying above it all feeling indomitable.<br/><br/>All things come to an end, so as the sun rose and it got closer to the time when the day would begin at the Academy, Shimuza's thoughts got heavy. Dread started filling her heart as she thought of the new school year beginning, all the students she'd be surrounded by and wondering what ugliness lurked in them about the Abnormals that would be in their midst. She sighed as she descended, leaving the clouds behind to approached he ground. Her thoughts blinded her to where she was going, and honestly, she expected the track to be empty. The wind though knew Taro was out their running the track and thought, 'Shimuza needs a friend'. 'Helpfully' it gusted as she was about to land, distracted by her fears, throwing her in the runner's path figuring that would make them 'have' to meet.<br/>