<div class="floatleft">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/e/e4/LaraThomas1.jpg)</div><strong>Character</strong>: Lara Thomas<br/><strong>Who:</strong>Lily Thomas, Open<br/><strong>Where:</strong>Refactory<br/><strong>When:</strong>After lunch.<br/><strong>Wearing:</strong>Clicky Link (Thanks Meliai!) (http://www.polyvore.com/lara3/set?id=218684719)  Turquise shoed.  Black leggings with a mesh pannel over the calves.  White miniskirt.  Snug black crop top unseen beneath a snug blue jacket.  Pony tail.<br/><hr/><br/>There was something about Shakespeare's work that Lara found irresistible.  (The best anime's shared it.)  Lara hadn't joined her twin or her friends from the gym team for lunch.  She'd managed to persuade Mrs. Harpe to eat with her.  They chatted about the difference between holding a mirror to society and preaching about it, and how you could do both in story form.<br/><br/>The literary and historical anecdotes—the Athenians thought theater so important that citizens put together vouchers for the poor to go to the theater, including foreign nationals, even slaves—that she kept having to remind herself to eat.<br/><br/>Mrs. Harpe cut it off at the last minute so they could both get to their next classes.<br/><br/>On the way to Drama, Lara was just reaching up a hand to wave to Leah and Todd, when Lily's fear reached across campus—through maybe seven warded walls—like an icicle stabbing her in the liver.  Lara gasped, eyes going wide and face pale.  She had a face like she'd just fallen into ice cold water.<br/><br/>Lara spun on one heal and started towards Lily at brisk walk that threatened to turn into a run.<em>What's wrong, imoto-chan?</em>Lara realized there was little hope of Lily 'hearing' her.  She didn't know how Lily's fear had reached her through all those wards, but there was no way Lara new to respond short of psychical 'smashing' through the wards—far easier to just go there.