Taijo awoke early the next morning to a sore neck. He went to touch it and winced, but here was not time to let it get the best of him. He had a schedule to follow. He awoke and did his morning exercises and prepared for school. He wore a high collared shirt like Kari had suggested and pack her cravat along with his things. He was planning to give it back to her today. He moved down the stares and went to school like it had been any ordinary day. Whatever happened to him yesterday was not real. He would just have to remember that as he went through an ordinary school day.<br/><br/>He walked into the building with no problem. His body moving like it had been programmed to do. However, when he got to his class room door her paused for a moment and stared at it. The nightmares all came rushing back to him and he could recall the terrible scream the shadow monster had made before it dropped him. He shivered a bit and his neck tingled in pain. It wasn’t real, He told himself, It wasn’t real.<br/><br/>He repeated the thought like a mantra until he was through that door and sitting at his desk. His classmates were around and he gained a little comfort from that as he stared at the chalkboard and waited for the day to begin. Still, he was very much alone. No one knew him yet and, now that this ‘incident’ had happened; he really wished he had someone to talk too.<br/>