the papers around me are piling. [open]

[Sati Callaghan]

"I wonder what would happen if you mated a rhinocerous with a flamingo?"

It was a typical curious question that often came from the lips of Miss Callaghan - she was, after all, most possibly the most interesting person in Blackbriar. Well, maybe not interesting would be the word to describe her. Unusual would be much better.

At the moment, she was slumped in a comfy armchair, head and legs draped over either opposite end. The fire frackled merrily, bright beaming smile always a must-have on her pale visage. Sati ran her palms against her clothes, smoothing out the wrinkles, scratching at a mosquito bite on her arm. That was one of the things she'd never been able to cure - mosquito bites. Snake bites, sure. Bee stings, of course. But those dratted mosquitoes always got to her.

Rusty locks had been pinned up into a loose knot at the nape of her neck - hoop earrings with bits of feather tied onto the hanging chains resting against a swan-like neck. Keen eyes were slightly hidden by drooped eyelids; the day was long, and she was bored. There wasn't much to do but talk to herself, anyhow.

[jupianking]

Adam was making his normal visit to the lounge at this glistening night, of frosty air and shining stars. The air was crisp and cool as Adam traveled from his spot of Slumber to the school. If one was to look closely at the air, close to the street, a person could notice the darkness rippling. As most people know the darkness of night can do no such thing, but it was Adam, traveling in his favorite, black gas state.

He was quite shocked to find that a person was in the lounge at such late hours, the fire casting an orange glow on to the side of her skin that was facing the stone fire place. The light would have given away his position so he thought he would answer her question, and maybe try to have a conversation with someone. For living in Blackbriar a long time, not many people knew him.

"I believe you, my lady, will get a Rihmingous." Adam said in a slight hiss voice, a mix between a whisper but also sinister and creepy.

Adam meant nothing bye the way he talked to her, he just for got it was not just himself in the room, meaning he forgot his manners. Slowly the smallish sized, black gas cloud transfigured it's self into a human like shape. The body was not defined as with two legs and an arm. The shape looked more like a big black dress with a hood.

After a second or two the gas became solid, showing that it was a human but cloaked. Adam reached his hands to the head of the cloak and unmasked himself, revealing his Combed over black hair and thick round glasses. A long, slender, pale hand slipped inside the Cloak and pulled out an empty glass tube. With one snap of his fingers the cloak turned to a black vapor and went inside the tube. This made the clear glass tube into a tube of blackness so thick it looked like a liquid.

"Umm... Hi." Adam stammered putting a bony, slender hand towards the girl.

"That looks like a rhinoceroses with pink sin, no horns, two legs, wings for the arms, and a beak. They can be very nasty creatures with immense speed."

Adam's pail face looked paler in his blue button up and black slacks. The part of his face splashed with pink from nervousness stood out the most.