To be Shy or not to be...

[Zenniel]

It was raining today. It was always because it was raining. And because it was raining today the girl had nowhere to go. And because she had nowhere to go… well, she wouldn’t go into that. In fact, she would much rather just stay here in the Candidate barracks, looking out into the dank corridors of life. Or, in actuality, the corridors where the Headwoman would walk from to get to the barracks and tell all of the candidates that because it was raining today there would be extra chores. Shards knew that the headwoman did that.

Just thinking of confronting that woman made her stomach twist and turn. She screwed up her eyes and set her head on her knees. Her back was resting against the earthen wall of the barrack commons. She was in a corner with the least light, just where she wanted to be: alone. Her blond hair fell away from her neck, where Mura lay sleeping. Squawking indignantly, Mura straightened up and wrapped his tail around her neck. What a weird sight: Mura sitting on her neck right where her hair parted, looking like a second neck. Zenniel didn’t care, though. She was trying to get her feelings under control.

Like that ever happened. And having a shy Bronze didn’t help matters much, either. In fact, she was thinking of making that dratted Bronze go out on his own for a while. But… if he when out on his own… she would be alone. Zenniel didn’t much like being alone in a place with everyone in it. When she was alone in nature, that was when she felt better, but here in the commons? She shivered at the thought, and Mura glanced at His briefly, then uttered a chirp and lay down on her shoulders. This was a very funny situation indeed.

[yamamoto]

Andol walked into the candidate barracks holding Iron to chest. He looked around and that was when he noticed the girl sitting in the corner with a firelizard. He then wondered why she was sitting there all alone. He knew that he knew how she felt wanting to be alone. Knowing that that was what he usually did. He then wondered if he should go talk to him because he never normally started the conversation. He then thought to himself just do it. He looked down into Iron's eyes for reassurance. Then he looked back up and began to walk over there. Has he was walking over he froze. He was so nervous. So he just took a deep breath to relax himself. Then he continued to walk over there and sat down beside her. Then he looked at her and then looked down at Iron then back at her. He then stammered out trying to get the words out because of his nervousness. He said to her "H-ell-o m-y n-am-e is -An-do-l." He then quickly looked down at Iron having been barely able to get that out and he did not really want to make eye contact with her. He squeezed Iron close so that he could feel the firelizard against to comfort him.

[Zenniel]

What alerted Zenniel to the boy that was walking toward her was Mura, who, as soon as the boy peeled away from the rest of the candidates to come to her. Mura thumped his tail across her back and chirped warily. Zenniel looked up and quickly looked away. The quick glance she had gotten had told her that he was just as shy as she was, if not more shy. Oh well.

Then, when he sat beside her, she felt her heart start beating double time. It was going so fast she was sure the boy could hear it. She was afraid she’d start to hyperventilate. She mentally counted higher and higher until the boy spoke. ”H-ell-o m-y n-am-e is –An-do-l.” The boy said, clearly as shy as she was. Zenniel almost smiled.

Almost.

“An-dol?” She asked, hearing her voice quiver from barely controlled tears. Even now one dripped down her cheek. “Ca-ca-ll me Z-z-zenn-iel.” This time she did smile. It was a small one, and shaky, but it was a smile nonetheless.

[yamamoto]

Andol squzeed Iron close as she talked to him. He tried to look at, but his quick look at her he saw that she had a smile small on her face and that she hand tears going down her face. He just looked down at Iron and said to her " I-t i-s o-k Zen-niel y-ou do-nt ha-ve t-o b-e sca-red o-f m-e. He knew he sounded silly with as scared as he was trying to talk to her. He said " M-y lit-tle fri-end he-re is na-med Ir-on. Wh-at i-s yo-ur fi-re-li-za-rds na-me."