<div class="floatright">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/3/34/13_%281%29.jpg)</div><strong>Xixor Caliban</strong><br/><br/>The young mage's eyes widened as the milky skinned girl offered to be his roommate.<br/><br/><em>What a beautiful smile!</em>His eyes darted down her body and his glasses started to fog again.  He quickly cleaned them on his fine white shirt and replaced them.  This gave the young mage time to gather his composure, and he answered her smile with sincerity he couldn't resist.<br/><br/>“Hm?  Oh, my tools?  Sure.”  He quickly worked to finish setting things up.  A variety of tinker's tools joined the alchemical ones on the table.  He quickly set up a number of nice outfits in the closet, and finally an attractive copper bird cage.<br/><br/>He opened the shutters and let a small white thrush fly in to land on his finger.  He moved the songbird over to where Ailis could see her properly.  “This is my friend Darian.”<br/><br/>The thrush preened as if expecting admiration.<br/><br/>“This is Ailis, Darian.  Say hello.”<br/><br/>The bird gave him an arogant eye.<br/><br/>The young mage sighed, “Sorry, he like to play dumb some times.”  he carried the songbird to his cage.  Darian hopped in and began to nibble on honey and nuts.  Darian didn't close the cage.<br/><br/>Pulling  a chair around, he gestured for Ailis to have a seat, then perched on the side of the bottom bunk.  “So, what can you do, if you don't mind my asking?  I know magic is in our blood, but I have to study it, and record what I learn.”