"I am surprised by just how much magic there is in everything." I mumbled while looking at the walls. Having recently just been made privy to just how much of this building and the Academy as a whole uses magic circuitry to do even the most menial of tasks. Or, rather, as Frihdeicalkbr put it, it was something called 'runing.' He didn't explain much as apparently, they had lectures and resources on it.
But, as someone who was mostly taught in engineering trades, it interested me as it sounded a lot like fancy electrical circuits. Which, otherwise, did not exist here. Everything was pieces of metal with a concentrated stream of magic going through it which caused the blue glow. Though, it did not always come in blue as sometimes they imported foreign supplies of magic for other purposes.
Like the lights above me... Apparently, they had an equilibrium going on in there. Pieces of metal conflicting with each other to produce light and darkness with it all being determined by the switch I was now looking at. What really got me laughing, though, was how the darkness you got when the lights went out was not natural darkness...
One did not actually turn the lights off, they just dimmed them in favour of darkness and playing with it was fun. A good if measly distraction to my current issues.
"Who's there?" I then found myself asking as Frihdeicalkbr had left the building a while ago. But, he had also said at some point everyone would come here to greet me, well, greet in a loose sense. They'd actually just be made aware of the fact I was now here... But, who could this have been?
There was a lot of movement and sharp noises so I really wasn't able to put my foot on it. And it was a good thing I did not either! Turns out, all that noise was coming from the aelenvari child I was informed about. One that had just wandered in front of me and was now staring at me...
I felt like moving away from it, but it just kept waddling closer to me. It was slightly impressive it could move around so much, but, even then, I was not allowed near the childcare places. So didn't that extend to the children of the students here as well? I did not want to take chances but this kid was testing my patience.
"No, no, no... Go over there." I said to it over and over before being driven into a corner by the unrelenting assault of its curiosity. Freezing up as it began to pat its deformed arms against me before opening its mouth and lighting up its equally deformed head bulbs. I really needed to ask Rose about that at seen as all I had seen were deformed male aelenvari. Assuming I hadn't asked her before?
I couldn't remember.
"Little one..." someone with a raspy voice called out with from down the hallway. Panic washing through me as the only light was the dim lights of this aelenvari's head bulbs. A panic I was to share as when the owner of this voice came into the room and saw my outline... She just bolted towards the child and then back to the way she came in by.
Tears in her eyes as she looked on at my silent form while I became upset at what I saw. It was her, the aelenvari I helped save back at the flower and here she was now looking on at me with fear. Fear she didn't even show towards Rose when she was near her. There wasn't much point in me staying here, so I just left, ever so carefully avoiding her so I could go to my room.