<strong>Olivia:</strong><br/><br/>"Hmm..." The voice seemed to sigh.  "It's too bad he's a transhuman like you.  Means I can't really do anything about how he feels about you."  The voice perked up, becoming encouraging.  "I think you've got a good shot, though.  You're a wonderful person, Olivia, and I'm sure he sees that.  He just needs to get over his, well, his issues, I guess."<br/><br/>Suddenly Olivia became aware that even as she watch watching Mike, someone else was watching her.  Standing across the quad from her was Patty Leblanc.  She was huddled in a corner, almost as if she were hiding from the people around her, but her eyes never left Olivia.<br/><br/>The voice seemed to take note of her at the same time Olivia did, and suddenly Olivia felt a feeling of security wrap around her like a warm blanket.  "Careful, Olivia.  Some questions have rough answers."<br/><br/><hr/><br/><strong>Mike:</strong><br/><br/>Much like Olivia, two new and unusual changes had been bothering Mike all morning.  The first was the strange way his body reacted to sunlight - he could swear his skin was drinking it in.  Standing in sunlight made him feel powerful, dangerous.  Stronger, somehow.  Mike wouldn't know it unless he compared notes with the girls, but the effect was much more intense for him than for either Esther or Olivia.  He felt like as long as he stood in the sun, he was unstoppable.<br/><br/>The second issue was that he was having trouble holding on to his anger.  He'd think of Billy, or his father, and white-hot fury would boil up... and then vanish just as quickly.  Something small would catch his attention - someone would say his name, or he'd see a familiar face - and the instant his concentration broke he wasn't angry any more.  Until he remembered, and then it came back.  It was a cycle he'd been going through since he woke up, and he was beginning to think he understood why: He didn't<em>need</em>to be angry.  Whatever had been done to him last night, it meant that he could get payback on anyone he wanted.  So why hold onto the anger, when he knew it for a simple fact that the targets of his anger would get what they deserved?<br/><br/>It was as this was going back and forth in his mind that something else caught his attention: Jeffery Trevino was in the quad this morning, flirting with a girl that Mike didn't recognize.  It looked like Jeff was up to his usual, despicable ways - the girl in question was definitely not either of Jeff's current girlfriends.  She looked like a freshman - probably too new to be aware of what hid behind the older boy's charming facade.<br/><br/>The sunlight on Mike's arms seemed to beckon, to whisper possibilities...